Rudolf Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 (edited) Last year Russian film market had around 0.11 ratio to USThis year it could be 0.13-0.14But this numbers include everything (even local Russian production). As we are interested to compare blockbuster performance in both markets I summed up the top 20 (not necessarily the same movies) in each market without local(Russian) movies and get RUS/DOM = $482m/$3,786m = 0.1274 for 2011.So only the top half of the movies are overperformers in the Russian market. That gets rid of all SH movies except Megamind. Edited April 24, 2012 by Rudolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullbuster Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 But this numbers include everything (even local Russian production). As we are interested to compare blockbuster performance in both markets I summed up the top 20 (not necessarily the same movies) in each market without local(Russian) movies and get RUS/DOM = $482m/$3,786m = 0.1274 for 2011.So only the top half of the movies are overperformers in the Russian market. That gets rid of all SH movies except Megamind.What's your point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 What's your point?Superhero movies underperform in Russia-CIS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullbuster Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 Superhero movies underperform in Russia-CIS.It's not a surprise, the US is the land of comics and superheroes, Russia isn't familiar about this culture, Russians couldn't read US comics during the USSR era.Consequently I think superheroes movies there have great scores, and I think it's just the beginning : these movies will have more success in the future there, maybe The Avengers will be the first of the list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 It's not a surprise, the US is the land of comics and superheroes, Russia isn't familiar about this culture, Russians couldn't read US comics during the USSR era.Consequently I think superheroes movies there have great scores, and I think it's just the beginning : these movies will have more success in the future there, maybe The Avengers will be the first of the list I am planing to make similar list of other markets. Do you think SH-movies are overperformers in France? (If Asterix doesn't count that is). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullbuster Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 I am planing to make similar list of other markets. Do you think SH-movies are overperformers in France? (If Asterix doesn't count that is).That could be interesting :)And for France, no they don't overperform, clearly not, only Spiderman movies are really successful there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juni78ukr Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 (edited) Spider-Man grossed strong $3.53 mln in Russia but no one cared whether it was based on a comic book or not. It wasn't even a superhero movie here. Just somewhere between usuually popular sci-fi and fantasy. Edited April 24, 2012 by juni78ukr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullbuster Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 Spider-Man grossed strong $3.53 mln in Russia but no one cared whether it was based on a comic book or not. It wasn't even a superhero movie here. Just somewhere between usuually popular sci-fi and fantasy.Good thing for The Amazing Spiderman I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juni78ukr Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Good thing for The Amazing Spiderman I guess First Spider-Man film was liked by many here. The second...well not so much. The general opinion was that the third sucked. People also don't get the whole "reboot" thing. Who needs it? And all those numerous villains from comic books mostly make no sense here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 So maybe our distributors just borrowed the title from them. Funny thing that we have a TV channel called 1+1. Actually from French films this year only Asterix and Obelix should make good money. Probably with good marketing Marsupilami also has a chance.I always read Marsupilami comics at my hair dresser, when I was a boy. I doubt that Russian boys ever did that. Nevertheless it will work here too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullbuster Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 First Spider-Man film was liked by many here. The second...well not so much. The general opinion was that the third sucked. People also don't get the whole "reboot" thing. Who needs it? And all those numerous villains from comic books mostly make no sense here.I feel you don't like SH movies ;)We'll see, but I'm very confident about Avenges,Spiderman and Batman there ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullbuster Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 The Avengers could make more OW than Thor in whole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullbuster Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 (edited) RUSSIA BOX OFFICE 19-22 APRIL ADMISSIONS1-Battleship : 1,492,000 (week 1)2-21 Jump Street : 142,000 (week 2)3-Titanic 3D : 114,000 (week 3)4-American Reunion : 102,000 (week 3)5-Les Infidèles : 70,000 (week 1) Edited April 24, 2012 by Fullbuster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullbuster Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 TOTAL ADMISSIONS RUSSIA :Battleship : 1,492,00021 Jump Street : 628,000American Reunion : 1,597,000The Hunger Games : 1,919,000Titanic 3D : 1,310,000Wrath of The Titans : 2,577,000What do you think about it? Impressive first week for Battleship, it appealed to Russians :)Pretty satisfied for The Hunger Games and American Reunion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I neither expected BS nor the 2 American and 1 French comedy to do so well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullbuster Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 I neither expected BS nor the 2 American and 1 French comedy to do so well.I'm not sure "well" is the good word for Les Infidèles, it's $1819 per screen..Battleship has $13,800 per screen, American Reunion has $1700 per screen but it's in its third week...Not great for me :(But Battlship can be applaud, in admissions it's the second best start of 2012 after John Carter.I expect more than 2,000,000 admissions in first week for The Avengers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juni78ukr Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I always read Marsupilami comics at my hair dresser, when I was a boy. I doubt that Russian boys ever did that. Nevertheless it will work here too.French animated TV-series was rather popular a few years ago. One of the main tv-channels showed it for a while. Besides it's just light-hearted positive and funny adventure movie. People will definitely like it. You just need a moderate advertising to carry the message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juni78ukr Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Battleship by the way had 22nd all-time opening and the 2nd best after 2012 for non-sequels in 2D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullbuster Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 Battleship by the way had 22nd all-time opening and the 2nd best after 2012 for non-sequels in 2D.Only 22nd??????? What are the others??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juni78ukr Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Only 22nd??????? What are the others??? You already put top 25 in the first post. Battleship landed between Clash of the Titans and Fast Five. Quite a strong company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
