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That list hasn't been updated in a while. Below is the most accurate data available. Most are from MPIA although some grosses such as 2015's hit movies or You Are the Apple Of My Eye have come from other sources. This list will be updated when 2015's year-end press release is released. Top 20 Films of All Time (Hong Kong) Rank Movie HK Gross 1 Avatar* $178,029,440 2 Avengers: Age of Ultron*** $132,985,487 3 Titanic** $114,939,000 4 Iron Man 3 $106,389,801 5 Transformers 4 $98,196,851 6 The Avengers $96,705,670 7 Jurassic World $96,295,976 8 Toy Story 3 $89,364,118 9 Transformers 3 $84,703,797 10 The Dark Knight Rises $80,269,966 11 Minions $78,403,991 12 Monsters University $77,407,664 13 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 $76,785,999 14 Star Wars: The Force Awakens* $72,663,155 15 Inside Out $66,053,079 16 The Amazing Spider-Man $61,983,852 17 Jurassic Park $61,898,795 18 You Are the Apple of My Eye $61,857,826 19 Kung Fu Hustle $61,278,697 20 Shaolin Soccer $60,739,847 * - without re-release (Re-release included: $183,411,471 HK) ** - without re-release (Re-release included: $128,003,033 HK) *** - Incomplete. Box office gross up to June 30, 2015 only. * - still in release

Early Thursday schedules None of the openers will make much of a dent this weekend. Daddy's Home/Secret in Their Eyes are going wide. Holdovers Sherlock and Ip Man 3 will fight for the biggest screen at most places. Star Wars 7 is cut to half day showtimes or sent to the smallest screen or both. Anniversary locks down half day showtimes while the 2 Hollywood releases will see its movie exit from most theaters this week. The Revenant looks to be a semi-wide to wide release on Friday.

Actuals 1. Ip Man 3 (葉問3) - $5,222,834 ($40,464,056 HK) 2. Star Wars 7 (星球大戰 : 原力覺醒) - $9,378,883 ($72,663,155 HK) Ip Man 3 will pass Ip Man 2 on Wednesday and Little Big Master on Friday or Saturday while Star Wars 7 will pass 10m by next week barring a complete meltdown (ex. -90% collapse) this weekend.

Most likely due to little midnight and late midnight showtimes and strong pre-selling for Sherlock. Ip Man 3 had more than 50 midnight showtimes on New Year's Eve and Sherlock pre-selling must have surprised some theater operators so a few screenings of Ip Man 3 moved over to Sherlock otherwise there was no sizable decline in showings for Ip Man 3. Sunday January 3 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 49,221 30,453 -38.1% -9.4% 2 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride -- 23,770 -- -12.3% 3 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 37,719 20,166 -46.5% -15.6% 4 Anniversary 10,163 11,253 +10.7% -12.8% 5 The Peanuts Movie 16,898 8,423 -50.2% +3.6% 6 The Little Prince 12,632 6,658 -47.3% -1.2% 7 Joy -- 6,604 -- -13.2% 8 Yo-Kai Watch 6,750 2,433 -64.0% +20.4% 9 Ten Years 713 1,895 +165.8% +14.2% 10 Steve Jobs -- 502 -- -4.4% Very good hold for Ip Man 3. It was the only non-animated fully released wide movie to fall less than 10% on Sunday. Sherlock is very frontloaded. Good hold for Star Wars 7 though Saturday/Sunday saw more 2D showtimes. Anniversary slid hard on Sunday. Animated releases all saw good daily holds on Sunday. Joy is a disaster. Weekend adm. Dec 31-Jan 3 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Ip Man 3 200,039 153,036 -23.5% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 183,056 99,285 -45.8% 3 Anniversary 45,819 60,675 +32.4% 4 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride -- 50,886 -- 5 The Peanuts Movie 68,653 41,954 -38.9% 6 Joy -- 34,397 -- 7 The Little Prince 61,654 33,239 -46.1% 8 Yo-Kai Watch 31,574 10,233 -67.6% 9 Ten Years 2,978 6,220 +108.9% Weekend Estimates December 31 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 Ip Man 3 $1,690,000 -25.0% $5,270,000 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $1,300,000 -52.0% $9,355,000 3 Anniversary $710,000 +30.2% $1,510,000 4 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride $490,000 $490,000 5 The Peanuts Movie $450,000 -45.4% $1,935,000 Ip Man 3 had a really strong weekend despite the weird weekend configuration with Friday being the main holiday and Saturday/Sunday depressed with Sherlock opening to boot. Next weekend is a killer weekend for all films. I will say that Ip Man 3 will fall 50% next weekend courtesy of another weird weekend with Thursday openers, The Revenant out on Friday, the loss of the Friday holiday but the weaker Saturday/Sunday from this week. Star Wars 7 saw a decent but unspectacular weekend. While its holiday holds were less than desired, it found itself rebounding on Saturday/Sunday. It won't matter how well it's been holding on non-holidays because this weekend is a huge stumbling block for many films. In 2010, even the mighty Avatar fell a whopping 42% while every other holdover declined 55% or more. With the way it's been holding so far, I expect a 70-75% decline for Star Wars 7 this weekend. Overall, a good weekend for Anniversary though its daily drops are a concern. It has already surpassed the original film, Marriage with a Fool, but next weekend should see it take in one of the biggest falls of any holdover with no holiday to prop up its gross and mixed WOM. Sherlock had a good opening but it was very frontloaded. I could see it falling over 60% next weekend despite Thursday/Friday added in. The Peanuts Movie had an OK decline. With strong WOM, this could buck the heavy decrease animated releases usually get next weekend but we will need to see how theaters schedule their animated films next weekend. December 24 - January 3 Estimates 1. Ip Man 3 - between $4,666,203-$4,743,544/457,000 admissions 2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - between $4,575,973-$4,653,313/295,000 admissions 3. The Peanuts Movie - between $1,508,137-$1,546,807/119,000 admissions 4. Anniversary - between $1,443,687-$1,482,357/142,000 admissions 5. The Little Prince - between $1,263,226-$1,289,006/112,000 admissions 6. Yo-Kai Watch - between $451,152-$489,822/46,000 admissions Look at the difference between gross and admissions for Ip Man 3/Star Wars 7. Ip Man 3 won the holiday period but it took 150,000+ admissions to do so. This really has a lot to do with IMAX and how Star Wars 7's IMAX record won't be broken for a while until some other studio comes in and sets outrageous prices to beat it. Another good example of 3D vs 2D would be Peanuts vs. Little Prince. Both are 3D movies but theaters shunned 3D for 2D with The Little Prince and Peanuts ended up more than $200,000 ahead of Little Prince with only a 7,000 admissions gap from more showings in 3D. Anniversary had better admissions than the 2 animated releases despite opening a week later. Perhaps being the only romantic release of the season led many to watch it and also due to the original's goodwill being carried over.

HK movies have been doing quite well in recent years: Little Big Master this year, As the Light Goes Out and Overheard 3 last year, Unbeatable in 2013, Cold War/Vulgaria/A Simple Life in 2012, Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy/Overheard 2 in 2011 and the list goes on. These are all films that opened outside of the CNY period and all of them grossed at least 3m. Feb. 18 is the weekend after CNY. New releases don't do very well on that weekend with the exception of The Lego Movie from last year. It's generally a down weekend at the box office so I don't think CTHD 2 will do that wel. Mermaid is tentatively scheduled to open on Feb. 8. Dec. 31 - Jan. 2 Weekend Estimates (- Sunday, all numbers are Saturday estimates/total estimates) 1. Ip Man 3 - $359,632/$4,885,334 2. Star Wars 7 - $9,113,276 3. Sherlock: An Abominable Bride - $257,801 4. Anniversary - $154,680/$1,379,237 Peanuts Movie - $1,830,389 The Little Prince - $1,289,006 Joy - $64,450/$257,801 Ten Years - $135,345 If these estimates turn out to be true, Sherlock won't be making $500,000 this weekend and Joy will open lower than Silver Linings Playbook's OW without sneaks.

