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terrestrial Global Phenomenon

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6 minutes ago, Tower said:

 

If I'm remembering correctly, Avatar opened on Monday and Transformers 3 opened on Tuesday. Both of those films broke the record in China for highest grossing of all time.

Thx.

I think at least one of the bigger CBMs too opened during the week and so on. As said, I was wondering.

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Wanda Group to invest $15 billion to compete with Disney in China -

Carmike Investors Approve AMC’s $1.2B Takeover; Await Justice Department OK

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1 hour ago, efialtes76 said:

That's false.

Midweek summer releases have fared better but by and large these Tuesday/Wednesday releases that they are sqeezing in get clobbered and lose a ton of screens the following weekend. 

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POTUS 2020 Blockbuster

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16 hours ago, terrestrial said:

It seems to be the opinion of them.

I was wondering, as in the past a few films got such weekdays and still made money.

Mid week releases was the norm until this year. So there were many big hits released on sun-wed.

With BO slowing most large releases are on a Friday now. Most of the mid week releases make less than ¥100m. I would say that is now the dumping ground.

DS looks like it will lose half its screens. It should still hold -50-60%. 

¥700m/$102.5m locked. Possibly 725m/$106m and beating AM in dollars.

Average XR over the run is ¥6.82=$1

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Gavin Feng Box Office Gold

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Non-Holiday opening

Monday - Avatar set the record for opening day with ￥36m on Jan.4 2010.The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises did less than that number on Aug.27 2012(Summer Holiday).

Tuesday - Titanic 3D made ￥73m,which was just behind Transformer 3’s ￥112m.Avengers: Age of Ultron made ￥224m last year, the second highest opening day number for import films.Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation earned ￥124m last year, the highest opening day for 2D import films.

Wednesday - Jurassic World made ￥110m last year and Warcraft did ￥300m this year.

Thursday - Transformer 3 and Monster Hunter(￥171m) released in Summer Holiday.

Friday - Transformer 4: Age of Extinction made ￥196m.

Saturday - The Avengers(￥70m) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens(￥215m) released in holiday.

Sunday - Furious 7(￥399m) released in holiday.

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terrestrial Global Phenomenon

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= in a way there seem to be a reason for differing opinions, if I understsand it right.

In the past proven to be a big success is possible, still in certain situation not to count as always bad, but a tendency of change in POV to see in release weekday patterns, depending on the movie / expected impact on the BO. Too early to create new basic / thumb of rules.

Correct?

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‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ 3D China Release Pushed to 2017

hmm, not long ago they said no Terminator 3D in China?

 

The big question now is......when in China will T2:3D be released? Hopefully not somewhere too competitive.

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Olive Global Phenomenon

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Thursday Estimates
Doctor Strange: ￥12.75M/￥627M (-7.3%)
Deepwater Horizon: ￥8.05M/￥28.5M 
Billy Lynn: ￥6.7m/￥111M
Scandal Maker: ￥3.8M/￥51.8m
One Piece: ￥3.33M/￥87.26M

Madame Bovary:￥1.59M/￥1.85M
Mr Donkey: ￥1.38M/￥169M

 

Friday Forecast:

Madame Bovary OD 75-85M

Doctor Strange: 13-15M

The Warriors Gate OD 10-11M

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"Feng Xiaogang Lashes out at China’s Richest Man over ‘Bovary’"

 

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Feng accuses Dalian Wanda Group Chairman Wang Jianlin of creating a monopoly to punish rival Huayi Brothers.

 

Veteran Chinese director Feng Xiaogang took to Chinese social media on Friday to protest Wanda Cinema Line’s apparent decision to limit screenings of his latest film I Am Not Madame Bovary (我不是潘金莲), claiming the company was taking advantage of its “monopoly” position in the market unfairly.

In an open to letter to Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin, the veteran director said that the real-estate-to-entertainment conglomerate had become a “monopoly” in China that was on track to “buy up Hollywood” and was acting unfairly to scupper the chances of his highly-anticipated social satire.

Written in the form of an allegory, the letter drew parallels between the plight of Huayi Brothers, who Feng characterized as a “small company trying to carve a small niche in the market,” going up against the might of the company owned by China’s richest man, Wang Jianlin, with the downtrodden female protagonist of Bovary.

“Word on the street is that this little company is going to be punished by having its films boycotted at Wanda Cinema Line’s theaters,” the director wrote in the voice of Bovary’s female protagonist.

“No, no, no, Chairman Wang, this young woman has used the wrong words yet again. You’ve left some room to maneuver by allowing a few sessions – just enough to leave us gasping for air and with a little face.”

The black comedy starring Fan Bingbing, was lauded for “its ambitious rendering of a woman’s Kafkaesque struggle as she takes on the Chinese legal system” at the Toronto International Film Festival, and sees A-list star Fan as a cafe owner caught in a bureaucratic maze after she is swindled by her ex-husband.

Bovary, which opens at cinemas in China, Friday, November 18, has been given slots in 40 percent of the available screening times in rival cinemas, but only 10.9 percent at Wanda Cinema Line’s theaters.

The open letter goes on to obliquely suggest that Wanda’s aim is to weaken its competition so that it can eventually buy them up and fold them into its rapidly-expanding global entertainment empire.

Feng ends the letter on a caustic note, reflecting the black comedy of his new film: “I wish Chairman Wang happiness and early success in his great quest of forming a monopoly.”

Originally scheduled for release on September 30, Feng Xiaogang’s black comedy will finally hit cinema screens on Friday. Rumors have swirled, even on state-controlled media, that the film had earlier failed to get censorship approval.

By some estimates, Dalian Wanda Group already holds about 18 percent of the country’s screens, making it the largest exhibitor. On Monday, Wanda Cinemas’ CEO Zeng Maojun indicated the company intends to add a further 150 theaters this year. source

 

 

Probably not very wise to publicly call Wanda out like this, considering their hold in the industry, but Feng Xiaogang has always been bold.

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