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Showtimes Attack on Titan Inside Out (all v.) Pacific Place Friday 6 7 Saturday 7 8 Biggest Screen? No Yes Palace APM Friday 13 8 Saturday 12 9 Biggest Screen? Yes Yes The One Friday 15 9 Saturday 15 9 Biggest Screen? Yes (2) Yes (1) Festival Walk Friday 8 8 Saturday 12 8 Biggest Screen? No Yes Palace IFC Friday 7 7 Saturday 8 9 Biggest Screen? No Yes Cityplaza Friday 5 5 Saturday 5 6 Biggest Screen? Yes No Cine Times Friday 4 6 Saturday 4 6 Biggest Screen? No No Cine Moko Friday 7 (with IMAX) 4 Saturday 7 (with IMAX) 5 Biggest Screen? Yes (in IMAX) No STAR Cinema Friday 5 4 Saturday 5 4 Biggest Screen? No No The Grand Cinema Friday 7 11 Saturday 7 14 Biggest Screen? No Yes GH Whampoa Friday 6 7 Saturday 6 8 Biggest Screen? Yes Yes GH Tsing Yi Friday 7 7 Saturday 7 10 Biggest Screen? No Yes 6/12 Broadway/AMC theaters have stuck by Attack on Titan this weekend and given it the most seats available/biggest screen while the other half have gone rogue and pushed Inside Out ahead with the most seats available/biggest screen. For example, even though it seems like Titan is getting an expansion at Festival Walk, it's actually being downgraded because Inside Out has taken the biggest screen away from it while it is on the 2nd/3rd biggest screen which combined has less seats available than just the biggest screen. Another interesting case is Palace APM where on Saturday, Titan will share the biggest screen with Inside Out but on Sunday, they have given the biggest screen to Inside Out. UA Cine Moko has Titan in IMAX with 3 showings but besides those IMAX showtimes, it won't be on the biggest screen. The GRAND and GH theaters are well in favor of Inside Out over Attack on Titan this weekend. Thursday estimates 1. Attack on Titan - $298,684 (including sneak previews, Thursday estimate) 2. Inside Out - $129,863 (Thursday estimate)/$5,584,110 3. Mission Impossible 5 - $5,194,521 The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - $51,945 (Thursday estimate) To the Fore - pass $649,315 by Friday Fantastic Four - $1,298,630 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes - over $389,589 Paper Towns - $30,517 (Thursday estimate) Ant-Man - $6,389,261 Thomas & Friends - $5,194 (Thursday estimate) Though Titan has a leg up on IO this weekend due to previews, IO should be able to overcome this on Saturday/Sunday. Mission Impossible 5 will beat Ghost Protocol by either Monday or Tuesday. Not good for UNCLE. Good for To the Fore after last weekend's soft start. Catastrophe for Fantastic Four. Meh for Paper Towns. Poor for Thomas and Friends.

Thursday August 13 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Attack on Titan -- 13,556 -- 2 Inside Out 13,797 11,894 -13.8% 3 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 17,242 8,084 -53.1% 4 Fantastic Four 23,504 5,707 -75.7% 5 The Man From U.N.C.L.E. -- 5,319 -- 6 To the Fore 5,844 3,935 -32.7% 7 Paper Towns -- 3,282 -- 8 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes 5,920 2,824 -52.3% 9 Ant-Man 3,268 1,247 -61.8% 10 Vacation 1,583 755 -52.3% Attack on Titan wins opening day but Inside Out will handily take care of it this weekend. WOM is really bad for this Japanese anime film adaptation. The popular manga film adaptation is getting creamed on social media with a score of just 2.9/5, worse than Fantastic Four's score right now. It will be a repeat of last weekend when Fantastic Four fell flat after opening day and that opened up Mission Impossible 5 to take the weekend. I expect the same thing will happen this weekend except Inside Out will finally be the champ for the first time on its 4th weekend. Inside Out had another stellar hold. By the end of this weekend, it will have passed 6m. Another average hold for Mission Impossible 5. Outside of Inside Out and Ant-Man's 2nd weekend, this summer has seen pretty mediocre holds from Hollywood films. Fantastic Four had the 2nd Thursday we all pretty much expected. It faltered and just barely beat out Man From U.N.C.L.E. for #4. Weak opening for UNCLE. The marketplace for action/spy films has been saturated with MI5, Ant-Man, FF all released in the past 4 weeks. Opening day reaction is at a decent 4/5. To the Fore held very well. The racing flick is getting some great reviews. Paper Towns opened poorly. This is getting very good reviews though with a 4.4 rating from users. Not bad for Doraemon. Its hold was pretty good considering the usual Doraemon opening day rush factor. Friday adm. (so far) August 14 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Inside Out 8,600 6,854 -20.3% +69.9% 2 Attack on Titan 1,108 4,681 +322.5% +3.6% 3 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 9,059 3,664 -59.6% +93.6% 4 The Man From U.N.C.L.E. -- 1,970 -- +25.6% 5 Fantastic Four 7,915 1,884 -76.2% +59.5% 6 To the Fore 2,611 1,866 -28.5% +69.5% 7 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes 2,775 1,698 -38.8% +26.9% 8 Paper Towns -- 1,014 -- +30.2% 9 Ant-Man 1,256 468 -62.7% +15.0% 10 Minions 969 439 -54.7% +49.8% Excellent for Inside Out. Today might be the day that it is finally #1 on a weekend weekday. Awful for Attack on Titan. I'm curious to see if Mission Impossible 5 will pass it this weekend. MI5 had a superb increase but also a crappy hold from last Friday. It needs to hold better if it wants to pass 7m. Not good for UNCLE. Disastrous for F4. Great for To the Fore. Good stuff from Doraemon. Still bland for Paper Towns.

Minions passed Monsters University on Wednesday with $77,391,038 HKD ($10,057,123 USD) in gross vs. $77,372,721 for Monsters U. It is now the 2nd highest grossing animation film of all time in HK behind Toy Story 3.

Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun) August 2-9 LW TW Title Last Week (HKD) This Week (HKD) Days in release % chg Total (HKD) This Week (USD) Total (USD) 1 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation $20,186,056 $15,859,797 11 -21.4% $36,045,853 $2,061,013 $4,684,232 2 2 Inside Out $13,602,031 $11,529,853 18 -15.2% $38,840,402 $1,498,328 $5,047,389 -- 3 Fantastic Four -- $8,084,432 4 $8,084,432 $1,050,588 $1,050,588 3 4 Ant-Man $8,250,119 $3,079,531 25 -62.7% $48,346,504 $400,191 $6,282,727 -- 5 To the Fore $183,618 $2,906,364 4 +1482.8% $3,089,982 $377,687 $401,549 -- 6 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- $2,045,063 4 $2,045,063 $265,760 $265,760 4 7 Minions $4,711,069 $1,898,575 32 -59.7% $77,009,591 $246,723 $10,007,554 10 8 Attack on Titan $338,246 $905,745 0 +167.8% $1,243,991 $117,703 $161,659 5 9 Monster Hunt $1,724,315 $858,458 25 -50.2% $9,678,387 $111,558 $1,257,726 -- 10 Vacation $43,217 $685,074 4 +1485.2% $728,291 $89,026 $94,642 Minions passes 10m although it is still behind Monsters U. It'll pass it within this week. Wednesday adm. August 12 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Inside Out 17,113 13,564 -20.7% -19.1% 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 20,899 11,765 -43.7% -24.2% 3 Fantastic Four -- 7,951 -- -32.2% 4 To the Fore -- 4,983 -- -21.9% 5 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 3,918 -- -20.7% 6 Ant-Man 7,052 2,662 -- -25.3% 7 Vacation -- 2,024 -- -7.5% 8 Minions 4,774 1,690 -64.6% -4.6% 9 Monster Hunt 1,627 816 -49.8% -21.5% 10 Love Live! The School Idol Movie -- 594 -- -28.7% Thursday adm. (so far) August 13 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Attack on Titan -- 4,517 -- 2 Inside Out 5,398 4,033 -25.3% 3 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 4,549 1,893 -58.4% 4 The Man From U.N.C.L.E. -- 1,569 -- 5 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes 3,231 1,338 -58.6% 6 Fantastic Four 6,730 1,181 -82.5% 7 To the Fore 2,165 1,101 -49.1% 8 Paper Towns -- 779 -- 9 Ant-Man 891 407 -54.3% 10 Minions 659 293 -55.5% Bland for Attack on Titan despite having all theaters including IMAX to prop it up. Inside Out is weakening albeit a very slow pace. MI5 did not have a great hold, nor did Doraemon. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. opened very softly. Fantastic Four collapsed. It'll be interesting to watch its holds this week. To the Fore snuck out a good hold. Awful for Paper Towns. Meh for Ant-Man and Minions.

