China Box Office Thread | Deadpool & Wolverine- July 26

[Olive]

Sunday est

T5 - 51.7m/527M

The Hundred Regiments Offensive - 42.8m/138m

The Dead End - 36.4M/127M

Monster Hunt - 13.6m/2386m

The Assassin - 9M/39.5M

Mr. Tumor - 7.7m/484m

[efialtes76]

Sunday est

T5 - 51.7m/527M

-20%?...

[scabab]

Thatd be -16%

[ACCA]

Thank you China for saving the box office of Genisys. Now it's highly likely we'll get a sequel.

[POTUS 2020]

What do you think the final total will be?

Hard to say how well its going to hold next weekend. Holiday, but many new releases

Definitely $115m to possibly $130m

[POTUS 2020]

So Maoyan and CBO both had MH at 8-9m in the evening of Saturday and sunday then it pops to 13.5-14m the next day when they adjust for actuals. Funny. That's a lot of fudge. Early numbers suggest it could come in over 8m today, up 25% w/o/w. If that is real ice cream w more fudgeto come on top, MH will have FF7 this Sunday. Gotta love communists. This and the Hundred Regiment thing is too funny.

 

T5 on pace for 26-28m. -50%~ is a typical sun-mon drop

750m locked, 800m+ likely. I guess 900m possible if holiday weekend plays bigger

 

T5
Day	Yn	% +/-	Last Week	Tot	$Tot
Thur
Fri
Sat	14	- MN
Sun	153			167	26
Mon	67	-56.2%		234	37
Tues	57	-14.9%		291	46
Wed	47	-17.5%		338	53
Thur	37	-21.3%		375	59
Fri	37	0.0%		412	65
Sat	62	67.6%		474	74
Sun	51	-17.7%	-66.7%	525	82
Mon	27	-47.1%	-59.7%	552	87	est
Tue	24	-11.1%	-57.9%	576	90	proj
Wed	22	-8.3%	-53.2%	598	94	proj
Thu	20	-9.1%	-45.9%	618	97	holiday
Fri	22	10.0%	-40.5%	640	100	holiday
Sat	37	68.2%	-40.3%	677	106	holiday
Sun	30	-18.9%	-41.2%	707	111	holiday
			750	-900	115	-130

 

[jiangsen]

Monster Hunt's distribution company bought up tickets to late-night showings on Sat and Sun in a ton of cities and allowed free entrance to 7 different groups -- senior citizens, military officers and cops, handicapped people, doctors and nurses, teachers, heroic citizens, and children under 12 -- calling them public benefit screenings.

 

 

So Maoyan and CBO both had MH at 8-9m in the evening of Saturday and sunday then it pops to 13.5-14m the next day when they adjust for actuals. Funny. That's a lot of fudge. Early numbers suggest it could come in over 8m today, up 25% w/o/w. If that is real ice cream w more fudgeto come on top, MH will have FF7 this Sunday. Gotta love communists. This and the Hundred Regiment thing is too funny.

 

T5 on pace for 26-28m. -50%~ is a typical sun-mon drop

750m locked, 800m+ likely. I guess 900m possible if holiday weekend plays bigger

 

T5                             Day Yn % +/- Last Week Tot $Tot                   Thur                             Fri                             Sat 14 - MN                         Sun 153     167 26                   Mon 67 -56.2%   234 37                   Tues 57 -14.9%   291 46                   Wed 47 -17.5%   338 53                   Thur 37 -21.3%   375 59                   Fri 37 0.0%   412 65                   Sat 62 67.6%   474 74                   Sun

51

-17.7% -66.7% 525 82                   Mon 27 -47.1% -59.7% 552 87 est                 Tue 24 -11.1% -57.9% 576 90 proj                 Wed 22 -8.3% -53.2% 598 94 proj                 Thu 20 -9.1% -45.9% 618 97 holiday                 Fri 22 10.0% -40.5% 640 100 holiday                 Sat 37 68.2% -40.3% 677 106 holiday                 Sun 30 -18.9% -41.2% 707 111 holiday                       750 -900 115 -130                

 

[Lihongkim]

Monster Hunt's distribution company bought up tickets to late-night showings on Sat and Sun in a ton of cities and allowed free entrance to 7 different groups -- senior citizens, military officers and cops, handicapped people, doctors and nurses, teachers, heroic citizens, and children under 12 -- calling them public benefit screenings.

public benefit screenings :3)

so that's why it makes a surprising jump?

[sgchn40]

public benefit screenings :3)

so that's why it makes a surprising jump?