Sunday adm. (so far) January 3 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride -- 13,110 -- -28.4% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 24,812 11,557 -53.4% -6.4% 3 Ip Man 3 25,324 10,616 -58.1% -12.5% 4 The Peanuts Movie 11,115 4,031 -63.7% -10.5% 5 Anniversary 3,391 3,037 -10.4% -17.4% 6 The Little Prince 6,340 2,580 -59.3% -8.4% 7 Joy -- 2,086 -- -28.3% 8 Yo-Kai Watch 4,937 1,594 -67.7% 12.3% 9 Ten Years 661 822 +24.4% -37.9% 10 Secret In Their Eyes -- 204 -- -17.1% Much weaker for Sherlock. Better for Star Wars. Ok for Ip Man 3.

Disagree. I will explain below. Saturday January 2 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 55,219 33,595 -39.2% -30.5% 2 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride -- 27,116 -- -- 3 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 48,360 23,884 -50.6% -22.8% 4 Anniversary 12,629 12,903 +2.2% -28.5% 5 The Peanuts Movie 18,145 8,127 -55.2% -46.0% 6 Joy -- 7,605 -- -30.0% 7 The Little Prince 15,244 6,740 -55.8% -34.9% 8 Yo-Kai Watch 8,135 2,020 -75.2% -46.4% 9 Ten Years 715 1,660 +132.2% +10.0% 10 Steve Jobs -- 525 -- -28.9% Very good hold for Ip Man 3. It was the only wide holdover to fall less than 50% on Saturday and that is with last Saturday being a holiday and Sherlock opening to 28,000 admissions. Though it fell 30% from Friday, keep in mind that Saturday is not a holiday. Saturdays are a working day for most adults. Good start for Sherlock but you can already tell it's going to be very frontloaded. Pre-sales represented a staunch 68% of its admissions on Saturday. Decent hold for Star Wars. This is the first hold I can say that is not disappointing. It seems to do better on non-holidays or working days because its holiday drops have been disappointing. It also had the best hold of any semi-wide release or above. Not that good for Anniversary. It already dropped on the holiday Friday so to drop another 29% is a sign that bad word of mouth is spreading. Animated movies were the hardest hit on Saturday. Peanuts fell a whopping 46% after the holiday while The Little Prince did slightly better but only to make up for its lackluster holiday bump. Horrible for Joy. Weekend Projections December 31 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 Ip Man 3 $1,740,000 -22.8% $5,320,000 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $1,300,000 -52.0% $9,355,000 3 Anniversary $770,000 +41.2% $1,570,000 4 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride $570,000 $570,000 5 The Peanuts Movie $450,000 -45.4% $1,935,000 Very good hold for Ip Man 3. It passes 5m and will pass Ip Man 2 on Tuesday at the latest. The next few weeks don't inspire much confidence that anything can surpass Ip Man 3 so it should be able to hold down the mantle until either the January 21/28 weekend. Next weekend will decide how it will end its run. If it posts a weak hold, it will miss beating Kung Fu Hustle but if it has a stellar post New Year's weekend, this will break 8m and could challenge 9m or 10m. Judging from what we've seen this weekend so far, it seems Ip Man 3 will follow the latter's path. Star Wars had underwhelming holiday holds but saw good holds on non-holidays to push it past 9m. It will enter the 10m ranks by next week. Anniversary had powerful sneaks but its opening weekend was a little underwhelming. Weak word of mouth has circulated and has already begun to affect its admissions. Sherlock opened on Saturday and it will rank #4 this weekend. Good hold for Peanuts with the loss of the Saturday holiday this weekend.

Sorry, that should be $96,675 for Joy's opening day. I have since corrected my mistake.

Disagree. Yo-Kai Watch is a self starter that went up against animation competition but it was the first big Japanese anime movie to be released in a long while. Big animated fare are only released during 4 periods: Chinese New Year, Easter, Summer and Christmas, therefore, it's been pretty much 4-5 months since a 'big' Japanese animated release. If The Boy and the Beast were to switch with Yo-Kai Watch in release dates, would Yo-Kai Watch performed like it did last week? Most likely not. It also only did marginally better than standard Doraemon fare with higher ticket prices and almost a picture perfect weekend of 3 holidays plus Christmas Eve. This is an important distinction because holidays means everyone is off but in the summer, parents still need to work. If they put the Yo-Kai Watch sequel in the summer, it might not do as well because in the summer there are a lot of animation releases + the yearly summer Doraemon release. It might get lost in the shuffle or it might lose out to Doraemon. Also, the distributor might feel that this Yo-Kai Watch film is better suited for the winter so that Doraemon/Yo-Kai Watch releases do not go head to head. No, it's still ongoing. On New Year's Day, it ranked 24th for the day in admissions with 105 from 2 showtimes. Thursday Actuals December 31 LW TW Movie Last Thu. (USD) Thu. (USD) % chg Theaters Days Total 2 1 Ip Man 3 $399,947 $465,331 +16.3% 42 8 $4,047,480 1 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $593,470 $322,251 -45.7% 43 15 $8,378,542 5 3 Anniversary $96,761 $232,021 +139.8% 35 1 $1,031,205 3 4 The Peanuts Movie $174,170 $109,565 -37.1% 37 8 $1,598,368 4 5 The Little Prince $145,000 $103,120 -28.9% 33 8 $1,160,105 -- 6 Joy -- $96,675 -- 26 1 $96,675 Some additional info + others Ip Man 3: $465,331 on almost 46k admits, avg 106 per showing Star Wars 7: $322,251 on almost 21k admits, avg 62 per showing (2D represented more than 50% share on NYE) Anniversary: $232,021 on around 22k admits, avg over 100 per showing Peanuts: $109,565 on 8,800 admits, avg almost 50 per showing Little Prince: $103,120 on 9,200 admits Joy: $96,675 on more than 9,600 admits, avg about 73 per showing Yo-Kai Watch: more than 2,000 admits, avg about 32 per showing The Boy and the Beast: about 500 admissions, avg about 26 per showing Ten Years: $12,890/$103,120, avg 100 per showing That's a big discrepancy between the admissions site and what the blog is reporting. Ip Man 3 is nearly 6,000 admissions up from the adm. site and down 3,000 from it with Star Wars 7. I do know that a couple of IMAX theaters' admissions are being added in twice on the adm. site. These would have an effect from 3,000-5,000 admissions depending on capacity filled. Anyway, Star Wars 7 drops to #3 in admissions and Joy ends up ahead of both Hollywood animated films. Ten Years is doing really well. Wonderful for Ip Man 3. It will pass 5m by this weekend, closing in on Ip Man 2's total. Star Wars had an iffy hold though 9m will happen by Sunday. That is much better for Anniversary. Peanuts had a good hold. Big surprise from Little Prince in gross. Pretty bad for Joy. Friday January 1 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 54,982 48,328 -12.1% +18.9% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 54,635 30,946 -43.4% +27.4% 3 Anniversary 12,425 18,051 +45.3% -2.3% 4 The Peanuts Movie 19,500 15,041 -22.9% +45.1% 5 Joy -- 10,863 -- +16.5% 6 The Little Prince 18,232 10,356 -43.2% +9.2% 7 Yo-Kai Watch 9,539 3,769 -60.5% +87.4% 8 Ten Years 718 1,509 +110.2% +30.5% 9 Secret In Their Eyes -- 758 -- -- 10 Steve Jobs -- 738 -- -- Most films had excellent late afternoon, early evening ticket sales which saw drops boosted. Excellent hold for Ip Man 3. Ok for Star Wars 7. Anniversary did well to come back from a big drop in pre-sales. Strong for Peanuts. Joy is still not doing very well. Terrible for The Little Prince. Despite a 87% bump from NYE, that is still horrible for Yo-Kai Watch. Very good for Ten Years. Saturday adm. (so far) January 2 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride -- 18,308 -- -- 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 31,368 12,342 -60.7% -32.1% 3 Ip Man 3 32,179 12,127 -62.3% -47.2% 4 The Peanuts Movie 13,259 4,503 -66.0% -50.2% 5 Anniversary 5,633 3,676 -34.7% -53.0% 6 Joy -- 2,908 -- -44.4% 7 The Little Prince 8,931 2,817 -68.5% -49.2% 8 Ten Years 586 1,420 +142.3% +7.0% 9 Yo-Kai Watch 6,413 1,323 -79.4% -51.7% 10 Secret In Their Eyes -- 246 -- -28.1% Excellent opening day pre-sales for Sherlock. Star Wars 7 looks to be fighting back though its week-to-week hold is bad. Weak for Ip Man 3. It seems that holidays bring out the pre-sales but every other day it struggles in pre-selling. Horrible for Peanuts and Anniversary. Joy seems to be picking up steam. Awful for THe Little Prince. Superb for Ten Years, the only film in the top 10 to increase. Disaster for Yo-Kai Watch.