Thursday pre-sales at Palace APM Palace APM Attack on Titan Inside Out (Can.) Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Aug. 13 9:00 AM 36 272 13.24% Aug. 13 9:00 AM 11 94 11.70% 10:55 AM 23 272 8.46% 11:40 AM 39 163 23.93% 12:50 PM 2 272 0.74% 1:40 PM 0 163 0.00% 2:40 PM 0 272 0.00% 3:40 PM 0 163 0.00% 3:40 PM 2 108 1.85% 5:40 PM 12 163 7.36% 4:35 PM 1 272 0.37% 7:40 PM 84 163 51.53% 6:30 PM 0 272 0.00% 9:40 PM 6 163 3.68% 7:10 PM 4 94 4.26% 11:40 PM 0 163 0.00% 8:25 PM 8 272 2.94% 9:00 PM 0 94 0.00% 10:20 PM 2 272 0.74% 10:55 PM 0 94 0.00% 12:15 AM 0 272 0.00% Total 78 2838 2.75% Total 152 1235 12.31% After removing the blocked off seats from all showtimes, Inside Out has a 2:1 advantage over Attack on Titan on Thursday on its 4th week in release. At night, IO has a 3:1 advantage at most locations over Attack on Titan. This does not mean that IO will win this weekend. Many films have seen brutal walk-ins and overtaken the pre-sales leader. If Attack on Titan does not see sales rise quickly, Inside Out might snatch the biggest screen away from AoT on Saturday/Sunday.

Tuesday adm. August 11 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Inside Out 20,893 16,775 -19.7% +17.5% 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 29,111 15,531 -46.6% +20.1% 3 Fantastic Four -- 11,729 -- +17.5% 4 To the Fore -- 6,377 -- +26.2% 5 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 4,938 -- +18.3% 6 Ant-Man 8,604 3,563 -58.6% +13.4% 7 Vacation -- 2,188 -- +22.2% 8 Minions 5,996 1,772 -70.4% +3.2% 9 Monster Hunt 2,158 1,040 -51.8% +30.7% 10 Love Live! The School Idol Movie -- 833 -- -6.8% Very good for Inside Out. Mediocre for MI5. Atrocious for F4. Good increase for To the Fore. Ok for Doraemon. Thursday schedules Broadway/AMC The ONE New Holdovers Leaving Attack on Titan - 15 showings Fantastic Four - 5 showings (▼ 10) Minions (Eng.) Paper Towns - 2 showings To the Fore - 2 showings (▼ 4) The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - 3 showings Vacation - 1 showing (▼ 4) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 6 showings (▼ 8) Inside Out (Can.) - 3 showings (=) Inside Out (Eng.) - 5 showings (=) Ant-Man - 1 showing (▼ 3) Monster Hunt - 2 showings (▼ 3) Attack on Titan will either get 2 screens all day or 2 screens at night since EDKO is the distributor for this movie and owns the Broadway/AMC theater chains. It also gets the biggest screen over Inside Out. Pre-sales are running slightly behind Inside Out. Paper Towns/Man From U.N.C.L.E. will both be shown in 8 theaters from these 2 theater chains combined but UNCLE gets the edge over Paper Towns in showings with 3-4. Inside Out retains all or almost all of its showtimes and is left with the 2nd biggest screen over Fantastic Four/Mission Impossible 5. It is winning in pre-sales at most Broadway/AMC locations but Attack on Titan will have the advantage of filling up the bigger screens with walk-ins. Fantastic Four/Mission Impossible 5 are moved to the 3rd/4th biggest screen and theaters are split as to who gets the 3rd biggest screen. Pre-sales show Mission Impossible 5 is well out in front of Fantastic Four. To the Fore gets bumped down to 2 showtimes while Doraemon gets 3. Ant-Man gets another week at most theaters while Minions is axed at 60% of remaining locations. UA Cine Times New Holdovers Leaving Attack on Titan - 3 showings Fantastic Four (Atmos) - 6 showings (▲ 4) Fantastic Four Paper Towns - 2 showings To the Fore - 6 showings (=) Ant-Man The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - 4 showings Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes - 2 showings (=) Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure - 2 showings Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 3 showings (▼ 4) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (Atmos) - 1 showing (▼ 2) Vacation - 1 showing (▼ 3) Inside Out (3D Can.) - 2 showings (=) Inside Out (Can.) - 2 showings (=) Inside Out (3D Eng.) - 1 showing (▼ 3) UA is a completely different story as none of the holdovers are getting full day showtimes. Instead theaters will run with a 1-2 of To the Fore (UA film) and Fantastic Four. Attack on Titan gets 3 showtimes here while UNCLE has a slight advantage with 4 showtimes overall. Paper Towns will only get 2 showings. To the Fore gets full day showtimes while Fantastic Four will get the biggest screen at most theaters along with full day showtimes. Mission Impossible 5 will see its showtime count slashed in half while Inside Out gets 3 or 4 showtimes. Thomas & Friends gets a couple of theaters with 2 or 3 showtimes. GH Whampoa New Holdovers Leaving Attack on Titan - 6 showings Fantastic Four - 5 showings (▼ 7) Ant-Man Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure - 3 showings To the Fore - 3 showings (▼ 5) Minions (Can.) Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes - 2 showings (▼ 3) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 5 showings (▼ 7) Inside Out (Can.) - 7 showings (▲ 5) Attack on Titan gets the 2nd biggest screen with full day showtimes. Man from UNCLE gets an average of 4 showings per day while Paper Towns is showing in just 1 theater. Thomas & Friends gets some play here with 4 theaters picking this up with 3 showings a day. Mission Impossible 5 gets cut in half while Fantastic Four remains with full day showtimes. Inside Out gets the biggest screen at this theater chain to go along with full day showtimes while To the Fore gets 3 or 4 showings. MCL Attack on Titan gets 5 showings while Man from UNCLE gets big support from this theater chain with 5 showings a day. Thomas & Friends will be shown in 5 MCL theaters with an average of 2 showings a day. Mission Impossible will retain the biggest screen at most locations with full day showtimes. Inside Out gets the biggest screen where MI5 is not getting it and is getting an average of 5 showings. Newport Attack on Titan will start off with full day showings at every theater here. To the Fore/Mission Impossible 5 gets massively downgraded. Inside Out gets upgraded with 1 theater even coming back to the fold.

