Mojoguy Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Does China like The Rock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Marvel Fanboy Posted June 6, 2015 Author Share Posted June 6, 2015 (edited) Why JW releases on Wed instead of Fri? This is actually a good question but the answers, which we can only speculate, probably are a bit complicate. As we all know, the release dates of (revenue-sharing) imported films in China are basically up to China Film Group Corporation (CFGC). Those people at CFGC deciding release dates work close with SARFT (or the Film Bureau to be specific), which is the ultimate official regulator of China's film market. Every single pick of imported films and their corresponding release dates is carefully made to make sure that the overall box office can grow at a healthy rate while revenues of foreign films must not overshadow that of domestic ones, particularly on a yearly basis. Under this condition, inevitably, foreign films including Hollywood productions almost always get the worse box office slots and opening dates while the better opportunities are kept for Chinese domestic films. As unfair as it sounds, however, we should take note that, despite its not-so-friendly release date, the Chinese audiences would flock to a Hollywood blockbuster anyway if they are truly appealed by it. Quality talks. Of course, this is not the best way to protect and develop China's film market and the local film industry. In a perfect world, SARFT should immediately lift all its censoring and most of its regulations but ... let's back to this specific question. We can only speculate that since Avengers: AOU, Tomorrowland and San Andreas, the latest three Hollywood revenue-sharing films before Jurassic World, had all opened on Tuesdays, JW opening on the next Wednesday seems a perfect continuation. Under this logic, JW opening on Friday would have been something of abnormal (and unfair to Uni's fellow Hollywood studios, Disney and WB). Plus, Friday (6.12) would be obviously closer than Wed (6.10) to next weekend's Dragon Boat Festival (6.20) where a few major Chinese local releases are to bow, including Bona's action sequel SPL2 starring Wu Jing. As for why is JW not opening right on Tuesday (6.09) because, I think, that would make China undoubtedly the earliest place in the world to receive the film which is never something the Film Bureau is enthusastic to do. Same reason goes for Monday (6.08), which is arguably the worst opening date around. No point of CFGC being so harsh on JW as they themselves have a stake in the film. (Several international markets open JW on June 10 but no territory on June 9 or earlier: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369610/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_inf+.) Finally, is Wed (6.10) good or bad for JW in China ? I would say it is actually a very good release date, maybe even better than Friday (6.12) to both JW and the local films released afterward. Opening right after the Chinese College Entrance Examination (6.07~6.09), JW could see a decent boost from high school student audience yet still enjoy that Dragon Boat Festival bump in 2nd weekend. Plus, as San Andreas is proving, family audience skewing films with great WOM opening before the weekend can earn themselves enough time to get the WOM spreading out. Especially with the relative soft presales, JW definitely needs that Wednesday and Thursday to spread WOM among audience, creating some great weekend increase. Edited June 6, 2015 by firedeep 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Marvel Fanboy Posted June 6, 2015 Author Share Posted June 6, 2015 Does China like The Rock? Of course ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POTUS 2020 Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Why JW releases on Wed instead of Fri? short answer, only gets 4 weekends instead of 5. anything to mute the imports Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POTUS 2020 Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Gewara 03.06.2015 Beijing time 02:50 -- JW - 151 03.06.2015 Beijing time 13:50 -- JW - 280 03.06.2015 Beijing time 17:50 -- JW - 401 03.06.2015 Beijing time 22:50 -- JW - 584 04.06.2015 Beijing time 02:20 -- JW - 697 04.06.2015 Beijing time 11:10 -- JW - 949 04.06.2015 Beijing time 13:50 -- JW - 1128 04.06.2015 Beijing time 16:20 -- JW - 1349 04.06.2015 Beijing time 20:20 -- JW - 1618 04.06.2015 Beijing time 23:00 -- JW - 2020 05.06.2015 Beijing time 00:20 -- JW - 2122 approximately 1,450 tickets sold on the day 4/6/2015 I hope that in the coming days strongly accelerate Olive how many days JW will be played in Chaina ? How is the number looking? I beg to differ with others. AOU had a huge Gewara and it did perform similarly to FF7(was not misleading) for OW then dropped off due to WOM Plenty of geeks out there for dinosaurs as there are SHs. I wouldn't call this a family movie. Its PG 13 and people get eaten. Don't think many 6 year olds will be in attendance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgchn40 Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Nope: http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/category/celeb/actress/?sort=net But Zhao Wei has quickly earned millions through her stakes of Alibaba Film. Ah looks like she can only be the second. I believe she is very close to if not a billionaire by now. She was in the news for making profits of more than $100m on two occasions recently. She is really a legend who excels in just about everything she touches! