druv10 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 A possible future release, like what happened to EPIC, long delay or no release at all, depending on the need of CFC ... Thanks, hopefully Disney has enough clout to be able to get a Chinese release of Frozen sometime in February. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Saturday Refined. The Four 2---------33.6m-------------- 60m NML-------------- 30.3m-------------- 108m TWS-----------------15.8m------------156M Gravity-----------10.3M---------------403m CF-------------------2.5m --------------163m Epic------------------5.6m---------------32m Thor 2----------------------------------341m Local Foregn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Sunday est. The Four 2---------26m-------------- 86,4m NML-------------- 26.3m-------------- 134m TWS-----------------13.6m------------170M Gravity------------8.5M---------------412m CF-------------------2.0m --------------165m Epic------------------5.6m-------------37.6m Thor 2----------------------------------341m Local Foregn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecstasy Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 What happened to CF in China? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 It opened head to head with Gravity wich made more than 400M. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Cain Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 (edited) It opened head to head with Gravity wich made more than 400M. Gravity was definitely a factor, but I doubt CF would have done much better even if it opened without strong competition. The Hunger Games stories haven't caught on in China the way they have in the west. Edited December 8, 2013 by Filmmogul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackzack Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 What happened to CF in China? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alee7915 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 lol... zackzack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Marvel Fanboy Posted December 9, 2013 Author Share Posted December 9, 2013 Weekly 49 box office (12.2~12.8): 1. No Man Land --------------------------- 134.6m ----- 134.6m 2. White Storm ---------------------------- 92m ----- 170.9m 3. The Four 2 -------------------------------- 87m ----- 87m 4. Gravity -------------------------------------- 51.1m ----- 411.9m 5. Catching Fire ----------------------------- 17.1m ----- 165.4m 6. Epic------------------------------------------ 14.6m ----- 37m 7. Welcome to the Punch --------------- 3m ----- 3m 8. Thor 2 -------------------------------------- 1.8m ----- 341.6m 9. KungFu Fighter --------------------------- 1m ----- 1m #. Firestorm ----------------------------------- 0.18m ----- 0.18m Week 49 totaled 405m yuan, up merely 8% from same week last year when LoP retained in a third time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Cain Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Weekly 49 box office (12.2~12.8): 1. No Man Land --------------------------- 134.6m ----- 134.6m 2. White Storm ---------------------------- 92m ----- 170.9m 3. The Four 2 -------------------------------- 87m ----- 87m 4. Gravity -------------------------------------- 51.1m ----- 411.9m 5. Catching Fire ----------------------------- 17.1m ----- 165.4m 6. Epic------------------------------------------ 14.6m ----- 37m 7. Welcome to the Punch --------------- 3m ----- 3m 8. Thor 2 -------------------------------------- 1.8m ----- 341.6m 9. KungFu Fighter --------------------------- 1m ----- 1m #. Firestorm ----------------------------------- 0.18m ----- 0.18m Week 49 totaled 405m yuan, up merely 8% from same week last year when LoP retained in a third time. So far December 2013 is looking weak compared to last year. Unless Firestorm and Personal Tailor do huge business, this year's box office could be surprisingly flat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Marvel Fanboy Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 Yeah, last year the winter produced three all time biggest Chinese films LoT (dec), CZ12 (dec) and JTTW (feb). This year looks unlikely to match it at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Monday numbers. The Four 2---------12.2m-------------- 99.5m NML-------------- 11.5m-------------- 147m TWS-----------------7.3m---------------178M Gravity-----------------------------------412m CF-----------------------------------------165m Epic--------------------------------------37.6m Local Foregn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Violence Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) Firestorm is having previews tonight. I booked a ticket without realizing it was a preview (I thought the release date was still 12/10), though I should've suspected something when I saw there were only two screenings for the whole day. Edit: So Firestorm is pretty dumb. A lot of it is enjoyably dumb—imagine a movie that starts out aping Michael Mann, then escalates/devolves into Roland Emmerich—but it definitely feels like the work of a director who was out of his depth: everything is overgeared like crazy (this is a movie where a master criminal listens to Gregorian chants on his car stereo), there's a lot of editing that could be either affected artiness or just plain incompetence, and the plot is laughably heavy on contrivances. I don't mean "laughably" figuratively either, I mean that the Yao Chen/Lam Ka-tung scenes provoked so much unintended laughter from the audience that I wonder if they even test-screened this thing once. The movie would've been better if they'd been cut out entirely, but Andy's arc as it stands isn't enough to carry the movie. Part of that's because of the Mainland Co-Production Curse where you know full well that he's not going to get away with it , because otherwise it wouldn't be released. But another part of it is that Andy seems to be looking out for his nice-guy image by not going full-on psycho , which would've been a more interesting take on the cop-on-the-edge scenario. Too many missed opportunities. Really the only reason to see this is to watch a good chunk of Central get blown to shit with semi-convincing special effects. Edited December 10, 2013 by Bob Violence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Cain Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Firestorm is having previews tonight. I booked a ticket without realizing it was a preview (I thought the release date was still 12/10), though I should've suspected something when I saw there were only two screenings for the whole day. Edit: So Firestorm is pretty dumb. A lot of it is enjoyably dumb—imagine a movie that starts out aping Michael Mann, then escalates/devolves into Roland Emmerich—but it definitely feels like the work of a director who was out of his depth: everything is overgeared like crazy (this is a movie where a master criminal listens to Gregorian chants on his car stereo), there's a lot of editing that could be either affected artiness or just plain incompetence, and the plot is laughably heavy on contrivances. I don't mean "laughably" figuratively either, I mean that the Yao Chen/Lam Ka-tung scenes provoked so much unintended laughter from the audience that I wonder if they even test-screened this thing once. The movie would've been better if they'd been cut out entirely, but Andy's arc as it stands isn't enough to carry the movie. Part of that's because of the Mainland Co-Production Curse where you know full well that he's not going to get away with it , because otherwise it wouldn't be released. But another part of it is that Andy seems to be looking out for his nice-guy image by not going full-on psycho , which would've been a more interesting take on the cop-on-the-edge scenario. Too many missed opportunities. Really the only reason to see this is to watch a good chunk of Central get blown to shit with semi-convincing special effects. Nice review, Bob. I wouldn't mind seeing a good chunk of Central getting blown to shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 DM2 Chinese poster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 (edited) Public holidays of 2014: New Year's Day: January 1st Spring Festival (Chinese New Year ): Jan. 31~Feb. 6 Tomb-sweeping Day(Qingming):Apr. 4~6 Labour Day:May 1~3 Dragon Boat Festival: May 31~Jun. 2 Mid-Autumn Festival: Sep. 6~8 National Day: Oct. 1~7 Edited December 11, 2013 by Olive 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCS Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 How huge will DM2 be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 DM2 is gonna compete against several local animated movies, maybe $30M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Wednesday numbers. The Four 2---------10.8m-------------- 121m NML-------------- 11.2m-------------- 169m TWS-----------------7.3m---------------193M Gravity-------------2.5m----------------420m CF--------------------0.8m---------------168m Epic--------------------------------------38.0m Local Foregn CF may finish around 170M with Fire Storm wide open today. Gravity will have IMAX until next thursday's Personal Tailor. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Violence Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 (edited) Personal Tailor is getting an IMAX release? IMAX isn't mentioned in any of the publicity and I can't find any mention of it with Google or Baidu. Not saying it's impossible (I think they announced the IMAX version of The Grandmaster less than a week in advance), it's just the first I'm hearing of it. Edited December 12, 2013 by Bob Violence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...