China Box Office Thread | Deadpool & Wolverine- July 26

[SchumacherFTW]

Can't one theoretically opt out of that release date or is it something SARFT lock in?

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Actually I will be a little surprised if Skyfall and Hobbit not opening on same day.Foreign movies in 2013 is done, the biggest one probably wont come close to 100M while could see a least 4 local movies do $100M-plus. Market share for foreign movies will be less than 40% in 2013, will see a decrease in $ for them.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Maybe not 100%-plus increase for Pi but should be close.

[POLYLOVE]

SARFT is really mentally retarded I think. Chinese B.O. market is growing and they are trying to prevent it. Why not just push Hobbit to March? It won't hurt local blockbusters at all.

[Fullbuster]

Actually I will be a little surprised if Skyfall and Hobbit not opening on same day.Foreign movies in 2013 is done, the biggest one probably wont come close to 100M while could see a least 4 local movies do $100M-plus. Market share for foreign movies will be less than 40% in 2013, will see a decrease in $ for them.

It's sad to see such an evolution for a big market like this...Fortunately for the worldwide box office many high-growth markets can easily offset this.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Yeah, it is sad and annoying.

[druv10]

Great for LOP. firedeep, what do you think it'll make in china? (total)

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Great for LOP. firedeep, what do you think it'll make in china? (total)

100% jump on Sat. Should be $15M Thu-Sunday 4 days.$30M is done. Has a shot at $40M+ depending on how strong next week 1942 will be.

[druv10]

100% jump on Sat. Should be $15M Thu-Sunday 4 days.$30M is done. Has a shot at $40M+ depending on how strong next week 1942 will be.

That's great, if rest of OS follows China then 250M OS might be on the table.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

People in line for Life of Pi on Saturday in Shenzhen. This hasnot happened for a long time in Chinese theaters.

LoP had 100+ PTA today in Beijing, Shenzhou and Shenzhen. IMAX shows basically all sold out through the weekend. Everybody says it is good.

[druv10]

People in line for Life of Pi on Saturday in Shenzhen. This hasnot happened for a long time in Chinese theaters.

LoP had 100+ PTA today in Beijing, Shenzhou and Shenzhen. IMAX shows basically all sold out through the weekend. Everybody says it is good.

WOM must be crazy good. :) :)

[Olive]

WOM must be crazy good. :) :)

On the biggest movie site, LoP gets a average rating of 9.1 out of 10 by 29k viewers.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

On the biggest movie site, LoP gets a average rating of 9.1 out of 10 by 29k viewers.

And 9.0 on Mtime.

[Fake]

Glad to see Pi doing so well.......

[Olive]

And 9.0 on Mtime.

only 3500 members rated it on Mtime.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Douban is bigger site than Mtime.

[Fullbuster]

Nice to see such a movie being successful in China

Edited November 24, 2012 by Fullbuster

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Saturday:

LoP 38M yuan $6.08m +108%

2012 19M yuan $3m +61%

CW 10M yuan $1.6m +74%

Other movies all around $0.16m

Cume

LoP 68M yuan $10.88m

2012 74M yuan $11.8m

CW 224M yuan $35.8m

WIR 60M yuan $9.6m

ROTG 24M yuan $3.86m

TBL should add another $1.5M this week to $36m.

Edited November 25, 2012 by firedeep

[Fake]

Great for LoP!

[A Marvel Fanboy]

A few notes:

1. Skyfall and Hobbit will open together on January 10th (the Thursday). Premier schedule will be 1.10~2.09 for both.

2. Hobbit will be 3D release exclusively, no 2D copy.

3. Hobbit and Skyfall will share IMAX screens and shows during their theatrical run.

4. There are will be about 1,000 screens available for 48 FPS 3D Hobbit.

5. RE5, Cloud Atlas, etc could aslo possibly be released in January.

Edited November 25, 2012 by firedeep