China Box Office Thread | Deadpool & Wolverine- July 26

[Olive]

Ok but when you factor in 30 vs 60 days plus the fudge, FF7 comes out on top. FF7 with 60 days probably makes 410-415M instead 391M.

Not really, FF7 last day was AOU opening, already down to 1M yuan daily, probably making another $2-3M tops if it was extended.

[druv10]

We'll just agree to disagree on which had the better run.

[Olive]

FF7 had monster opneing and held really well due to weak competitions and great WOM.

MH had big opening and big competitions but had great legs thanks to summer holidays. 

[druv10]

FF7 had monster opneing and held really well due to weak competitions and great WOM.

MH had big opening and big competitions but had great legs thanks to summer holidays.

It had no Hollywood movies to take screens away plus most movies flopped. At least week after week movies flopped only ones to do anything was TMK and JBM.

[POTUS 2020]

Monster Hunt has way bigger competitions, 2 billion movies at the same time.

yes,,bigger competition. but it was summer. more overall showtimes and moviegoers to share.

[POTUS 2020]

Not really, FF7 last day was AOU opening, already down to 1M yuan daily, probably making another $2-3M tops if it was extended.

 

Wed	12	-13.9%	-51.8%	2347	379
Thu	10	-11.9%	-66.9%	2358	381
Fri	14	31.7%	-79.7%	2371	383
Sat	24	71.5%	-65.1%	2395	387
Sun	20	-15.3%	-55.8%	2415	390
Mon	8	-59.8%	-48.1%	2423	391
Tue	1.5	-81.3%	-89.1%	2424	391

I beg to differ, different treatment. FF7 was still making good money in its final days. on the last day when AOU opened, shows were cut from 16% to 3%. MH's shows were slowly cut from 20% at the end of 30 days to 17, 11, 8, 6% then 3% over 4 weeks

FF7 easily makes $10-15m more given 2 more weeks and proper show count.

[Quigley]

Congratulations to Monster Hunt. At least the crown finally returned to a domestic film (rare in these Hollywood-dominated times). As for FF7 fans, just accept it. Comparison is not apples-to-apples but who will care 2 years from now? Apart from a few on this blog, no one.

[Olive]

I don't see how it could make another 70-80M in 2 weeks when daily was as low as 1.5M yuan.

People who wanted to see it had already seen it.

Edited September 18, 2015 by Kylin Zhang

[POTUS 2020]

Congratulations to Monster Hunt. At least the crown finally returned to a domestic film (rare in these Hollywood-dominated times). As for FF7 fans, just accept it. Comparison is not apples-to-apples but who will care 2 years from now? Apart from a few on this blog, no one.

in the end none of this shit really matters, a billion people don't have enough to eat on a daily basis, that matters,  lets stop posting and shut the forum down. stop wasting money on going to see the same movie 5 times and buy a brother a loaf of bread

[Olive]

Lost in HK presales are quite good.

Monster opening in coming.

[MinaTakla]

Lost in HK presales are quite good.

Monster opening in coming.

What's your expectations for KFP3 in China next year given the current release date and Mermaid coming in 10 days after it?

Edited September 18, 2015 by MinaTakla

[MrFanaticGuy34]

I don't know about Mermaid's potential but maybe people in China are overblowing their expectations for that to be huge.... The WOM on that could be good....or it could be bad.

Many people expect this to be the next "Monster Hunt"...in terms of local movies. Reasonable maybe...but not very doable, though.

Edited September 18, 2015 by MrFanaticGuy34

[Olive]

What's your expectations for KFP3 in China next year given the current release date and Mermaid coming in 10 days after it?

300-400M。

It can be off a lot like I predict 200M for minions.

[POTUS 2020]

FF7 was lucky that it had the way better exchange rate compared to right now.

only a 2.5% difference for the last 20% of its revenue

Japan on the other hand had the biggest  move in currency in the last 2 years, 40%. 75 yen to 125y.

[Olive]

Friday est

MI5 - 28.1M/678M

Minions - 23.8M/219M

Pixels - 10.5M/42M

Assassination - 5.1M /9.3m

Edited September 18, 2015 by Kylin Zhang

[Mojoguy]

only a 2.5% difference for the last 20% of its revenue

Japan on the other hand had the biggest  move in currency in the last 2 years, 40%. 75 yen to 125y.

So Frozen got screwed in Japan by the exchange rate?

[Cynosure]

Frozen was around the middle at $1 = 100 yen so it didn't get screwed but it didn't benefit from a high yen either. Still, It grossed less than Spirited Away in yen but more in dollars so it's hard to say it got screwed.

Edited September 18, 2015 by Cynosure

[Asyulus]

300-400M。

It can be off a lot like I predict 200M for minions.

More like closer or within 400m for KFP3, or 500m, if its good.

Could be another MH record leap.

[Mojoguy]

Frozen was around the middle at $1 = 100 yen so it didn't get screwed but it didn't benefit from a high yen either. Still, It grossed less than Spirited Away in yen but more in dollars so it's hard to say it got screwed.

I just looked at the exchange rate for Japan while Toy Story 3 was being shown there.

Yep, Frozen got screwed.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

I don't know about Mermaid's potential but maybe people in China are overblowing their expectations for that to be huge.... The WOM on that could be good....or it could be bad.

Many people expect this to be the next "Monster Hunt"...in terms of local movies. Reasonable maybe...but not very doable, though.

It's directed by Stephen Chou. How can it be bad ... he debuted three films in Mainland since, ranking #1 (2004), #4 (2008, CJ7 is a kids flick) and #1 (2013), even a better track record than Zhang Yimou. In China, in terms of box office, no other director does better him except Bayformers (on par) and James Cameron.

Edited September 18, 2015 by firedeep