China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[IronJimbo]

20 minutes ago, hw64 said:

Most likely, yep, somewhere in that range.

Not bad.

Always amazes me how Avatar made $200m in early 2009-2010.

 

I honestly feel as though Avatar 2 will be the first film to break $1b in a single market and it will be China (so long as no interference).

[Borobudur]

4 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:

Not bad.

Always amazes me how Avatar made $200m in early 2009-2010.

 

I honestly feel as though Avatar 2 will be the first film to break $1b in a single market and it will be China (so long as no interference).

The habit of going to cinema during CNY owe large to Avatar craze in 2010.

[Cookson]

Isn’t it odd there’s no GvsKong presale info? 

[MG10]

Thanks to this re-release, in the list of the highest grossing films in China Avatar has gone from 49th place to the current 33th (and should finish in the top 30)

 

Considering instead only foreign films, it went from 17th place to 9th and could overcome also "Jurassic World: the Fallen Kingdom" in the next weekend

[IronJimbo]

2 hours ago, Borobudur said:

The habit of going to cinema during CNY owe large to Avatar craze in 2010.

The same happened in the west at Christmas, december was a dead month for blockbusters until Avatar

[SchumacherFTW]

2 hours ago, IronJimbo said:

The same happened in the west at Christmas, december was a dead month for blockbusters until Avatar

It's not like I Am Legend opened to $70m two years earlier or anything in December 

[fmpro]

4 hours ago, Cookson said:

Isn’t it odd there’s no GvsKong presale info? 

A little. But it does`ent matter. It only matters if it responds well to the general audience, don`t get horrible reviews and bad WOM

[charlie Jatinder]

6 hours ago, IronJimbo said:

(so long as no interference).

Avatar played for 12 weeks including Chinese New Year in China as compared to allowed 2 weeks window.

 

Don't think any other Hollywood film was allowed that much time.

[Borobudur]

3 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Avatar played for 12 weeks including Chinese New Year in China as compared to allowed 2 weeks window.

 

Don't think any other Hollywood film was allowed that much time.

But it was on top for 10 weeks, suggest demand was genuinely there instead of some CPC propaganda to artificially prolonging its run and Avatar 2D version was only allowed for 2 weeks. By the way, Titanic too was allowed that much time in 1998

[charlie Jatinder]

4 minutes ago, Borobudur said:

But it was on top for 10 weeks, suggest demand was genuinely there instead of some CPC propaganda to artificially prolonging its run and Avatar 2D version was only allowed for 2 weeks. By the way, Titanic too was allowed that much time in 1998

Point is that 2 weeks was allowed time, so the conspiracy that China stopped it is BS. They let it ran for 12 weeks.

 

We have many films including Endgame which left money on table when they weren't allowed extension.

[Borobudur]

4 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Point is that 2 weeks was allowed time, so the conspiracy that China stopped it is BS. They let it ran for 12 weeks.

 

We have many films including Endgame which left money on table when they weren't allowed extension.

Point is Avatar was 10 weeks on top and Endgame was at 3-5. Another point, China film bureau clearly prefer JC over marvel, which is how the thing should be. He is the one that created Titanic after all.

[charlie Jatinder]

Dude you are going tangent. Point is that many think that Avatar was stopped by China in 2 weeks as some sort of conspiracy.

 

The reality being it ran for 12 seeks, much longer than normal for Hollywood back then.

[Borobudur]

53 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Dude you are going tangent. Point is that many think that Avatar was stopped by China in 2 weeks as some sort of conspiracy.

 

The reality being it ran for 12 seeks, much longer than normal for Hollywood back then.

They allowed avatar to show 12 weeks that is true but that doesn't falsify they did stop Avatar 2D version after 2 weeks, where it contributed 40% of the gross. Conspiracy or not it was just some pointless and oftenly unjustified way to spin it off.

[Borobudur]

12 hours ago, Cookson said:

Isn’t it odd there’s no GvsKong presale info? 

The PS is up for the entire weekend

[charlie Jatinder]

3 hours ago, Borobudur said:

they did stop Avatar 2D version after 2 weeks, where it contributed 40% of the gross.

because the time was up. duh.

 

besides 3D was what more gross was coming everywhere, not just China. so 2D screens were given to other films while 3D continued it for weeks.

 

Besides that 3D factor did contributed to gross. The admits of Avatar were 1.9x of 2012 or Transformers while gross was more than 3x.

 

2012 had a 3D release 3 years later, had another 3.5M admits.

 

Avatar was big in 2010, but just not that big as more than 3x gross of previous biggest suggest.

 

2012 with 3D had 18M admits while Avatar had 27M.

Edited March 22, 2021 by charlie Jatinder

[peludo]

11 hours ago, IronJimbo said:

The same happened in the west at Christmas, december was a dead month for blockbusters until Avatar

LOTR says hello

[IronJimbo]

2 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

because the time was up. duh.

 

besides 3D was what more gross was coming everywhere, not just China. so 2D screens were given to other films while 3D continued it for weeks.

 

Besides that 3D factor did contributed to gross. The admits of Avatar were 1.9x of 2012 or Transformers while gross was more than 3x.

because the time is up?

 

This is what I mean though, China is just far too unpredictable. All I can really say is Avatar 2 will make amazing money within the constraints given. Trying to put a number on it is pointless.

Edited March 22, 2021 by IronJimbo

[charlie Jatinder]

Just now, IronJimbo said:

because the time is up?

Hollywood movies used to have 2 weeks licensed run, which was sometimes extended to longer run, just like now its 4 weeks.

[charlie Jatinder]

China Admissions Record progression since 2009

 

	Hollywood	Local
2009	2012	The Founding of Republic
	13,960,000	12,300,000
2010	Avatar	After Shock
	26,930,000	17,437,250
2011	Transformers 3
	25,620,550
2012	Titanic (inc 3D)	Lost in Thailand
	40,000,000	30,954,400
2013		Journey to the West 2
		31,018,700
2014	Transformers 4	Breakup Buddies
	47,512,330	33,996,100
2015	Furious 7	Monster Hunt
	62,540,900	65,767,400
2016		Mermaid
		92,510,000
2017	Fate of the Furious	Wolf Warrior 2
	72,879,435	159,587,930
2018
2019	Avengers: Endgame
	86,802,250

 

 

2012 only had revenue record. Titanic held the previous Admit record at 19M. Titanic with 2012 re-release had total of 40M admits.

Edited March 22, 2021 by charlie Jatinder

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