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Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun) Sept. 21-27 LW TW Title Last Week (HKD) This Week (HKD) Days in release % chg Total (HKD) This Week (USD) Total (USD) 2 1 Everest $6,085,953 $5,738,612 11 -5.7% $12,889,806 $742,126 $1,666,929 -- 2 The Intern -- $5,546,801 4 -- $5,546,801 $717,320 $717,320 1 3 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials $10,469,702 $4,325,466 18 -58.7% $29,714,200 $559,375 $3,842,686 -- 4 Office -- $2,530,642 4 -- $2,530,642 $327,266 $327,266 3 5 Attack on Titan: End of the World $1,625,666 $1,687,620 9 +3.8% $3,313,286 $218,245 $428,479 5 6 PK $1,229,324 $1,021,404 25 -16.9% $4,325,157 $132,089 $559,335 4 7 No Escape $1,501,067 $628,196 25 -58.2% $10,980,781 $81,239 $1,420,051 -- 8 Hotel Transylvania 2 -- $627,854 0 -- $627,854 $81,195 $81,195 -- 9 Irrational Man -- $288,201 4 -- $288,201 $37,270 $37,270 -- 10 The Beauty Inside -- $274,895 4 -- $322,298 $35,549 $35,549 Note: These figures do not include the Monday holiday. Maze Runner 2 will pass 4m very soon. Everest will push for 2m this weekend. Intern seems headed for at least 2.5m with a chance at 3m. Dreadful for Attack on Titan 2. Its increase over last weekend's 2 day opening took 7 days. PK is slowly but surely on its way to 1m. Hotel Transylvania 2 is looking pretty good at the moment. It's looking like its 3-day (SSM) previews passed $150,000. Others: Inside Out passed 8.5m. Mission Impossible 5 has raked in 6.845m.

Wednesday adm. (so far) September 30 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Martian -- 4,005 -- -- 2 The Intern -- 3,733 -- -- 3 Everest -- 3,566 -- -- 4 Office -- 1,220 -- -- 5 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- 743 -- -- 6 PK -- 559 -- -- 7 Attack on Titan: End of the World -- 359 -- -- 8 The Beauty Inside -- 334 -- -- 9 Hotel Transylvania 2 -- 246 -- -- 10 Irrational Man -- 183 -- -- Good start for The Martian. Based solely on these, I think it could get up to 50,000 admissions on Thursday. It still has a long way to go. I think it could potentially secure around 15,000 admissions if walk-ins are really brisk. 12,000 admissions should be its ballpark figure for today. Great for The Intern. Decent for Everest. Weak for Office. Maze Runner 2 is being rushed out quite quickly. Very good for PK. That looks terrible for Hotel Transylvania 2.

Thursday schedules Broadway/AMC Palace APM New Holdovers Leaving The Martian 3D - 13 showings The Intern - 7 showings (▼ 9) The Beauty Inside The Martian - 1 showing Office - 7 showings (=) Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Hotel Transylvania 2 (Can.) - 3 showings Everest - 1 showing (▼ 7) American Ultra The Transporter Refueled - 2 showings Attack on Titan: End of the World Veteran - 1 showing Love Detective Note: all holdover showtimes in parentheses are from Tuesday for B/AMC only The Martian will start with 2-3 screens on Broadway/AMC. Pre-sales are a little underwhelming at the moment. Hotel Transylvania 2 will enter with half day showtimes. Pre-sales look OK but most will show only 2D for Hotel T 2 as opposed to 3D for The Martian. Holdovers aside from Intern and Office will get heavily cut this week. Intern gets 1 screen (3rd biggest). Office is left on the 4th biggest screen. Cityplaza New Holdovers Leaving The Martian 3D - 7 showings The Intern - 5 showings (▼ 7) Office Hotel Transylvania 2 (3D Can.) - 1 showing The Beauty Inside - 2 showings (▼ 5) Northern Limit Line Hotel Transylvania 2 (Can.) - 1 showing Everest - 2 showings (▼ 6) Attack on Titan: End of the World Hotel Transylvania 2 (Eng.) - 1 showing Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials - 2 showings (▼ 4) Everest 3D Veteran - 3 showings PK - 3 showings (▼ 4) Dark Places - 3 showings Martian will only get 1 screen at UA. Hotel T gets 2 or 3 showtimes. Dark Places will be booked in almost every UA theater on 3 showtimes. Veteran/Transporter Refueled gets a few theaters but with 2-3 showtimes at each location. Intern remains on 1 screen. Office will leave a few UA theaters on Thursday. PK goes back into IMAX theaters but with only 2-3 showtimes. _______________________________________ The Walk will have special screenings starting on Saturday. Sicario previews begin on October 1. Now let's see how The Martian is doing... Festival Walk The Martian 3D The Martian Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Oct. 1 10:45 AM 43 156 27.56% Oct. 1 8:30 AM 91 354 25.71% 11:10 AM 188 354 53.11% 10:30 PM 8 144 5.56% 12:10 PM 7 138 5.07% 1:20 PM 7 156 4.49% 1:50 PM 38 354 10.73% 2:45 PM 16 144 11.11% 3:55 PM 13 156 8.33% 4:30 PM 41 354 11.58% 5:20 PM 6 144 4.17% 6:30 PM 5 156 3.21% 7:10 PM 42 354 11.86% 7:55 PM 12 144 8.33% 9:05 PM 7 156 4.49% 9:50 PM 28 354 7.91% Total 453 3120 14.52% Total 99 498 19.88% A little slow considering it's a holiday but almost all of its showtimes are 3D so they will take more time to fill up.

