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  1. Bluebomb
    It's not bad. It'll still make over 2m. The heavier drop can be attributed to direct competition from The Host and screen competition from Drug War.
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    Nope, I will wait until it comes out next weekend.
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    Quick update:Oblivion made $61,830 on its 2nd Thursday, that is -68% from opening day. That number is -22% from Battleship's 2nd Thursday. Oblivion is looking at $440,000 this weekend and 2.1m should be its projected total.
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    It's exactly 1 week before Iron Man 3 is out. You know what that means. Thursday and Friday Iron Man 3 pre-sales @ Palace APM Palace APM Iron Man 3 Day Time Seats sold Seats available % filled Apr. 25 12:15 AM 53 286 18.53% 12:00 PM 27 286 9.44% 2:25 PM 20 286 6.99% 4:50 PM 33 286 11.54% 7:15 PM 135 286 47.20% 9:40 PM 108 286 37.76% 12:05 AM 27 286 9.44% Total 403 2002 20.13% Apr. 26 12:00 PM 17 286 5.94% 2:25 PM 16 286 5.59% 4:50 PM 29 286 10.14% 7:15 PM 123 286 43.01% 9:40 PM 163 286 56.99% 12:05 AM 29 286 10.14% Total 377 1716 21.97% Iron Man 3 is doing in line between 3-3.5m. Pre-sales are slightly below The Avengers right now. Ticket sales will really pick up this weekend.
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    New blog post up. I'll have another update on Iron Man 3 later today.
  6. Bluebomb
    Being in a good or bad movie doesn't change the status of Superman. He's done fairly well with the most recent Superman movies. All superheroes are popular here. Lots of toy shops have superhero toys and many children buy them.
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    Superman's very popular but not as popular as Spider-Man. I'd rank them like this 1. Spider-Man 2. Superman 3. Batman 4. Iron Man It's possible that MoS could do better than IM3 but the prequel factor stops me from believing it could. Superman has a better chance of beating IM3's OW. Legs will be a huge factor. Iron Man 3 has 3 weeks of no competition but Superman has The Lone Ranger on July 3, Monsters University on July 11, Pacific Rim on July 18 and The Wolverine on July 25. Superman isn't exactly known as a franchise built by legs so I expect opening weekend to be huge.
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    Hong Kong held their Film Awards last Saturday. Cold War pulverized the competition and cleaned up with 4/5 big awards and 9 statues in all. Full list:Best Film - Cold WarBest Director - Longman Leung, Sunny Luk (Cold War)Best Actor - Tony Leung Ka-fai (Cold War)Best Actress - Miriam Yeung (Love in the Buff)Best Screenplay - Cold WarBest Supporting Actor - Ronald Cheng (Vulgaria)Best Supporting Actress - Dada Chen (Vulgaria)Best New Performer - Alex Tsui (Cold War)Best Cinematography - The Silent WarBest Film Editing - Cold WarBest Art Direction - The Last TycoonBest Costume & Make Up Design - The Great MagicianBest Action Choreography - CZ12Best Original Score - Cold WarBest Original Song - Ding Feng Bo by Jacky Cheung (The Last Tycoon)Best Sound - Cold WarBest Visual Effects - Cold WarBest New Director - Chow Hin Yeung (Nightfall)Best Mainland/Taiwan Film - Back to 1942
  9. Bluebomb
    April 11 Weekend Actuals1. Oblivion - $1,024,266 (weekend actual)2. Conspirators - $497,316 (weekend actual)3. Finding Mr. Right - $986,9034. Saving General Yang - $662,2295. The Croods - $2,538,1186. G.I. Joe: Retaliation - $3,174,580I Give It A Year - $81,168 (weekend actual)Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? - $34,786 (weekend actual)The Hunt - $15,460 (weekend actual)Seven Psychopaths - $15,460 (weekend actual)Oblivion drops from estimates. I see Oblivion making 2.3m. Good for Conspirators. It'll be the first in the series to reach 1m. Finding Mr. Right will go away with about 1.2-1.3m. After that sluggish start, it's a good total. Saving General Yang had the 2nd best hold of the top 10. The Croods passed 2.5m and it is $225,000 away from Wreck-It Ralph. I don't think it will get there after this weekend. Lots of theaters will dump it next week. GI Joe sputtered. Terrible hold this week. It'll gross 3.25m before leaving. I Give It A Year did bad but not as disgustingly bad as Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?. Tomorrow will have one of the worst PTA's of the year. The Hunt was solid. $7,600 PTA from 2 theaters. Seven Psychopaths scared off people making only a $2,576 PTA from 6 theaters.
