China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Nope, Chinese theaters are not ruthless. But BVS is simply performing pathetic .

 

The PSA of BVS in the past few workdays has just been so... awful. BVS just created some of the lowest attended box office days. Yesterday, just 7th day in release, the PSA of BVS fell to god-awful 9 people, unbelievable...

 

today at 15pm, BVS is the lowest attended movie of top 10: http://piaofang.maoyan.com/?date=2016-04-01

BVS 6.4% attendance on 11.4% screens (BVS attendance will be only much lower, if its screen coount was not axed, wasting even more screening resources)

ZOO 9.0% attendance on 6.8% screens

 

newcomers meanwhile

Bodyguard 11.2% attendance on 26.6% screens

Hoppot 7.5% attendance on 23.3% screens

Bro 11.1% attendance on 21.6% screens

 

What would you do if you are a theater manager in charge of scheduling ?

 

DC fanboys watched BVS on opening weekend and most of them apparently don't bother to give it repeat viewing. General audiences are just not interested, even scared away by its bad WOM. Hence it's dropping like a rock.

 

That's also why I say BVS is a failure, from a commercial POV, despite it might break even with projected 900m WW box office. It is not bringing in any new audiences to the DC Justice League universe, just consuming the existing DC following. 

 

Marvel is doing levels better, by each installment in MCU, they are bringing in some new audience to the universe. Marvel brand thus rolls like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger.

 

Hail Kevin Feig, the best superhero film producer of all time. 

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Hotpot seems underperforming. that's a shame. Underwhelming distribution compagin. Part of the reason I think has something to do with the leadership shakeup at Wu Zhou Distribution/ Wanda Pictures. Last month, Ye Ning left Wanda to join Huayi as CEO. while after Hotpot, Li Ning, head of Wu Zhou, will also exit Wanda.

 

For sure, Wanda wont achieve the box office target of 2016 that Wang Jianlin promised.

Edited April 1, 2016 by firedeep

[TigerPaw]

1 hour ago, firedeep said:

Hotpot seems underperforming. that's a shame. Underwhelming distribution compagin. Part of the reason I think has something to do with the leadership shakeup at Wu Zhou Distribution/ Wanda Pictures. Last month, Ye Ning left Wanda to join Huayi as CEO. while after Hotpot, Li Ning, head of Wu Zhou, will also exit Wanda.

 

For sure, Wanda wont achieve the box office target of 2016 that Wang Jianlin promised.

It is the best WOM of the 3 as of right now. What a pity.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

1 hour ago, TigerPaw said:

It is the best WOM of the 3 as of right now. What a pity.

I agree. If Wanda keeps losing talents, it might soon lose its position as the biggest non-state run studio and distributor of China. Wang should start to reward his executives with stock shares. 

 

Hotpot is produced by Chen Kuo-fu, one of the best Chinese film producers out there; it was always going to be a quality film; as a fresh bank robbing thriller, it should get rewarded by enriching the genres of Chinese homegrown films. I originally thought it would be a big hit last December. It should recover a bit though, with WOM kicking in, but with better marketing and distribution, it could have easily fared much better.

[a2k]

17 hours ago, Olive said:

Friday to Sunday proj.

BvS  17, 27, 24

Zoo  10, 25, 26

 

This ZOOTP's 4th weekend? Above Close to BVS's 2nd weekend.

Unbelievable. Imagine if that happened in US...haha.

 

What do you think will be BVS's final gross...haven't followed the Chinese bo daily but seems 600m is not possible?

 

Edited April 1, 2016 by a2knet

[Olive]

Saturday showtimes: (80% of nationwide market)
Bodyguard 26.4%
Hotpot 22.7%
Sleep Bro 20.6%
BVS 10.5%
Zoo 9.0%

Edited April 1, 2016 by Olive

[Lihongkim]

36 minutes ago, firedeep said:

I agree. If Wanda keeps losing talents, it might soon lose its position as the biggest non-state run studio and distributor of China. Wang should start to reward his executives with stock shares. 

 

Hotpot is produced by Chen Kuo-fu, one of the best Chinese film producers out there; it was always going to be a quality film; as a fresh bank robbing thriller, it should get rewarded by enriching the genres of Chinese homegrown films. I originally thought it would be a big hit last December. It should recover a bit though, with WOM kicking in, but with better marketing and distribution, it could have easily fared much better.

Is " Chinese doesn't like crime thriller movie" can be a reason? The Dead End is an outstanding movie but just made 300M Yuan last year. 

[Lihongkim]

BvS first Friday (OD) 129M

      2nd Friday         1/2.29

[efialtes76]

1 hour ago, Lihongkim said:

BvS first Friday (OD) 129M

      2nd Friday         1/2.29

It's a joke?Try again.

[Gavin Feng]

1 hour ago, Lihongkim said:

Is " Chinese doesn't like crime thriller movie" can be a reason? The Dead End is an outstanding movie but just made 300M Yuan last year. 

It could be one but not the main one.The highest crime thriller grossing of all time in China is Detective Chinatown,which earned ￥820M in Jan 2016.But it also has comedy sensibility and give audience much fun and humor.

[Bishop54]

1 hour ago, Lihongkim said:

BvS first Friday (OD) 129M

      2nd Friday         1/2.29

What does that second figure mean?

[Gavin Feng]

$1=￥6.518

 

$100M is a dream now.

 

[Bishop54]

3 minutes ago, Gavin Feng said:

$1=￥6.518

 

$100M is a dream now.

 

Good god it's tanking!

[fastclock]

1 hour ago, Lihongkim said:

BvS first Friday (OD) 129M

      2nd Friday         1/2.29

 

Probably the second figure should be 12.29mil yuan.

Maybe 15M yuan at the end of the day.

It is dropping off precipitiously.

 

[TalismanRing]

19 minutes ago, Bishop54 said:

Good god it's tanking!

 

No need to panic.  If it makes it to 15m it will have a mere Fri-> Fri 88.5% drop. 

[A Marvel Fanboy]

So actually I was being generous by calling 80%+ Friday to Friday drop .. .

[A Marvel Fanboy]

2 hours ago, Lihongkim said:

Is " Chinese doesn't like crime thriller movie" can be a reason? The Dead End is an outstanding movie but just made 300M Yuan last year. 

well technically Mr Six is also a crime drama/thriller.

Edited April 1, 2016 by firedeep

[A Marvel Fanboy]

But with a 34m OD, Hotpot will still make 400m+, just not breakout numbers. 

[Cynosure]

That drop.

[TigerPaw]

1 hour ago, firedeep said:

But with a 34m OD, Hotpot will still make 400m+, just not breakout numbers. 

Do you see it overtaking Bodyguard?

What is ur prediction for bodyguard total BO?