Cooper Legion Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 A strong first 2 days for H&S thanks to National Liberation Day, but it looks like Friday will see huge drops for most movies, more so than last Thursday Liberation Day. Very curious to see how much frontloading there is as a result of the holiday, but it seems like it should end up better vs F8 than in most other countries. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abra Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Aug 16, 2019 Rank Title Release Date Daily Gross (Total) Admissions (Total) Number of Screens Revenue Share 1 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw U.S. Aug 14, 2019 $2,118,906 ($8,676,543) 280,457 (1,185,655) 1,287 37.39% 2 The Battle: Roar to Victory South Korea Aug 07, 2019 $1,468,423 ($23,559,202) 203,532 (3,356,034) 1,161 25.91% 3 EXIT South Korea Jul 31, 2019 $1,448,007 ($48,525,918) 199,852 (6,989,254) 1,009 25.55% 4 Warning: Do Not Play South Korea Aug 15, 2019 $116,900 ($375,050) 15,741 (50,807) 418 2.06% 5 The Secret Life of Pets 2 U.S. Jul 31, 2019 $78,791 ($6,476,977) 12,520 (1,027,835) 324 1.39% 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abra Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Aug 17, 2019 Rank Title Release Date Daily Gross (Total) Admissions (Total) Number of Screens Revenue Share 1 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw U.S. Aug 14, 2019 $3,293,859 ($11,980,319) 435,353 (1,622,242) 1,304 37.72% 2 The Battle: Roar to Victory South Korea Aug 07, 2019 $2,261,222 ($25,824,496) 310,391 (3,666,956) 1,181 25.89% 3 EXIT South Korea Jul 31, 2019 $2,196,709 ($50,725,667) 302,592 (7,292,230) 1,027 25.16% 4 My TYRANO: Together, Forever South Korea Aug 14, 2019 $183,220 ($797,238) 27,400 (121,446) 511 2.09% 5 The Secret Life of Pets 2 U.S. Jul 31, 2019 $122,315 ($6,599,450) 18,205 (1,046,079) 342 1.4% 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie Jatinder Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Watched Parasite. Very Good Stiff. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titanic2187 Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 parasite is such a great movie, wish the movie can really become the 1st Oscar-wining korean film 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealLyre Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 I feel like Parasite would do really well commercially in NA if given a wide release. but knowing NEON... probably not 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efialtes76 Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Charlie Jatinder said: Watched Parasite. Very Good Stiff. Song Kang Ho is the man. Edited August 17, 2019 by efialtes76 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titanic2187 Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 1 hour ago, RealLyre said: I feel like Parasite would do really well commercially in NA if given a wide release. but knowing NEON... probably not USA has not been kind to foreign language film, and Neon has only two films passed 10m in the company history. Crouching Dragon(128m), hero(54m) and La vita e bella(57m) are a kind of foreign language film epic run that will never happened in today landscape. The highest grossing non-english film in recent year was Baahubali 2 with 20m. Parasite will need luck to even hit half of the gross. How american resist foreign language film is even evident when you realise Intouchable (french) made more money in SK than in USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealLyre Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 (edited) 43 minutes ago, titanic2187 said: USA has not been kind to foreign language film, and Neon has only two films passed 10m in the company history. Crouching Dragon(128m), hero(54m) and La vita e bella(57m) are a kind of foreign language film epic run that will never happened in today landscape. The highest grossing non-english film in recent year was Baahubali 2 with 20m. Parasite will need luck to even hit half of the gross. How american resist foreign language film is even evident when you realise Intouchable (french) made more money in SK than in USA. it's mostly because they're not given a wide release.. (like with Intouchables in your example it only played in less than 200 theaters at most in the US) a movie as accessible as Parasite will be a hit with most audiences, it already made 8.5M in France. Edited August 17, 2019 by RealLyre . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 (edited) 31 minutes ago, RealLyre said: it's mostly because they're not given a wide release.. (like with Intouchables in your example it only played in less than 200 theaters at most in the US) a movie as accessible as Parasite will be a hit with most audiences, it already made 8.5M in France. A bit of a chicken and egg situation, they do not achieve to earn a wide release because they do not do that well even in their best market during their limited one. Weinstein didn't usually started them wide Intouchables weekend 1: 25.8k PTA in 4 theater weekend 2: 6.5k PTA in 50 theater Amélie weekend 1: 45.5k PTA in 3 theater weekend 2: 16.1k PTA in 48 theater Life Is beautiful achieve over 7.5K PTa on a 110 theater weekend, Crouching tigger kept over 20K on over 150 theater. I am not sure it is mostly because of that, it would not be that complicated to do wide release of them if it was the only issue, you can acquire the domestic market for almost nothing. A bit like more traditionnal type of animation got rejected by audience (Disney continued to propose them at a very high budget-production value and release budget) for a very long time after Shrek and Monster Inc, they pretty much stopped working since audience got use to the pixar-dreamwork style. The same seem to have happened to subtitle movies (foreign language like Indian movie targetting and playing in indien community do work for their scale). https://www.indiewire.com/2014/05/the-lonely-subtitle-heres-why-u-s-audiences-are-abandoning-foreign-language-films-27051/ Not having Weinstein to champion them, Focus feature leaving that market, etc..., obviously do not help, but the decline started before that and in reaction to the decline, not necessarily the reason. Edited August 17, 2019 by Barnack 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannastop Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, titanic2187 said: USA has not been kind to foreign language film, and Neon has only two films passed 10m in the company history. Crouching Dragon(128m), hero(54m) and La vita e bella(57m) are a kind of foreign language film epic run that will never happened in today landscape. The highest grossing non-english film in recent year was Baahubali 2 with 20m. Parasite will need luck to even hit half of the gross. How american resist foreign language film is even evident when you realise Intouchable (french) made more money in SK than in USA. 1 hour ago, RealLyre said: it's mostly because they're not given a wide release.. (like with Intouchables in your example it only played in less than 200 theaters at most in the US) a movie as accessible as Parasite will be a hit with most audiences, it already made 8.5M in France. I don't really know if there's anything about the modern box office landscape that makes foreign language movies more unlikely to break through. Maybe the late 90s and early 00s was just a special time. Instructions Not Included in 2013 still did pretty well, though. Maybe it just has to appeal to American tastes. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero are both martial arts action movies, after all. And World War II/The Holocaust was familiar to US audiences by the time Life is Beautiful came along (I think that movie was dubbed rather than subtitled most of the time, maybe to market it to children). Maybe Intouchables just didn't appeal to the USA. As for Parasite, I dunno. Maybe it will make $25 million USA+Canada. Edited August 17, 2019 by cannastop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 (edited) 2 minutes ago, cannastop said: Maybe it just has to appeal to American tastes. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero are both martial arts action movies, after all. And World War II/The Holocaust was familiar to US audiences by the time Life is Beautiful came along (I think that movie was dubbed rather than subtitled most of the time, maybe to market it to children). Maybe Intouchables just didn't appeal to the USA. Put Kevin Hart in it and make them speak in English and it get really big despite being a significantly worst movie too, Green Book was really good but not necessarily that much better than Intouchable, was almost the same movie and did much better in the US. Edited August 17, 2019 by Barnack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannastop Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 (edited) 30 minutes ago, Barnack said: Put Kevin Hart in it and make them speak in English and it get really big despite being a significantly worst movie too, Green Book was really good but not necessarily that much better than Intouchable, was almost the same movie and did much better in the US. Well yeah that too. Obviously most Americans prefer movies with native English speakers speaking English. A remake of Intouchables might do as much as Green Book, I guess. Edited August 17, 2019 by cannastop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tower Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 22 minutes ago, cannastop said: Well yeah that too. Obviously most Americans prefer movies with native English speakers speaking English. A remake of Intouchables might do as much as Green Book, I guess. I think you missed the fact that The Upside is a remake of Intouchables and made more than Green Book. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooper Legion Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 22 minutes ago, cannastop said: Well yeah that too. Obviously most Americans prefer movies with native English speakers speaking English. A remake of Intouchables might do as much as Green Book, I guess. Barnack wasn't speaking hypothetically. The Upside STX $108,252,517 3,568 $20,355,000 3,080 1/11/2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 (edited) 26 minutes ago, cannastop said: A remake of Intouchables might do as much as Green Book, I guess. Well considering a remake of the Intouchable just did 108m domestic while Green Book made 85M it is not much of a speculation (edit, oops already being posted twice....) . Edited August 17, 2019 by Barnack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooper Legion Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Wow, so strange how all 3 of us replied in the same minute, 24 minutes after! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannastop Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 14 minutes ago, Tower said: I think you missed the fact that The Upside is a remake of Intouchables and made more than Green Book. Whoops thought they hadn't remade Intouchables yet. Still not that much though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannastop Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 15 minutes ago, Thanos Legion said: Barnack wasn't speaking hypothetically. The Upside STX $108,252,517 3,568 $20,355,000 3,080 1/11/2019 15 minutes ago, Barnack said: Well considering a remake of the Intouchable just did 108m domestic while Green Book made 85M it is not much of a speculation (edit, oops already being posted twice....) . I got it. I still think that's about the level of Green Book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 3 minutes ago, cannastop said: I got it. I still think that's about the level of Green Book. Yes, difference between the 2 being probably just Kevin Hart being a giant dbo draw. It just how The Intouchable was probably even in today environment a 100M in the US movie like in most of the world if it was not foreign language/setting, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...