I supposed there is nothing wrong with this move in spirit but the gross should be taken out and accounted as expense instead. Edited August 31, 2015 by sgchn40

[Asyulus]

T5 having terrible legs?

[POTUS 2020]

Not great, not horrible. par for the china course

[Andy001]

T5 having terrible legs?

It isnt a good movie, cnt imagine for it to hv good legs anywhere.

[MinaTakla]

Minions Climb China's Great Wall Ahead of Release

 

 

 

Hollywood Reporter:

The Universal Pictures animated juggernaut, which just crossed $1 billion in global box office, is expected to do big business in China when it opens Sept. 13.

Universal's beloved Minions popped up on the Great Wall of China over the weekend, bringing their infectious brand of box office-conquering cheer to the world's second largest movie market. The Despicable Me franchise prequel, Minions, which just crossed $1 billion in global box office, is expected to do big business in China when it opens Sept. 13.

The Minions photo session atop the country's iconic 2,000-year-old structure was just the first step in Universal's promotional push in China (more photos below). The three yellow, pill-shaped characters will next embark on a road show across the country, meeting and greeting fans at Chinese cinemas. The studio's Beijing-based office has also launched an online campaign called Silly Sunday Challenge, in light of film's opening on a Sunday. Fans will be invited to dress like Minions, compete in Minionese translation contests, mug for Minions-themed videos and more.

Despite a rocky start in China, the Universal franchise has become a fan favorite there. The firstDespicable Me film didn't even score a release in the country when it came out in 2010 -- for reasons that were never explained, as China's state film regulators seldom share their motives. And Despicable Me 2 was denied an opening slot until seven months after its U.S. premiere, reportedly due to difficulties with a local agent. But the film exceeded expectations and won the weekend when it finally did premiere, eventually grossing $52.9 million during its China run.

A strong, snag-free release for Minions would cap off a huge year for Universal in China. In April, the studio's Furious 7 became the highest-grossing film ever in the country with $390 million.Jurassic World, meanwhile, pulled in $228 million from China and currently ranks fourth for the year at the local box office. 

 

 

Edited August 31, 2015 by MinaTakla

[Olive]

Monday est

The Hundred Regiments Offensive - 51m/192m

T5 - 20.4m/547M

The Dead End - 18.5M/145M

Monster Hunt - 4.9m/2390m

The Assassin - 3.9M/43.3M

Mr. Tumor - 3.9m/4884m

[efialtes76]

Monday est

The Hundred Regiments Offensive - 51m/192m

T5 - 20.4m/547M

The Dead End - 18.5M/145M

Monster Hunt - 4.9m/2390m

The Assassin - 3.9M/43.3M

Mr. Tumor - 3.9m/4884m

Fudge,fudge...

[sgchn40]

Fudge,fudge...

 

You think there are no patriots or pro-Communist people in China?

[Andy001]

Monday est

The Hundred Regiments Offensive - 51m/192m

T5 - 20.4m/547M

The Dead End - 18.5M/145M

Monster Hunt - 4.9m/2390m

The Assassin - 3.9M/43.3M

Mr. Tumor - 3.9m/4884m

4884m?? u mean 488.5m?

[MinaTakla]

CHINA BOX OFFICE WEEKEND REPORT

 

Terminator: Genisys was able retain the weekend box office crowd despite a heavy challenge from newcomer The Hundred Regiments Offensive (百团大战) which appears to have benefited from market manipulation.

Terminator: Genisys earned $23.5 million in its first full weekend of release bringing the 8-day total to $82.5 million. Genisys held onto ~140,000 showtimes occupying ~29% of China's screens. "Golden time" screenings -- those between 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm -- jumped throughout the week indicating the film's audience is skewing towards a working-aged demographic. Data from China's EntGroup also show audiences in third and fourth tier cities -- those with less-refined moviegoing habits and tastes -- accounting for a larger portion of Genisys' demographic than white-collar workers in the international cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Nonetheless, the sci-fi film has found a sizable audience in the Middle Kingdom and will surpass North America's $89 million total either Tuesday or Wednesday, one of only a handful of films to earn more in China than Stateside and arguably the most high-profile.

In second place, The Hundred Regiments Offensive earned an impressive $21.8 million this weekend including three days of preview screenings. In addition, the film made 30% of the total weekend box office on just 10% of China's screens. However, there's more to that number than meets the eye. To commemorate China's 70th anniversary of the Allied victory over Japan in World War II, the government is throwing a huge military parade in Beijing and giving its citizens a 3-day Victory Day Holiday next week. The release of Hundred Regiments, a state-sponsored war epic that retells a key battle between CCP and Japanese forces, is intended to coincide with the celebrations.

