China Box Office Thread | Deadpool & Wolverine- July 26

[dezorz]

Any updates on Titanic's numbers?What does it look like its grossing this week?!

thanks to avengers hype (and public hollidays fron sun to tue) we seem to forget about titanic vs battleship combat in china sees. :)still no official numbers out. acording to wanda tracking, titanic 3d grossed aprox. 18M last week and BS about 15M. because of mon and tues having been holidays, there are stong numbers from current week too. mon to thursday titanic 3d 9M and BS 8M. which brings titanic 3d total up to date in china to 117M + 18M + 9M = 144M and BS 19M+15M+8M = 42M. BS is sinking slower than Titanic. Although, they will be both sunk by TA release day after tomorrow. Both Titanic and BS have possibility tu gross up to 10M until the end of thier run. Which means, BS is stronger than JC. (not in china alone but internationally too) And Titanic with less then 160M will not get over TR3, BUT with both Titanic releases combined together (160M + 44M) Titanic still have a chance to become number 1 film in chinese boxoffice grossing more than avatar. Right? Edited May 3, 2012 by dezorz

[A Marvel Fanboy]

thanks to avengers hype (and public hollidays fron sun to tue) we seem to forget about titanic vs battleship combat in china sees.

still no official numbers out. acording to wanda tracking, titnic 3d grossed aprox. 18M last week and BS about 15M. because of mon and tues having been holidays, there are stongs numbers from current week too. mon to thursday titanic 3d 9M and BS 8M. which brings titanic 3d total up to date in china to 117M + 18M + 9M = 144M and BS 19M+15M+8M = 42M. BS is sinking slower than Titanic. Although, they will be both sunk by TA release tomorrow. Both Titanic and BS have possibility tu gross up to 10M until the end of thier run. Which means, BS is stronger than JC. (not in china alone but internationally too) And Titanic with less then 160M will not get over TR3, BUT with both Titanic releases combined together (160M + 44M) Titanic still have a chance to become number 1 film in chinese boxoffice grossing more than avatar. Right?

Very good summary. Though I doubt Titanic could still top Avatar.

[dezorz]

finally, we have official results for last week:Titanic 3D: 18,16 M, total 135,42MBattleship: 13,65M, total 33,06M

[lab276]

I thought it was taking a while.

[lab276]

So Titanic is up to 19.2m admissions, for a lifetime total over 37m.

[SentryTrans]

Which means, BS is stronger than JC.

BS is much stronger than JC.If BS was in IMAX + 3D, it could make more than $60m.

[vc2002]

[vc2002]

Combined with the original take, Titanic has passed TF3 as the second highest grossing film in China. Looks like it doesn't have enough fuel left to beat Avatar. TA will take most of the 3D screens in a few days.Of cause, attentance-wise it's already at the top, with a total over 37m tickets sold.

Edited May 3, 2012 by vc2002

[dezorz]

BS is much stronger than JC.If BS was in IMAX + 3D, it could make more than $60m.

BS is about as powerfull as JC oversees. JC did 200M, BS 170M (plus 13M for china) up to sunday. Both are about their finish with BS earning maybe 20M more.The question is, why a movie with a budget bigger than TF3 with and awwarness less than TF1 wasnt shoot in 3D, which means no 3D surcharges to help to boost gross?

[vc2002]

BS is about as powerfull as JC oversees. JC did 200M, BS 170M (plus 13M for china) up to sunday. Both are about their finish with BS earning maybe 20M more.The question is, why a movie with a budget bigger than TF3 with and awwarness less than TF1 wasnt shoot in 3D, which means no 3D surcharges to help to boost gross?

And why would they make a film about Battleship in the first place?

[Rudolf]

And why would they make a film about Battleship in the first place?

Hasbro wants to sell toys.

