China Box Office Thread | Deadpool & Wolverine- July 26

[Alex Bennett]

I asked Subers but he refuses to answer

I wrote a complaint letter to him.  

[alee7915]

Aug 14  -   How to train that stupid dragon 2

Aug 15  -   Pompeii: The heat of love

Aug 20  -   Expendable old muscle dudes 3

Aug 21  -   The girl with the Divergent tattoo

Aug 29  -   Sunrise of the Planet of the Monkeys.

Sep 12  -   Step into the storm

 

 

Guardians of the Samsung Galaxy is believed to be pushed to October.

 

how did these old muscle dudes attract so much young fans in China?  lol...

 

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzQ5MDk4NTI0.html

Edited August 5, 2014 by SUPER GIRL

[alee7915]

Tuesday Top 3 Est 

1.The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom 20.6M/$3.3M, Total:263M/$42.4M(6 days)

2.The Continent 12.6M/$2M, Total:534M/$86.1M(13 days)

3.Brick Mansions 12.3M/$2M, Total:70M/$11.3M(5 days)

Edited August 5, 2014 by SUPER GIRL

[Donald]

White haired bitch is really collapsing...I doubt it can reach 70mill...However,continent still has a chance to reach 100mil

[Donald]

White haired bitch is really collapsing...I doubt it can reach 70mill...However,continent still has a chance to reach 100mil

[ZinHere]

What are the Dhoom 3 figures after 10 days? Is there any chance for the film to touch $4 Mil mark?

 

In how much screens it was released? Any idea?

[Annayya]

I asked Subers but he refuses to answer

 

I think Paramount should be held accountable to the numbers that it is reporting.

Boxofficemojo, Rentrak and other websites simply take the numbers provided by Paramount.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Looking for big (300m+) local films through the end of this year's winter box office season, there are only:

 

Date: Title (B.O. prediction)

 

Sep 30th: Xin Hua Lu Fang (700~800m)

Director Ning Hao's latest road comedy. The first full cast (Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, Huang Bo, Guo Tao) reunion since 2006's breakthrough comedy Crazy Stone. Fully backed by CFGC, this is the movie to watch through National Day holidays. Everyone thins it should bump its release date one or two days earlier (like Sep 26 or 27) but somehow Ning Hao himself insists on Sep 30.

 

Between Oct and Nov, other contenders are director Anne Hui's period drama The Golden Era (Oct. 3rd) and the latest Once Upon a Time in China remake --- Rise of the Legend (Nov TBD) --- starred by Eddie Peng. But both are less likely to reach 300m.

 

Dec 5th (?): Helios (300m)

Cold War directors new action thriller. This is Media Asia's solely and biggest project this year. The cast includes Jacky Cheung, Nick Cheung, Zhang Zhen, Wang Xueqi, Si Won Choi, Jin-hee Ji and Shawn Yue. As this year's winter-opening tentpole, matching last year's Firestorm should be possible since there are less competition in early December: last year there were The White Storm, No Man Land and Firestorm, releasing one after another.

 

Dec 18th: Gone with the Bullets (2B)

There has been rumors that the movie of the year might not make its date. But who knows ... I doubt they want to push it to next summer. 

 

Dec 24th: The Taking Of Tiger Mountain (1B)

Hark Tsui's new 3D epic. This time it's a household tale of CCP vs Bandits .... no doubt it will at least outdo last year Detective Dee film.

 

Wolf Totam still has not got a confirmed date though it is always cited as a December release. Anywhere between 400m~800m is possible if it does make the schedule. 

 

Assuming Gone with the Bullets stays, December 2014 will almost surely set new monthly record because, on a yearly basis, Dec has always been the biggest month in past decade. Actually, it should become the first ever 4B month. Current record is July 2014 with 3.617B. 

 

2015 Chinese New Year comes very late --- Feb 19th. If Interstellar and Hobbit 3 could not make into middle-January-early-February, then they will have to wait till middle March or even later.

 

Feb 19th: Jackie Chan's Dragon Blade (1B)

Set more than 2000 years ago, Dragon Blade is Jackie Chan's first period actioner since 2005's The Myth. With a huge budget of 400m, 1B is apparantly what they are going for. Granted, no way this does less than Chinese Zodia (2012, 878m).

 

Feb 19th: Zhong Kui (1B)

The 200m budgeted Cheng Kun-Li Bingbing fantasy epic will give Dragon Blade a run for the biggest 2015 Chinese New Year release. References: The Monekey King (2014, 1043m); Painted Skin II (2012, 704m).

 

Feb 19th: Monster Hunt (300m)

Just like Painted Skin, this is also an adaptation from Pu Songling's Strange Stories. 

 

Feb 19th: The Man from Macau 2 (400~500m)

Question is, can it stay flat with its predecessor. 

 

Tiny Times 4 is also scheduled for Feb 19th. But wont be surprised if it is moved forward. 

 

2015 Chinese New Year holidays will of course set new record, destroying 2014. We are heading to an epic winter, box office wise (assuming Bullets is not pushed back).

 

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Btw, Disney moving Guardians of the Galaxy from Sep 5th to October 3 is one of stupidest decisions I have ever seen at the Chinese box office .... they abandoned Middle Autumn holidays (9.6~9.8) just to melee with Xin Hua Lu Fang, The Golden Era, Black & White:The Dawn of Justice and Z Storm during National Day holidays. They wont get any advantage on taking screens.

 

In other news, Expendables 3 is (being) pushed to Sep 1st, filling the slot left by Guardians.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

What are the Dhoom 3 figures after 10 days? Is there any chance for the film to touch $4 Mil mark?

 

In how much screens it was released? Any idea?

