China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[Justin4125]

21 minutes ago, TigerPaw said:

We are talking about Holdovers.. aren’t we? Doesn’t it then even make DP’s weekends holding power in China even more impressive?

yes Aladdin’s screen-counts got cut, and there is demand, hence the high attendance per screen (on its 2nd weekend). It is DP’s 4th weekend and it’s attendance per screen is higher, really impressive.

Its not really impressive though. My understanding was that Charlie was not pointing out how impressive it is that Aladdin is performing better per screen, but more so pointing out the degree of screen loss it suffered. When screens are shed so rapidly, its natural for attendence per screen to go up (especially since non performing theaters/showtimes are cut the most). HIs point was more that Aladdin took a bigger hit in screens than its perfomance alone would dictate due to competition

 

As a % of total gross, screen loss isnt such a big deal for DP anyways so not really worth mentioning. It may lose ~2% of its total potential gross had the screen loss not occured, but in its fourth weekend its run is winding down anyways. For Aladdin the impact is much higher, it didnt get much room to breathe, unlike Pikachu which had three weeks of minimal competition helping it to leg it out better than expected given its WOM

[Justin4125]

I take some of that back, just checked Maoyan Pikachu's hold is pretty decent this weekend all things considered, wonder how much that has to do with Children's day. \Still, not bad, though doesnt make up for a so-so run

[Tentatek]

Detective Pikachu had lack of screens WW. Not just in China.

 

Most cinemas preferred to play endgame instead of it during opening weekend. (The problem was the pre sale were low so most theaters don’t know what to expect...) But the sales did ramp up close to release date. By next weekend, John wick came out. So it didn’t really have much premium screens if at all really. 

 

It also had no imax release because of endgame.

 

Edited June 1, 2019 by Tentatek

[Cookson]

So how’d KotM do Saturday? It did a killing on Saturday in Japan.

[lorddemaxus]

14 minutes ago, Cookson said:

So how’d KotM do Saturday? It did a killing on Saturday in Japan.

210 mil which is above expectations. Has a good chance at $70 mil+ for the weekend if you ask me.

Edited June 1, 2019 by lorddemaxus

[keysersoze123]

I agree Pikachu was hit hard on screens WW. Almost everywhere endgame dominated in its 3rd week. It did not even get full PLF screens in theaters with Imax and PLF.

 

Losing screens in China happens for every movie. That is why you need to maximize your BO when you have the screens. Aladdin start was mediocre bcos it came in with little buzz. Still its having a good hold this weekend bcos it had weak start and could sustain with low show count. Next week it will be hit worse with 3 more openers.

 

Plus great Saturday for Zilla. it definitely needed this good news. Only China and Japan have been a beacon of hope for Zilla. Maoyan is down to 8.6 but hope it can have a good run and at least gross 900m yuan.

[Olive]

Saturday est

Godzilla 2 208m/368.2m,+55%

Doraemon 2019 67.2M OD

Aladdin 28.2m/245.2m, +72%

Pikachu 12.05m/609.5m,+103%

Dog's Journey 3.2m/188m

[UserHN]

12 minutes ago, Olive said:

Saturday est

Godzilla 2 208m/368.2m,+55%

Doraemon 2019 67.2M OD

Aladdin 28.2m/245.2m, +72%

Pikachu 12.05m/609.5m,+103%

Dog's Journey 3.2m/188m

What's the predicted total for Aladdin?

[Minnale101]

Godzilla dropped from 9.0 to 8.6 in Maoyan in a day ?

[Stewart]

3 minutes ago, Minnale101 said:

Godzilla dropped from 9.0 to 8.6 in Maoyan in a day ?

Potentially yesterday was primarily fans, today during Children's Day more general audience came and watched it and didn't like it? 

 

All I can think of.

[Minnale101]

1 minute ago, Stewart said:

Potentially yesterday was primarily fans, today during Children's Day more general audience came and watched it and didn't like it? 

 

All I can think of.

If that’s the case. Legs will be pretty bad imo 

[Stewart]

Just now, Minnale101 said:

If that’s the case. Legs will be pretty bad imo 

It seems likely so at the moment. Also noticed RT audience is gradually dropping too, so could be a similar problem going on in NA and worldwide too maybe.

[lorddemaxus]

6 minutes ago, Minnale101 said:

If that’s the case. Legs will be pretty bad imo 

It's the same score as Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom and higher than Kong. Legs won't be so bad. around 2.1x seems good to me (would be 2.3x with no competition).

[Olive]

38 minutes ago, Minnale101 said:

If that’s the case. Legs will be pretty bad imo 

THree big releases nex Thirsday including DP, I think 1.8x max.

[Minnale101]

1 minute ago, Olive said:

THree big releases nex Thirsday including DP, I think 1.8x max.

125-130 million then

 

not enough to make up for the weak os numbers 

 

[A Marvel Fanboy]

It seems only Zilla got bumped by CD while other releases didn't. how strange.

[Cookson]

2 hours ago, firedeep said:

It seems only Zilla got bumped by CD while other releases didn't. how strange.

Forgive me but what is CD?

[Maximum Avery]

5 minutes ago, Cookson said:

Forgive me but what is CD?

Childrens day in china... a holiday 

 

TTVOMJ

[Gavin Feng]

This trailer bring more attention to the film

 

 

[john2000]

6 minutes ago, Gavin Feng said:

This trailer bring more attention to the film

 

 

it looks really good