Monday adm. September 28 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Intern -- 32,479 -- +13.0% 2 Everest -- 17,540 -- -2.1% 3 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- 11,967 -- -4.2% 4 Office -- 11,613 -- -3.6% 5 Hotel Transylvania 2 -- 6,479 -- +48.6% 6 PK -- 3,840 -- +15.7% 7 Attack on Titan: End of the World -- 3,708 -- +4.5% 8 The Beauty Inside -- 1,756 -- +14.8% 9 No Escape -- 1,671 -- +16.4% 10 Irrational Man -- 1,375 -- +10.7% Intern really broke through and gained nearly 4,000 admissions from Sunday. The rest of the major players all took hits from Sunday. Hotel Transylvania 2 saw another big increase on Monday. Attack on Titan 2 increased which is slightly surprising since it fell hard on Sunday. Weekend adm. Sep 24-28 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 The Intern -- 108,054 -- 2 Everest 74,839 66,547 -11.1% 3 Office -- 47,766 -- 4 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 72,980 44,553 -39.0% 5 Attack on Titan: End of the World 22,161 16,033 -27.7% 6 Hotel Transylvania 2 -- 13,055 -- 7 PK 11,466 12,369 +7.9% 8 The Beauty Inside -- 6,456 -- 9 Irrational Man -- 5,717 -- 10 No Escape 10,487 5,539 -47.2% Hotel Transylvania 2 overtook PK for 6th. 5-day Weekend Estimates September 24 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 The Intern $1,090,000 $1,090,000 2 Everest $765,000 -2.0% $2,015,000 3 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials $570,000 -34.5% $3,915,000 4 Office $385,000 $385,000 5 Attack on Titan: End of the World $150,000 -28.1% $450,000 Other 5-day weekend estimates: 6. PK - $140,000 (+7.7%)/$608,000 7. Hotel Transylvania 2 - $135,000 (sneak previews) Intern inches ever closer to 1.1m for the 5-day weekend. ___________________________________________________ The Martian seems to be doing quite well so far. Nearing half full for the 11 AM morning show already on Thursday at a few locations. Lots of places are holding back showtimes or have not released their Thursday schedules yet. Tomorrow should give us a better picture as to where everybody stands. Currently though, Martian looks to be on 2-3 screens, Intern gets 1 screen, Office gets 1 screen at Broadway/AMC. Hotel Transylvania 2 is getting mixed results so far. Most will schedule it on 3 showings though. 1 theater has it on full day showtimes while another has only given it 1 showtime.

Monday adm. (so far) September 28 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Intern -- 12,410 -- +20.1% 2 Everest -- 8,001 -- -0.9% 3 Office -- 5,006 -- -0.9% 4 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- 4,255 -- -1.2% 5 Hotel Transylvania 2 -- 2,997 -- +46.2% 6 PK -- 2,283 -- +33.9% 7 Attack on Titan: End of the World -- 1,277 -- -5.3% 8 The Beauty Inside -- 700 -- +18.6% 9 Irrational Man -- 486 -- +10.2% 10 No Escape -- 400 -- -- Strong increases for Intern/Hotel Transylvania 2/PK. At #11, 11 Inside Out -- 368 is Inside Out. I saw a couple of sellouts for IO today. Pretty remarkable in its 11th week with Hotel T 2 out of the gate. There is a small chance this makes the top 10 today. 5-day Weekend Projections September 24 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 The Intern $1,070,000 $1,070,000 2 Everest $760,000 -2.7% $2,010,000 3 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials $575,000 -33.9% $3,920,000 4 Office $380,000 $380,000 5 Attack on Titan: End of the World $140,000 -32.9% $440,000 5 PK $140,000 +7.7% $608,000 Other 5-day projections: Hotel Transylvania 2 - $130,000 (sneak previews) Intern begins with a huge opening. Not many people saw this coming. It'll pass 2m by next weekend. Reviews are shaping up to be superb with it still marking a 4.8/5. Everest is holding up pretty well. 3m might happen in around 2 weeks time. Maze Runner 2 might not be holding all that well but it will join its predecessor as one of only 2 films to bank more than 4m. It will pass the first film by the end of this weekend. Office was not very busy this weekend. A lot of admissions came from older people and overall reception does not seem to be good. Attack on Titan 2 succumbed to the first film's bad word of mouth. This weekend turned out to be a disaster and it won't make even half of the first film. It won't even make the opening weekend of the first film. PK will close the gap and essentially tie Titan for #5 this weekend on Monday. Excellent hold to increase from last weekend. Hotel Transylvania 2 is doing pretty well in previews. It should double the first film which only got a theatrical release after the DVD/Blu-Ray came out...and it still grossed nearly 1m.