3 PM update: Films are having all sorts of trouble today. Holdover Drops from Christmas Day admissions (so far) Ip Man 3: -34.7% Star Wars 7: -54.3% Peanuts Movie: -31.6% The Little Prince: -54.7% From these holdovers, Peanuts and Ip Man 3 are doing quite well. Both are looking at drops in the -15% to -20% range from Christmas. Star Wars 7 should be able to get under 50% today, around a -47% fall. The Little Prince is doing terrible business. It should decline over -50% today. Anniversary, meanwhile, just now surpassed its sneak admissions from last week and is headed for a big decline from New Year's Eve. Joy does not look good either and is aiming for only a little above 10,000 today.

Happy New Year, everyone! Thursday December 31 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 40,617 40,660 +0.1% +62.0% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 42,342 24,289 -42.6% +29.5% 3 Anniversary 10,602 18,468 +74.2% +164.2% 4 The Peanuts Movie 14,110 10,363 -26.6% +25.4% 5 The Little Prince 15,546 9,485 -39.0% +36.8% 6 Joy -- 9,325 -- 7 Yo-Kai Watch 7,150 2,011 -71.9% -20.9% 8 Ten Years 832 1,156 +38.9% +32.7% 9 Initiation Love 1,296 638 -50.8% +53.7% 10 Burnt 406 634 +56.2% -1.9% Average admissions per showing Ip Man 3: 95 on 425 showings (includes Thursday midnights, 4DX) Star Wars 7: 75 on 321 showings (includes Thursday midnights, Atmos, IMAX, 2D and 3D versions, 4DX) Anniversary: 85 on 215 showings (includes Thursday midnights) Superb for Ip Man 3. Bad hold for Star Wars 7. Not that great for Anniversary. Early reviews must have sucked the life of its walk ups because this type of movie should do well with walk-ins too. Opening day score is a 3.8/5. Good hold for Peanuts. Bad for The Little Prince. Horrible for Joy. It'll be interesting to see if it's 4.4 from opening day user reviews will make a dent at the box office. Atrocious for Yo-Kai Watch. Very good for Ten Years. Terrible for Initiation Love. Great hold for Burnt. Friday adm. (so far) January 1 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 34,652 22,948 -33.8% +18.9% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 37,201 18,177 -51.1% +30.9% 3 The Peanuts Movie 13,332 9,047 -32.1% +53.1% 4 Anniversary 7,016 7,821 +11.5% -21.3% 5 The Little Prince 12,202 5,548 -54.5% +14.8% 6 Joy -- 5,234 -- -0.8% 7 Yo-Kai Watch 7,559 2,741 -63.7% +113.1% 8 Ten Years 604 1,327 +119.7% +22.1% 9 Steve Jobs -- 429 -- -- 10 Secret In Their Eyes -- 342 -- -- Very good for Ip Man 3. Bad but not outright disastrous for Star Wars. Nice hold by Peanuts. Anniversary was frontloaded. Bad reviews early on did not help either. Scary hold for The Little Prince. Ouch for Joy. Funnily enough, only the 2 new openers in the top 10 fell on New Year's Day. Awful for Yo-Kai Watch. Fantastic for Ten Years. Steve Jobs and Secret in Their Eyes sneak previews made the top 10.

4 PM Update: Ip Man 3 is well out in front with 33k admissions. It will increase from last Thursday's opening day admissions. Star Wars 7 is just below 21,000 right now and is looking at 23-25k for today. Anniversary has been behind Star Wars 7 all day and is looking at about 20,000 admissions for the day barring a last minute rush tonight. Mixed reviews have come in so far with Anniversary sitting at 3.6/5 from 31 reviews. In the battle of animated films, Peanuts is closing in on 10k while The Little Prince is nearing 8,500. Peanuts is looking at 11-12k today while The Little Prince is aiming for 10-10.5k. Joy has really struggled during the day, falling behind The Little Prince. It is going for 10k admissions as well. Reviews are good with a 4.1/5 so far.

It's been posted above. Figures are accurate with them coming directly from HK MPIA unlike The-Numbers and Mojo's inflated numbers.

Wednesday adm. December 30 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 9,504 25,092 +164.0% -17.9% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 29,715 18,751 -36.9% -16.8% 3 The Peanuts Movie 7,046 8,267 +17.3% -19.0% 4 Anniversary 2,937 6,991 +138.0% -5.8% 5 The Little Prince 3,004 6,932 +130.8% -16.5% 6 Yo-Kai Watch -- 2,541 -- -16.6% 7 Ten Years 705 871 +23.5% +0.3% 8 Burnt 725 646 -10.9% -15.2% 9 Initiation Love 679 415 -38.9% -8.0% 10 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 854 400 -53.2% -- Drops from Monday admissions: The Little Prince -6% Peanuts Movie -7% Star Wars 7 -11% Ip Man 3 -14% Not good for Ip Man 3. It is down 4,000 admissions from Monday. Star Wars 7 might have had a resurgence on Wednesday due to a handful of places cutting its showtimes significantly on Thursday. Harsh for Peanuts. The Little Prince is closing the gap from about 1,600 on Monday to 1,300 on Wednesday. Excellent for Anniversary. Terrible for Yo-Kai Watch. Great for Ten Years. Thursday adm. (so far) December 31 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 28,064 19,305 -31.2% +160.9% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 28,227 13,883 -50.8% +34.9% 3 Anniversary 7,412 9,937 +34.1% +574.6% 4 The Peanuts Movie 10,089 5,909 -41.4% +40.8% 5 Joy -- 5,275 -- -- 6 The Little Prince 11,079 4,832 -56.4% +75.5% 7 Yo-Kai Watch 5,629 1,286 -77.2% -3.0% 8 Ten Years 647 1,087 +68.0% +31.8% 9 Initiation Love 743 402 -45.9% +214.1% 10 Burnt 288 254 -11.8% +91.0% Very good for Ip Man 3. It should be able to increase from Christmas Eve in admissions. Bad for Star Wars. Only a 35% increase from Wednesday's pre-sales and the 2nd weakest increase of the top 10 from yesterday's pre-sales. It is aiming for 23-24k today. Good for Anniversary though heavy pre-sales are limited to night time shows. There are still plenty of seats available in the afternoon. Decent hold for Peanuts though the trend the last few days is concerning. Now the gap between it and The Little Prince is down to 1,100 admissions. There was no joy on New Year's Eve for Joy. Its opening day pre-sale admissions were the lowest of any wide release opener the past 2 weeks. Troubling for The Little Prince. Abysmal for Yo-Kai Watch, the only holdover in the top 10 to decrease from Wednesday's pre-sales. Excellent for Ten Years. Drops for all holdovers will increase on Saturday/Sunday with the holiday period winding down.