Yes. Inside Out will make 6m by next weekend. August 6 Weekend Actuals 1. Mission Impossible 5 - $1,280,000 (-51%)/$4,860,000 2. Fantastic Four - $1,070,000 3. Inside Out - $960,000 (-16%)/$5,110,000 4. To the Fore - $409,000 5. Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes - $267,000 Ant-Man - $6,234,607 Minions - $9,932,610 Love Live! The School Idol Movie - $98,000 Vacation - $93,800 Not a good hold for Mission Impossible 5 but at least it repeated at #1. Despite F4's struggles during the weekend, it performed at expectations. Excellent hold for Inside Out. Underwhelming opening for To the Fore. Doraemon opened about the same as the most recent Doraemon summer releases. Ant-Man held pretty badly but at least it passed 6m. Minions has passed Harry Potter 7-2. Next up is Monsters University plus 10m. Love Live! opened with a scorching $24,500 PTA. Vacation was a massive failure this weekend.

Monday adm. August 10 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Inside Out 17,382 14,276 -17.9% -53.1% 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 23,291 12,927 -44.5% -61.3% 3 Fantastic Four -- 9,984 -- -65.7% 4 To the Fore -- 5,052 -- -58.4% 5 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 4,173 -- -60.8% 6 Ant-Man 7,626 3,141 -58.8% -34.7% 7 Vacation -- 1,790 -- -35.2% 8 Minions 5,419 1,717 -68.3% -58.1% 9 Love Live! The School Idol Movie -- 894 -- -- 10 Monster Hunt 1,684 796 -52.7% -63.4% Great hold for Inside Out. What's encouraging about its admissions is that it had more walk-ins than MI5. Decent hold for MI5. Atrocious for Fantastic Four. Pretty good for To the Fore. Ok for Doraemon. Mediocre for Ant-Man. Vacation beating Minions is a surprise. Rank Movie Last Thu. Mon. % chg 1 Inside Out 13,797 14,276 +3.5% 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 17,242 12,927 -25.0% 3 Fantastic Four 23,504 9,984 -57.5% 4 To the Fore 5,844 5,052 -13.6% 5 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes 5,920 4,173 -29.5% 6 Ant-Man 3,268 3,141 -3.9% 7 Vacation 1,583 1,790 +13.1% 8 Minions 1,913 1,717 -10.2% 9 Love Live! The School Idol Movie 627 894 +42.6% 10 Monster Hunt 1,102 796 -27.8% Excellent that IO has increased again on Monday from its Thursday admissions. Not bad for MI5. Dreadful for F4. Very good for To the Fore. Big pre-sales for Doraemon on Thursday leads to big Monday from Thursday drop here. Good hold for Ant-Man. Vacation increasing from Thursday is interesting. Tuesday adm. (so far) August 11 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Inside Out 9,130 7,034 -23.0% +73.1% 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 9,119 4,606 -49.5% +59.9% 3 Fantastic Four -- 3,028 -- +39.5% 4 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 2,175 -- +0.2% 5 To the Fore -- 1,978 -- +73.7% 6 Ant-Man 2,496 967 -61.3% +30.5% 7 Minions 2,311 694 -70.0% +11.9% 8 Love Live! The School Idol Movie -- 457 -- -13.8% 9 Vacation -- 372 -- +29.2% 10 Monster Hunt 403 178 -55.8% +97.8% Strong for Inside Out. Meh for MI5. F4 is going down hard. _________________________________ Early Outlook Attack On Titan gets ready to descend on HK as early scheduling has it on 1-2 screens at Broadway/AMC with it getting the biggest screen at all locations while it gets a screen at MCL but only the 3rd/4th biggest screen at most theaters. GH is putting AoT on the 3rd biggest screen. Newport is putting this on their biggest screen. Inside Out retains all showtimes at Broadway/AMC with a slight reduction in screens with the 10 PM show. MCL is mixed. Some have upgraded to the biggest theater while others have reduced its showtimes by 1 or 2. GH is putting this on the biggest screens. One theater at Newport is putting it back on this Thursday after dropping it on weekdays last week. MI5 and F4 get downsized with theaters split on who is given the bigger screen over the other. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. gets half day showtimes at Broadway/AMC but is getting full day showtimes at MCL. GH will show it 5 times a day. Those theaters showing Paper Towns are only giving it 2-3 showings per day. Doraemon/To the Fore also see their showtimes slashed on Thursday.

Saw a lot of this for IO today. Sunday August 9 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 69,364 33,431 -51.8% -9.9% 2 Inside Out 33,443 30,461 -8.9% +0.4% 3 Fantastic Four -- 29,072 -- -0.1% 4 To the Fore 1,367 12,142 +788.2% +3.0% 5 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 10,652 -- +33.7% 6 Attack on Titan 3,944 4,850 +23.0% -10.6% 7 Ant-Man 16,030 4,810 -70.0% +2.5% 8 Minions 11,606 4,102 -64.7% +22.1% 9 Vacation -- 2,763 -- +0.2% 10 Monster Hunt 4,330 2,175 -49.8% +40.1% Big decrease for MI5. IO held very well from last Sunday. IO managed to close the gap and even built a small lead over F4. Going from a 10,000 adm. deficit on Thursday to nearly a 1,500 lead on Sunday is amazing. Not a bad hold for F4 on Sunday. Walk-ins are very strong for this movie. Weekend adm. Aug 6-9 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 216,579 110,307 -49.1% 2 Fantastic Four -- 105,319 -- 3 Inside Out 102,269 89,429 -12.6% 4 To the Fore 2,595 36,958 +1324.2% 5 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 29,643 -- 6 Ant-Man 52,849 16,421 -68.9% 7 Attack on Titan 4,688 12,873 +174.6% 8 Minions 35,746 11,674 -67.3% Weekend Estimates August 6 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation $1,270,000 -51.2% $4,475,000 2 Fantastic Four $1,130,000 $1,130,000 3 Inside Out $980,000 -14.0% $5,130,000 4 To the Fore $355,000 $375,000 5 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes $230,000 $230,000 Not too much change from projections although MI5 was adjusted down due to a higher Sunday fall. Monday adm. (so far) August 10 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Inside Out 5,821 4,063 -30.2% -80.6% 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 5,586 2,880 -48.4% -83.4% 3 Fantastic Four -- 2,171 -- -82.5% 4 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 1,405 -- -81.9% 5 To the Fore -- 1,139 -- -79.8% 6 Ant-Man 1,812 741 -59.1% -71.6% 7 Minions 1,868 620 -66.8% -76.7% 8 Love Live! The School Idol Movie -- 530 -- -53.8% 9 Vacation -- 288 -- -61.3% 10 Monster Hunt 293 90 -69.3% -- Is this the start of IO's decline? IO's walk-ins on weekdays have been extremely good though. The loss of UA theaters/showings have hurt its weekend hold and will continue into Monday but today some of the other theaters have upgraded it to bigger screens or even left it with 2 screens at night. Mediocre hold for MI5. Terrible for F4. Rank Movie Last Thu. Pre-sales Mon. Pre-sales % chg 1 Inside Out 5,398 4,063 -24.7% 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 4,549 2,880 -36.7% 3 Fantastic Four 6,730 2,171 -67.7% 4 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes 3,231 1,405 -56.5% 5 To the Fore 2,165 1,139 -47.4% 6 Ant-Man 891 741 -16.8% 7 Minions 659 620 -5.9% 8 Love Live! The School Idol Movie 590 530 -10.2% 9 Vacation 415 288 -30.6% 10 Monster Hunt 160 90 -43.8% Pretty good for IO. Ok for MI5. Sad for F4.