This is #1 in Hong Kong and its 4-day weekend is estimated to be equivalent to $33m USD (from USA alone -- $760k USD) and 5-day weekend is being projected at a magnificent $48.4m USD (Monday is a holiday here -- $1.1m USD). User rating is the highest I've seen in the past few years with a 4.8/5 average so far.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone! Sunday September 27 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Intern -- 28,740 -- +11.4% 2 Everest 23,365 17,925 -23.3% +21.3% 3 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 22,667 12,489 -44.9% +27.5% 4 Office -- 12,045 -- +17.1% 5 Hotel Transylvania 2 -- 4,360 -- +96.8% 6 Attack on Titan: End of the World 10,286 3,547 -65.5% -8.2% 7 PK 3,905 3,320 -15.0% +20.7% 8 The Beauty Inside -- 1,529 -- +9.3% 9 No Escape 3,170 1,436 -54.7% +23.3% 10 Irrational Man -- 1,242 -- -13.2% Great for Intern and Everest. Maze Runner 2 had a much better hold today due to the Monday holiday. Office is slowing down at an alarming rate. Mega jump for Hotel Transylvania 2. Expect another bump on Monday. Awful for Attack on Titan 2. It was one of two to decrease on Sunday and it was off 65% from opening Sunday. Excellent for PK. Weekend adm. Sep 24-27 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 The Intern -- 75,575 -- 2 Everest 74,839 49,007 -34.5% 3 Office -- 36,153 -- 4 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 72,980 32,586 -55.3% 5 Attack on Titan: End of the World 22,161 12,325 -44.4% 6 PK 11,466 8,529 -25.6% 7 Hotel Transylvania 2 -- 6,576 -- 8 The Beauty Inside -- 4,700 -- 9 Irrational Man -- 4,342 -- 10 No Escape 10,487 3,868 -63.1% Weekend Estimates September 24 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 The Intern $760,000 $760,000 2 Everest $560,000 -28.3% $1,810,000 3 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials $345,000 -60.3% $3,790,000 4 Office $290,000 $290,000 5 Attack on Titan: End of the World $115,000 -44.9% $415,000 Other weekend estimates: 6. PK - $97,000 (-25%)/$565,000 7. Hotel Transylvania 2 - $67,000 (sneak previews) Wow for The Intern. It is over performing in HK. Its 4-day weekend would be equivalent to 33m in USA alone. Reviews stand at an incredible 4.8/5. 5-day weekend will be over 1m. Everest held up great considering how Intern did this weekend. 2m will happen by Monday or Tuesday. Maze Runner 2 had a rough hold but it will pass 4m with ease by next weekend. Office was the major loser this week. It featured a star-studded cast but failed to connect with young audiences. I thought the trailer was a huge miss as it did not mention what the plot was about. Attack on Titan 2 had a terrible hold falling 44% from its 2-day opening weekend last week. The holiday Monday did not seem to help affairs as it fell on Sunday from Saturday. Outside the top 5, PK continues its great run. Also in the mix was Hotel Transylvania 2's special screenings. By Monday, it will have grossed over $100,000 in previews. Tomorrow will feature 5-day projections/estimates and perhaps an update on how The Martian is doing.

Sunday adm. (so far) September 27 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Intern -- 10,335 -- +37.2% 2 Everest 10,735 8,073 -24.8% +22.9% 3 Office -- 5,049 -- +41.2% 4 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 9,028 4,306 -52.3% +47.0% 5 Hotel Transylvania 2 -- 2,050 -- +127.5% 6 PK 2,081 1,705 -18.1% +23.5% 7 Attack on Titan: End of the World 3,797 1,348 -64.5% +14.1% 8 Our Times 799 1,145 +43.3% -1.6% 9 The Beauty Inside -- 590 -- +2.4% 10 Irrational Man -- 441 -- -8.5% Excellent for The Intern. Very good hold for Everest. Decent increase for Office. Mediocre for Maze Runner 2. Gigantic jump for Hotel Transylvania 2. Strong hold for PK.

Saturday September 26 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Intern -- 25,805 -- +91.6% 2 Everest 25,492 14,777 -42.0% +54.9% 3 Office -- 10,290 -- +36.5% 4 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 25,090 9,794 -61.0% +64.5% 5 Attack on Titan: End of the World 11,875 3,864 -67.5% +39.5% 6 PK 3,867 2,750 -28.9% +108.8% 7 Hotel Transylvania 2 -- 2,216 -- -- 8 Irrational Man -- 1,431 -- +51.9% 9 The Beauty Inside -- 1,399 -- +43.3% 10 Our Times -- 1,221 -- -- Really strong for Intern. Decent hold for Everest. Not good for Office. Steep declines for Maze Runner 2/Attack on Titan 2. Great hold for PK. Hotel Transylvania 2 did not do all that great with walk-ins. Perhaps Inside Out still playing at a handful of locations is affecting its previews.