There will be sneaks scattered around town this weekend with Concussion, Secret in their Eyes, Steve Jobs getting the most play. New Year's Eve pre-sales at Palace APM for the expected top 3 Palace APM Star Wars: The Force Awakens (all v.) Ip Man 3 Anniversary Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Dec. 31 9:05 AM 33 98 33.67% Dec. 31 9:15 AM 43 167 25.75% Dec. 31 11:20 AM 27 167 16.17% 11:00 AM 32 114 28.07% 10:40 AM 42 286 14.69% 1:25 PM 6 167 3.59% 1:25 PM 16 98 16.33% 2:30 PM 38 286 13.29% 3:30 PM 37 167 22.16% 3:55 PM 31 98 31.63% 3:55 PM 10 98 10.20% 5:35 PM 63 167 37.72% 5:30 PM 33 114 28.95% 4:30 PM 42 286 14.69% 7:40 PM 97 167 58.08% 7:50 PM 68 112 60.71% 5:55 PM 13 98 13.27% 9:45 PM 115 167 68.86% 10:00 PM 42 114 36.84% 6:30 PM 81 286 28.32% 11:55 PM 12 167 7.19% 7:55 PM 45 98 45.92% 8:30 PM 166 286 58.04% 9:55 PM 56 98 57.14% 10:35 PM 103 286 36.01% 12:35 AM 37 286 12.94% Total 255 748 34.09% Total 676 2561 26.40% Total 357 1169 30.54% Drops from Christmas Eve pre-sales: -43.5% Star Wars 7, -35% for Ip Man 3. Decent for Ip Man 3 though that drop is slightly concerning. Star Wars 7's drop is troublesome given that Saturday will drop like a rock from last Saturday's admissions. It still has not hit 50% walk-ins in final admissions on any dey yet which is very worrisome for this week. Pretty good or Anniversary but usually these movies are very frontloaded so it'll be interesting to see how this holds up once Sherlock enters on Saturday.

Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun) Dec 21-27 LW TW Title Last Week (HKD) This Week (HKD) Days in release % chg Total (HKD) This Week (USD) Total (USD) 1 1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $26,645,964 $30,134,633 11 +13.1% $57,023,022 $3,887,402 $7,356,036 -- 2 Ip Man 3 $1,708,559 $18,795,184 4 +1000.1% $20,503,743 $2,424,600 $2,645,006 3 3 The Peanuts Movie $1,561,533 $7,638,876 4 +389.2% $9,229,752 $985,423 $1,190,648 9 4 The Little Prince $607,461 $5,576,683 4 +818.0% $6,204,713 $719,398 $800,415 -- 5 Anniversary $27,538 $4,425,406 0 +15970.2% $4,452,944 $570,882 $574,434 -- 6 Yo-Kai Watch -- $2,202,285 4 -- $2,202,285 $284,097 $284,097 2 7 Keeper of Darkness $1,613,101 $587,550 32 -63.6% $17,362,679 $75,794 $2,239,805 -- 8 Initiation Love -- $515,670 18 -- $1,541,369 $66,522 $198,838 6 9 Burnt $741,068 $472,207 18 -36.3% $2,429,475 $60,915 $313,405 7 10 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 $724,375 $415,799 39 -42.6% $26,422,055 $53,638 $3,408,475 Don't be fooled by that increase for Star Wars 7. It should have increased by 30-40% this weekend even with the new openers since it had 3 days of holidays (Christmas, December 26 and Sunday) and Christmas Eve which sees pretty good admissions as well. That being said, it is already in the top 25 of all time in 1.5 weeks. Legs will be a huge issue with the holidays coming to an end and its drops increasing every day this week so far. Excellent for Ip Man 3. It is the 2nd highest opening weekend by a local release ever behind Kung Fu Hustle's 3.2m. 7m is locked. The Peanuts Movie also had something to celebrate as well. Peanuts OW is the biggest Blue Sky OW outside of Ice Age 3 & 4 and is the highest animated OW during the Christmas period. The Little Prince did quite well with it being a source material from a foreign language. Awareness was an issue but it had one of the top 5 Christmas animated OW's ever. Anniversary had strong sneak previews. It will have banked $750,000 in previews before its released officially on New Year's Eve. Yo-Kai Watch was the weak link and was pushed aside in favor of Peanuts/The Little Prince. Tuesday adm. December 29 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 9,218 30,564 +231.6% +5.2% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 33,947 22,527 -33.6% +6.6% 3 The Peanuts Movie 6,668 10,201 +53.0% +14.4% 4 The Little Prince -- 8,301 -- +12.5% 5 Anniversary -- 7,423 -- +13.8% 6 Yo-Kai Watch -- 3,048 -- +0.5% 7 Ten Years 715 868 +21.4% +1.5% 8 Burnt 937 762 -18.7% +7.8% 9 Initiation Love -- 451 -- +14.8% 10 Port of Call 880 425 -51.7% -- Good for Ip Man 3. Pretty bad drop for Star Wars despite this Tuesday being in the holiday period still. Decent for Peanuts. Not looking good for The Little Prince. Great for Anniversary. Ouch for Yo-Kai Watch. Superb for Ten Years. Wednesday adm. (so far) December 30 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 17,377 10,291 -40.8% -16.7% 2 Ip Man 3 2,020 7,400 +266.3% -21.9% 3 The Peanuts Movie 3,529 4,197 +18.9% -15.4% 4 The Little Prince 1,163 2,753 +136.7% -15.3% 5 Anniversary 993 1,473 +48.3% -8.1% 6 Yo-Kai Watch -- 1,326 -- -26.9% 7 Ten Years 359 825 +129.8% +6.9% 8 Burnt 212 133 -37.3% -82.8% 9 Initiation Love -- 128 -- -- 10 Go Lala Go 2 -- 121 -- -12.9% 41% drop now. Yikes. Harsh drop for Ip Man 3. Ok for Peanuts. Really bad for Little Prince and Yo-Kai Watch. Great for Anniversary. Wow for Ten Years. Thursday schedules Sherlock Holmes: An Abominable Bride will premiere on January 2. These schedules below are not going to last through the entire weekend. Broadway/AMC Hollywood New Holdovers Leaving Anniversary - 8 showings Ip Man 3 - 13 showings (▲ 12) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Joy - 3 showings The Peanuts Movie (Can.) - 6 showings (=) The Little Prince (Can.) - 6 showings (▼ 7) Yo-Kai Watch - 2 showings (▼ 3) Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D - 1 showing (▼ 2) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 6 showings (▼ 9) Anniversary will begin with full day showings on the 2nd biggest screen at 6/7 locations. Joy will start with half day showings at 10 locations. Pre-sales for Anniversary have been very good though not as good as Ip Man 3's. Joy hasn't been doing that well and will see its showtimes cut down on Friday. On Saturday, Sherlock Holmes will begin with 3/4 showtimes at theaters that have already released the entire weekend schedules. Star Wars 7 will move from 2 screens to 1 or will move into smaller houses with full day showtimes. Early scheduling for Saturday/Sunday sees Star Wars get slashed to 4 or 5 showtimes. Ip Man 3 will remain stable or increase showtimes/screen size especially in last week's pesky theaters like Palace IFC/Cyberport. Most theaters will give it 2 screens. Early scheduling for Saturday/Sunday sees it still get full day showtimes in the biggest screen. The Little Prince will continue to get support from these 2 theater chains. It will have full day showtimes almost everywhere. Peanuts will have a mixed bag. Some will schedule it for the whole day while others will cut it down to half day. Yo-Kai Watch will see showtimes crash to just 2. UA Cine Moko New Holdovers Leaving Anniversary - 6 showings Ip Man 3 - 17 showings (▲ 9) The Little Prince (3D Can.) The Peanuts Movie (3D Can.) - 2 showings (▼ 4) The Little Prince (Can.) The Peanuts Movie (Can.) - 1 showing (▲ 0) The Little Prince (3D Eng.) The Peanuts Movie (3D Eng.) - 1 showing (▲ 0) Yo-Kai Watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D Atmos - 1 showing (▲ 0) Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D - 5 showings (▼ 9) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 2 showings (▲ 0) Anniversary will start on 3-6 showings at most UA theaters. Pre-sales are quite good. Joy will be on 1 or 2 less UA theaters but will have bigger screens than Anniversary. Ten Years will debut in 2 UA theaters. Pre-sales are fantastic with even midnights getting a lot of action. After last week's scheduling debacle, Ip Man 3 will run slightly freer this week. Star Wars 7 will still lock down the biggest screen through Jan. 3 but theaters are already starting to feel the itch. One theater took down pre-selling for Star Wars on New Year's Day and gave the night shows on the biggest screen to Ip Man 3 instead. The rest will add another screen to Ip Man 3 to compensate for their big mistake of reserving the biggest screen for Star Wars through the new year. Star Wars, meanwhile, has had pre-selling for this weekend run more than a week now and theaters are reluctant to add anymore showtimes due to slow pre-selling. Some theaters will still add a couple of showtimes but nothing drastic. Peanuts will still have 4-6 showtimes at UA though The Little Prince wasn't so lucky. It will exit some theaters while getting squashed at others. Those that remain will show it once or twice a day. Yo-Kai Watch will leave theaters here. MCL STAR Cinema New Holdovers Leaving Anniversary - 6 showings Ip Man 3 - 11 showings (▲ 9) The Peanuts Movie (Can.) The Boy and the Beast (Jap.) - 2 showings The Peanuts Movie (Eng.) - 6 showings (▲ 4) The Little Prince (Can.) The Boy and the Beast (Can.) - 1 showing The Little Prince (Eng.) - 2 showings (▲ 1) Joy - 5 showings Yo-Kai Watch - 5 showings (▼ 8) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Eng.) - 7 showings (▼ 9) Anniversary will begin on the 3rd or 4th biggest screen here but will have full day showtimes. Joy gets half day showtimes. The Boy and the Beast will play on 2-3 showtimes. Yo-Kai Watch is still getting major support from this theater chain with it on 5 showtimes almost everywhere before 6 PM. Ip Man 3 will increase showtimes at a couple of locations or will remain steady or lose 1 or showtimes at the remaining theaters. The GRAND will increase Ip Man 3's showtimes on Thursday to 14 then 15 on Friday. Star Wars will get 5-7 showtimes on the 2nd or 3rd biggest screen. GH Whampoa New Holdovers Leaving Anniversary - 8 showings Ip Man 3 - 8 showings (▲ 7) The Peanuts Movie (Can.) - 3 showings (▼ 5) The Little Prince (Can.) - 3 showings (=) Yo-Kai Watch - 2 showings (▼ 4) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 7 showings (▲ 5) Anniversary will get the biggest screen at GH. Joy gets half day showtimes on the 3rd or 4th biggest screen. Ip Man 3, Star Wars 7 will remain fairly stable from Wednesday's schedules. Peanuts/The Little Prince will fight behind those 2. Yo-Kai Watch will get some showtimes here. Newport Ip Man 3 moves into the biggest theater at all locations with full day showtimes. Anniversary gets the other screen with almost full day showtimes. Star Wars 7 crashes and burns with only 1 showtime (the one that Anniversary does not get). If there's a 3rd screen, Star Wars receives the smallest of the 3. Independent theaters Ip Man 3 is on the biggest theaters. At Ip Man 3's home turf, it gets 29 showtimes. Paris London Milano New York theater will still push Ip Man 3 on almost 2 screens. Anniversary gets 1 screen at Paris. Star Wars gets almost 1 screen. The rest will be dispersed among Peanuts/Little Prince/Yo Kai Watch. At Metroplex, Ip Man 3 gets the biggest screen over Star Wars. Anniversary gets full day showtimes. Star Wars is still playing well here with about 15 showtimes.

Maybe they are scared of spoilers leaking out ahead of Deadpool's US release. I don't know. That's incredibly dumb. Anniversary ratings are mixed with slightly more than half giving it a thumbs up but comments seem to be quite positive with many praising Louis Cheung's performance. Judging from early pre-sales and reviews, reaction seems to be good and should play as a nice counterpart to Ip Man 3 this weekend. We'll know more on Thursday when reviews come in en masse when the film officially opens.

February 8-10 are holidays in Hong Kong so combine that with Saturday, Sunday, Deadpool should have 5 days of sneaks. Sneaks don't affect box office of other releases too much. Take 2 weekends ago when Ip Man 3, Anniversary, The Little Prince and Peanuts Movie all had sneaks against Star Wars OW. Star Wars still had plenty of seats left to fill. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Ip Man 3 is primed for an increase this weekend. Star Wars 7 is going to drop big. Anniversary is doing very well and even selling tickets faster than Ip Man 3 at a couple of locations so far.

Monday adm. December 28 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 4,800 29,050 +505.2% -41.0% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 27,159 21,140 -22.2% -44.0% 3 The Peanuts Movie 3,419 8,917 +160.8% -47.2% 4 The Little Prince -- 7,380 -- -41.6% 5 Anniversary -- 6,525 -- -35.8% 6 Yo-Kai Watch -- 3,032 -- -55.1% 7 Ten Years 629 855 +35.9% +19.9% 8 Burnt 814 707 -13.1% -8.3% 9 Initiation Love 623 393 -36.9% -60.8% 10 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 1,019 373 -63.4% -- Strong for Ip Man 3. It had the best hold out of the top 4 from Sunday. Star Wars 7 fought back slightly. The drop is still not all that great. Weaker for Peanuts today but it is playing more to the family crowd than The Little Prince. Good for Anniversary. Tuesday adm. (so far) December 29 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 17,946 12,347 -31.2% -- 2 Ip Man 3 1,526 9,469 +520.5% -- 3 The Peanuts Movie 3,071 4,959 +61.5% -- 4 The Little Prince -- 3,251 -- -- 5 Yo-Kai Watch -- 1,815 -- -- 6 Anniversary -- 1,603 -- -- 7 Ten Years 450 772 +71.6% -- 8 Burnt 244 171 -29.9% -- 9 Go Lala Go 2 -- 139 -- -- 10 Port of Call 197 105 -46.7% -- Ehhh for Star Wars. Very strong for Ip Man 3. Nice rebound for Peanuts.