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    Sunday adm. (so far) April 14 Rank Title LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Oblivion -- 15,536 -- +10.3% 2 Conspirators -- 6,822 -- +14.0% 3 The Croods 5,627 2,287 -59.4% +43.0% 4 Finding Mr. Right 2,509 1,994 -20.5% +3.3% 5 Saving General Yang 3,637 1,929 -47.0% +38.8% 6 G.I. Joe: Retaliation 6,526 1,327 -79.7% +19.4% 7 Ip Man: The Final Fight 2,405 1,298 -46.0% +142.2% 8 I Give It A Year -- 997 -- +37.3% 9 Drug War -- 787 -- -0.9% 10 Jurassic Park 3D 2,180 707 -67.6% -- Sunday adm. April 14 Rank Title LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Oblivion -- 40,565 -- -10.9% 2 Conspirators -- 20,980 -- -4.0% 3 Finding Mr. Right 8,304 6,222 -25.1% -7.7% 4 The Croods 14,387 6,194 -56.9% +30.3% 5 Saving General Yang 11,572 5,597 -51.6% +9.7% 6 I Give It A Year -- 3,530 -- -5.6% 7 G.I. Joe: Retaliation 16,701 3,468 -79.2% -16.0% 8 Drug War -- 3,389 -- -11.5% 9 Ip Man: The Final Fight 7,451 2,651 -64.4% +60.7% 10 Will You Still Me Love Me Tomorrow? -- 1,628 -- -6.5% Not a bad hold for Oblivion. Battleship fell 12% on its opening Sunday so it's doing in line with typical sci-fi apocalyptic movies. Conspirators had the best drop on Sunday but it also had the worst increase on Friday. Go figure. Croods was #3 on Sunday. It posted a solid increase. Saving General Yang outranked Finding Mr. Right on Sunday but it couldn't catch Mr. Right overall. Great drop for Mr. Right on Sunday. Huge spike for Ip Man: The Final Fight on Sunday. I'm not sure if this is an aberration or if it's genuine but it helped Ip Man: TFF to pass Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow in the official weekend rankings. Daily admissions (OW) Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Total Battleship 23,029 25,616 46,523 40,916 136,084 Oblivion 21,845 28,050 45,504 40,565 135,964 Gap -1,184 1,250 231 -120 This concludes the fight between Battleship and Oblivion. Warships and aliens over Tom Cruise and aliens. Weekend adm. Apr 11-14 Rank Title LW TW % chg 1 Oblivion -- 135,964 -- 2 Conspirators -- 69,256 -- 3 Finding Mr. Right 35,933 21,097 -41.3% 4 Saving General Yang 43,448 16,743 -61.5% 5 The Croods 64,728 13,971 -78.4% 6 G.I. Joe: Retaliation 80,045 13,042 -83.7% 7 I Give It A Year -- 11,398 -- 8 Drug War -- 8,550 -- 9 Ip Man: The Final Fight 33,634 6,539 -80.6% 10 Will You Still Me Love Me Tomorrow? -- 5,990 -- April 11 Weekend Estimates
  11. Bluebomb
    Life of Pi ended at #4 for 2012, behind the 3 superhero movies. All-time is a bit harder to track since no site has published accurate data but it's around the top 30, either just inside or barely out. Iron Man 3 preview Saturday adm. (so far) April 13 Rank Title LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Oblivion -- 14,086 -- +53.9% 2 Conspirators -- 5,982 -- +32.1% 3 Finding Mr. Right 2,562 1,931 -24.6% +15.4% 4 The Croods 4,689 1,599 -65.9% +179.5% 5 Saving General Yang 3,124 1,390 -55.5% +46.5% 6 G.I. Joe: Retaliation 6,732 1,111 -83.5% +20.5% 7 Drug War -- 794 -- -- 8 I Give It A Year -- 726 -- +5.8% 9 Will You Still Me Love Me Tomorrow? -- 598 -- -2.1% 10 Ip Man: The Final Fight 1,864 536 -71.2% -- Saturday adm. April 13 Rank Title LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Oblivion -- 45,504 -- +62.2% 2 Conspirators -- 21,852 -- +54.3% 3 Finding Mr. Right 9,775 6,738 -31.1% +41.4% 4 Saving General Yang 12,157 5,100 -58.0% +50.5% 5 The Croods 13,719 4,753 -65.4% +172.7% 6 G.I. Joe: Retaliation 19,684 4,127 -79.0% +38.7% 7 Drug War -- 3,829 -- +187.5% 8 I Give It A Year -- 3,739 -- +44.8% 9 Will You Still Me Love Me Tomorrow? -- 1,742 -- +15.4% 10 Ip Man: The Final Fight 7,980 1,650 -79.3% +34.8% Daily admissions (OW) Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Total Battleship 23,029 25,616 46,523 40,916 136,084 Oblivion 21,845 28,050 45,504 95,399 Gap -1,184 1,250 231 -40,685 Now the lead shrinks to 231 for Oblivion. No changes for the top 4. The Croods had a huge jump on Saturday but weekend hold is still looking at -75%. Drug War had a lot of Saturday sneaks, hence the huge increase from Friday.
  12. Bluebomb
    Oh look, Life of Pi is still in theaters (21st week). At least Ang Lee can boast about Life of Pi being shown in HK more weeks than Avatar.
  13. Bluebomb
    The best thing about the puppet episode was Sara Bareilles.
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    Friday adm. (so far) April 12 Rank Title LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Oblivion -- 9,154 -- +61.0% 2 Conspirators -- 4,528 -- +59.1% 3 Finding Mr. Right 2,018 1,674 -17.0% +77.7% 4 Saving General Yang 1,931 949 -50.9% +48.3% 5 G.I. Joe: Retaliation 5,384 922 -82.9% +20.4% 6 I Give It A Year -- 686 -- +60.7% 7 Will You Still Me Love Me Tomorrow? -- 611 -- +21.2% 8 The Croods 3,910 572 -85.4% +44.8% 9 Touch of the Light 767 380 -50.5% -- 10 Lesson of the Evil 757 293 -61.3% -- Friday adm. April 12 Rank Title LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Oblivion -- 28,050 -- +28.4% 2 Conspirators -- 14,160 -- +15.5% 3 Finding Mr. Right 6,970 4,765 -31.6% +41.3% 4 Saving General Yang 7,356 3,388 -53.9% +27.5% 5 G.I. Joe: Retaliation 16,009 2,976 -81.4% +20.4% 6 I Give It A Year -- 2,582 -- +66.9% 7 The Croods 11,834 1,743 -85.3% +36.1% 8 Will You Still Me Love Me Tomorrow? -- 1,510 -- +36.0% 9 Drug War -- 1,332 -- -- 10 Ip Man: The Final Fight 6,510 1,224 -81.2% +20.7% Oblivion has taken away the lead from Battleship in admissions. Battleship made more than 1.1m for the 4-day so if Oblivion can keep this up, it should be able to at least tie it in gross. Daily admissions (OW) Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Total Battleship 23,029 25,616 46,523 40,916 136,084 Oblivion 21,845 28,050 49,895 Gap -1,184 1,250 -44,089 -87,439 Conspirators is still doing OK. It had the smallest increase of the top 10 but it will easily pass Detective 1 & 2's opening weekend. Excellent for Finding Mr. Right although Friday's are usually inflated for romance movies. Good for Saving General Yang. Bad for G.I. Joe 2. Not good for I Give It A Year even though it had the best increase. Awful for The Croods. Beating Wreck-It Ralph looked like a certainty 4 days ago...now, it looks like it will miss. How things change... Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? won't be loved tomorrow or the next day. Drug War snuck into the top 10 with sneaks. Very impressive considering that only a few theaters gave it Friday night sneaks. Bad for Ip Man: The Final Fight.
