South Korea Box Office

[yjs]

3 hours ago, bartonfink said:

Park Chan Wook is maestro and I adore his films, but not a huge fan of The Handmaiden. 

 

What did you think about it? the only problem I had was that it should be more focused on the ladies and their emotions than what it is now. I mean, who cares about those lame guys, amirite? haha

 

hmm. spoiler alert, maybe? 

Edited June 2, 2016 by yjs

[bartonfink]

9 minutes ago, yjs said:

 

What did you think about it? the only problem I had was that it should be more focused on the ladies and their emotions than what it is now. I mean, who cares about those lame guys, amirite? haha

 

hmm. spoiler alert, maybe? 

 

Yeah I agree with your opinion. I feel its "caper film" aspect encroaches on the ladies's emotional story. 

The film intensively deals with hidden conspiracy and twists and its rhythm becomes rushed.

But frankly I want sensual hooks like "thimble" scene a little more. I want the film makes me truly feel the passion and tension of the ladies's affections. 

But in the end, I was somewhat unsatisfied. While I did enjoy the film, I don't think it's Park Chan Wook's one of better works.

[SoSaysI]

Do we have any predictions as to how the Jungle Book is going to perform in South Korea?

[Rsyu]

2 hours ago, SoSaysI said:

Do we have any predictions as to how the Jungle Book is going to perform in South Korea?

 

Maybe Life of Pi numbers since they're pretty similar

 

admissions: 1.59M

Gross: $14.32M

 

current presales: 8. 6,460 (2.3% share)

[yjs]

2 hours ago, Rsyu said:

 

Maybe Life of Pi numbers since they're pretty similar

 

admissions: 1.59M

Gross: $14.32M

 

current presales: 8. 6,460 (2.3% share)

 

yeah, presales rankings for the movies opening on the same date.

5. Warcraft 9,208

9. TJB 6,570

13. Born to be Blue (Ethan Hawke's Chet Baker biopic) 1,951

22. The Conjuring 2   469

 

rest are holdovers. Warcraft would come on top among the newcomers. Korea's a HUGE video game nation, after all.

but then again, War's presales number might be inflating the predictions cause War's kind of a movie that would attract more dedicated fans then regular moviegoers, thus higher presales rate. TJB will have a staying power tho till Independence Day arrives two weeks after.  

 

I once thought TJB could do 3M~4M due to good WOM and not so tough competitions but now I'm not so sure anymore since there really doesn't seem to be any noticeable buzz being built around this one. Hopefully it can pull out Zootopia again. Slow and steady.

[yjs]

but for the team TJB $1B worldwide, Japan needs to do BIG numbers for that. I just can't see TJB do anything north $25M, not to mention $20M in Korea.

Edited June 3, 2016 by yjs

[Blackout]

hope X-Men doesn't fall too much

[superweirdo87]

3 minutes ago, Blackout said:

hope X-Men doesn't fall too much

 me too.

[yjs]

Friday and Saturday numbers

 

The Handmaiden 312,228 - 480,445 (1,352,268 total)

X-Men: Apocalypse 89,087 - 209,535 (2,264,066 total) about 60% drop from the same time frame last week. (DOFP had a softer 40% drop)

The Wailing 66,122 - 141,960 (6,125,129 total)

Me Before You 41,249 - 65,417 (168,396 total)

Sing Street 13,709 - 22,438 (440,619 total)

Angry Birds Movie 2,696 - 43,880 (508,465 total)

[yjs]

early numbers for the weekend

 

#1. The Handmaiden    1,252,273 (Sun: 460,365   1,811,868 total) NEW

#2. X-Men: Apocalypse    528,320 (Sun: 229,994   2,493,764 total) -54.7% from last weekend

#3. The Wailing    372,049 (Sun: 164,321   6,289,096 total) -41.2%

#4. Me Before You    177,854 (Sun: 71,283   239,584 total) NEW

#5. Angry Birds Movie   94,838 (Sun: 48,262   556,727 total) -41.9%

#6. Sing Street     59,461 (Sun: 23,341   463,933 total) -37.2%

 

[yjs]

Monday (Memorial Day Holiday) numbers

 

#1. The Handmaiden     390,578   (2,212,153 total)

#2. X-Men: Apocalypse   208,088   (2,704,881 total)

#3. The Wailing        149,376      (6,441,896 total)

#4. Me Before You      79,131      (319,555 total)

#5. Angry Birds Movie  72,315     (629,042 total)

#6. Sing Street            24,537     (488,782 total)

Edited June 6, 2016 by yjs

[yjs]

Apocalypse 3M is locked. highly likely to take over Deadpool (3.3M/$23.6M) but would not go too far from there. 

