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Great action, thoroughly entertaining and fast paced movie. Tom Cruise is fantastic. The best part of the movie is that it makes you care about the characters. Loved it. The last 3 MI movies have been fantastic. Rating: A+

Superb trailer. Loved unbreakable and liked Split. Excited for the movie.

It is The Lost World to Jurassic World. While not as good as JW, it is still an entertaining movie. The performances are decent, and the action is very good. Pacing is slow in bits but overall manages to keep one occupied. Indorapter is interesting. The fight between blue and indorapter is excellent. B+

Entertaining movie. Action scenes are well picturized. Liked it.

A thoroughly entertaining movie. The performances are uniformly good. The action sequences are very good. Last 20 minutes was excellent. Rating: A-

@Proxima Olive, @firedeep, @POTUS I found this in boxofficeindia.com. Is this deal correct? This states the Chinese release cost for the producers of Bahubali 2 is $9M. I'm assuming the cost refers to dubbing etc.

Last Friday was $83M. So the drop is around 55%. In places like UK, OW was a 4 day weekend, so the drop there may be be 65%

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No doubt. Because of a number of Indian movies doing really well in China over the last year, one would have expected a better performance than this. May be those movies success did help it to this performance. Otherwise it may have been just as big a disaster that Bahubali was in China.

Bahubali2 seems to be tanking. Very slight increase for Saturday from a low Friday to begin with.

I agree. Anyway, remember $312.5M from 1999.

I'm expecting a multiplier of 2.75 based on initial WOM. I would not be shocked with a multiplier of 3. .

Loved the movie. Thanos was extraordinary. The best part is not that he is very powerful, but that his contention as to why half te universe needs to be destroyed almost makes sense. Action scenes are superb. Cap's entry got an awesome reaction as did Thor's final fight entry. A

RPO may do 36M+ today. will defer to our experts here.

Rampage channeling Garbage????

Nice tense movie. Script while different has pacing and plot issues. B

Razzies, perhaps.

What RPO has done in China is fabulous. $200M+ is absolutely phenomenal.

I would think $225M is guranteed. But I will defer to CBO experts like olive, firedeep, POTUS, fmpro and others.

Today 109.2 at 6 PM. A drop of 8.7%. Should end up with 145 for the day.

What time do you check for PS? Midnight?

@Gavin Feng has been quoted extensively in the article above.

hy Black Panther and other Hollywood films failed to unseat Aamir Khan's Secret Superstar at the Chinese box office Surendhar MK Apr,01 2018 12:08:10 IST Chadwick Boseman's boundary-smashing money-spinner Black Panther has been on a benchmark-setting spree at the box-office ever since its release on 29 January. Hailed as a cultural phenomenon for being the first Marvel film to feature a predominantly black cast, the movie has continued to set the cash registers ringing across the length and breadth of the world. A still from Black Panther. Marvel Studios Black Panther is now the highest-grossing superhero film of all time in North America. It's also the highest-grossing comic book adaptation in North America and the fifth highest-grossing domestic film of all time and it is on the verge of dethroning Jurassic World to take the fourth spot after the Easter weekend. Globally, Black Panther is the twelfth highest-grossing film of all-time and the highest-earning solo superhero movie ever. However, in China, the world's second-largest movie market, the Ryan Coogler-directorial has suffered defeat at the hands of Aamir Khan's Secret Superstar, which is still the highest-grossing import film of 2018 with a lifetime revenue of nearly $118 million. Black Panther has earned a total of $105 million in the Middle Kingdom; a disappointing box-office haul considering other significant territories where the movie has raked in the moolah consistently. Black Panther however, is not the only big-budget Hollywood vehicle that has failed to attract moviegoers in China this year. Secret Superstar stands tall above Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, Tomb Raider and Maze Runner: The Death Cure. Gavin Feng, a Chinese box-office tracker, feels there's a growing confidence among exhibitors to screen non-English imports thanks to the success of recent Indian films. "Chinese distributors have more and more confidence in non-English import films, especially Indian movies. Everyone wants to run a project of Aamir Khan's in China. They also want to make another actor like Salman Khan become a superstar in China. I’m not sure how many Indian films will land this year. If Chinese investors want, it’s not difficult to let more Indian movies see the light of day in China," she said. John Boyega in Pacific Rim: Uprising Universal's Pacific Rim: Uprising — which was the most highly anticipated import film in China in the first quarter — has pulled in nearly $87.23 million in 9 days in the PRC. It's now the third highest-grossing import film of 2018 in China, only behind Secret Superstar and Black Panther. However, Pacific Rim: Uprising will not be able to unseat Secret Superstar, observes Gavin. "Pacific Rim: Uprising won’t beat Secret Superstar or even Black Panther in China. It’s a surprising but reasonable result. It shows how important the WOM is in China today. Black Panther and Pacific Rim: Uprising enjoyed a fantastic opening but dropped soon because the local audience didn’t enjoy it," she said. While Dangal is raved about as China's leggiest film with a weekend-to-cume multiple of nearly 14.4, Secret Superstar is currently 2018's leggiest import film in China. "In China, there is a trend for movies to get worse multiples every year, because theaters love to give extra showtimes to new releases on opening weekend and drastically reduce it towards the second weekend following the arrival of new titles. Most Hollywood movies find it difficult to get a 2.5 multiplier or even two sometimes." Crunching solid examples of Hollywood imports in China, Gavin says, "The Fate of the Furious ($196M three-day debut to $388M lifetime gross) has a 1.98 multiple, Spider-Man: Homecoming has 1.78 ($127M/$226M), Transformers: The Last Knight has 1.78 ($127M/$226M), Black Panther currently holds a 1.58 ($67M/around $105M), Star Wars: The Last Jedi has 1.44 ($28M/$40M). Secret Superstar however, has a wonderful 4.26 multiple." Aamir Khan in a still from Secret Superstar. Twitter@Aamir_KhanBolly Hindi Medium would be the next Indian release in the mainland cinemas of China on 4 April . Will it strike gold at the ticket window like the recent release Bajrangi Bhaijaan, which marked the foray of Salman Khan into the mainland? "In China, WOM is everything. The key reason why Secret Superstar and Dangal did good business in China is people think it’s great. We love Aamir Khan because he showed us good movies. If a big star continuously delivers bad movies, the audience will abandon him soon," Gavin said on a concluding note. Published Date: Apr 01, 2018 12:08 PM | Updated Date: Apr 01, 2018 12:08 PM http://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/why-black-panther-and-other-hollywood-films-failed-to-unseat-aamir-khans-secret-superstar-at-the-chinese-box-office-4413671.html

Yep. WB screwed up big time. Movie not released as planned. I got a refund.

I'm one of the ones that bought a ticket for RPO and could not watch it. 2 theatres around me do not have any showtimes for Saturday. A 3rd theater has an evening showtime. Let's hope this gets resolved.