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sgchn40 Indie Sensation

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1 hour ago, No Prisoners said:

I don't think they sell as many a few days out like an AOU type release. Maybe it will pop in the last 24 hours like SW7

However, local films tend to have more presales when it comes to the morning of opening day.

The multiplier is about 2.25xPS in the morning for local/family. SW7 was 2.7, close to the HLWD norm.

It should start a parabolic trend starting tomorrow into Thursday nite.

 

Looks like the year is going to start off up 55%-60% for January

going to have to clear 6bY to be up 50% next month.

 

This is really impressive given the snow storm and the stock market storm :)

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Donnie Yen talks "Ip Man 3" and "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"

 

Ip Man 3 Well Go USA $784,839   103 $7,620   $784,839

 

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I think the audiences will like this because it’s about the problems that surround us every day. It’s not just a martial arts movie. It can be enjoyed that way, but it’s also got a lot of heart and soul. Hopefully you’ll come out of the theater feeling a lot of grounded values.

 

It could be something @sgchn40 spoke recently about, see finding the balance, only Mike Tyson as an actor not playing himself? I have no idea how good or bad he is.

 

 

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6 hours ago, terrestrial said:

Donnie Yen talks "Ip Man 3" and "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"

 

Ip Man 3 Well Go USA $784,839   103 $7,620   $784,839

 

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It could be something @sgchn40 spoke recently about, see finding the balance, only Mike Tyson as an actor not playing himself? I have no idea how good or bad he is.

 

 

China’s DMG Inks Deal With Hasbro To Launch First ‘Transformers Live’ Action Attraction

 

I believe @Tigerpaw and I were saying that Ip Man 3 did well in spite of SW7 in HK, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. It's quite touching surprisingly. If it also do well in China, it will be one of the rare Chinese film that perform well in both Mainland and the rest actually. I mean MH & co really perform badly outside of China

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1 hour ago, sgchn40 said:

 

I believe @Tigerpaw and I were saying that Ip Man 3 did well in spite of SW7 in HK, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. It's quite touching surprisingly. If it also do well in China, it will be one of the rare Chinese film that perform well in both Mainland and the rest actually. I mean MH & co really perform badly outside of China

The difference is that Ip Man 3 is a China-HK Co-Production. While MH, Mojin etc are considered pure Chinese productions.

 

China-HK co-productions generally does well in most Asian Countries and also in Mainland China. Eg: Ip Man 1 and 2, Monkey King, Vegas to Macau 1 and 2 etc. These films does pretty well in Mainland China and also in HK, Msia, Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan etc.


I think there are 2 reasons, Casts and Culture. Pure Chinese film like Let the Bullets Fly, Monster Hunt etc have Chinese Stars which most other asians are not familar with, while co-productions usually have established HK stars like Chow Yun Fatt, Donnie Yen, Aaron Kwok etc, names which are familiar to most people in the entire Asian region.

 

An easy comparison is Painted Skin 1 and 2. Painted Skin 1 did well in all Markets in Asia, including China(at that time) and many attribute it to Donnie Yen, while Painted Skin 2, Donnie chose not to return and even though it did very well in China(it was like the Monster Hunt of that time, 7yi) but did badly in HK, Singapore and Malaysia compared to 1. It still did well in Mainland china because stars like Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun etc are well known Chinese figures and celebrities who are unknown to most other parts of Asia.

2ndly is culture, eg: Popular Chinese Films like Tiny Times, Mojin, Wolf Totem etc are all from popular chinese books that other parts of Asia are unfamiliar with. 

 

Anyways Donnie is an internationally recognized star that is going to be in Rogue One, so I am not surprised Ip Man 3 is doing well everywhere, his fan base in Singapore, US, England, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan is crazy... They have established fan clubs and Donnie regularly chats with them online and whenever he is in those countries visiting, he and his wife will host a meetup.

But I am actually quite disappointed with Ip Man 3's Australia, UK, New Zealand and US results, it is true that all their results are excellent, best for an Asian movie in the past 5 years in these markets, but it is still a limited release and even theaters expansions are limited in subsequent weeks. Per screen average is over the roof, highest of all new-comers, but the distributors are just not good enough in convincing theater owners to show Ip Man 3 to more audiences. 

China is the last big market, and hopefully it hits 8yi but March release date is worrying due to Piracy and that it is a very inactive month at the box office in China.

 

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I think Lost in Pacific shoud not have moved to the same weekend as Panda.... Bad move imo, now it only has 9 days to earn some cash but still has pressure from KFP, and once CNY is here it will lose almost all its showtimes. If it came out during CNY, it might have maybe 5 -10% showtimes... and if seats for other movies are sold out, they might watch LIP, but it just didn't have faith in itself.

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13 hours ago, sgchn40 said:

 

This is really impressive given the snow storm and the stock market storm :)

The stock market crash will actually improve the BO in the near term. People go the movies when they are feeling down. The 30s depression in the US boosted BO even though many were broke. BO sales went up after 9/11. The affect will happen months down the road. I read that they are cutting back on building "ghost cities" due to market turmoil and that will reduce theater expansion and in turn BO sales growth.

 

Olive, do you have any Intel on theaters expected to be built th his year?

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I checked out recent mainland box office hit releases that also had limited releases in the US and they did pretty okay too, considering the number of screens. 

 

Opening weekends:

 

Lost In HK - $537,736 from 28 theaters averaging $19,205 (Total: $1,302,281)

Goodbye Mr Loser - $363,949 from 22 theaters averaging $16,543  ($1,293,626)

Mojin - $279,974 from 22 theaters averaging $12,726  (Total: $1,243,810)

Mr Six - $332,117 from 30 theaters averaging $11,071  (Total: $1,413,054)

 

Looking at their stats, China Lion seems to be doing a better job at distributing Chinese films especially when you consider that Well Go USA usually gets the 3D blockbuster movies (Mojin, Taking of Tiger Mountain, big hits like LiHK) but the numbers they get are still pretty mediocre. It's also interesting that LiHK made almost 70% of Ip Man 3's opening weekend with 1/4 of Ip Man 3's number of theaters. 

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5 hours ago, sgchn40 said:

I believe @Tigerpaw and I were saying that Ip Man 3 did well ...

 

 

I meant it in connection to the article with the director, about finding the story different and similar enough.

The story might appeal for those kind of problems are known also at other places / countries, but probably still have it's own turn.

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7 hours ago, efialtes76 said:

False alarm.

Midnigts:0.4m yuan

Saturday:10.41m

Sunday:3.57m

 

Presales are extremely low...

 

where are you getting this data from? BTW any comparisons to recent flicks. How did Minions do for example?

 

Edit: Found that at cboo. I think friday will be soft but saturday will see a big increase.

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On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at 9:47 PM, sgchn40 said:

 

This is really impressive given the snow storm and the stock market storm :)

I didn't notice 2900 broke down yesterday. At 2600 now. Get ready for an intervention announcement and a bounce. Should happen around 2300-2400. The question is will it work this time and the bounce be dead cat. Will be an interesting week ahead.

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20 minutes ago, No Prisoners said:

Kfp3 running at half of Sw7 at this time. May only open to 100m but could double up on saturday. This is going to need good WOM to carry into CNY to make it to 1.3B/ $200m. 

All time toon is TMK from last summer at $150m. 

 

Do you think WOM for KFP3 will be better than SW EP7's WOM in China?

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