Saturday adm. (so far) September 26 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Intern -- 7,532 -- +89.9% 2 Everest 10,838 6,568 -39.4% +53.1% 3 Office -- 3,576 -- +26.0% 4 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 8,927 2,929 -67.2% +45.4% 5 PK 1,865 1,381 -26.0% +138.5% 6 Attack on Titan: End of the World 4,419 1,181 -73.3% +25.1% 7 Our Times 662 1,164 +75.8% -- 8 Hotel Transylvania 2 -- 901 -- -- 9 The Beauty Inside -- 576 -- +40.5% 10 Irrational Man -- 482 -- +47.0% Intern is firing on all cylinders. It is looking at a Thu-Mon weekend figure of over $900,000. Everest posted a solid hold. Kind of weak for Office. Terrible hold for Maze Runner 2. PK is still doing very good business. Good for Our Times. Not all that good for Hotel Transylvania 2 but this will play much stronger on Sunday/Monday.

Friday September 25 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Intern -- 13,465 -- +78.0% 2 Everest 14,283 9,538 -33.2% +40.9% 3 Office -- 7,540 -- +20.1% 4 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 14,988 5,954 -60.3% +36.9% 5 Attack on Titan: End of the World -- 2,770 -- +29.2% 6 PK 2,190 1,317 -39.9% +15.3% 7 The Beauty Inside -- 976 -- +22.6% 8 Irrational Man -- 942 -- +29.6% 9 No Escape 2,411 695 -71.2% +21.5% 10 Boychoir 914 285 -68.8% -- Intern is pulling away. Good hold for Everest. Decent for Office. Maze Runner 2 dropped quite hard. Bad for Attack on Titan 2. It will make less than half of Attack on Titan. PK is declining a bit more but it's still a nice result.

Thursday September 24 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 The Intern -- 7,565 -- 2 Everest 11,699 6,767 -42.2% 3 Office -- 6,278 -- 4 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 10,235 4,349 -57.5% 5 Attack on Titan: End of the World -- 2,144 -- 6 PK 1,504 1,142 -24.1% 7 The Beauty Inside -- 796 -- 8 Irrational Man -- 727 -- 9 No Escape 1,846 572 -69.0% 10 Northern Limit Line -- 267 -- Pretty good start for The Intern. It is getting rave reviews with a huge score of 4.8. Decent hold for Everest. Ok start for Office. Another pretty big drop Maze Runner 2. Weak for Attack on Titan 2. Strong hold for PK. Thursday estimates 1. Everest - $79,290 2. The Intern - $76,732 3. Office - $51,155 4. Maze Runner 2 - $46,039/$3,491,336 5. Attack on Titan 2 - $319,719 6. PK Friday adm. (so far) September 25 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Everest 6,213 4,289 -31.0% +34.6% 2 The Intern -- 3,967 -- +120.8% 3 Office -- 2,839 -- +27.5% 4 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 5,724 2,014 -64.8% +59.6% 5 Attack on Titan: End of the World -- 944 -- +80.2% 6 PK 856 579 -32.4% +52.4% 7 The Beauty Inside -- 410 -- +20.9% 8 Irrational Man -- 328 -- +20.1% 9 Northern Limit Line -- 117 -- -4.9% 10 No Escape 483 95 -80.3% -9.5% Intern is really turning it on. Great increase. Everest is chugging along while Office looks like it's lagging behind. Terrible hold for Maze Runner 2. Very good hold for PK. Windsor Cinema has officially re-opened under the MCL brand after UA's lease expired. First showings will begin on Saturday.

Thursday adm. (so far) September 24 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Everest 5,016 3,186 -36.5% 2 Office -- 2,226 -- 3 The Intern -- 1,797 -- 4 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 3,226 1,262 -60.9% 5 Attack on Titan: End of the World -- 524 -- 6 PK 388 380 -2.1% 7 The Beauty Inside -- 339 -- 8 Irrational Man -- 273 -- 9 Northern Limit Line -- 123 -- 10 No Escape 323 105 -67.5% Solid hold for Everest. Mild starts for both Office/The Intern. Office's admissions seem to be limited to the morning only while Intern is doing better at night. Not good for Maze Runner 2. Ouch for Attack on Titan 2. Superb hold for PK. Hotel Transylvania 2 will begin sneaks this weekend. The Martian will open with previews on Wednesday. It's possible that we might see Martian get previews on the Monday holiday as well.

Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun) Sept. 14-20 LW TW Title Last Week (HKD) This Week (HKD) Days in release % chg Total (HKD) This Week (USD) Total (USD) 1 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials $14,914,307 $10,469,702 11 -29.8% $25,384,009 $1,343,265 $3,256,774 -- 2 Everest $1,065,241 $6,085,953 4 +471.3% $7,151,194 $780,829 $917,499 -- 3 Attack on Titan: End of the World -- $1,625,666 2 -- $1,625,666 $208,573 $208,573 -- 4 No Escape -- $1,501,067 18 -- $10,352,585 $192,587 $1,328,239 -- 5 PK -- $1,229,324 18 -- $3,303,903 $157,722 $423,891 -- 6 American Ultra -- $678,360 4 -- $678,360 $87,033 $87,033 -- 7 Love Detective -- $615,207 18 -- $5,050,956 $78,931 $648,038 -- 8 Boychoir $352,447 $419,822 11 +19.1% $772,269 $53,863 $99,082 -- 9 All You Need is Love $509,222 $363,680 11 -28.6% $872,902 $46,660 $111,993 -- 10 Inside Out -- $333,141 60 -- $65,638,845 $42,742 $8,421,478 Note: Boychoir/All You Need is Love grosses from 'Last Week' are totals that may include previews. It may not accurately reflect the week-to-week drop from last week. After a 2 week vacation, HK MPIA released last week's box office totals. Better for Maze Runner 2. Meh for Everest. Awful for Attack on Titan. No Escape fell hard. PK is doing great. Amazing to see Inside Out still in the top 10 after 9 weeks.