5m is amazing already after seeing what Minions did this summer. 50m HKD is going to happen by the following Wednesday. Saturday August 8 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 67,950 37,110 -45.4% +64.8% 2 Fantastic Four -- 30,340 -- +35.4% 3 Inside Out 32,864 29,092 -11.5% +80.9% 4 To the Fore 1,228 11,789 +860.0% +64.1% 5 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 7,966 -- +56.0% 6 Attack on Titan 744 5,427 +629.4% +109.1% 7 Ant-Man 16,266 4,693 -71.1% +28.6% 8 Minions 10,822 3,359 -69.0% +46.0% 9 Vacation -- 2,758 -- +31.1% 10 Love Live! The School Idol Movie -- 1,685 -- -- 11 Monster Hunt 3,716 1,552 -58.2% Aside from the top 3, it looks like there's some life left for To the Fore. Sunday adm. (so far) August 9 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Inside Out 24,427 20,892 -14.5% +17.0% 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 35,023 17,389 -50.3% +7.3% 3 Fantastic Four -- 12,409 -- +11.9% 4 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 7,773 -- +53.8% 5 To the Fore 568 5,643 +893.5% +17.1% 6 Minions 7,273 2,660 -63.4% +63.7% 7 Ant-Man 7,748 2,611 -66.3% +19.0% 8 Attack on Titan 2,042 1,563 -23.5% -6.2% 9 Love Live! The School Idol Movie -- 1,146 -- -11.8% 10 Vacation -- 745 -- +19.4% Good increase for Inside Out but I expected more. It should be able to beat out F4 in admissions for the day. Not liking that increase for MI5. F4 is holding on for now. Great jump for Doraemon. To the Fore bumped up nicely today in pre-sales as well. Weekend Projections August 6 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation $1,290,000 -50.5% $4,495,000 2 Fantastic Four $1,140,000 $1,140,000 3 Inside Out $990,000 -13.2% $5,140,000 4 To the Fore $355,000 $375,000 5 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes $230,000 $230,000 Not a good hold for MI5. The marketplace was too saturated with action films and F4/IO took away some of the attention from MI5. With pretty good reviews, it should have held better but it fell apart from Monday-Wednesday and then theater owners were confused when F4 won on opening day. As for F4, it was kind of hilarious and sad to see theaters scheduling this on the biggest theater on the weekend when its Friday pre-sales were saying otherwise. F4 performed at expectations. Theaters were ready to put this on 2 screens if need be but it faltered after only one day. Inside Out had another powerful hold. Sunday will be its best day as theaters are adding more showtimes and some are transferring the 2D showings from Saturday into 3D on Sunday. It will pass a 3 multiplier and 5m by the end of this weekend with plenty of life still left but up next is another action film, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. To the Fore opened softly on Thursday but poured it on on Friday/Saturday to extend its lead over Doraemon this weekend. The opening was below expectations so I do not expect much mercy even if it does well on Monday. Doraemon had pretty much identical opening weekend numbers compared with the past July/August summer Doraemon releases.

New poll up. Have fun! Same here. Similar thing happened with Monsters University. Not the first time that this has happened to Pixar. I'm going to be ballsy and say 8m. It'll make more than 5m after this weekend but it still has to deal with UNCLE and Pixels.

Thursday Actuals August 6 LW TW Movie Last Thu. (USD) Thursday (USD) % chg Theaters Days Total -- 1 Fantastic Four -- $250,949 -- 40 1 $250,949 1 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation $441,386 $199,472 -54.8% 43 8 -- 2 3 Inside Out $180,145 $147,995 -17.8% 40 15 -- 3 4 Ant-Man $90,072 $56,624 -37.1% 31 22 -- -- 5 To the Fore -- $55,337 -- 39 1 $55,337 -- 6 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- $46,329 -- 27 1 $46,329 4 7 Minions $42,265 $16,729 -60.4% 27 29 $9,818,301 -- 8 Vacation -- $14,156 -- 18 1 $14,156 5 9 Monster Hunt $13,110 $10,166 -22.5% 12 22 -- -- 10 Love Live! The School Idol Movie -- $5,662 -- 4 1 $5,662 I believe that the reported Thursday numbers for Ant-Man and Love Live! are both wrong. According to other sources, the top 10 looked like this in gross. 1. Fantastic Four 2. Mission Impossible 5 3. Inside Out 4. To the Fore 5. Doraemon 6. Ant-Man 7. Love Live! 8. Minions 9. Vacation 10. Monster Hunt Take those 2 numbers with a grain of salt. Nice start for Fantastic Four but Mission Impossible 5 is winning this weekend. Considering the competition and sequel opening day rush factor, that is a decent hold for MI5. Great for Inside Out. Could this sneak into #2 for the weekend? Poor for To the Fore. Ok start for Doraemon. Ant-Man had a rough hold. Strong for Love Live! Minions drifted away. Abysmal for Vacation. Friday August 7 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 42,153 22,524 -46.6% +30.6% 2 Fantastic Four -- 22,403 -- -4.7% 3 Inside Out 19,889 16,079 -19.2% +16.5% 4 To the Fore -- 7,183 -- +22.9% 5 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 5,105 -- -13.8% 6 Ant-Man 11,272 3,650 -67.6% +11.7% 7 Attack on Titan -- 2,596 -- -- 8 Minions 7,050 2,300 -67.4% +20.2% 9 Vacation -- 2,104 -- +32.9% 10 Monster Hunt 2,295 1,234 -46.2% +12.0% MI5 jumps ahead of FF and makes up the 6,000 adm. deficit from yesterday. Awful for Fantastic Four. Excellent for Inside Out. Better for To the Fore. Ok for Doraemon. Saturday adm. (so far) August 8 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Inside Out 20,373 17,853 -12.4% +107.6% 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 30,385 16,204 -46.7% +78.9% 3 Fantastic Four -- 11,086 -- +28.9% 4 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 5,055 -- +82.2% 5 To the Fore 471 4,818 +922.9% +84.5% 6 Ant-Man 6,718 2,195 -67.3% +74.8% 7 Attack on Titan 685 1,667 +143.4% +50.5% 8 Minions 5,440 1,625 -70.1% +67.7% 9 Love Live! The School Idol Movie -- 1,300 -- -- 10 Vacation -- 624 -- +42.8% Incredible for Inside Out. Despite the UA scheduling, it is still ahead of MI5 and FF. This might be #2 for the weekend depending on FF's performance this weekend. MI5 is slowing its fall in pre-sales with each passing day. Very good. Disastrous for Fantastic Four. Solid for Doraemon. Very good increase for To the Fore. Bad for Ant-Man. Opposite to what MI5 has been doing, Minions has seen its pre-sales week-to-week drop grow bigger as this weekend progresses. Now that's what I'm talking about with respect to Love Live!'s admissions. Vacation is not having the time of its life so far. A final look at pre-sales at Palace APM on Saturday Palace APM Fantastic Four Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Inside Out (Can.) Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Aug. 8 9:00 AM 98 167 58.68% Aug. 8 9:00 AM 82 112 73.21% Aug. 8 9:00 AM 182 286 63.64% 11:00 AM 66 167 39.52% 11:00 AM 85 112 75.89% 11:00 AM 239 286 83.57% 11:00 AM 65 114 57.02% 1:00 PM 30 112 26.79% 1:00 PM 112 286 39.16% 1:00 PM 15 114 13.16% 3:00 PM 47 114 41.23% 3:00 PM 181 286 63.29% 2:00 PM 38 167 22.75% 4:00 PM 37 98 37.76% 5:00 PM 134 286 46.85% 4:40 PM 51 167 30.54% 5:00 PM 34 114 29.82% 8:00 PM 81 112 72.32% 6:00 PM 18 167 10.78% 7:00 PM 63 286 22.03% 10:00 PM 58 112 51.79% 8:00 PM 24 114 21.05% 10:00 PM 51 286 17.83% 12:00 AM 4 114 3.51% 8:30 PM 14 167 8.38% 12:00 AM 4 167 2.40% 10:00 PM 26 114 22.81% 10:00 PM 12 167 7.19% 12:00 AM 18 286 6.29% Total 445 1911 23.29% Total 433 1401 30.91% Total 991 1768 56.05% Both MI5 and FF did not even beat IO's admissions from just 1 morning. MI5 is looking very strong at night while IO is destroying everything in the morning and in the afternoon.

