China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[TigerPaw]

3 hours ago, xieh tie said:

 

 

 

Fun December.

Also G Storm on 31st Dec. Hope we see Venom in Nov and No Way Home in early Dec. 

[charlie Jatinder]

28 minutes ago, TigerPaw said:

It had almost 4 weekends to itself.. Already very very good release date and better than expected performance already. Haha.

Am not complaining, in normal times, this would have perhaps done $80M may be. $15-20M extra is thanks to no competition for weeks.

[charlie Jatinder]

On 9/22/2021 at 10:34 AM, charlie Jatinder said:

Dune did HK$8.3M (67K admits) in first weekend in Hong Kong. The full run will probably be around HK$30M ($3.9M) (325k admits).

 

In comparison, Blade Runner 2049 did Hk$10.5M ($1.35M) (125k admits I suppose)

 

China Tier 1 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzen) have 83M populations vs 8M of Hong Kong. In these Tier 1 cities BR2049 did ¥27.7M ($4.1M) with 630k admits i.e. 5.05x in terms of admissions. Tier 1 cities were 36% of total China as compared to say something like 21% for Endgame.

 

The same ratio for Dune should give around 1.65M admits and ¥82M gross ($12.75M). Assuming it will be better ratio for Dune at say around 30%, that will mean $42M total.

 

PS. TENET HK to China Tier 1 cities was 5x. 

 

Not an exact science.

There was some mistakes. Corrected. $40M is quite possible.

[xieh tie]

On 9/24/2021 at 8:08 PM, TigerPaw said:

Fun December.

Also G Storm on 31st Dec. Hope we see Venom in Nov and No Way Home in early Dec. 

already the 5th installment in this alphabet franchise 😶

Edited September 27, 2021 by xieh tie

[xieh tie]

4K restoration of Departures set for China release

 

 

 

Edited September 27, 2021 by xieh tie

[xieh tie]

 

the Xu Zheng produced ice sports film Breaking Through, releases first trailer. movie is set for a Chinese New Year 2022 release.

 

[charlie Jatinder]

Battle of Lake Changjin ~¥119M 13:30. Should go for ¥260M+ OD. If WoM isn't toxic, should go for ¥400M tomorrow and ¥1.35B 4 days.

[charlie Jatinder]

Mid day pace is low. 225M seems about it.

[Legion Again]

Oh, do we have a big opener today? I guess just semi-big. This market has been a snoozefest since February 😴

[TigerPaw]

1 hour ago, Legion of the Ten Crores said:

Oh, do we have a big opener today? I guess just semi-big. This market has been a snoozefest since February 😴

Highest budgeted Chinese Film was just release. Battle of Lake Chang Jin. It is 7 day National Day Holiday starting from tomorrow.

 

Curious for 

@Gavin Feng to share some views on the top 2 openers. Haha.

[peludo]

4 hours ago, Legion of the Ten Crores said:

Oh, do we have a big opener today? I guess just semi-big. This market has been a snoozefest since February 😴

Films released on September 30th in previous years with +1b yuan total:

2014: Breakup buddies (1.170b Yuan)

2015: Lost in Hong Kong (1.614b) and Goodbye Mr. Loser (1.445b)

2016: Operation Mekong (1.186b)

2017: Never say die (2.213b)

2018: Project Gutenberg (1.273b)

2019: My people, my country (3.171b), The captain (2.912b) and The climbers (1.103b)

2020: None

2021: The battle at lake Changjin (3.41b projected by Maoyan) and My country, my parents (1.24b projected by Maoyan)

 

Today seems to start a small CNY period (7 day National Day Holiday, as @TigerPaw has said).

[charlie Jatinder]

6 minutes ago, peludo said:

Films released on September 30th in previous years with +1b yuan total:

2020: None

My People, My Homeland - 2.82B

Jiangziya (Nezha Spinoff) - 1.6B

Vanguard - 0.294B

[peludo]

1 hour ago, charlie Jatinder said:

My People, My Homeland - 2.82B

Jiangziya (Nezha Spinoff) - 1.6B

Vanguard - 0.294B

My bad. I have the info in a spreadsheet and I filtered by September 30th, while these films were released on October 1st. Thank you

[charlie Jatinder]

Underwhelming National Day at Chinese box office with just 13.8M tickets sold for a gross of ¥630M ($97.7M).

2019 - 21.5M 
2020 - 18.4M
2021 - 13.8M

[charlie Jatinder]

Month	2021	2019	% +/-	2021	2019
Jan	¥3,329,852,800	¥3,378,975,800	-1.45%	$512,285,000	$496,908,000
Feb	¥12,269,826,100	¥11,164,331,400	9.90%	$1,899,354,000	$1,655,201,000
Mar	¥2,503,584,200	¥4,160,692,800	-39.83%	$385,760,000	$619,151,000
Apr	¥2,496,937,600	¥4,723,836,800	-47.14%	$382,379,000	$701,907,000
May	¥4,865,973,000	¥3,716,825,300	30.92%	$754,414,000	$546,592,000
Jun	¥2,102,445,500	¥4,186,114,000	-49.78%	$328,507,000	$608,447,000
Jul	¥3,227,959,600	¥5,756,227,600	-43.92%	$498,142,000	$836,661,000
Aug	¥2,050,278,900	¥7,835,175,000	-73.83%	$316,401,000	$1,101,994,000
Sept	¥2,025,000,000	¥3,596,174,800	-43.69%	$313,467,492	$502,962,000
Oct		¥8,315,947,500			$1,167,970,000
Nov		¥3,237,066,200			$459,811,000
Dec		¥4,078,357,000			$582,622,000
Total	¥34,871,857,700	¥64,149,724,200	-28.13%	$5,390,709,492	$9,280,226,000

 

October seems like will take another 20% dip or so, but Venom 2 shall save November, and then Spider-man shall save December.

[The GOAT]

My god. The Wolf Warrior guy is in both blockbusters. This man is eating. 

[Gavin Feng]

9 minutes ago, The GOAT said:

My god. The Wolf Warrior guy is in both blockbusters. This man is eating. 

The studio behind Changjin didn’t want to use him in this film at first because their blockbuster The Founding of an Army was crushed by Wolf Warrior 2 in the summer of 2017(¥400M vs ¥5,600M) and had a grudge against him.

[charlie Jatinder]

So when does people get bored of these battle movies?

Edited October 2, 2021 by charlie Jatinder

[TigerPaw]

34 minutes ago, The GOAT said:

My god. The Wolf Warrior guy is in both blockbusters. This man is eating. 

Haha he is always in these blockbuster patriotic movies

[The GOAT]

Dune Sighting! 👀