[yjs]

Tuesday numbers

 

#1. The Handmaiden     145,786   (2,361,550 total)

#2. The Wailing              36,727   (6,479,653 total)

#3. X-Men: Apocalypse    35,436   (2,741,178 total)

#4. Me Before You          26,494    (346,407 total)

 

Presales

#1. The Handmaiden     34,123

#2. The Jungle Book      31,260

#3. Warcraft                 26,268

#4. Me Before You          6,694

#5. X-Men: Apocalypse    5,374

#6. The Wailing              4,594

#7, The Conjuring 2        4,446

 

hmm maybe I overestimated Apocalypse's possible total..? 3M is still done tho, but not sure about clearing Deadpool's total (3.3M) anymore.

[yjs]

Wednesday numbers

 

#1. The Handmaiden     134,559   (2,496,923 total)

#2. X-Men: Apocalypse    32,750   (2,774,081 total)

#3. The Wailing              32,441   (6,512,340 total)

#4. Me Before You          30,609    (377,124 total)

 

Presales

 

#1. The Jungle Book      57,096

#2. Warcraft                 45,828

#3. The Handmaiden     38,483

#4. The Conjuring 2       11,410

#5. Me Before You          6,162

#6. X-Men: Apocalypse    5,220

#7. The Wailing              4,362

 

hmm... Maaaaybe Apocalypse 3M is in danger...?? 

[superweirdo87]

2 hours ago, yjs said:

Wednesday numbers

 

#1. The Handmaiden     134,559   (2,496,923 total)

#2. X-Men: Apocalypse    32,750   (2,774,081 total)

#3. The Wailing              32,441   (6,512,340 total)

#4. Me Before You          30,609    (377,124 total)

 

Presales

 

#1. The Jungle Book      57,096

#2. Warcraft                 45,828

#3. The Handmaiden     38,483

#4. The Conjuring 2       11,410

#5. Me Before You          6,162

#6. X-Men: Apocalypse    5,220

#7. The Wailing              4,362

 

hmm... Maaaaybe Apocalypse 3M is in danger...?? 

 

And under Deadpool is done?

[Rsyu]

X-men: Apocalypse should reach 3M no problem. Last week it dropped 33% against new releases. A similar drop against this week's new releases should see it drop to around 20-25K admissions range. Projections based on that for the rest of the week should see it play out something like this.

 

Thur: 22K

Fri: 30K

Sat: 75K

Sun: 68K

 

That should put it near the 3M by the end of the week. A potentially anomaly is Warcraft, which should provide fiercer competition for the similar target demo. I expect the final total will come slightly below deadpool.

[Rsyu]

Upcoming Major June releases

(06/16)

-Proof of innocence

-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadow

 

(06/22)

-Independence Day: Resurgence

 

(06/23)

-The Truth Beneath

-Suffragette

 

(06/29)

-Goodbye Single

-The legend of Tarzan

-The Hunt

 

(06/30)
-BigBang: MADE

 

(TBD)

-Born to Dance

 

 

[yjs]

1 hour ago, Rsyu said:

That should put it near the 3M by the end of the week. A potentially anomaly is Warcraft, which should provide fiercer competition for the similar target demo. I expect the final total will come slightly below deadpool.

 

yeah, agree to this! I mean I didn't expect to see its presales being that low so I was shocked, but if it follows the regular blockbuster trajectory it has enough left in tank to reach 3M. Civil War had 180k weekend after its 500k weekend, then another 40k weekend before it's done. Will be similar for this one. DOFP had much better legs, shame that Apocalypse won't.

[yjs]

btw, love the thread title! hahaha

[yjs]

This week's three-way race is very interesting to follow! 

CGV, the biggest cinema chain which takes about half of the entire screens nationwide, provides daily realtime ticket sales data,

and according to that the Handmaiden's #1 (42,972), Warcraft is close #2 (42,482), and TJB comes #3 (36,997).

yet the Kobis presales data, which covers the all cinema chains, is the exact opposite and have TJB at #1 (68,203), Warcraft #2 (43,668), and the Handmaiden #3 (42,873). 

since presales are literally presales, it is a good indicator that TJB will do better on the weekend. But then again #1 is not guaranteed for TJB for the weekend since Korean films usually perform stronger at regualr ticket sales excluding the presales.