China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[TigerPaw]

4 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Don't think will really matter. 

I am not really concerned about Tomorrow War’s box office potential, more on the impact of showtimes and screen counts.

[The GOAT]

Could 9/10 be the release date, if they are going to release it? 

[keysersoze123]

5 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

I don't understand the endgame of new film board. They wanted $9B as @Gavin Feng mentioned but are now lagging behind the target but are still fucking films. Like a MCU film is to release next week worldwide and they don't even have a date for it and releasing some film who probably no one care since its out online for months? and wasn't theatrical release anywhere else in world. WTF is wrong with them.

 

Yes Disney was dumb with shunning them for BW but they lost a film which could have done $100M for them in an otherwise dead July-August they had at box office.

 

Also frankly its shame Chinese film industry is so incompetent that they can't make run a market of potentially $10-15B for 12 months. Of the entire box office for Chinese industry nearly all of it come from 60 days of CNY, Summer blackout and Golden week in October. Compare that with USA and India, yes there are big months and down months but not like complete dead period for 70% of year.

Do you think china gives a shit. They are killing Alibaba and Tencent and other companies. Do they care if Disney makes money. Plus whatever money the box office does is peanuts compared to overall GDP. If they can screw up their own companies they wont care about hollywood at all. Just for fun they will keep blocking big hollywood blockbusters. 

[lorddemaxus]

Will Dune release this month alongside it's international rollout or they waiting for until after National Day?

[charlie Jatinder]

So Sunday is increasing. Huh. 

 

Did any new theaters opened? Show count hasn't increased. This could be interesting.

[Legion Again]

7 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

So Sunday is increasing. Huh. 

 

Did any new theaters opened? Show count hasn't increased. This could be interesting.

The POWAH of The Cameo

[Jamiem]

1 hour ago, Lokis Legion said:

The POWAH of The Cameo

Spoiler

I though Star Wars wasn't popular in China though...

Spoiler

I know you mean the MCU stuff lol

 

 

[Legion Again]

$100 or bust

[TigerPaw]

1 hour ago, charlie Jatinder said:

So Sunday is increasing. Huh. 

 

Did any new theaters opened? Show count hasn't increased. This could be interesting.

Yeah; seems like it will beat Sat’s figure. As discussed yesterday, this actually happened for a few local films with strong WoM this year.

 

Bolds well for weekday drops too.

I think it will go pass 400m yuan total easily.

 

According to Maoyan, there are actually 3000 more showtimes today compared to yesterday, so that helped as well. The weaker openers from Friday all had showtimes cut.

 

 

[charlie Jatinder]

Monday pre-sales seems to be shaping great. Now the all important whether TUE can grow & WED flat at least.

 

If so, possibly $120M.

[TigerPaw]

3 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Monday pre-sales seems to be shaping great. Now the all important whether TUE can grow & WED flat at least.

 

If so, possibly $120M.

Today looking like at least 60m; 1hr to go. Slowed down quite a bit since tomorrow is working day.

 

Weekdays really depend on when is end of summer holidays. @Gavin Fengschool starts next week or 1st Sep?

[charlie Jatinder]

59 minutes ago, TigerPaw said:

Slowed down quite a bit since tomorrow is working day.

 

Just after I tweeted 152M weekend, Maoyan unfroze and now looking at 154, 62 SUN. this happened a lot last year. Maoyan just couldn't see me tweet correct. 

[TigerPaw]

2 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Just after I tweeted 152M weekend, Maoyan unfroze and now looking at 154, 62 SUN. this happened a lot last year. Maoyan just couldn't see me tweet correct. 

Delete and retweet. Lol

[Gavin Feng]

1 hour ago, TigerPaw said:

Today looking like at least 60m; 1hr to go. Slowed down quite a bit since tomorrow is working day.

 

Weekdays really depend on when is end of summer holidays. @Gavin Fengschool starts next week or 1st Sep?

It depends. Some areas set later date. 

 

The Tomorrow War is set to debut on Sep.3. 

[john2000]

Just now, Gavin Feng said:

It depends. Some areas set later date. 

 

The Tomorrow War is set to debut on Sep.3. 

shang probably 10 sept or so if i had to guess

[TigerPaw]

26 minutes ago, Gavin Feng said:

It depends. Some areas set later date. 

 

The Tomorrow War is set to debut on Sep.3. 

Thanks! And 吴君如’s Zero to Hero is set for next Saturday 4th Sep; I heard great things about the movie from friends in Hong Kong coupled with the current paralympics - I think it might surprise with a total of 300-400m yuan despite it being a small budget HK film.

Edited August 29, 2021 by TigerPaw

[poweranimals]

I'm starting get nervous about Shang-Chi not getting a release.

 

4 hours ago, Gavin Feng said:

It depends. Some areas set later date. 

 

The Tomorrow War is set to debut on Sep.3. 

Wow. Could they have picked a worse movie?

Edited August 29, 2021 by poweranimals

[Arian1010]

7 hours ago, poweranimals said:

I'm starting get nervous about Shang-Chi not getting a release.

 

Wow. Could they have picked a worse movie?

I can't see why Shang Chi can't have a release date, it's basically just SW Shakespearean family drama mixed with superhero elements and martial arts, it's not controversial as BW

[charlie Jatinder]

Thinking 35-40M Monday.

 

Probably 30-35.

Edited August 30, 2021 by charlie Jatinder

[TigerPaw]

11 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Thinking 35-40M Monday.

 

Probably 30-35.

Was hoping for a sub 50% drop from Sunday, but I think not gonna happen.