China Box Office Thread | Deadpool & Wolverine- July 26

[Finnick]

 

Friday est

MI5 - 28.1M/678M

Minions - 23.8M/219M

Pixels - 10.5M/42M

Assassination - 5.1M /9.3m

 

Is that bad or good for Minions and MI5?

What are you projection for Minions now?

[Quigley]

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

That too.

[Cynosure]

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

Yep, Frozen got screwed.

 

You are not scewed when you are around the average.

[seduh]

Minions is going to do less this weekend than on OD, like T5. I love to see this film not breaking out in China. 

[POTUS 2020]

So Frozen got screwed in Japan by the exchange rate?

Frozen was at a 105yen to dollar average. if it was released 1-2 years earlier when the yen was 75-80 it would have made $330m-350m

That 75-80 range was just for a couple years. Historically, it was always over 100y to $1 a couple years before that brief dip.

 

Didn't get screwed, just missed that short gravy train

[POTUS 2020]

Minions is going to do less this weekend than on OD, like T5. I love to see this film not breaking out in China. 

Should do over 50m today. I think weekend will beat OD

[Fake]

Both MI5 and Minions are looking at 200-210m for the week.

MI5 should finish with around 900m ($140m).

Minions is looking at 480m ($75m). It has a small shot at hitting 500m, if it can manage 50% drops from here on.

[keysersoze123]

yes. today Minions could beat MI5 as well, Pixels is the big bomb. But next weekend they are going to be hit hard by LiH. Plus weekdays are so weak. So I am skeptical about Minions grossing 500m or MI5(1B).

 

Edit: I know its early days but its looking like LiH will take most of the screens. MI5/Minions will have hardly any screens. So I doubt they will even gross 50m after next thursday.

 

http://piaofang.maoyan.com/show/rate

Edited September 19, 2015 by keysersoze123

[MinaTakla]

yes. today Minions could beat MI5 as well, Pixels is the big bomb. But next weekend they are going to be hit hard by LiH. Plus weekdays are so weak. So I am skeptical about Minions grossing 500m or MI5(1B).

It seems that September is an awful month for movies to be released in..

[keysersoze123]

It seems that September is an awful month for movies to be released in..

 

Its just that they did not do well as what it could. I dont know why the grosses are so low. MI5 is having 2.5 weeks of reasonable screen allocation. Minions is getting only 11 days.

 

My prediction is MI5 850-900m and Minions 420m.

Edited September 19, 2015 by keysersoze123

[Planodisney]

I'm curious what happened to Minions.

Was the amount of marketing confused as actual anticipation and hype in China or was word of mouth bad? I wouldn't think word of mouth was the issue because it isn't like it had a huge opening followed by a big drop-off which would indicate bad word of mouth. Also, Big Hero 6 had piracy issues so I don't think it's just that either.

[MinaTakla]

Yea me too am wondering what happened to Minions and MI5

I think Minions was very lucky to have been very big in all countries and that's why it wasn't affected by China.

If it was like Transformers or even T5 whose gross really was impacted by/hinged on China, then maybe it wouldn't have crossed a billion. Thankfully it crossed 1.07 billion without China so that bodes well with DM3 if it's given the same date in China in 2017.

Edited September 19, 2015 by MinaTakla

[Eleven]

Min 49,5 (268)

MI5 47 (724)

PIX 15 (57)

[Olive]

Saturday est

Minions - 58.3M/276M

MI5 - 50.3M/728M

Pixels - 19.5M/61.5M

Assassination - 7.5M /16.9m

 

Great increase for top two.

[jiangsen]

I'm curious what happened to Minions.

Was the amount of marketing confused as actual anticipation and hype in China or was word of mouth bad? I wouldn't think word of mouth was the issue because it isn't like it had a huge opening followed by a big drop-off which would indicate bad word of mouth. Also, Big Hero 6 had piracy issues so I don't think it's just that either.

Minions was unable to reach into middle China -- the third and fourth tier cities that really help films become blockbusters. Minions and other Hollywood animations -- apart from Kung Fu Panda -- still don't interest that demographic. The Chinese market is extremely varied and I'm not sure foreign members of this forum really understand that. I'm also curious as to where the Chinese members on this forum are from and if you can maybe give us some insight into the differences between first/second tier cities and the rest of China.

[Olive]

yes. today Minions could beat MI5 as well, Pixels is the big bomb. But next weekend they are going to be hit hard by LiH. Plus weekdays are so weak. So I am skeptical about Minions grossing 500m or MI5(1B).

 

Edit: I know its early days but its looking like LiH will take most of the screens. MI5/Minions will have hardly any screens. So I doubt they will even gross 50m after next thursday.

 

http://piaofang.maoyan.com/show/rate

Lik showtimes share will be down to 55-60%.

[keysersoze123]

Lik showtimes share will be down to 55-60%.

 

I am sure it will go down. Still both the films will be hit hard.

[Olive]

MI5 will beat Interstellar as the biggest 2D imported movie after Sunday.

[peludo]

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

Yep, Frozen got screwed.

Frozen would have done about 210-215 million in Japan if it had been released today. Maybe it did not have the best exchange rate but it did not have the worst either. There have been films quite more damaged because of exchange rates (2001-2002 period and today films, for example)

Edited September 19, 2015 by peludo

[The Dark Alfred]

150m for MI5 locked.