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mredblood Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Any news of Mad Max Fury Road release date ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POTUS 2020 Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 (edited) SA going to be up 90-100% today, on course for 95-100m $32-33m weekend close to $50m opening week Edited June 6, 2015 by M F Lawrence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POTUS 2020 Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 FF7______Gewara______JW 04-01 10:45 - 15 04-02 08:39 -139 04-03 07:57 - 856 04-04 08:11 - 4,166 04-05 08:03 - 9,352 06.03 17:50 -- 401 04-06 18:11 - 22,717 06.04 16:20 -- 1349 04-07 18:40 - 81,588 06.06 00:20 - 4008 04-08 07:25 -101,494 06.06 17:00 - 5750 04-09 17:31 -167,068 04-10 19:37 -286,403 04-11 23:36 -472,900 It started a couple days later. Lets see if it quadruples up per day in the next few days and catches up. I believe it'll need to show some momo if its going to have a 100m-140m OW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Saturday estimates: 1). San Andreas, ¥88M/ cume: ¥242M ($39M) 2). Stand by Me Doraemon, ¥38M/ cume: ¥424M ($68.4M) 3). Avengers: Age of Ultron , ¥8M / cume: ¥1448M ($233.4M) 4). P.K., ¥6M / cume: ¥97.4M ($15.7M) 5). Tomorrowland , ¥3.5M / cume: ¥108M ($17.4M) Doraemon Chinese gross has beaten its home market. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keysersoze123 Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Good run for San Andreas so far. It should easily hit 50m for the 6-day weekend. So it already exceeded what Olive expected on OD. I think even with JW it could co-exist like Doraemon is doing. Could end up around 500m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abra Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Gewara 03.06.2015 Beijing time 02:50 -- JW - 15103.06.2015 Beijing time 13:50 -- JW - 28003.06.2015 Beijing time 17:50 -- JW - 40103.06.2015 Beijing time 22:50 -- JW - 58404.06.2015 Beijing time 02:20 -- JW - 69704.06.2015 Beijing time 11:10 -- JW - 94904.06.2015 Beijing time 13:50 -- JW - 112804.06.2015 Beijing time 16:20 -- JW - 1349 04.06.2015 Beijing time 20:20 -- JW - 1618 04.06.2015 Beijing time 23:00 -- JW - 2020 05.06.2015 Beijing time 00:20 -- JW - 2122 06.06.2015 Beijing time 00:20 -- JW - 4008 06.06.2015 Beijing time 00:20 -- JW - 6889 approximately ~ 2900 tickets sold on the day 6/6/2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalismanRing Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Gewara 03.06.2015 Beijing time 02:50 -- JW - 151 03.06.2015 Beijing time 13:50 -- JW - 280 03.06.2015 Beijing time 17:50 -- JW - 401 03.06.2015 Beijing time 22:50 -- JW - 584 04.06.2015 Beijing time 02:20 -- JW - 697 04.06.2015 Beijing time 11:10 -- JW - 949 04.06.2015 Beijing time 13:50 -- JW - 1128 04.06.2015 Beijing time 16:20 -- JW - 1349 04.06.2015 Beijing time 20:20 -- JW - 1618 04.06.2015 Beijing time 23:00 -- JW - 2020 05.06.2015 Beijing time 00:20 -- JW - 2122 06.06.2015 Beijing time 00:20 -- JW - 4008 06.06.2015 Beijing time 00:20 -- JW - 6889 approximately ~ 2900 tickets sold on the day 6/6/2015 These pre-sales seem surprisingly weak for a blockbuster opening in 4 days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalismanRing Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Good run for San Andreas so far. It should easily hit 50m for the 6-day weekend. So it already exceeded what Olive expected on OD. I think even with JW it could co-exist like Doraemon is doing. Could end up around 500m. Doraemon has a strong appeal for young children so it's serving a different demographic. SA and JP4 pretty much have the same audience Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abra Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 These pre-sales seem surprisingly weak for a blockbuster opening in 4 days I agree that I will be much higher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 I think JW will have wider appeal than AOU, it will have more walk up business. When its 5-day comes under 600M yuan, then call it a disappointment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmpro Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 These pre-sales seem surprisingly weak for a blockbuster opening in 4 days Very very weak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmpro Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 I think JW will have wider appeal than AOU, it will have more walk up business. When its 5-day comes under 600M yuan, then call it a disappointment. Still. Its surprisingly extremely low in presales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennaJ Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Low presales probably mean that either the Jurassic franchise isn't as well known / well liked in China, or that the promotional effort there wasn't that great. I guess if the movie is good and WOM gets out, the low presales won't matter as much, but we'll see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keysersoze123 Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 JW should have done better especially with imax deals happening. Even with great walk up I dont see how it hits uber blockbuster levels. We will know in < 48 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...