Tarintino Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 4 hours ago, EmpireCity said: The later, and the communist government forces theaters to show and promote propaganda films. Attendance has been "encouraged" to all the their citizens as well. It isn't an accident you suddenly have propaganda films smashing records. https://variety.com/2021/film/news/china-communist-party-100th-anniversary-propaganda-1234943360/ Didnt America do this with Passion of the Christ? The irony here is hollywood is full of propaganda movies so why can't china have them too? How many global disaster movies end with America saving the day with long shots of the US flag? I heard the army allow filmmakers like Michael Bay to use all the military equipment they have as long as it makes the US army seem strong and powerful. Propaganda is visible in most countries that produce movies 10 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG10 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Noctis said: I still find it astonishing and morbidly impressive how China being so huge has managed to control and censor the internet to such an unbelievable extent. Nowhere else in the world is YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and fucking Google banned altogether. Governments around the world censor, but in the vast majority, if a person were to find out the truth, they could easily do so. In China, it is just so insanely difficult. I'm genuinely curious to see how their surveillance and security apparatus work. I hope the "communist" regime falls and ushers in at least new personal freedoms and more free elections. I've always been fascinated by how the Chinese population would react knowing that the history of their country was deeply lied about and on such a massive scale. Finally a reasonable comment, I've finished all the reactions for today so I just give youa thumbs up 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeeSoh Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Moderation: Please take this discussion to its appropriate thread in the China BO section and keep discussions in this thread related to the weekend box office. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie Jatinder Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 32 minutes ago, ZeeSoh said: Moderation: Please take this discussion to its appropriate thread in the China BO section and keep discussions in this thread related to the weekend box office. Actually let's keep that thread clean 👀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeeSoh Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 1 minute ago, charlie Jatinder said: Actually let's keep that thread clean 👀 I meant the China BO section rather than the China BO thread in particular. I dont know if a thread about BO manipulations exist in that section but if there isn't, one can create it if they wish to discuss this topic further. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokugennumataka Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Something like 950k (-65) on Monday wouldn't surprise me. Wonder if we'll see bigger Tuesday jumps too with Canada in the mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooper Legion Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 I’d like to see a weekly increase on Mon, but ~flat is also okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokugennumataka Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Product Driven Legion said: I’d like to see a weekly increase on Mon, but ~flat is also okay. You thinking it will creep over 1M dailies again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooper Legion Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 3 minutes ago, Tokugennumataka said: You thinking it will creep over 1M dailies again? I’d give a small change for Mon at least, but my 980k hope is already optimistic enough 😛 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmpireCity Posted January 31, 2022 Author Share Posted January 31, 2022 2 hours ago, ZeeSoh said: Moderation: Please take this discussion to its appropriate thread in the China BO section and keep discussions in this thread related to the weekend box office. I just saw this, but the thread is dead this week anyways and there really isn't any place to discuss a lot of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Prime Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 41 minutes ago, EmpireCity said: I just saw this, but the thread is dead this week anyways and there really isn't any place to discuss a lot of this. It doesn't matter if a thread is dead or not. If a mod tells people to stop, you listen and respect their wishes. And if you absolutely have to talk about China's supposed manipulation and want to argue with folks about it, you can just make your own new thread. We have a whole subforum dedicated to Chinese box office. If you want, you can make your own thread there and argue with people in that section to your heart's content. It's totally fine. https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/forum/73-china-at-the-box-office/ 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXRDJisDoctorDoom Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Licorice Pizza had a huge drop with actual VS what was estimated over the weekend (almost 10% different). Everything else was fairly close and surprisingly, King’s Daughter is the only one that actually went up from estimates lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BestPicturePlutoNash Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 8 minutes ago, RiddlerXXR said: Licorice Pizza had a huge drop with actual VS what was estimated over the weekend (almost 10% different). Everything else was fairly close and surprisingly, King’s Daughter is the only one that actually went up from estimates lol It's fine. These drops aren't as bad as EmpireCity alluded to. Most of its Sunday estimates have been off for whatever reason in the last month. Maybe the audience is hurt by the football games, I don't know. Either way it's only down 5% from last weekend and the over $800 theater average still puts it top 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john2000 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME $11.00M Weekend (Actual) 3,675 Screens / $2,994 Avg. Weekend 7 / -21.4% Change $735.88M Total (North America) #SpiderMan #NoWayHome #SpiderManNoWayHome #Marvel #MCU #BoxOffice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooper Legion Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 4.01 IM vs 4.00 of reality. There but for the grace of Fri go I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmpireCity Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 (edited) Man, I love love love the color purple. It's a beautiful color. Edited February 1, 2022 by EmpireCity 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmpireCity Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 Looks like a sub 70% drop for Spider-Man on Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPLC Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 10 minutes ago, EmpireCity said: Looks like a sub 70% drop for Spider-Man on Monday. It is bad with Canada reopening 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooper Legion Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 I mean, some sub 70% drops are good 😛 But if we're talking like 69% then yeah, either dom-ON had a pretty rough mon/sat despite snow delfated sat or Ontario was pretty meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