  15. Bluebomb
    I'm torn about this. I like it when my shows get renewed for a full season because that means we get 22-24 episodes but I find that dramas with about half the order on broadcast networks (12-13) are much better plot wise. There's too many filler episodes on broadcast networks.
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    Thursday adm. April 11 Rank Title LW TW % chg 1 Oblivion -- 21,845 -- 2 Conspirators -- 12,264 -- 3 Finding Mr. Right 10,884 3,372 -69.0% 4 Saving General Yang 12,363 2,658 -78.5% 5 G.I. Joe: Retaliation 27,651 2,471 -91.1% 6 I Give It A Year -- 1,547 -- 7 The Croods 24,788 1,281 -94.8% 8 Will You Still Me Love Me Tomorrow? -- 1,110 -- 9 Ip Man: The Final Fight 11,693 1,014 -91.3% 10 Lesson of the Evil 5,095 829 -83.7% Good for Oblivion. -5% from Battleship's opening day but had very strong walk-ins. Multiplier reached almost 8x for the day. So far so good across the reviews front. Holding a 91% approval rating from users. Great for Conspirators. Up a healthy 50% from Detective 2. Good hold for Finding Mr. Right. Decent for Saving General Yang. Pretty awful for GI Joe 2. Yikes for The Croods.
  17. Bluebomb
    Anyone watching? I'm liking the addition of Ricky Martin to the judging panel. He seems to be very sincere and honest about helping people. Standouts for me so far are Harrison Craig, Celia Pavey, Simon Meli, Lyric Mcfarland and Anna Weatherup. Kathy Hinch did pretty well although I hate that song. Geez, it's only episode 3 and the judges still have many slots to fill. Could be a great season.
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    I am liking Shakira on the panel, way more fun than Christina "I need to feel important so I'll bitch about Adam's team" Aguilera. Usher's alright but I do think he's an upgrade over Cee-Lo "Look at me! I dress weird and have a sidekick pet." Green. That being said, The Voice Australia is blowing them out of the water with their talent. Not really liking the artists on The Voice this year except for Sarah Simmons and Ryan Innes.
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    New article up. It's Oblivion time! - Alternate link (for those who can't access my blog)
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    Inner workings of HK box office part 2 Thursday schedules Festival Walk New Holdovers Leaving Oblivion - 9 showings Saving General Yang (Can.) - 3 showings (▼ 4) GI Joe: Retaliation 3D Conspirators - 5 showings Touch of the Light - 1 showing (▼ 4) The Croods (3D Eng.) Will You Still Me Tomorrow? - 5 showings Jurassic Park 3D - 1 showing (▼ 5) Beautiful Creatures I Give It A Year - 5 showings GI Joe: Retaliation - 2 showings (▲ 0) Ip Man: The Final Fight The Croods (Can.) - 1 showing (▲ 0) Oz: The Great and Powerful The Croods (Eng.) - 1 showing (-) Silver Linings Playbook The Croods (3D Can.) - 2 showings (▼ 4) Les Misérables Finding Mr. Right - 6 showings (-) Olympus Has Fallen - 1 showing (▼ 2) Langham Place New Holdovers Leaving Oblivion - 6 showings Jurassic Park 3D - 1 showing (▼ 4) Bullet to the Head Conspirators - 6 showings Saving General Yang (Can.) - 3 showings (▼ 6) Olympus Has Fallen Will You Still Me Tomorrow? - 3 showings Ip Man: The Final Fight - 2 showings (▼ 6) The Croods (Can.) I Give It A Year - 3 showings Lesson of the Evil - 4 showings (▼ 6) Seven Psychopaths - 6 showings GI Joe: Retaliation 3D - 3 showings (▼ 5) GI Joe: Retaliation - 1 showing (▼ 2) The Croods (3D Can.) - 2 showings (▼ 4) Finding Mr. Right - 2 showings (▼ 3) STAR Cinema New Holdovers Leaving Oblivion - 9 showings Saving