Showtimes Fantastic Four Mission Impossible 5 Inside Out Pacific Place Friday 9 10 7 Saturday 8 9 8 Biggest Screen? Yes Yes No Palace APM Friday 9 9 8 Saturday 12 9 8 Biggest Screen? No Yes Yes The One Friday 12 8 7 Saturday 11 8 9 Biggest Screen? Yes Yes Yes Festival Walk Friday 10 10 8 Saturday 11 8 10 Biggest Screen? Yes Yes No Palace IFC Friday 6 6 8 Saturday 8 8 8 Biggest Screen? Yes Yes Yes Cityplaza Friday 8 8 7 Saturday 8 8 7 Biggest Screen? Yes No No Cine Times Friday 8 7 7 Saturday 8 7 8 Biggest Screen? Yes Yes No Cine Moko Friday 8 6 (no IMAX) 2 Saturday 8 7 (no IMAX) 2 Biggest Screen? Yes No No STAR Cinema Friday 7 9 4 Saturday 8 9 6 Biggest Screen? No Yes No The Grand Cinema Friday 16 16 10 Saturday 14 22 11 Biggest Screen? Yes Yes No GH Whampoa Friday 7 7 5 Saturday 8 7 7 Biggest Screen? No No Yes Fantastic Four/MI5 gets the biggest screens at most places, however, Inside Out's performance has wormed its way into theater operator's minds and some have put this on the biggest screen. GH seems to be most receptive toward Inside Out's early admission selling prowess with a couple of them scheduling Inside Out on the biggest screen for the whole day. Saturday pre-sales at Palace APM Palace APM Fantastic Four Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Inside Out (Can.) Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Aug. 8 9:00 AM 52 167 31.14% Aug. 8 9:00 AM 27 112 24.11% Aug. 8 9:00 AM 58 286 20.28% 11:00 AM 24 167 14.37% 11:00 AM 61 112 54.46% 11:00 AM 152 286 53.15% 11:00 AM 26 114 22.81% 1:00 PM 12 112 10.71% 1:00 PM 30 286 10.49% 1:00 PM 6 114 5.26% 3:00 PM 14 114 12.28% 3:00 PM 106 286 37.06% 2:00 PM 12 167 7.19% 4:00 PM 6 98 6.12% 5:00 PM 42 286 14.69% 4:40 PM 11 167 6.59% 5:00 PM 17 114 14.91% 8:00 PM 28 112 25.00% 6:00 PM 4 167 2.40% 7:00 PM 33 286 11.54% 10:00 PM 26 112 23.21% 8:00 PM 10 114 8.77% 10:00 PM 25 286 8.74% 12:00 AM 4 114 3.51% 8:30 PM 4 167 2.40% 12:00 AM 4 167 2.40% Total 446 1768 25.23% 10:00 PM 11 114 9.65% Total 199 1401 14.20% 10:00 PM 4 167 2.40% 12:00 AM 14 286 4.90% Total 178 1911 9.31% Disappointing pre-sales for Fantastic Four. It did not even sell 10% of the seats. WOM might be playing a huge effect already. Even more surprising is that both 11 AM shows have less seats sold than the 9 AM showing. Just ok for Mission Impossible 5. Good night shows. Incredible for Inside Out. The 11 AM showtime is more than half full after being out for 1 morning. This theater is one of a few Inside Out's strongholds. UA will definitely be kicking themselves for not scheduling it with full day showtimes.

Thursday August 6 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Fantastic Four -- 23,504 -- 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 37,112 17,242 -53.5% 3 Inside Out 16,073 13,797 -14.2% 4 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 5,920 -- 5 To the Fore -- 5,844 -- 6 Ant-Man 9,281 3,268 -64.8% 7 Minions 6,268 1,913 -69.5% 8 Vacation -- 1,583 -- 9 Monster Hunt 2,199 1,102 -49.9% 10 Love Live! The School Idol Movie -- 627 -- Decent start for F4 but reviews haven't been kind so far. Walk-ins were excellent today but will they continue to be brisk during the weekend? Disappointing hold for MI5. If it had done better Monday-Wednesday, Thursday schedules would have been in its favor. Now that showings are about a quarter full or half full on weekday afternoons, this has allowed Inside Out to trickle back in. Outstanding hold for Inside Out despite losing about 1/3 in showtimes from last Thursday and the UA slashing. Inside Out will likely experience the opposite of what happened last weekend. This week, Thursday/Friday should hold slightly weaker while Saturday/Sunday will hold exceptionally strong, perhaps even increase. Good start for Doraemon. Theaters are increasing this on the weekend. Poor for To The Fore despite getting rave reviews from the general public. Terrible holds for Ant-Man and Minions. Minions is still on track to pass 10m but had it had any one of Monsters University's negative factors on opening weekend (EDKO release, no holiday sneaks, direct competition on opening weekend and beyond, theater politics/reluctance), it would not have passed 10m. Ghastly for Vacation. Bleh for Monster Hunt. Love Live! should be ranked 6th or 7th. Friday adm. (so far) August 7 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 18,029 9,059 -49.8% +99.1% 2 Inside Out 10,230 8,600 -15.9% +59.3% 3 Fantastic Four -- 7,915 -- +17.6% 4 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 2,775 -- -14.1% 5 To the Fore -- 2,611 -- +20.6% 6 Ant-Man 4,136 1,256 -69.6% +41.0% 7 Attack on Titan -- 1,108 -- -- 8 Minions 3,152 969 -69.3% +47.0% 9 Vacation -- 437 -- +5.3% 10 Monster Hunt 564 228 -59.6% +42.5% Missing: Love Live! The School Idol Movie Way better hold for MI5. Big increase for IO due to upgrades from UA and a handful of theaters giving this more showtimes on Friday. Weak increase for Fantastic Four. Superhero movies should be aiming for a 40-50% increase in pre-sales on Friday. Big drop for Doraemon due to rush factor on Thursday. Not good for To the Fore. This will get downgraded on Saturday/Sunday. Holdovers all had bad holds while Vacation is an absolute mess.

Oops! LOL. Yeah, if you look closely, you would have noticed that Magic Mike resurfaced the past 2 weeks after a 3 year break. Wednesday adm. August 5 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 6,899 20,899 +202.9% -28.2% 2 Inside Out 18,550 17,113 -7.7% -18.1% 3 Ant-Man 15,743 7,052 -55.2% -18.0% 4 Minions 8,531 4,774 -44.0% -20.4% 5 Monster Hunt 3,177 1,627 -48.8% -24.6% 6 What We Do in the Shadows -- 782 -- -7.3% 7 Insidious: Chapter 3 2,452 705 -71.2% -14.3% 8 Paris Holiday 1,267 331 -73.9% -- 9 Terminator: Genisys 929 330 -64.5% +1.9% 10 Magic Mike XXL 1,077 259 -76.0% -16.2% Troubling admissions for MI5. Inside Out is impressing. Thursday adm. (so far) August 6 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Fantastic Four -- 6,730 -- 2 Inside Out 5,705 5,398 -5.4% 3 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 13,863 4,549 -67.2% 4 Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes -- 3,231 -- 5 To the Fore -- 2,165 -- 6 Ant-Man 2,398 891 -62.8% 7 Minions 2,005 659 -67.1% 8 Love Live! The School Idol Movie -- 590 -- 9 Vacation -- 415 -- 10 Monster Hunt 391 160 -59.1% The race is on for #1 this weekend. Ho hum for Fantastic Four. Exceptional hold for Inside Out despite the UA blow on Thursday. Mission Impossible 5 crumbled. I didn't expect it to dwindle so much in just 1 week. Even its weekday admissions were not that great. It will probably stay at #1. Solid start for Doraemon. Poor for To the Fore. Ant-Man, Minions died. Love Live should be ranked 5th with more than 2,000 admissions. 3 theaters showing it are not being tracked by the website. Disaster for Vacation. Bad for Monster Hunt.