Yep, just checked. Deadpool moved to 2/11. You're right, it's a stupid move. I still wonder if Deadpool will get CNY sneaks though. Alvin and the Chipmunks has moved up to 2/4 in Deadpool's place. Nothing on CTHD 2 here. It might be a China only release for now with a HK/Southeast Asia release to be determined for a later date. Updated Weekend Estimates 1. Star Wars 7 - $7,353,873 (Estimated Sunday revenue: $509,610-$516,061 from 31k admits, Sunday avg. 74 per showing) 2. Ip Man 3 - $2,642,233 (opening weekend estimate with previews included, estimated Sunday revenue: $490,258-$496,708 from 48k admits, Sunday avg. more than 130 per showing) 3. The Peanuts Movie - $1,186,940 (opening weekend estimate with previews included, estimated Sunday revenue: $141,916, 3D share lower on Sunday than Christmas Eve) 4. The Little Prince - $799,894 (opening weekend estimate with previews included) 5. Anniversary - $577,988 (Estimated Sunday revenue: $113,533, Sunday avg. 90 per showing) 6. Yo-Kai Watch - $283,833 (opening weekend estimate, estimated Sunday revenue: $64,507, Sunday avg. 55 per showing) Ip Man 3 came very close to winning Sunday over Star Wars 7. Ip Man 3's opening weekend came in 53% higher than Ip Man 2's opening weekend despite massive interference from theaters due to Star Wars 7. If Ip Man 3 got another screen, this would have made 3m easily. Peanuts had lower share of 3D on Sunday which is why it was overestimated slightly. The Little Prince saw slightly more 3D on the holidays which is why it jumped by more than $50,000. Very strong for Anniversary. Early Thursday schedules Schedules have been posted at most Broadway/AMC locations and a couple of other theaters. At Lux Theatre, one of only 2-3 theaters not showing Ip Man 3 this week, they will cut Star Wars 7 completely in favor of the martial arts drama on New Year's Eve. At Cyberport, one of the 7 theaters that had little to no Ip Man 3 presence last week have moved Ip Man 3 into the biggest or 2nd biggest theater on Thursday, sharing the largest screen with Star Wars 7. Now that the holidays are ending and theaters have some wiggle room from their contractual obligations from Star Wars 7, Ip Man 3 should see a bigger slice of showtimes this week. Star Wars 7 is moving down to the 2nd or 3rd biggest screen (depending on location) behind Ip Man 3 or Ip Man 3 and Anniversary. Anniversary will begin on the 2nd biggest screen or the 3rd biggest. The Little Prince will keep their 2nd or 3rd biggest screen and a majority of showtimes on Thursday. Peanuts was not so lucky. It will get cut down to half day screenings. Joy will be given sparse showtimes at best with most giving it 2 or 3 showtimes on Thursday.

It was supposed to come out in January 2016 but if it had moved to February 4, it would have had to deal with those Chinese releases plus The Good Dinosaur and the big one Deadpool. Simply put, there is too much competition on Chinese New Year's and I'd be afraid that it would get lost in the shuffle. If one of those releases is better received then Ip Man 3 then audiences will go to that one. Also not to mention that there would be a swath of fans that will flock to see the latest Marvel movie. The move up to Christmas was a brilliant move by Pegasus. They, like me, saw that Star Wars is not a big franchise and that if the Ip Man movie was any good that it would play very well over the holidays. In the end, Ip Man 3 had nearly identical admissions to Star Wars 7 on opening weekend. That says more about Star Wars not being the blockbuster that everyone thought it would be than Ip Man 3 doing worse than Ip Man 2's admissions because of the interference caused by Star Wars. There's this level of supremacy that everybody exudes when it comes to Star Wars 7 but the reality is that Disney is propping up its grosses big time with huge ticket prices that is unjustified and admissions are dropping/not performing to studio's expectations because of this and apathy in general for this sequel and the franchise. Sunday December 27 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 9,003 49,221 +446.7% -10.9% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 60,394 37,719 -37.5% -22.0% 3 The Peanuts Movie 7,176 16,898 +135.5% -6.9% 4 The Little Prince 2,896 12,632 +336.2% -17.1% 5 Anniversary -- 10,163 -- -19.5% 6 Yo-Kai Watch -- 6,750 -- -17.0% 7 Initiation Love 1,123 1,002 -10.8% -12.1% 8 Burnt 1,196 771 -35.5% -18.2% 9 Ten Years -- 713 -- -0.3% 10 Keeper of Darkness 2,409 547 -77.3% -- Excellent hold for Ip Man 3. It is in good company with films dropping around the same mark on December 27. Les Miserables and Mission Impossible 4 both fell around this % on December 27 and both went on to at least a 4 multiplier. Star Wars had a terrible hold. It joins Twilight: Breaking Dawn x2 in the club that dropped over 20% from December 26. Both Twilight films went onto less than a 3x multiplier. That admissions number looks even worse when I tell you that Star Wars had 40% of its showtimes in 2D on Sunday, the highest share of 2D showtimes to 3D yet. In gross, Ip Man 3 might have even won Sunday due to Star Wars being switched over to 2D more and more. Strong hold for Peanuts. Awful for The Little Prince. Anniversary had a big drop on Sunday after a surprise increase on December 26. Daily admissions (OW) Previews Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Total Ip Man 2 15,463 47,608 38,240 74,368 73,483 249,162 Ip Man 3 40,620 40,617 54,982 55,219 49,221 240,659 Gap 25,157 18,166 34,908 15,759 -8,503 It was very close but Ip Man 2 won in admissions over Ip Man 3, however, considering the politics this week, I'd consider this a huge victory for Ip Man 3 due to interference from Star Wars 7. Weekend adm. Dec 24-27 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Ip Man 3 17,098 200,039 +1070.0% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 201,418 183,056 -9.1% 3 The Peanuts Movie 13,995 68,653 +390.6% 4 The Little Prince 5,285 61,654 +1066.6% 5 Anniversary -- 45,819 -- 6 Yo-Kai Watch -- 31,574 -- 7 Initiation Love 3,665 4,881 +33.2% Star Wars admissions hold is very deceiving with 2 holidays falling on Friday/Saturday. You can't ask for a better weekend configuration than that during the Christmas period. Weekend Estimates December 24 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $2,480,000 -28.1% $7,305,000 2 Ip Man 3 $2,090,000 $2,535,000 3 The Peanuts Movie $845,000 $1,245,000 4 The Little Prince $570,000 $720,000 5 Anniversary $415,000 $512,000 Minor adjustments for the bottom 4 of the top 5.