On Monday, netizens leaked a SARFT (State Administration of Radio, Film, and TV) directive ordering movie theater chains to use "any means necessary" to bring in a fixed amount of box office revenue for Hundred Regiments in order to "extend societal influence" and build "feelings of patriotism and national sentiment." To motivate them to complete their "mission", theater chains can keep 100% of the box office revenue instead of giving the usual 43% to the distribution company. The directive runs through September 4 when normal revenue sharing will return.

Newcomer The Dead End (烈日灼心) came in third with $15.2 million and has earned $19.8 million since opening on Thursday. The award-winning crime drama from Cao Baoping is riding high ratings from social media platforms and strong word of mouth, and will look to hold well this week. 

Monster Hunt (捉妖记), the highest-grossing Chinese film of all-time ($373.4M) and second highest-grossing film of all-time to Furious 7 ($390M), fell just 25% grossing $5.0 million from only ~20,000 showings. However, upon closer inspection those numbers don't add up either. Images began to circulate on social media late Saturday night showing Broadway Cinema, the theater circuit owned by Monster Hunt's distribution company Edko, selling out multiple late-night Monster Hunt screenings. Even stranger, screenings were scheduled just 15 minutes apart in the same exact movie hall. Edko issued a statement later in the weekend claiming the sold-out shows were legitimate and just part of a public charity screening drive, but that it had failed to supervise the handling of the activity. If Monster Hunt ends up #1 in the box office record books, it might need an asterisk.

Rounding out the top five was Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Assassin (刺客聂隐娘) which won the Best Director Award at this year's Cannes. The arthouse film took in $6.1 million from ~52,000 showings, mostly from first-tier cities. 

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[cwhitty]

On the first day of release in China, I felt a sequel was likely as it would do $175-200 (how wrong I was) seeing the drops and its likely finish of $115-120 I think China has made the WW for Genisys look respectable but not enough to persuade the studio to do a sequel

[POTUS 2020]

 

Monster Hunt (捉妖记), the highest-grossing Chinese film of all-time ($373.4M) and second highest-grossing film of all-time to Furious 7 ($390M), fell just 25% grossing $5.0 million from only ~20,000 showings. However, upon closer inspection those numbers don't add up either. Images began to circulate on social media late Saturday night showing Broadway Cinema, the theater circuit owned by Monster Hunt's distribution company Edko, selling out multiple late-night Monster Hunt screenings. Even stranger, screenings were scheduled just 15 minutes apart in the same exact movie hall. Edko issued a statement later in the weekend claiming the sold-out shows were legitimate and just part of a public charity screening drive, but that it had failed to supervise the handling of the activity. If Monster Hunt ends up #1 in the box office record books, it might need an asterisk.

 

MH would have passed FF7 in yen w/o the suspicious boost. It mite need the boost to pass FF7 in dollars, however, It held down just 21.7% proving it still has legs after taking a hit last week

 

It stand at $382m as of Sunday. The source used 6.38 yen to the dollar for the entire run instead of just the last two weeks. It was mostly at 6.21yen to a dollar for most of the run and a vast majority of the BO revenue

 

Should pass FF7 in yen on Sunday

 

