China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[fmpro]

3 minutes ago, efialtes76 said:

146m at 9pm.

150 at 9,30. Looks like 160 mill~ish

 

Presales for tomorrow are increasing rapidly

[a2k]

Should at least do 87+160+153 = 400 ($64) ow it seems.

3-4x then gives around 1200-1600 ($190-250) total.

[UserHN]

25 minutes ago, a2knet said:

Should at least do 87+160+153 = 400 ($64) ow it seems.

3-4x then gives around 1200-1600 ($190-250) total.

So, is it possible that RPO > IW in China?

[a2k]

3 minutes ago, UserHN said:

So, is it possible that RPO > IW in China?

Possible I guess!

[fmpro]

Wont reach 160 mill today. Looks more like 155 mill

Still amazing

[justvision]

9 minutes ago, UserHN said:

> 3-4x then gives around 1200-1600 ($190-250) total

So, is it possible that RPO > IW in China?

If RPO can reach USD190m-250m, then IW can do USD250m to USD300m.

Edited March 31, 2018 by justvision

[ymblcza]

more like 158m($25.2m) today, presale down 5%, so around 135m($21.5m) Sun

[meriodejaneiro]

10 minutes ago, UserHN said:

So, is it possible that RPO > IW in China?

There's no "impossible" in Chinese box office.  

[fmpro]

13 minutes ago, meriodejaneiro said:

There's no "impossible" in Chinese box office.  

 

It all comes down to WOM

[fmpro]

18 minutes ago, justvision said:

If RPO can reach USD190m-250m, then IW can do USD250m to USD300m.

Could also do 200 mill or a bit less if Maoyan is under 8

[fmpro]

@POTUS nailed PS for tomorrow.... Should be at 23-24 mill by midnight

Small drop tomorrow should happen

[Valonqar]

2 hours ago, justvision said:

As an ethnic Chinese, I think this movie going behavior is very much like how we choose food. For centuries we go to eataries/food outlets/hawker stalls based on WOM of common people and individual tastes. How often do you see ads/commersials of Chinese restaurants?

 

As a people know for their pragmatism, I don't think Chinese GA read critics' review before going for movies, and marketing and advertisement can only create hype for a brief period. It is amazing to see how in this digital age the Chinese people make use of prosumers site like Douban and general comsumers site like Maoyan to make individual choices for movies based on WOM.

 Thank you! Always great to hear the opinion from the market itself! 

[Michael Seng Wah]

Presale for Sunday is flat from Saturday at 24mil, looking strong!

[MaxAggressor]

 

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[ymblcza]

RPO is suffering negative comments attack on Maoyan from Erdong Pictures, the distributor of a russian film "花滑女王" released this weekend. RPO is now scored 9.2 with 2.4% of the total comments give 1 or 2 out of ten, for comparison, Detective Chinatown 2 scored 9.2 while 1.2% give 1 or 2, Peter Rabbit 9.0 and 0.9%, The Commuter 8.4 and 2.5%. Hence, about half of the negative comments come from the devious attack.

[POTUS 2020]

WoM spreading. PS rolling in later than normal. at 26m now and counting, just 1m less than yesterdays total.

Sat afternoon was running at 11m per hour. If 12-1300 can do 12m we should see a small bump

[YLF]

1 hour ago, ymblcza said:

RPO is suffering negative comments attack on Maoyan from Erdong Pictures, the distributor of a russian film "花滑女王" released this weekend. RPO is now scored 9.2 with 2.4% of the total comments give 1 or 2 out of ten, for comparison, Detective Chinatown 2 scored 9.2 while 1.2% give 1 or 2, Peter Rabbit 9.0 and 0.9%, The Commuter 8.4 and 2.5%. Hence, about half of the negative comments come from the devious attack.

How do you know they're attacking the film though? Does this happen often in China? So, the film would be at a 9.3-9.4 without this attack.

[vc2002]

4 hours ago, YLF said:

How do you know they're attacking the film though? Does this happen often in China? So, the film would be at a 9.3-9.4 without this attack.

 

Attacking the film or click farming on those websites are common in China. A lot of the negative and postive comments are made by paid posters, who are hired by companies that run click farming as a business. This activity can be seen on every popular website that has a rating system, or, as long as a online rating system is popular, it's safe to assume that there are a shit load of click farming there. And this happens not just on movies, but pretty much every entertainment products. It's actully worse on gaming platforms like App Store.

 

This of cause is not a China thing, but IMO it's a lot worse in China than in other countries.

Edited April 1, 2018 by vc2002

[TigerPaw]

4 hours ago, YLF said:

How do you know they're attacking the film though? Does this happen often in China? So, the film would be at a 9.3-9.4 without this attack.

It is so common that many audiences automatically inflates a movie score by themselves. Eg if a movie is rated 9.2, some of them mentally think it is a 9.5 cause by default they assumed that there are some attacks.