China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[jiangsen]

Wednesday Estimates
The Martian: 19.7M/378M
Our Times: 11.4M/295M
The Vanished Murderer: 5.9M/60.25M
Bad Guys Always Die: 3.9M/43.75M
Transporter Refueled: 2.2M/124M

The SpongeBob Movie: 1.85M/4.25M
Spectre: 1.35M/538M
Mockingjay - Part 2: 1.02M/141M

[Olive]

Five wide releases on Friday, Spectre and MJ2 will be dead by that time and Martian will face big screen loss.

[druv10]

3 minutes ago, The Good Olive said:

Five wide releases on Friday, Spectre and MJ2 will be dead by that time and Martian will face big screen loss.

Can Martian still get to 100M?

[POTUS 2020]

1 hour ago, druv10 said:

Can Martian still get to 100M?

TM is going to be down to 12-15% screen's on friday from 35% today, 27% on thursday. 

It'll need to hold at least - 55% w/o/w  this weekend to get there. Possible but no longer likely with that screen count

[Olive]

Thursday Estimates

Fall In Love Like A Star：26M/26.4M

The Martian: 15.9M/393M
Our Times: 8M/303M
The Vanished Murderer: 3.95M/64.25M
Bad Guys Always Die: 1.7M/45.45M
Transporter Refueled: 1.45M/126M
The SpongeBob Movie: 1.25M/550M
Spectre: 0.95M/539M
Mockingjay - Part 2: 0.62M/141.5M

 

Point Break will have 14.4% showtimes.

[TalismanRing]

I'm surprised at The Martian's  legs on the weekdays and shocked it might have less screens this w/e than Point Break.

 

[Tau Ceti]

5 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

I'm surprised at The Martian's  legs on the weekdays and shocked it might have less screens this w/e than Point Break.

 

 

Happily or unhappily surprised? I think it had two good days on Sat and Sun and everything else has been weaker than hoped. This Thurs is 57% drop from last week. Not encouraging with theatre cuts coming. 

[jiangsen]

On Screen China: Can ‘Point Break’ Ride Out the Crowded Weekend?

China’s booming box office hit another milestone Thursday afternoon, passing RMB 40 billion ($6.25 billion) for the first time ever in a calendar year. All 12 months of 2014 produced a box office gross of RMB 29.6 billion.

December could add an additional RMB 4 billion – 5 billion to the 2015 gross with the release of several high-profile local movies squeezing into another blackout period that will shut out imported competition. More than 30 films will be released in the “New Year’s slot” (贺岁档 hèsuì dàng), averaging one per day in the busiest and most competitive period in China’s short box office history.

[sgchn40]

4 hours ago, jiangsen said:

On Screen China: Can ‘Point Break’ Ride Out the Crowded Weekend?

China’s booming box office hit another milestone Thursday afternoon, passing RMB 40 billion ($6.25 billion) for the first time ever in a calendar year. All 12 months of 2014 produced a box office gross of RMB 29.6 billion.

December could add an additional RMB 4 billion – 5 billion to the 2015 gross with the release of several high-profile local movies squeezing into another blackout period that will shut out imported competition. More than 30 films will be released in the “New Year’s slot” (贺岁档 hèsuì dàng), averaging one per day in the busiest and most competitive period in China’s short box office history.

 

30 films? Wow... they are not going to make much individually, is it not? No record breakers I suspect?

[Lihongkim]

1 hour ago, sgchn40 said:

 

30 films? Wow... they are not going to make much individually, is it not? No record breakers I suspect?

Big movies release on 12/18, 12/24 & 12/31. Ignore the rest. 

Mojin-The Lost Legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUB7XgUke04 should be a record breaker. 

[POTUS 2020]

TM beat the 3 locals with less screens but was 3m lower than JB24 today and 30m  behind cume .  It's going to fall short of 550m/ $85m with more new releases coming.

[Olive]

Friday Estimates
Fall In Love Like A Star：18.6M/44.6M
The Martian: 18.3M/412M

Point Break：17.6m/17.8m

Impossible：15.5M/15.8M

The Baby From Universe:11.6M/12.1M

Go Lala Go:7.85M/8.3M
Our Times: 5.65M/310M
The Vanished Murderer: 1.95M/64.25M
The SpongeBob Movie: 2.1M/7.6M

 

Edited December 4, 2015 by The Good Olive

[picores]

Doeesnt look very good for PB right? And The Martian under $100m? C'mon China!

[seduh]

TM fell hard due to screen loss. The problem with China is that they give huge amount of screens to every movie that opens. Isn't it better to share screens and have more movies. TM will make more than PB for sure, they are loosing money by doing this. 

[xugik]

Spectre over The Martian?

[Tau Ceti]

45 minutes ago, xugik said:

Spectre over The Martian?

 

Looks like it could be. What a shame. What do people in China think went wrong here? It can't just be screens as most Hollywood movies face the same issue. Clearly the WOM just wasn't as good as anticipated.

[movieboner]

Probably too much competition, and students are still in school with final exams approaching.

[Avatree]

17 hours ago, sgchn40 said:

 

30 films? Wow... they are not going to make much individually, is it not? No record breakers I suspect?

There are well over 30 films released each month in the US and it does fine.

[POTUS 2020]

TM's  BO % share more than doubled it screen % today. 22%/10%. All other movies were at or we'll below their screens.  It's going back up to 15% on Monday and may be able to retain 10% for next weekend with this performance and have good hold.

[Olive]

Saturday  Estimates
The Martian: 39.1M/452M

Fall In Love Like A Star：31.3M/76.9M
Point Break：30.1m/49m
Impossible：21.2M/37.7M
The Baby From Universe:16.3M/28.9M
The SpongeBob Movie:12.9M/20.5M

Our Times: 10.4M/320M

Go Lala Go:9.9M/18.3M