Sunday September 20 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Everest 5,593 23,365 +317.8% -8.3% 2 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 55,658 22,667 -59.3% -9.7% 3 Attack on Titan: End of the World -- 10,286 -- -13.4% 4 PK 4,395 3,905 -11.1% +1.0% 5 No Escape 7,230 3,170 -56.2% +3.6% 6 American Ultra -- 2,703 -- +1.2% 7 Inside Out 2,786 1,479 -46.9% +33.6% 8 Love Detective 3,706 1,328 -64.2% +12.1% 9 Boychoir 1,777 1,200 -32.5% -8.0% 10 La Famille Bélier -- 843 -- -2.4% Steep declines for the top 3 from Saturday. PK is doing very well. Iffy hold for No Escape. Awful for American Ultra. Decent hold for Inside Out. Weekend adm. Sep 17-20 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Everest -- 74,839 -- 2 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- 72,980 -- 3 Attack on Titan: End of the World -- 22,161 -- 4 PK -- 11,466 -- 5 No Escape -- 10,487 -- 6 American Ultra -- 9,876 -- 7 Love Detective -- 4,256 -- 8 Boychoir -- 3,989 -- 9 Inside Out -- 3,179 -- Weekend Estimates September 17 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials $760,000 -60.4% $3,127,000 2 Everest $750,000 +417.2% $893,000 3 Attack on Titan: End of the World $210,000 $210,000 4 PK $130,000 -11.6% $525,000 5 No Escape $110,000 -57.2% $1,501,000 Due to Sunday's higher than expected drops, the top 3 were all adjusted down. Maze Runner 2 wins over Everest with the traditional 4 day opening but Everest can be considered the winner if you add in its previews.

Sunday adm. (so far) September 20 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Everest 2,348 10,735 +357.2% -1.0% 2 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 23,965 9,028 -62.3% +1.1% 3 Attack on Titan: End of the World -- 3,797 -- -14.1% 4 PK 2,311 2,081 -10.0% +11.6% 5 No Escape 2,197 820 -62.7% +18.3% 6 Our Times -- 799 -- +20.7% 7 American Ultra -- 716 -- +1.7% 8 Boychoir 870 556 -36.1% +15.8% 9 Inside Out 897 544 -39.4% +92.2% 10 Love Detective 1,168 421 -64.0% +32.0% Everest might be starting to pull away slightly from Maze Runner 2. Not good for Maze Runner 2. Poor for Attack on Titan 2. Excellent hold for PK. No Escape was down by a hefty margin from last Sunday. Horrible for American Ultra. Boychoir is fading. Strong hold for Inside Out. Bad for Love Detective.

Thursday Actuals September 17 LW TW Movie Last Thu. (USD) Thursday (USD) % chg Theaters Days Total -- 1 Everest -- $116,961 -- 40 1 -- 1 2 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials $332,717 $106,377 -68.0% 41 8 -- 2 3 No Escape $37,168 $19,597 -47.3% 26 15 -- -- 4 American Ultra -- $17,562 -- 26 1 $17,562 4 5 PK $18,886 $16,894 -10.5% 6 15 $337,887 3 6 Love Detective $22,096 $7,592 -65.6% 23 15 -- -- 7 The Merger -- $6,237 -- 14 1 -- -- 8 Guia in Love -- $5,549 -- 18 1 -- 8 9 Boychoir $8,986 $5,328 -40.7% 9 8 -- 6 10 A Tale of Three Cities $9,821 $3,840 -60.9% 14 15 $298,900 Some of the numbers are different from Cinetel's because other places are reporting different placements/numbers on Thursday. I have tried my best to piece together Thursday's numbers. Not good for Everest. Maze Runner 2 dropped heavily. Not bad for No Escape though weekend drops will be larger. American Ultra flopped. Excellent hold for PK. Saturday September 19 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Everest -- 25,492 -- +78.5% 2 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- 25,090 -- +67.4% 3 Attack on Titan: End of the World -- 11,875 -- -- 4 PK -- 3,867 -- +47.6% 5 No Escape -- 3,060 -- +26.9% 6 American Ultra -- 2,672 -- +2.0% 7 Boychoir -- 1,305 -- +42.8% 8 Love Detective -- 1,185 -- +22.9% 9 Inside Out -- 1,107 -- +200.8% 10 La Famille Bélier -- 864 -- +40.3% Surprising that Everest won in admissions on Saturday. Terrible for Attack on Titan 2. It lost to the first AOT film by nearly 2,000 admissions...and that was on a Thursday. Great for PK. Not so good for No Escape. Laughable increase for American Ultra. Inside Out rockets back into the top 10. Weekend Projections September 17 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials $775,000 -59.6% $3,142,000 2 Everest $772,000 +432.4% $915,000 3 Attack on Titan: End of the World $212,000 $212,000 4 PK $130,000 -11.6% $525,000 5 No Escape $109,000 -57.6% $1,500,000 Tough call this weekend as Maze Runner dropped quite hard and Everest is not doing very good either. Attack on Titan 2 is a massive failure. Wonderful for PK. Good total overall for No Escape.