July 23 Weekend Actuals 1. Mission Impossible 5 - $2,604,530 (weekend actual) 2. Inside Out - $3,523,777 3. Ant-Man - $5,840,626 4. Minions - $9,691,291 5. Monster Hunt - $1,138,002 Insidious: Chapter 3 - $261,516 Attack on Titan - $43,642 (previews) Terminator: Genisys - $3,919,657 Magic Mike XXL - $134,019 MI5 was underestimated. IO and Ant-Man were both well over-estimated. ________________________________ Friday update: FF6/MI5 are both battling it out in admissions but IO has a huge lead at quite a few locations. One theater is reporting a 4:1 lead over FF and a near 7:1 advantage over MI5 with Friday night showings. UA is giving Inside Out a couple more showtimes on Friday.

Tuesday adm. August 4 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 29,111 -- +25.0% 2 Inside Out 23,145 20,893 -9.7% +20.2% 3 Ant-Man 20,348 8,604 -57.7% +12.8% 4 Minions 11,325 5,996 -47.1% +10.6% 5 Monster Hunt 4,436 2,158 -51.4% +28.1% 6 What We Do in the Shadows -- 844 -- +5.6% 7 Insidious: Chapter 3 2,815 823 -70.8% -6.4% 8 Terminator: Genisys 1,083 324 -70.1% +12.5% 9 Magic Mike XXL 1,395 309 -77.8% -- 10 The Tribe -- 294 -- +50.8% After a bit of a lull on Monday, MI5 looks poised to distance itself from Inside Out. Excellent for Inside Out. It will have passed 4m by today. Wednesday adm. (so far) August 5 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Inside Out 7,231 6,545 -9.5% -28.3% 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 2,255 5,761 +155.5% -36.8% 3 Ant-Man 5,815 1,829 -68.5% -26.7% 4 Minions 3,285 1,747 -46.8% -24.4% 5 Monster Hunt 625 245 -60.8% -39.2% 6 What We Do in the Shadows -- 185 -- -5.6% 7 Insidious: Chapter 3 550 172 -68.7% -6.5% 8 Terminator: Genisys 282 161 -42.9% +21.1% 9 Magic Mike XXL 426 128 -70.0% +17.4% 10 Paris Holiday 321 105 -67.3% +20.7% Strong hold for Inside Out. The bigger gap between it and MI5 in pre-sales might have something to do with what I'm about to discuss below. Don't like that hold for MI5 at all. Pre-sales should have done better especially since it only had 10 PM shows last Wednesday. Walk-ins will be very good though. Terrible for Ant-Man. Despite holding better than half, Minions was the only one of the top 4 that decreased in pre-sales when compared with Monday's. Thursday schedules Broadway/AMC Hollywood New Holdovers Leaving Fantastic Four - 7 showings Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 8 showings (▼ 13) Monk Comes Down the Mountain Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes - 3 showings Inside Out (Can.) - 7 showings (▼ 8) What We Do in the Shadows (Can.) To the Fore - 5 showings Ant-Man - 3 showings (▼ 7) Monster Hunt - 4 showings (▼ 7) Minions Cantonese - 2 showings (▼ 6) Jurassic World - 1 showing (=) Fantastic Four is sharing the biggest screen with Mission Impossible 5 here. FF gets 1 screen at most theaters while MI5 also grabs 1 screen. Inside Out will retain most of its showtimes from Wednesday despite being moved to the 3rd biggest screen. Doraemon will get morning and afternoon showtimes while To The Fore gets 4-5 showtimes. Vacation will be given half day showtimes at select theaters. Pre-sales for Fantastic Four looks good. Mission Impossible is lagging slightly behind FF. Inside Out though is winning massively at most theaters with night shows. At one theater, Inside Out is ahead of FF by 4:1 and 7:1 of MI5. Ant-Man loses 55% of showtimes while Minions gets pummeled by 60%. Monster Hunt is reduced to 3-5 showtimes including a 7 PM showtime. UA Cityplaza New Holdovers Leaving Fantastic Four - 8 showings Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 7 showings (▼ 12) Inside Out (Eng.) Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes - 2 showings Inside Out (3D Can.) - 1 showing (=) Minions (Can.) To the Fore - 9 showings Inside Out (Can.) - 2 showings (▼ 5) Vacation - 3 showings Inside Out (3D Eng.) - 1 showing (=) Ant-Man - 1 showing (▼ 8) To The Fore is getting 1 or 2 screens here because it is co-produced by Emperor which owns UA. Fantastic Four also gets 1 screen while Mission Impossible goes down to 1 screen. Pre-sales here show FF out in front of MI5. Doraemon and Vacation lead off with 2-3 showtimes. Holdovers didn't fare so well. Inside Out gets crushed by 60% in showtimes which is really bizarre since it is doing quite well in pre-sales. It has even beaten FF in some places on Thursday. That might explain why its Wednesday pre-sales are higher than usual. Half will continue to play Ant-Man with 1 or 2 showtimes but Minions is given the biggest deathblow with less than 25% of theaters willing to give it another week. Those that do have left it with 1 showtime. Every other holdover is wiped out including Monster Hunt. MCL The Grand Cinema New Holdovers Leaving Fantastic Four (Atmos) - 7 showings Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (Atmos) - 5 showings (▼ 9) Inside Out (Eng.) Fantastic Four - 8 showings Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 10 showings (▼ 17) Ant-Man Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes - 3 showings What We Do in the Shadows (Eng.; IIB) - 1 showing (▼ 3) Minions (3D Can.) To the Fore - 6 showings Inside Out (3D Can.) - 4 showings (▲ 3) Insidious: Chapter 3 Vacation - 6 showings Inside Out (Can.) - 1 showing (▼ 3) Monster Hunt I Kissed A Girl - 5 showings Inside Out (3D Eng.) - 7 showings (▲ 5) Jurassic World 3D Ant-Man - 6 showings (▲ 5) San Andreas Minions (Can.) - 1 showing (=) Minions (3D Eng.) - 4 showings (▼ 6) Minions (Eng.) - 1 showing (▲ 0) Magic Mike XXL - 2 showings (▼ 3) Paris Holiday - 1 showing (▼ 2) Terminator: Genisys - 1 showing (▼ 3) The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet - 1 showing (▼ 2) Ted 2 - 1 showing (=) Midnight Diner - 1 showing (=) MI5 is placed on 2 screens here including the biggest screen while FF gets 1 screen. To the Fore races onto 1 screen. Vacation gets half day showtimes while Doraemon gets half day-full day showtimes. Special release Love Life! School Idol movie gets full day showtimes at 3 theaters. This is doing gangbusters so far with nearly every showtime full or just about. Inside Out gets cut 40%. Ant-Man loses about 70% of showtimes while Minions is dumped by 60%. Monster Hunt is gone. GH FF is bestowed the biggest screen here while Inside Out is given the nod over MI5 for the 2nd biggest screen. To The Fore is given 5 showtimes while Doraemon gets 4 showtimes. Ant-Man gets cut in half. Half have whittled it down to just 1 showtime while it will be remain with full day showtimes at other locations. Minions is down about 60% in showtimes here.