FF7						TF4					MH
Day	Yn	% +/-	Last Week	Tot	$Tot	Yn	Daily % +/-	Last Week	Tot	$Tot	Yn	Daily % +/-	Last Week	Tot	$Tot
Thur											165			165	27
Fri						195			195	32	132			297	48
Sat	51	- MN				223	14.4%		418	69	188	42.4%		485	78
Sun	347			398	64	213	-4.6%		631	103	184	-2.1%		669	108
Mon	185	-46.7%		583	94	123	-42.1%		754	124	110	-40.2%		779	125
Tues	167	-9.7%		750	121	112	-8.9%		866	142	103	-6.4%		882	142
Wed	137	-18.0%		887	143	95	-15.7%		961	157	85	-17.5%		967	156
Thur	115	-16.1%		1002	162	84	-11.0%		1045	171	83	-2.4%	-49.7%	1050	169
Fri	142	23.8%		1144	185	87	3.4%	-55.3%	1132	186	81	-2.4%	-38.6%	1131	182
Sat	226	59.0%		1371	221	130	48.8%	-41.9%	1262	207	121	49.4%	-35.6%	1252	202
Sun	185	-18.1%	-46.6%	1556	251	118	-9.0%	-44.6%	1379	226	125	3.3%	-32.1%	1377	222
Mon	73	-60.6%	-60.5%	1629	263	54	-58.3%	-56.1%	1433	235	64	-48.8%	-41.8%	1441	232
Tue	65	-11.0%	-61.1%	1694	273	53	-1.9%	-52.8%	1486	244	62	-3.1%	-39.8%	1503	242
Wed	52	-19.4%	-61.8%	1747	282	43	-18.9%	-54.5%	1529	251	57	-8.1%	-32.9%	1560	251
Thu	45	-14.1%	-60.9%	1792	289	39	-9.3%	-53.7%	1568	257	44	-22.8%	-47.0%	1604	258
Fri	59	31.1%	-58.6%	1851	298	42	7.7%	-51.8%	1610	264	47	6.8%	-42.0%	1651	266
Sat	92	55.1%	-59.6%	1942	313	62	47.6%	-52.2%	1672	274	78	66.0%	-35.5%	1729	278
Sun	69	-24.2%	-62.6%	2012	324	58	-6.45%	-50.8%	1730	284	72	-7.69%	-42.4%	1801	290
Mon	27	-61.4%	-63.3%	2038	329	26	-55.2%	-51.9%	1756	288	38	-47.2%	-40.6%	1839	296
Tue	26	-1.5%	-59.4%	2065	334	28	7.7%	-47.2%	1784	293	36	-5.3%	-41.9%	1875	302
Wed	24	-10.2%	-54.8%	2088	337	23	-17.9%	-46.5%	1807	296	30	-16.7%	-47.4%	1905	307
Thu	31	32.5%	-30.2%	2120	342	18	-21.7%	-53.8%	1825	299	27	-10.0%	-38.6%	1932	311
Fri	67	114.6%	14.2%	2187	353	18	0.0%	-57.1%	1843	302	28	3.7%	-40.4%	1960	316
Sat	67	-0.6%	-26.8%	2254	364	24	33.3%	-61.3%	1867	306	44	57.1%	-43.6%	2004	323
Sun	39	-41.8%	-43.8%	2293	370	20	-16.67%	-65.5%	1887	309	46.5	5.68%	-35.4%	2051	330
Mon	15	-61.3%	-43.7%	2308	373	10	-50.0%	-61.5%	1897	311	23	-50.5%	-39.5%	2074	334
Tue	14	-9.3%	-48.1%	2322	375	10	0.0%	-64.3%	1907	313	24	4.3%	-33.3%	2098	338
Wed	12	-13.9%	-50.2%	2334	377	10	0.0%	-56.5%	1917	314	20.8	-13.3%	-30.7%	2118	341
Thu	10	-11.9%	-66.9%	2344	379	9	-10.0%	-50.0%	1926	316	16	-23.1%	-40.7%	2134	343
Fri	14	31.7%	-79.7%	2358	381	11	22.2%	-38.9%	1937	318	18	12.5%	-35.7%	2152	346
Sat	24	71.5%	-64.9%	2381	385	11	0.0%	-54.2%	1948	319	28.5	58.3%	-35.2%	2181	351
Sun	20	-15.3%	-49.0%	2401	388						28.8	1.05%	-38.1%	2210	355
Mon	10	-49.7%	-33.8%	2411	390						13.8	-52.1%	-40.0%	2223	357
Tue											13.8	0.0%	-42.5%	2237	360
				2411	390				1948	319	13.5	-2.2%	-35.1%	2251	362
											31	129.6%	93.8%	2282	366
											12.7	-59.0%	-29.4%	2294	368
											19	49.6%	-33.3%	2313	371
											11	-42.11%	-61.8%	2324	373
											6	-45.5%	-56.5%	2330	374
											6.5	8.3%	-52.9%	2337	375
											6.9	6.2%	-48.9%	2344	376
											3.5	-49.3%	-88.7%	2347	377
											4.8	37.1%	-62.2%	2352	377
											14	191.7%	-26.3%	2366	380
											13.5	-3.57%	22.7%	2380	382
											4.7	-65.2%	-21.7%	2384	383
										Today	4.5	-4.3%	-30.8%	2389	383	est
											4.2	-6.7%	-39.1%	2393	384	proj
											4	-4.8%	14.3%	2397	384	proj
										Fri	4	0.0%	-16.7%	2401	385	proj
										Sat	6.6	65.0%	-52.9%	2408	386	proj
										Sun	6	-9.09%	-55.6%	2414	387	proj
											3	-50.0%	-36.2%	2417	388	proj
											2.8	-6.7%	-37.8%	2419	388	proj
											2.5	-10.7%	-40.5%	2422	388	proj
											2.2	-12.0%	-45.0%	2424	389	proj
													2450	-2500	394	-400