14th highest grossing film of all time. Its run has been spectacular. I only thought it would make 5m at first. Some food for thought: As of Thursday, Inside Out's HK run would be equivalent to 371.4m in the US.

Friday September 18 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 33,520 14,988 -55.3% +46.4% 2 Everest 3,277 14,283 +335.9% +22.1% 3 American Ultra -- 2,620 -- +39.3% 4 No Escape 4,967 2,411 -51.5% +30.6% 5 PK 2,352 2,190 -6.9% +45.6% 6 Love Detective 2,657 964 -63.7% +23.7% 7 Boychoir 1,067 914 -14.3% +60.4% 8 A Tale of Three Cities 1,403 700 -50.1% +19.3% 9 La Famille Bélier -- 616 -- +47.4% 10 Guia in Love -- 594 -- +1.5% Not bad for Maze Runner 2. Not good for Everest. Not good for American Ultra. Average for No Escape. Great holds for PK and Boychoir. Saturday adm. (so far) September 19 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Everest 2,317 10,838 +367.8% +74.4% 2 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 22,854 8,927 -60.9% +56.0% 3 Attack on Titan: End of the World -- 4,419 -- -- 4 PK 2,028 1,865 -8.0% +117.9% 5 American Ultra -- 704 -- +13.9% 6 No Escape 1,832 693 -62.2% +43.5% 7 Our Times -- 662 -- -- 8 Boychoir 669 480 -28.3% +26.0% 9 Wong Ka Yan -- 420 -- -- 10 Love Detective 1,005 319 -68.3% +9.2% Well well, Everest jumps 74% with Saturday pre-sales. Bad hold for Maze Runner 2. Poor opening for Attack on Titan 2. It did not even beat Attack on Titan's opening day Thursday pre-sales. Excellent for PK. No Escape had a harsh drop. Due to many special screenings this weekend, some upcoming films have jumped right into the top 10 on Saturday. Our Times and Wong Ka Yan both make their debut. Boychoir seems to be slowing down. Awful hold for Love Detective.

Here are the Saturday showtimes count for the expected top 3 Saturday Showtimes Everest (all) Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (all) Attack on Titan 2 Hollywood Friday 9 11 0 Saturday 10 11 9 Palace APM Friday 10 11 0 Saturday 11 11 10 Cinema City Friday 9 19 0 Saturday 10 13 11 The One Friday 11 13 0 Saturday 9 10 10 Pacific Place Friday 7 6 0 Saturday 8 9 3 Palace IFC Friday 5 5 0 Saturday 6 6 3 Festival Walk Friday 12 10 0 Saturday 9 13 8 Cine Times Friday 8 11 0 Saturday 7 10 4 iSquare Friday 6 (IMAX) 8 0 Saturday 7 (IMAX) 7 0 Cine Moko Friday 7 (IMAX) 10 0 Saturday 7 (IMAX) 11 4 STAR Cinema Friday 7 6 0 Saturday 7 6 5 The Grand Cinema Friday 12 16 0 Saturday 12 11 8 Some have given Everest/Maze Runner 2 less showings this weekend to accommodate Attack on Titan 2 while others have increased showtimes, taking away from other holdovers/American Ultra. The addition of Attack on Titan 2 will push everyone from #3 on downward below 1 spot. Pre-sales for Attack on Titan 2 look alright for now. It certainly was not as brisk as the first film.

Well, the distributor has set the release date for Our Times for October 15, clearly trying to replicate Apple of My Eye's success in 2011. Apple of My Eye appealed to many HK'ers because of the subject matter. This one has the same formula but whether it will appeal to HK people remains to be seen. There is some major competition on October 22 (Black Mass, Legend, Last Witch Hunter, Goosebumps and Bridge of Spies all come out) so legs will be cut short, however, it does have the holiday on October 21. I'd say 4m is achievable but it needs to open well otherwise theaters will cut it in favor of new films the week after. Apple of My Eye used to be in the Chinese section but they must have revamped the list. My above post has been amended to Top 50 Local Movies instead of Chinese Movies. Thursday September 17 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Everest -- 11,699 -- 2 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 27,530 10,235 -62.8% 3 American Ultra -- 1,881 -- 4 No Escape 3,497 1,846 -47.2% 5 PK 1,619 1,504 -7.1% 6 Love Detective 2,273 779 -65.7% 7 A Tale of Three Cities 1,038 587 -43.4% 8 Guia in Love -- 585 -- 9 Boychoir 779 570 -26.8% 10 La Famille Bélier -- 418 -- Everest did not do that great. Judging from last weekend's previews, admissions increase on Saturday was below 50% which suggests families/weekend crowd are not interested in this type of movie. Maze Runner 2 had an iffy drop from opening day. Yes, there was some rush factor but reviews for the film are only decent so weekend drops will be mediocre. It will win Saturday/Sunday in admissions this weekend. American Ultra got high and never took off. Average for No Escape. Weekend hold this weekend will grow larger and larger due to theaters having to make room for Attack on Titan 2. Great hold for PK once again. Terrible for Love Detective. Meh for Three Cities. Boring opening for Guia in Love. Excellent hold for Boychoir. Friday adm. (so far) September 18 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Everest 1,439 6,213 +331.8% +23.9% 2 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 12,376 5,724 -53.7% +77.4% 3 PK 902 856 -5.1% +120.6% 4 American Ultra -- 618 -- +24.6% 5 No Escape 1,228 483 -60.7% +49.5% 6 Boychoir 395 381 -3.5% +164.6% 7 Love Detective 730 292 -60.0% +43.1% 8 A Tale of Three Cities 560 220 -60.7% +52.8% 9 La Famille Bélier -- 219 -- +33.5% 10 The Merger -- 117 -- -- Weak increase for Everest. Better for Maze Runner 2. It should squeak out an admissions win today. PK is doing very well. Ghastly for American Ultra. Not good for No Escape, Love Detective or A Tale of Three Cities. Superb hold for Boychoir.

