China Box Office Thread | Deadpool & Wolverine- July 26

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Breaking:From late November's Back to 1942, major local film producers will get 45% box office revenue share from their movies, up two percent from previous 43%.This will be one of the big change in China theatrical history. May give my simple analysis sometime later.

[ecstasy]

Bourne did well here. Saved it from disgrace.

[POLYLOVE]

Breaking:From late November's Back to 1942, major local film producers will get 45% box office revenue share from their movies, up two percent from previous 43%.This will be one of the big change in China theatrical history. May give my simple analysis sometime later.

Cinema managers are all protesting at this. We will see fierce fight between the two sides.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Just booked my ticket for 3D Guardians for tomorrow night.

[Rudolf]

Cinema managers are all protesting at this. We will see fierce fight between the two sides.

local movies are very cheaphow do the operating costs of theaters compare?

[POLYLOVE]

local movies are very cheaphow do the operating costs of theaters compare?

Not exactly. Local 3D movies' prices are equal to foreign 3D movies. At least the cinema I'm frequently going sells local and foreign movie tickets in same price.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

local movies are very cheaphow do the operating costs of theaters compare?

Local movies are cheap to make but ticket price for local movies is significantly higher than foreign movies.Most local movies are running in deficit, and so are most theaters.And when theaters make net gross from sales, it is usually about as low as 5%. However when a movie is a hit, it can make several times income compared with the cost.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Cinema theaters in China have relatively higher operating costs than most foreign theaters. Mainly because of insane rent costs and many kinds of taxes.For example, in NA, most theaters are isolated and have their own land, which translates into lower operating costs. But in China, theaters always locates in Malls in central urban area, where the rent price is insane.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Guardians pulled a mega bomb that beyond the worst expectation with ever awful word of mouth.Cold War heading to $50M.

[SchumacherFTW]

How Mega is Mega?

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Will look further later (after seeing it in 4 hours) when back home.

[dezorz]

Paramount Hopes to Set Transformers 4 in China for Big-Money Reasons

http://www.vulture.com/2012/11/paramount-hopes-to-set-transformers-4-in-china.html

[Neo]

Paramount Hopes to Set Transformers 4 in China for Big-Money Reasons

http://www.vulture.c...4-in-china.html

As a result, the government has been handicapping many of America’s biggest blockbusters.

Right below talking about TDKR/TASM they set them on the same weekend so they hurt its each others weekend, is this right?

[POLYLOVE]

40M is locked. Cold war deserves it. It's a good movie. Congratulations!

[A Marvel Fanboy]

As a result, the government has been handicapping many of America’s biggest blockbusters.

Right below talking about TDKR/TASM they set them on the same weekend so they hurt its each others weekend, is this right?

Definitely. Paramount must be afraid of TF4/TH3 facing off in September 2013. So they are trying to find a partner in China.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Rise of the Guardians:"A", 3D and visuals is incredible.Btw, its opening Friday is about 3.5M yuan. $0.55m.Cume for WIR is about $7.2m by Friday.

[SchumacherFTW]

How does that compare to Non Lorax animations?

[A Marvel Fanboy]

How does that compare to Non Lorax animations?

Better than BRAVE, on par with WIR. All in bomb territory.Worse for Guardians is that Life of Pi (11.22) and 2012 3D are coming next week. Its will lose most of its screen in just one week after OD.WIR at least had 10 days without compition.

[SchumacherFTW]

Thats a shame. Is there a cultural reason non sequel animation doesn't catch on in China or is it just one of those things?

[A Marvel Fanboy]

The developing market status and cultural reason I suppose.