China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[Gavin Feng]

32 minutes ago, john2000 said:

Um when pre sales for luca are going to start ?

Already. ¥125K for OD

[john2000]

1 hour ago, Gavin Feng said:

Already. ¥125K for OD

any comparisons ?

[Gavin Feng]

2 hours ago, john2000 said:

any comparisons ?

I have but wouldn't do it. Pre-sale these days can hardly say something except special blockbuster like F9, WW84.

[titanic2187]

I don't get why China box office is so sensitive to Valentine day and yet government always complain there are too many single out there .   

[efialtes76]

On 8/8/2021 at 4:12 PM, Gavin Feng said:

TSS has 8.2/10 on Douban rated by 41K users. Pretty impressive considering Mulan got 34k votes at the same point.

109k+ users now.

8.1/10

[charlie Jatinder]

BW is 103K. FFH is 522K. 

 

So can one assume that 400K worth of people didn't watch BW in spirit of watching it in theater. If so, might not be a bad idea to release BW.

[Gavin Feng]

6 hours ago, efialtes76 said:

109k+ users now.

8.1/10

Mulan was around 90K at the same point. TSS is really popular around fandom. 

[Gavin Feng]

1 hour ago, charlie Jatinder said:

BW is 103K. FFH is 522K. 

 

So can one assume that 400K worth of people didn't watch BW in spirit of watching it in theater. If so, might not be a bad idea to release BW.

 

Even if it get a release plan at this point, I could hardly imagine it would do way better than Mulan. Both of them had strong buzz at the beginning and missed best release time due to pandemic. And they all get very mixed even bad WOM from core audience after piracy came out.

[Gavin Feng]

 

 

 

[charlie Jatinder]

Come on China. See PAPA Feige cleared stuff. Release it now.

[TigerPaw]

3 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Come on China. See PAPA Feige cleared stuff. Release it now.

Lol. This is marketing, obviously he has to defend the film and his decisions on casting, plot etc.

I mean he can't go out there and say this is a steoreotypical film about Chinese and has elements of Kungfu, Tiger Dad and Dragon right? Hahaha.

[john2000]

@Gavin Feng how is the situation in china with covid ? based on what i am seeing for worldmeter , the situation seems to be  improving very fast..is this true ?

Edited August 17, 2021 by john2000

[john2000]

any idea about luca ? projection ow ?

[Gavin Feng]

5 minutes ago, john2000 said:

@Gavin Feng how is the situation in china with covid ? based on what i am seeing for worldmeter , the situation seems to be  improving very fast..is this true ?

Yes, things are improving. I heard Sep is expected to be very crowded(same for National Day’s holidays in Oct.). Valentines Day in last week shows people are ready to go back cinema as long as no more new COVID threat. All we need is blockbuster, especially good one. 

[poweranimals]

7 hours ago, Gavin Feng said:

Yes, things are improving. I heard Sep is expected to be very crowded(same for National Day’s holidays in Oct.). Valentines Day in last week shows people are ready to go back cinema as long as no more new COVID threat. All we need is blockbuster, especially good one. 

How far in advance do they usually announce releases? I'm kinda surprised by the lack of anything yet.

[Mau]

How are luca presales as of now, also any chance of at least hit 10M usd in the market?

[Gavin Feng]

12 hours ago, poweranimals said:

How far in advance do they usually announce releases? I'm kinda surprised by the lack of anything yet.

Most studios and local bureau wouldn’t announce or approve a date officially until local government says COVID risks become low enough to let theaters work as usual. So it’s very hard to say. In the very past, the release plan was usually confirmed three to six weeks in advance. Now, it could be just one or two weeks.

[Gavin Feng]

7 minutes ago, Mau said:

How are luca presales as of now, also any chance of at least hit 10M usd in the market?

It’s close to Soul in pre-sale. Maoyan predict ¥7M OD(Soul did ¥4.5M). $10M lifetime is possible, and I think that would be a victory to this movie.

[charlie Jatinder]

7M seems about right but Cruella and Raya had very big PSm, so let's see.

 

Release seems like 7K screens, guess if it do $20M may even recover release cost for Disney but that will need really great WoM.

Edited August 18, 2021 by charlie Jatinder

[TigerPaw]

Luca projected by Maoyan to do 8m Yuan tomorrow; unless WoM explodes or else it will not top the weekend. Donnie Yen-starrer Raging Fire likely to top for the 4th weekend; has grossed more than USD130m already but still doing well even on weekdays, really shows the power of WoM and legs in China.