General Yang (Can.) - 2 showings (▼ 5) Bullet to the Head Conspirators - 6 showings Touch of the Light - 1 showing (▼ 3) GI Joe: Retaliation Will You Still Me Tomorrow? - 4 showings Lesson of the Evil - 3 showings (▼ 5) The Croods (Can.) I Give It A Year - 5 showings Jurassic Park 3D - 1 showing (▼ 3) Beautiful Creatures GI Joe: Retaliation 3D - 2 showings (▼ 3) Finding Mr. Right The Croods (3D Can.) - 1 showing (▼ 2) Olympus Has Fallen Ip Man: The Final Fight - 1 showing (▼ 3) Oblivion is getting 2 screens at Broadway/AMC and MCL theaters. UA and GH are giving it the biggest screen. Conspirators is getting full day showings at most theaters. Will You Still Love Tomorrow? and I Give It A Year lag behind. Seven Psychopaths is getting a limited release in UA theaters while The Hunt crosses paths with the 2 arthouse theaters. Holdovers are mixed. GI Joe 2 will get heavily crushed by the new competition but will be heading into its 3rd weekend with showtimes in almost all theaters. Croods is getting similar showtimes to GI Joe 2. Finding Mr. Right is gone from most MCL theaters but all Broadway/AMC and UA theaters will continue to show it for another week. Ip Man: The Final Fight will likely face limited showings at Broadway/AMC theaters. UA will keep this another week. Ticket sales between Oblivion and Conspirators have been very close with Conspirators taking a slight lead at night over Oblivion. Thursday morning looks like a clear win for Conspirators so far. Oblivion will turn it around with walk-ins though.
  22. Bluebomb
    $13,874,110 HK. New blog post up.
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    Weekend Estimates April 4 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 G.I. Joe: Retaliation $700,000 -51.9% $2,885,000 2 The Croods $590,000 -42.1% $2,325,000 3 Saving General Yang $315,000 -- $395,000 4 Finding Mr. Right $240,000 -31.1% $755,000 5 Ip Man: The Final Fight $237,500 -54.1% $987,500 Weekend estimates with write-up is on the blog here.
  24. Bluebomb
    Hi everyone. For anyone wondering why I've been running off only to come back again, I'd like to explain to my friends and readers that I really intended my post in January to be my goodbye post. My disinterest in box office as a whole and things happening in my life made me really stressed out and forced me to reevaluate my situation and I thought it would be best if I just left. But after a few months, it looks like the worst is over so I've decided to come back again. If you need to ask me a question right away, I am on twitter. And you can check out my blog. I'll be cross posting certain posts from there over here like this one.2013 Q1 loss down 2%For all those wondering, I'll be covering Iron Man 3 here.
  25. Bluebomb
    Thanks for the messages. I really appreciate it. :)There's something I don't think you will even notice if I don't mention it. Silver Linings Playbook was #2 this weekend but it was a very strong runner-up. It grossed $350,000 this weekend and has a grand total of $412,000 with sneak previews. The most impressive thing about its opening weekend was that it was only playing in 17 theaters. Its PTA was more than $20,000 this weekend and its the 1st semi-wide release to gross above $20,000 for the weekend. Jack winning over Playbook doesn't tell the whole story here.By the way, you can follow me on twitter. Ask me any question and I'll answer. You can refer to me as Bluebomb if you like.But this doesn't mean that I'm returning, however I'm not ruling anything out. We'll see.
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