No, its legs have not been good. It has not had one day of walk-ins making up more than 50% of a day's admissions yet signifying that once the rush is over that it will fade quickly. Top 50 Local Movies (up to December 23) 1 KUNG FU HUSTLE 2004 $61,278,697 2 SHAOLIN SOCCER 2001 $60,739,847 3 POLICE STORY 4 FIRST STRIKE 1996 $57,518,795 4 RUMBLE IN THE BRONX 1995 $56,912,536 5 INFERRAL AFFAIRS 2002 $55,057,176 6 GOD OF GAMBLERS II 1994 $52,541,028 7 CJ7 2008 $51,440,832 8 JUSTICE, MY FOOT 1992 $49,884,734 9 ALL S WELL END S WELL 1992 $48,992,188 10 LUST, CAUTION 2007 $48,758,480 11 Little Big Master 2015 $46,729,492 12 THUNDERBOLT 1995 $45,647,210 13 MR NICE GUY 1997 $45,420,457 14 Unbeatable 2013 $44,631,344 15 Our Times 2015 $44,507,142 16 FIGHT BACK TO SCHOOL 1991 $43,829,449 17 IP MAN II 2010 $43,313,345 18 Cold War 2012 $42,819,043 19 THE STORM RIDERS 1998 $41,532,235 20 God of Gamblers I: All for the Winner 1990 $41,326,156 21 Golden Chickensss 2014 $41,277,620 22 3D SEX AND ZEN 2011 $41,078,280 23 DRUNKEN MASTER 1994 $40,971,484 24 ROYAL TRAMP 1992 $40,862,831 25 THE GOD OF COOKERY 1996 $40,861,655 26 LOVE ON A DIET 2001 $40,435,886 27 ALL S WELL END S WELL 97 1997 $40,435,675 28 God of Gamblers II: AKA Knight of Gamblers 1991 $40,342,758 29 FLIRTING SCHOLAR 1993 $40,171,804 30 ARMOUR OF GOD II 1991 $39,048,711 31 WHO AM I 1998 $38,852,845 32 TO BE NUMBER ONE 1991 $38,703,363 33 KING OF BEGGARS 1992 $38,622,449 34 INITIAL D 2005 $37,862,364 35 FROM BEIJING WITH LOVE 1994 $37,523,850 36 IT S A WONDERFUL LIFE 1994 $37,367,669 37 EIGHTH HAPPINESS 1988 $37,090,776 38 God of Gamblers II 1990 $37,042,851 39 TREASURE HUNT 1994 $37,033,685 40 LOVE ON DELIVERY 1994 $36,906,730 41 ROYAL TRAMP II 1992 $36,583,964 42 NOW YOU SEE LOVE...NOW YOU DON T 1992 $36,475,536 43 THE MAGIC TOUCH 1992 $36,399,307 44 FORBIDDEN CITY COP 1996 $36,051,899 45 ALL S WELL END S WELL, TOO 1993 $35,481,480 46 AMOUR OF GOD 1987 $35,469,408 47 SIXTY MILLION DOLLAR MAN 1995 $35,236,551 48 NEEDING YOU 2000 $35,214,661 49 72 TENANTS OF PROSPERITY 2010 $34,760,735 50 SWORDSMAN II 1992 $34,462,861 Top 50 Foreign Movies 1 Avatar 2009 $183,411,471 2 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON 2015 $132,983,949 3 Titanic 1998 $114,939,300 4 Iron Man 3 2013 $106,389,801 5 Transformers : Age of Extinction 2014 $98,196,851 6 Avengers 3D, The 2012 $96,705,670 7 Jurassic World 2015 $96,295,976 8 Toy Story 3 2010 $89,364,118 9 Transformers Dark of the Moon 2011 $84,703,797 10 Dark Knight Rises, The 2012 $80,269,966 11 Minions 2015 $78,403,991 12 Monsters University 2013 $77,372,721 13 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 2011 $76,785,999 14 Inside Out 2015 $66,053,079 15 Amazing Spiderman, The 2012 $61,983,452 16 Jurassic Park 1993 $61,898,795 17 You are the apple of my eye 2012 $61,862,731 18 Furious 7 2015 $59,634,515 19 Batman the Dark Knight 2008 $58,524,393 20 Inception 2010 $58,380,823 21 The Lost World - Jurassic Park 1997 $58,231,885 22 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2014 $56,552,117 23 Spider Man 3 2007 $55,016,986 24 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 2014 $54,687,389 25 Mission Impossible：Rogue Nation 2015 $52,970,115 26 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2007 $52,417,858 27 Interstellar 2014 $51,786,434 28 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 2014 $50,768,991 29 Ant Man 2015 $50,710,391 30 Independence Day 1996 $49,655,445 31 Transformers Revenge of Fallen 2009 $48,115,274 32 Life of Pi 2012 $47,334,447 33 2012 2009 $47,027,272 34 STAND BY ME: Doraemon 3D 2015 $46,891,675 35 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 $46,542,244 36 Speed 1994 $46,430,056 37 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince 2009 $45,526,732 38 Pirates of Caribbean On Stranger Tides 2011 $45,506,109 39 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 2010 $44,971,073 40 Men In Black 3 2012 $44,752,201 41 Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol 2011 $44,239,802 42 Alice in Wonderland 2010 $44,105,776 43 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer s Stone 2001 $43,409,950 44 NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB 2014 $43,386,857 45 World War Z 2013 $42,602,911 46 THE MARTIAN 2015 $42,230,385 47 Pirates of the Caribbean At World s End 2007 $42,067,777 48 Day After Tomorrow, The 2004 $41,630,063 49 Maleficent 2014 $40,855,289 50 Les Miserables 2012 $40,853,051 Saturday December 26 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 8,095 55,219 +582.1% +0.4% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 59,026 48,360 -18.1% -11.5% 3 The Peanuts Movie 4,533 18,145 +300.3% -6.9% 4 The Little Prince 2,183 15,244 +598.3% -16.4% 5 Anniversary -- 12,629 -- +1.6% 6 Yo-Kai Watch -- 8,135 -- -14.7% 7 Initiation Love 1,163 1,140 -2.0% -21.0% 8 Burnt 1,110 943 -15.0% -5.0% 9 Ten Years -- 715 -- -0.4% 10 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 1,235 660 -46.6% -- Incredible for Ip Man 3. Of all the releases in the past 5 years that ranked in the top 5 on December 26, only 2 besides Ip Man 3 increased (Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Secret Life of Walter Mitty). Neither of them were as big as Ip Man 3. This bodes really well for Ip Man 3 down the stretch because all the films that have dropped less than 10% on December 26 from Christmas have gone onto at least a 3.4x multiplier. This means that for Ip Man 3, 7m is locked and 8m is very likely. At this point, we cannot count out 9m or even 10m. Star Wars 7 dropped hard despite having a holiday sandwiched between a holiday and a rest day. There really is no excuse for Star Wars 7 not to fall more than 10% despite heavy competition from Ip Man 3. Theaters were really pushing for Star Wars 7 this weekend but Ip Man 3 just kept on pouring it on with walk-ins so theaters gave Ip Man 3 slightly more showtimes starting on Saturday. Star Wars 7 has good pre-selling but its Achilles heel has been walk-ins. I feel like there's a disconnect between the Star Wars watchers and the general audience who will want to watch something last minute. Star Wars is failing to pick up much of that crowd and it still has not had 50% walk-ups on any day since it has been released. The Peanuts Movie rallied from its Thursday loss to The Little Prince in admissions and has opened up to almost a 3,000 admissions lead over TLP. Peanuts is the highest rated movie of the openers this week so to see it have good legs won't be too surprising. Along with Ip Man 3, this will be expected to finish with 3x its opening weekend, if not more with the hold in admissions today. For The Little Prince, this has been a terrible holiday so far. After its admissions win over The Peanuts Movie on Thursday, it was the weakest film of the top 5 full releases on Thursday and it had the biggest decline on Saturday. It also is the only film from the top 6 that garnered less admissions than its Christmas Eve admissions. Anniversary might be picking up steam. Strong admissions. Decent for Yo-Kai Watch. Sunday adm. (so far) December 27 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 2,783 25,324 +810.0% -21.3% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 41,626 24,812 -40.4% -20.9% 3 The Peanuts Movie 3,727 11,115 +198.2% -16.2% 4 The Little Prince 1,688 6,340 +275.6% -29.0% 5 Yo-Kai Watch -- 4,937 -- -23.0% 6 Anniversary -- 3,391 -- -39.8% 7 Ten Years 562 661 17.6% +12.8% 8 Burnt 495 408 -17.6% -22.9% 9 Initiation Love -- 322 -- -30.3% 10 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 538 317 -41.1% -23.4% Decent for Ip Man 3. Not good for Star Wars but it did have 2 holidays preceding it so the film was going to drop pretty hard on Sunday. I see Ip Man 3 winning by over 10,000 admissions today. Very good for Peanuts. Terrible for The Little Prince. It has gone from being up over 5,000 admissions ahead of Yo-Kai Watch on Christmas Eve to now less than 1,500. Ok for Yo-Kai Watch. Weekend Projections December 24 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $2,480,000 -28.1% $7,305,000 2 Ip Man 3 $2,075,000 $2,520,000 3 The Peanuts Movie $840,000 $1,240,000 4 The Little Prince $565,000 $715,000 5 Anniversary $410,000 $507,000 Not great for Star Wars but it held up better than I expected. That's the good news. The bad news is that for a holdover film to drop almost 25% on this type of weekend configuration is very bad. In 2009, 2 films in the top 10 dropped by more than 35% on this exact weekend configuration and they both saw declines the next weekend over 80%. Star Wars isn't going to reach those heights but it could possibly fall 60-65% next weekend even with New Year's Day falling on a Friday. 10m is unlikely at this point with huge declines expected beginning next weekend. 9m is possible. Ip Man 3 had to battle outside influences and theater politics this weekend but it surpassed almost all expectations. Theaters were really dumb to only put this on 1 screen on Thursday since this is a sequel to 2 pretty well received hits. The marketing campaign was small and scattered and did not help Ip Man 3. Luckily, audiences that saw the film early were receptive and that pushed Ip Man 3 to defeat Star Wars in admissions. In gross, Ip Man 3 will lose the 4-day but if you tack on its previews, it will win. The holds this weekend have been fantastic so far and its future looks extremely bright with not much competition. The Peanuts Movie was in tough with 2 big movies and 2 animated films but it came out the best of the rest to snag #3. 3D prices aside, the film is doing well with users, scoring the highest of the 4 new films. This should make over 3.5m. The Little Prince suffered awful drops this weekend and it looks like it will be on its way out with less than 1.5m total. Anniversary opened to pretty strong sneaks and this will enter next weekend. Early reviews haven't been kind. That could change the course of its box office beginning on New Year's Eve.