Monday adm. August 3 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 23,291 -- -66.4% 2 Inside Out 17,919 17,382 -3.0% -48.0% 3 Ant-Man 17,540 7,626 -56.5% -52.4% 4 Minions 10,101 5,419 -46.4% -53.3% 5 Monster Hunt 3,587 1,684 -53.1% -61.1% 6 Insidious: Chapter 3 2,646 879 -66.8% +2.1% 7 What We Do in the Shadows -- 799 -- -33.5% 8 Terminator: Genisys 1,037 288 -72.2% -50.6% 9 Paris Holiday 1,357 276 -79.7% -- 10 The Tribe -- 195 -- -- Harsh drop for MI5 even with summer weekdays. Wonderful hold for Inside Out. Best hold from Sunday of the top 5. Slightly better week-to-week holds for Ant-Man, Minions and Monster Hunt than Sunday's. Rank Movie Last Thu. Mon. % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 37,112 23,291 -37.2% 2 Inside Out 16,073 17,382 +8.1% 3 Ant-Man 9,281 7,626 -17.8% 4 Minions 6,268 5,419 -13.5% 5 Monster Hunt 2,199 1,684 -23.4% 6 Insidious: Chapter 3 980 879 -10.3% 7 What We Do in the Shadows 935 799 -14.5% 8 Terminator: Genisys 264 288 +9.1% 9 Paris Holiday -- 276 -- 10 The Tribe 294 195 -33.7% MI5 did not have a good hold from Thursday's admissions. Well done Inside Out. Ant-Man and Minions both did ordinary numbers. Perhaps Monster Hunt is slowing down just a bit. Tuesday adm. (so far) August 4 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Inside Out -- 9,130 -- +56.8% 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 9,119 -- +63.2% 3 Ant-Man -- 2,496 -- +37.7% 4 Minions -- 2,311 -- +23.7% 5 Monster Hunt -- 403 -- +37.5% 6 What We Do in the Shadows -- 196 -- +17.4% 7 Insidious: Chapter 3 -- 184 -- +22.7% 8 Terminator: Genisys -- 133 -- +52.9% 9 Magic Mike -- 109 -- +73.0% 10 Paris Holiday -- 87 -- +128.9% Superb increases for the top 2. OK increase for Ant-Man. Poor increase for Minions.

Sunday August 2 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 69,364 -- +2.1% 2 Inside Out 42,405 33,443 -21.1% +1.8% 3 Ant-Man 45,120 16,030 -64.5% -1.5% 4 Minions 26,228 11,606 -55.7% +7.2% 5 Monster Hunt 9,689 4,330 -55.3% +16.5% 6 Attack on Titan -- 3,944 -- +430.1% 7 To the Fore -- 1,367 -- +11.3% 8 What We Do in the Shadows -- 1,201 -- +5.5% 9 Insidious: Chapter 3 4,662 861 -81.5% +52.9% 10 Terminator: Genisys 2,261 583 -74.2% -- Daily admissions (OW) Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Total Mission Impossible 4 24,390 32,400 53,809 52,474 163,073 Mission Impossible 5 37,112 42,153 67,950 69,364 216,579 Gap 12,722 22,475 36,616 53,506 MI5 finishes with a 53,000 admissions win over MI4. Aside from Friday (which were not final numbers), MI5 widened the gap over MI4 in admissions. Thursday started with a 13,000 gap which built into nearly a 17,000 lead on Sunday. Weekend adm. Jul 30-Aug 2 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 216,579 -- 2 Inside Out 116,176 102,269 -12.0% 3 Ant-Man 137,301 52,849 -61.5% 4 Minions 77,854 35,746 -54.1% 5 Monster Hunt 27,074 12,540 -- 6 Attack on Titan -- 4,688 -- 7 What We Do in the Shadows -- 4,049 -- 8 Insidious: Chapter 3 16,091 3,489 -78.3% 9 To the Fore -- 2,595 -- Weekend Estimates July 30 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation $2,395,000 $2,465,000 2 Inside Out $1,235,000 -13.4% $3,725,000 3 Ant-Man $630,000 -59.9% $6,045,000 4 Minions $370,000 -56.2% $9,715,000 5 Monster Hunt $105,000 -56.3% $1,120,000 MI5 is off to a very good start. Now it just needs to keep it up. The rest of the top 5 was underestimated. Worthy of note is Ant-Man zipping past 6m by its 18th day. Monday adm. (so far) August 3 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Inside Out -- 5,821 -- -76.2% 2 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 5,586 -- -84.1% 3 Minions -- 1,868 -- -74.3% 4 Ant-Man -- 1,812 -- -76.6% 5 Monster Hunt -- 293 -- -76.7% 6 What We Do in the Shadows -- 167 -- -53.1% 7 Insidious: Chapter 3 -- 150 -- -65.7% 8 Terminator: Genisys -- 87 -- -71.9% 9 Magic Mike -- 63 -- -- 10 Paris Holiday -- 38 -- -- Huge coup for Inside Out. It looks like it's headed for 15,000 admissions for the day. Meanwhile, that is a surprising loss for MI5 even with the favorable weekdays for IO. Walk-ins should be very fierce though and it could hit 26,000 today. Minions and Ant-Man swapped places but they will reverse by final admissions.

Saturday August 1 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 67,950 -- +61.2% 2 Inside Out 37,674 32,864 -12.8% +65.2% 3 Ant-Man 46,214 16,266 -64.8% +44.3% 4 Minions 24,610 10,822 -56.0% +53.5% 5 Monster Hunt 8,080 3,716 -54.0% +61.9% 6 To the Fore -- 1,228 -- -- 7 What We Do in the Shadows -- 1,138 -- +46.8% 8 Attack on Titan -- 744 -- -- 9 Insidious: Chapter 3 4,888 563 -88.5% -48.1% 10 Magic Mike 2,903 508 -82.5% +58.3% Huge bump for Mission Impossible 5. Inside Out had the best increase of the top 10 on Saturday. Yikes for Ant-Man. It was jumping up over 75% last weekend but MI5 has taken away screens but more importantly attention from it. Another weak hold for Minions. Meh for Monster Hunt. Sunday adm. (so far) August 2 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 35,023 -- +15.3% 2 Inside Out 25,546 24,427 -4.4% +19.9% 3 Ant-Man 22,813 7,748 -66.0% +15.3% 4 Minions 17,001 7,273 -57.2% +33.7% 5 Attack on Titan -- 2,042 -- +198.1% 6 Monster Hunt 3,307 1,259 -61.9% +48.8% 7 To the Fore -- 568 -- +20.6% 8 Insidious: Chapter 3 1,241 437 -64.8% +76.2% 9 What We Do in the Shadows -- 356 -- +6.0% 10 Terminator: Genisys 1,157 310 -73.2% -- Top 2 is doing great. Ant-Man legs are fading fast. Minions is holding on precariously but next week will be the beginning of the end. Attack on Titan had an insane increase due to more theaters holding previews on Sunday alone than both Saturday/Sunday. Weekend Projections July 30 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation $2,395,000 $2,465,000 2 Inside Out $1,205,000 -15.5% $3,695,000 3 Ant-Man $580,000 -63.1% $5,995,000 4 Minions $350,000 -56.2% $9,695,000 5 Monster Hunt $100,000 -58.3% $1,115,000 Very good opening for MI5. It will be the biggest launch in the series for Ethan Hunt and his crew. After a slightly muted opening, Inside Out came back fighting with an exceptional hold. It will pass 4m by Wednesday and will pass 5m in 2 weeks time. After a very good hold last weekend, Ant-Man has been dealt a crushing blow by MI5. Its legs are getting progressively worse as the weekend goes along. 3rd straight hold in the 50's for Minions. It will end with one of the worst multipliers ever for an animation release. The hunt for HK$10m looks perilous for Monster Hunt. Broadway/AMC will have to start cutting showtimes next week to make room for new openers therefore it will probably juts miss out on HK$10m.