Top 50 Local Movies of All-Time (All in HKD) 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 FIGHT BACK TO SCHOOL 1991 $43,829,449 16 IP MAN II 2010 $43,313,345 17 Cold War 2012 $42,819,043 18 THE STORM RIDERS 1998 $41,532,235 19 God of Gamblers I: All for the Winner 1990 $41,326,156 20 Golden Chickensss 2014 $41,277,620 21 3D SEX AND ZEN 2011 $41,078,280 22 DRUNKEN MASTER 1994 $40,971,484 23 ROYAL TRAMP 1992 $40,862,831 24 THE GOD OF COOKERY 1996 $40,861,655 25 LOVE ON A DIET 2001 $40,435,886 26 ALL S WELL END S WELL 97 1997 $40,435,675 27 God of Gamblers II: AKA Knight of Gamblers 1991 $40,342,758 28 FLIRTING SCHOLAR 1993 $40,171,804 29 ARMOUR OF GOD II 1991 $39,048,711 30 WHO AM I 1998 $38,852,845 31 TO BE NUMBER ONE 1991 $38,703,363 32 KING OF BEGGARS 1992 $38,622,449 33 INITIAL D 2005 $37,862,364 34 FROM BEIJING WITH LOVE 1994 $37,523,850 35 IT S A WONDERFUL LIFE 1994 $37,367,669 36 EIGHTH HAPPINESS 1988 $37,090,776 37 God of Gamblers II 1990 $37,042,851 38 TREASURE HUNT 1994 $37,033,685 39 LOVE ON DELIVERY 1994 $36,906,730 40 ROYAL TRAMP II 1992 $36,583,964 41 NOW YOU SEE LOVE...NOW YOU DON T 1992 $36,475,536 42 THE MAGIC TOUCH 1992 $36,399,307 43 FORBIDDEN CITY COP 1996 $36,051,899 44 ALL S WELL END S WELL, TOO 1993 $35,481,480 45 AMOUR OF GOD 1987 $35,469,408 46 SIXTY MILLION DOLLAR MAN 1995 $35,236,551 47 NEEDING YOU 2000 $35,214,661 48 72 TENANTS OF PROSPERITY 2010 $34,760,735 49 SWORDSMAN II 1992 $34,462,861 50 Police Story ii 1988 $34,151,600 Top 50 Foreign Movies of All Time (updated September 16, 2015, in HKD) 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 $65,404,949 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 $52,800,509 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 $50,697,616 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 Pirates of the Caribbean At World s End 2007 $42,067,777 47 Day After Tomorrow, The 2004 $41,630,063 48 Maleficent 2014 $40,855,289 49 Les Miserables 2012 $40,853,051 50 The Mummy Returns 2001 $40,347,895 * - still in release

Wish I could help, moudoudou, but no one tracks admissions here, only gross. And even then it is spotty. Most of the sources have dried up in the past few years with most shutting down while others revert to rounding numbers to the thousands. HK MPIA and the box office corporation that tracks movies here are very secretive. If you are not a theater exhibitor, theater operator or certain media, you are not allowed access to the numbers. Maze Runner 2 opening weekend actual - HK$14,881,802 [$1,917,765], more than 200,000 admissions OW (+32% from Maze Runner - HK$11,273,894 [$1,45,2827]) It's a great opening weekend even if it did not hit 2m OW. It will make it to 4m. MR2 should make more than the last Hunger Games movie here unless if the finale effect spurs a major increase. Thursday adm. (so far) September 17 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Everest -- 5,016 -- 2 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 8,563 3,226 -62.3% 3 American Ultra -- 496 -- 4 PK 503 388 -22.9% 5 No Escape 673 323 -52.0% 6 Love Detective 590 204 -65.4% 7 Guia in Love -- 180 -- 8 La Famille Bélier -- 164 -- 9 A Tale of Three Cities 305 144 -52.8% 9 Boychoir 294 144 -51.0% Not good for Everest. Mediocre for Maze Runner 2. Awful for American Ultra. Very strong for PK despite the loss of the Airport IMAX theater. Iffy drops for No Escape/Love Detective. Man, these are some downright abysmal numbers. #3 did not even hit 500 admissions in pre-sales. Yikes.