18.31m RMB after 10 (already a record for Indian release ...). So more like $3.5m finish. Playing very limited now (less than 1000 shows / day ).

[KATCH-2D2]

 

In other news, Expendables 3 is (being) pushed to Sep 1st, filling the slot left by Guardians.

Is that a good release date for EX3? I thought the film should be released as soon as possible to minimise the damage of the leaking.

Edited August 6, 2014 by KATCH 22

[efialtes76]

Is that a good release date for EX3? I thought the film should be released as soon as possible to minimised the damage of the leaking.It's good...for HTTYD2 !

Edited August 6, 2014 by efialtes76

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Is that a good release date for EX3? I thought the film should be released as soon as possible to minimised the damage of the leaking.

You are right. Not as good as Aug 20. Apparently, Le Vison (TE3) lost the schedule battle to Enlight (The Four 3 opens Aug 22).

 

For TE3, Aug 20 (12 more summer days, 12 less leaking days) > > Sep 1 (Monday opening, this was TDKR/ASM death date, students first school day after summer holiday; but at least now it could enjoy the Middle Aumtumn holidays as some makeup).

 

For GOTG, Sep 5 (opens on three-days Middle Autumn holidays, closes on National Day holidays, a very similar slot to what CA2 got: opened on Tomb Sweeping holidays, closed on May holidays; only one month delay; No competitor at all other than Apes 2nd week) > > Oct 3 (Two months delay; has to compete with four middle sized local films and one huge local film; 5 days holidays but after that, Oct is even cooler than Sep). Sep 5 was a date that any August Hollywood film would kill for. But it's Disney .... they made a dumb decison.

 

Opening on Sep 5, GOTG could get 40% screens; now on Oct 3 it would only get 20% or so.

 

For Xin Hua Lu Fang and other October releases, without GOTG would be better.

 

For Apes 2 (Aug 29), to have TE3 deal with is better than to have GOTG.

 

For Dragons 2 (Aug 14), it is much better without TE3 on its first Tuesday.

 

For The Four 3 (Aug 22), nothing is better than have no competitor at all during Aug 20 and Aug 29.

 

The conclusion:

 

Enlight/Four 3 totally wins; Fox benifits by doing nothing; Le Vision struggles to lose; Disney no zuo no die .... CFGF makes less profits as both GOTG and Xin Hua Lu Fang wont reach their full potential; Theaters make less money as the overal market volume is hurt.

Edited August 6, 2014 by firedeep

[alee7915]

KATCH 22, have you watched The Purge 2?

[KATCH-2D2]

KATCH 22, have you watched The Purge 2?

No. It hasn't even got a release date in Australia yet.

[alee7915]

Wednesday Top 3 Est 

1.The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom 17.1M/$2.8M, Total:280M/$45.2M(7 days)

2.Brick Mansions 11.2M/$1.8M, Total:80.3M/$13M(6 days)

3.The Continent 10.8M/$1.7M, Total:545M/$87.9M(14 days)

 

*Brick Mansions is now at NO.2 even with limited showtimes!

[Quigley]

I think Paramount should be held accountable to the numbers that it is reporting.

Boxofficemojo, Rentrak and other websites simply take the numbers provided by Paramount.

 

That is definitely the case for other countries (studios report grosses) but in China's case, Subers has been using EntGroup's numbers consistently and is even using it for all other movies on the chart except for Transformers. How can he trust that EntGroup is accurate about other films but not about TF4?

[alee7915]

That is definitely the case for other countries (studios report grosses) but in China's case, Subers has been using EntGroup's numbers consistently and is even using it for all other movies on the chart except for Transformers. How can he trust that EntGroup is accurate about other films but not about TF4?

 

Read this...  All happened recently!

 

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/china-steps-up-investigation-of-foreign-firms-1.1888413

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/06/us-china-autos-antitrust-investigation-idUSKBN0G604J20140806

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/06/us-microsoft-china-idUSKBN0G60GR20140806

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/06/us-china-apple-idUKKBN0G60JQ20140806

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/us-qualcomm-china-idUSKBN0FT0AU20140724

 

Now you know why Paramount didn't want to report the actual numbers for TF4.  The more money you take or if you are doing very good in China(foreign companies), you will be the next target for the China regulator!  I believe Paramount doesn't want China regulator visits their office in China!  I also believe Paramount asks Subers to use its numbers instead of Entgroup for TF4 this time!

 

By the way, I am guessing only...    

Edited August 7, 2014 by SUPER GIRL

[Godzilla]

This thread got kinda boring after TF4 lol.

[alee7915]

Thursday Top 10 Est 

1.The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom 13.8M/$2.2M, Total:295M/$47.6M(8 days)

2.Brick Mansions 9.7M/$1.6M, Total:89.7M/$14.5M(7 days)

3.Girls 9.6M/$1.5M, Total:148M/$23.9M(9 days)

​4.Brotherhood of Blades 8.4M/$1.4M(NEW)

5.The Continent 8.1M/$1.3M, Total:554M/$89.4M(15 days)

6.Dragon Nest 3M/$0.5M, Total:50M/$8.1M(8 days)

7.The House That Never Dies 1.5M/$0.2M, Total:398M/$64.2M(21 days)

8.The Magical Brush 0.9M/$0.15M, Total:56.5M/$9.1M(14 days)

9.Tiny Times 3 0.85M/$0.14M, Total:515M/$83.1M(22 days)

10.Break Up 100 0.3M/$0.05M, Total:8.75M/$1.4M(7 days)

Edited August 10, 2014 by SUPER GIRL

[alee7915]

This thread got kinda boring after TF4 lol.

 

Same as Japan BO.  By the way, how's Godzilla doing in Japan?

Edited August 8, 2014 by SUPER GIRL