Updated Thursday Actuals That number for MI5 in the previous post did not include previews. MI5 takes the biggest opening day in the franchise. Opening Day (HK$) Opening Day (USD) % diff Mission Impossible 5 $3,430,240 $441,386 Mission Impossible 4 $1,716,643 $220,889 +99.8% Mission Impossible 3 $1,571,366 $202,195 +118.3% Mission Impossible 2 $3,409,735 $438,747 +0.6% Mission Impossible $2,488,925 $320,262 +37.8% MI5 total (OD + previews): $526,280

Thursday 1. Mission Impossible 5 - $450,362 (including previews?); +92.6% MI4 OD + previews see below 2. Inside Out - $180,145 3. Ant-Man - $90,072 4. Minions - $42,265 5. Monster Hunt - $13,110 What We Do in the Shadows - $7,720 Friday July 31 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 42,153 -- +13.6% 2 Inside Out 18,932 19,889 +5.1% +23.7% 3 Ant-Man 25,108 11,272 -55.1% +21.5% 4 Minions 14,644 7,050 -51.9% +12.5% 5 Monster Hunt 5,051 2,295 -54.6% +4.4% 6 Insidious: Chapter 3 3,425 1,085 -68.3% +10.7% 7 What We Do in the Shadows -- 775 -- -17.1% 8 Paris Holiday 1,854 389 -79.0% -- 9 Terminator: Genisys 1,097 351 -68.0% +33.0% 10 Magic Mike 2,160 321 -85.1% -2.1% Note: Admissions were taken at 9 PM. Final numbers are higher. Good jump for Mission Impossible 5. OD WOM started off grim when it kicked off with a 3.7/5 in the afternoon but it has slowly crept back up and now sits at a decent 4.1/5. Daily admissions (OW) Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Total Mission Impossible 4 24,390 32,400 53,809 52,474 163,073 Mission Impossible 5 37,112 42,153 79,265 Gap 12,722 22,475 -31,334 -83,808 I expect MI5 to pass 60,000 admissions on both Saturday/Sunday giving it a landslide victory over the 4th installment. Very strong for Inside Out. Mediocre for the rest of the top 5. Rest of the holdovers outside the top 5 got caught up in the MI5 carnage. Horrible for What We Do in the Shadows. Saturday adm. (so far) August 1 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 30,385 -- +68.5% 2 Inside Out 16,229 20,373 +25.5% +99.1% 3 Ant-Man 17,661 6,718 -62.0% +62.4% 4 Minions 11,848 5,440 -54.1% +72.6% 5 Monster Hunt 2,069 846 -- +50.0% 6 Attack on Titan -- 685 -- -- 7 To the Fore -- 471 -- -- 8 What We Do in the Shadows -- 336 -- +54.8% 9 Magic Mike 1,150 276 -76.0% +37.3% 10 Insidious: Chapter 3 1,158 248 -78.6% -20.0% Excellent increases for MI5 and Inside Out. Superb hold for IO as well. Good bumps for Ant-Man and Minions but average holds week to week.

Previews actual is below. Day 1 will be out tomorrow. Wednesday actuals 1. Inside Out - $226,414/$2,491,841 2. Ant-Man - $192,966/$5,415,927 3. Minions - $95,196/$9,343,439 4. Mission Impossible 5 - $70,754 (previews) 5. Monster Hunt - $29,588/$1,016,290 6. Insidious 3 - $23,155/$225,127 7. Paris Holiday - $11,577/$140,222 8. Magic Mike - $9,776/$119,639 9. Terminator: Genisys - $9,776/$3,891,491 Source: Cinetel MI5 vs. MI4 previews: MI5 +228.4% Thursday July 30 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 37,112 -- 2 Inside Out 17,165 16,073 -6.4% 3 Ant-Man 20,859 9,281 -55.5% 4 Minions 12,372 6,268 -49.3% 5 Monster Hunt 4,254 2,199 -48.3% 6 Insidious: Chapter 3 3,116 980 -68.5% 7 What We Do in the Shadows -- 935 -- 8 Magic Mike 1,741 328 -81.2% 9 The Tribe -- 294 -- 10 Terminator: Genisys 1,002 264 -73.7% MI5 vs. MI4 opening day admissions (+52.2%) Wonderful start for MI5. Incredible hold for Inside Out. Ant-Man got stomped by MI5 but held up quite well. Average holds for Minions and Monster Hunt. Friday adm. (so far) July 31 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 18,029 -- +30.1% 2 Inside Out 8,875 10,230 +15.3% +79.3% 3 Ant-Man 10,636 4,136 -61.1% +72.5% 4 Minions 7,118 3,152 -55.7% +57.2% 5 Monster Hunt 1,196 564 -52.8% +44.2% 6 Insidious: Chapter 3 679 310 -54.3% +33.0% 7 What We Do in the Shadows -- 217 -- +13.0% 8 Magic Mike 951 201 -78.9% +18.9% 9 Paris Holiday 644 128 -80.1% +36.2% 10 Terminator: Genisys 370 81 -78.1% -- Great jump for MI5...but not to be outdone Inside Out actually increased more in pre-sales than MI5 on Friday. Wow. Middling holds for the rest of the top 5.

5 PM update: Mission Impossible 5 has passed 30,000 admissions and defeated MI4's opening day admissions already. Inside Out is down less than 20% from opening day's admissions with 6 hours to go.

No to Monster Hunt. 10m HKD will be quite difficult unless if it posts a good hold this week. Inside Out is definitely going to pass 5m. Definitely. __________________________________________________________ Vacation, To the Fore and Attack on Titan all get previews this week. Wednesday adm. July 29 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Inside Out -- 18,550 -- -19.9% 2 Ant-Man -- 15,743 -- -22.6% 3 Minions -- 8,531 -- -24.7% 4 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 6,899 -- -- 5 Monster Hunt -- 3,177 -- -28.4% 6 Insidious: Chapter 3 -- 2,452 -- -12.9% 7 Paris Holiday -- 1,267 -- -18.6% 8 Magic Mike -- 1,077 -- -22.8% 9 Terminator: Genisys -- 929 -- -14.2% 10 Ted 2 -- 270 -- -32.0% Wow, fantastic for Inside Out. It was the only film of the top 10 to increase from Monday's admissions on Wednesday. Great number for MI5 previews. Thursday adm. (so far) July 30 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation -- 13,863 -- 2 Inside Out 7,517 5,705 -24.1% 3 Ant-Man 7,650 2,398 -68.7% 4 Minions 4,599 2,005 -56.4% 5 Monster Hunt 778 391 -49.7% 6 Insidious: Chapter 3 512 233 -54.5% 7 What We Do in the Shadows -- 192 -- 8 Magic Mike 694 169 -75.6% 9 Paris Holiday 471 94 -80.0% 10 The Tribe -- 85 -- Good start for MI5. MI5 pre-sales vs. MI4 pre-sales: 15,863 vs. 10,343 (+34.0%) MI5 pre-sales are up 34% from MI4's pre-sales when it went head to head against Sherlock Holmes 2 in December 2011. Excellent hold for Inside Out. I expect less than a 10% hold in admissions for today. Huge but expected drop for Ant-Man. It should do big things with walk-ins (possibly accounting for 3/4 of sales). Minions had a mediocre hold but walk-ins will take a hit from the MI5/IO combo. Average hold for Monster Hunt.