Tuesday adm. September 15 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- 17,263 -- -- 2 No Escape 8,194 3,334 -59.3% -- 3 PK 2,035 2,316 +13.8% -- 4 Love Detective 3,902 1,759 -54.9% -- 5 All You Need is Love -- 1,084 -- -- 6 Boychoir -- 1,024 -- -- 7 A Tale of Three Cities 2,380 912 -61.7% -- 8 Undercover Duet 1,608 377 -76.6% -- 9 Lady of the Dynasty -- 342 -- -- 10 The Assassin -- 319 -- -- Decent for Maze Runner 2. Judging from these admissions Thursday will be down by more than 50%. Mediocre for No Escape. Great for PK.

Olive, I have to say that last weekend really exposed Cinetel as not being a very reliable source. Last weekend wasn't the first time that the numbers did not match up with the running admissions from theaters. I recall the Love Live! opening weekend where its admissions were not being reported properly on wmoov and its number on Cinetel was below what it should be. I think Cinetel makes up the numbers based on wmoov's admissions. Be careful if you're using Cintel as a source as sometimes wmoov can be very wrong. Thursday schedules Pacific Place New Holdovers Leaving Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 3D - 1 showing Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials - 5 showings (▼ 6) A Tale of Three Cities Everest 3D - 8 showings A Royal Night Out - 1 showing (▼ 3) How To Make Love Like An Englishman American Ultra - 5 showings Boychoir - 4 showings (▼ 5) Pixels La Famille Bélier - 3 showings Kidnapping Freddy Heineken - 1 showing (=) Hitman: Agent 47 No Escape - 2 showings (▼ 3) The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - 2 showings (=) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 1 showing (=) Inside Out (Eng.) - 1 showing (▲ 0) Palace APM New Holdovers Leaving Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 3D - 1 showing Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials - 10 showings (▼ 21) Assassination Classroom Everest 3D - 2 showings A Tale of Three Cities - 1 showing (=) Undercover Duet Everest - 8 showings Love Detective - 3 showings (▼ 5) Pixels American Ultra - 7 showings Fantastic Four - 2 showings (▼ 6) Attack on Titan Guia in Love - 3 showings No Escape - 3 showings (▼ 6) To The Fore The Merger - 2 showings Inside Out (Can.) - 1 showing (=) Shatin New Holdovers Leaving Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 3D - 6 showings Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials - 1 showing (▼ 8) Everest 3D - 2 showings Love Detective - 1 showing (▼ 3) Everest - 1 showing Telford New Holdovers Leaving Everest 3D - 2 showings Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials - 8 showings (▼ 11) Hero 2015 Everest - 5 showings All You Need is Love - 2 showings (▼ 5) The Emperor in August American Ultra - 3 showings Love Detective - 1 showing (▼ 2) Pixels Guia in Love - 3 showings No Escape - 4 showings (▼ 6) Inside Out (Can.) The Merger - 2 showings Assassination Classroom - 1 showing (▼ 4) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 1 showing (=) Inside Out (Eng.) - 1 showing (▲ 0) Maze Runner 2 adds 3D to its repertoire this week but UA is the most intent of the 4 big theater chains to switch Maze Runner to 3D. Broadway/AMC will only give schedule it on 3D with 1 or 2 showings. The real surprise is that out of the 2 business district theaters, only 1 3D showtime will be shown on Thursday. Usually they will gladly run 3D for most of a film's run. Even Inside Out did not switch to 2D until its 5th week at those theaters. Maze Runner 2 will be shown on 2 screens almost everywhere. Pre-sales remain the best of all films on Thursday. Everest shuffles into theaters in 3D and 2D. 3D will mostly be used for the morning and 7 PM showtimes. Pre-sales are slow once again. American Ultra heads to theaters behind the expected top 2 in Maze Runner 2 and Everest. Scheduling is all over the place with some theaters behind the film with full day showtimes while others like MCL are only leaving this with 3 showtimes. Pre-sales are very slow. Guia in Love, The Merger and La Famille Bélier are the other openers on Thursday this week but won't be contending. The 2nd Attack on Titan film, End of the World, will be released on Saturday. Pre-sales are not bad so far. It will be interesting to see how the addition of Titan will affect both the new openers and holdovers this weekend. No Escape and Love Detective remains the big holdovers this week. At this stage, Love Detective has a better outlook than No Escape with more theaters showing this on Thursday. No Escape is gone from half of UA theaters. PK drops back down to 6 theaters with Everest kicking into IMAX this week. Besides those 3 holdovers, there will be a massive culling of the rest. Pixels and Hitman shrink to just 1 theater on Thursday and Mission Impossible does not fare much better with 2. Inside Out has longevity on its side as 10 theaters will keep it on weekdays for another week. Worthy of noting is that the one theater that is giving Inside Out a 7 PM showtime on Thursday is surprisingly beating out all other films' 7 PM showtimes at this moment.