5 PM Update: Ip Man 3 has passed 50,000 admissions and leads Star Wars 7 by over 5,000 admissions. In the battle of the animated films, The Peanuts Movie is 3,500 admissions ahead of The Little Prince.

It depends on how you look at it. If it's just the 4-day weekend then no but when you include Ip Man 3's previews, then there's a chance that Ip Man 3 will 'win' this weekend. Thursday estimates 1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $593,470 (-17.3%)/$5,418,643 (36,500 admissions on about 440 showtimes, avg 83 per showing; 3D share 66%, 45 theaters playing) 2. Ip Man 3 - $399,947/$1,019,221 (Previews: $619,274; 39,500 admissions on almost 300 showings, avg 135 per showing; 42 theaters playing) 3. The Peanuts Movie - $174,170/$574,118 (Previews: $399,948; 13,500 admissions; avg 66 per showing from more than 200 showings) 4. The Little Prince - ($145,000)/$296,735 (Previews included; avg. more than 75 per showing, lower 3D share than Peanuts Movie, more than 180 showtimes) 5. Anniversary (previews) - $96,761/$193,522 6. Yo-Kai Watch - $64,507 (6,200 admissions on 110 showtimes from 29 theaters; avg 55 per showing) This is interesting. I just calculated how much Star Wars is benefiting from IMAX and it's significant. They are showing Star Wars 7 times a day during the holidays which times that by 4 IMAX theaters and by an average of 300 seats per theater, that is a staggering 8,400 admissions that Ip Man 3 does not have access to. Include outlier theaters like Palace IFC/Pacific Place and Cyberport where they are deliberately limiting showtimes for Ip Man 3 and that figure increases to about 13,000-14,000. That means that from those 7 theaters alone, Star Wars has at least a 13,000 seat advantage against Ip Man 3. Hateful 8...meet the Vengeful 7. I think I truly underestimated how much those 7 skew in favor of Star Wars 7 when nearly every other theater is reporting more business for Ip Man 3 and in some cases, doubling Star War 7 admits. Anyway, the skew for Star Wars is ridiculous. Only 36.5k admits and nearly $600,000 in gross. Geez. Ip Man 3 won the day in admissions but that Thursday number looks a little low. Previews look very high too. That is pretty good for The Peanuts Movie despite the competition. HK will probably be one of Peanuts' biggest Asian territories. The Little Prince did very well too despite the source material being foreign but there's been huge promotion from EDKO so this didn't do all that badly. Theaters going with 2D instead of 3D helped as well. Anniversary sneaks look very good. Yo-Kai Watch did OK. Friday December 25 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 -- 54,982 -- +35.4% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 41,669 54,635 +31.1% +29.0% 3 The Peanuts Movie 2,286 19,500 +753.0% +38.2% 4 The Little Prince -- 18,232 -- +17.3% 5 Anniversary -- 12,425 -- +17.2% 6 Yo-Kai Watch -- 9,539 -- +33.4% 7 Initiation Love 812 1,443 +77.7% +11.3% 8 Burnt 936 993 +6.1% -- 9 Ten Years -- 718 -- -13.7% 10 Keeper of Darkness 1,973 634 -67.9% -0.6% Ip Man 3 gets the win on Friday in admissions. The trend this weekend has Ip Man 3 steady while Star Wars 7 seems to be fading gradually. Sunday will be a very big day as Ip Man 3 can secure a weekend victory (including previews) over Star Wars 7 with the holiday officially over and the tide going back to the action flick on a non-holiday. The Peanuts Movie took command of 3rd place today beating The Little Prince. Reception seems to be warm with it delivering the highest marks of the new releases this week. The Little Prince is performing more like a drama than an animated movie. One of the lowest increases of the top 10 on Friday, that does not bode well for the rest of the weekend. Solid for Anniversary. Decent for Yo-Kai Watch. Saturday adm. (so far) December 26 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Ip Man 3 2,213 32,179 +1354.1% -7.1% 2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 38,988 31,368 -19.5% -15.7% 3 The Peanuts Movie 2,326 13,259 +470.0% -0.5% 4 The Little Prince 1,160 8,931 +669.9% -26.8% 5 Yo-Kai Watch -- 6,413 -- -15.2% 6 Anniversary -- 5,633 -- -19.7% 7 Ten Years 611 586 -4.1% -3.0% 8 Burnt 387 529 +36.7% -19.4% 9 Initiation Love -- 462 -- -34.0% 10 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 424 414 -2.4% -7.2% Good hold for Ip Man 3 from Friday pre-sales. Most movies fall in 15% range on Boxing Day pre-sales so to fall under 10% is a great sign. Some theaters gave it extra showtimes beginning on Saturday so that might be why it didn't fall all that much from Friday. Eh for Star Wars 7. The drop week-to-week does not look all that good. Great hold for Peanuts. This is resonating well with moviegoers. In stark contrast, terrible for The Little Prince. Peanuts has stolen admissions away from The Little Prince. Standard drops for Yo-Kai Watch and Anniversary.

In admissions? Possibly. In gross? Nope. Last Thursday's midnights were taken out by the end of the day so last Thursday's admissions number is deflated. This week, theaters gave Star Wars more 2D screenings on Christmas Eve so grosses will be smaller. Yes. Even the Thursday pre-sales number looked really low. I said Ip Man 3 would start at 35,000 or above but it came in much lower and behind Star Wars, which is not right since Ip Man 3 had much faster pre-selling than Star Wars. Showtimes weren't all packed before 4pm. A lot of them did not even sell out till about an hour in advance of the showtime. You should tell them that the admissions site is not reporting Ip Man 3's number accurately and that we won't know till actuals come in on Monday.