[Olive]

BATTLESHIP won't pass 50 mill $ in china, kinda underwhelming

[A Marvel Fanboy]

China Box Office: April Summary

When we did our April forecast last month, we believed Titanic 3D could land somewhere between 700M yuan and 1B yuan at the boxoffice. Well, now it turns out that the James Cameron 3D re-release is exactly hitting the high end of our prediction. The breaking out of Titanic 3D is partly due to the gorgeous movie itself and partly due to the huge continuous expanding of the market in the last 10 years (More analysis here). Long story short, after 14 years, Titanic (in 3D) is still the Titanic while the market is not the same market anymore.

Although we got right on Titanic, we were terribly wrong on Battleship. We had Battleship at an inconceivable 700M yuan while the fact is it only grossed 252M yuan to date. Obviously, the competition from Tianic 3D was underestmated. Not saying it could make as much as our projected 700M yuan if not for Titanic, but we still believe it could have a shot at 400M yuan. And despite of its mixed word of mouth among movie goers, Battleship still managed to generate the highest gross ever for a Universal film in China.

Nicolas Cage's Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is another film that seems had been a little overpredicted. The poorly reviewed comic adaption grossed a decent 51M yuan to date, though fell short of projected 100M yuan, which is still an average result for a Nicolas Cage movie in China.

Wrath of the Titans, however, was a truely flop in China. It fell down hefty 90% twice in a row at its third and forth week and was pulled out of theatres competely after only 4 weeks. And the result is that it became the very first hollywood sequel that failed to outgross its previous in China box office history.

With more than 18 films widely released in April, the monthly box office revenue (estimated at 1.4B yuan) easily doubled that of last April (670M yuan). Overall box office in the first four months of 2012 had reached about 5.2B yuan (830M $), increasing about 60% compared with the same period of 2011.

Top Hollywood releases of 2012 so far (as of May 3):

1. Titanic 3D, 922M yuan 146M $

2. MI4, 678.9M yuan 107M $

3. Journey 2, 387.3M yuan 61M $

4. John Carter, 263M yuan 42M $ (last report)

5. Battleship, 252M yuan 40M $

7. Sherlock Holmes 2, 186.4M yuan 29M $

6. Wrath of the Titans, 165M yuan 26.5M $

8. War Horse, 117.3M yuan 18.5M $

9. Happy Feet 2, 53.6M yuan 8.4M $

10. Ghost Rider 2, 51M yuan 8.1M $

Source: Mtime

[A Marvel Fanboy]

China Box Office: May Forecast

First lets take a look at the month's release schedule.

5.04 形影不离 Inseparable

5.04 月色狰狞 Mystery Fobber

5.04 与妻书 To my wife

5.05 The Avengers

5.08 飞越老人院 Full Circle

5.11 赛德克·巴莱 Warriors of the Rainbow

5.11 今天·明天 Jin Tian Ming Tian

5.11 追凶 Fairy Tale Killer

5. 11 影子爱人 Shadows of Love

5.11 初恋浅规则 Believe In Love

5.15 The Three Musketeers

5.16 地域无门 Death Zone

5.18 我十一11 flowers

5.18 The Grey

4.18 浮城大亨 Hundred Years of A Floating City

5.22 生死罗布泊Luo Bu Po

5.25 我与拉拉Wo Yu LA LA

5.25 狂奔蚂蚁 The Struggling Ants

5.25 Men in Black 3

5.31 Hugo

May 2012 looks only have 4 foreign releases and all comes from hollywood. And one of them is the first Summer 2012 blockbuster, Marvel's The Avengers, which comes on May 5th. TA started its groble box office smash one week before it hitting theaters in North America, Russia and China. And considering it's breaking records at the box office everywhere around the world and the underwhelming reviews it has received, many box office observers believe that it can gross as much as 100M $ or more in China. Though more cautious observers believe not. Many compare The Avengers to MI4 and think TA should do more than that. One thing to note, MI4 had got really amazing legs and two holidays to bump it. So though both released on a Saturday, unlike MI4, which opened to 16M and ended at 107M, The Avengers has no holidays to bump during its theatical run. Plus opening on the weekend right after the May 1th holiday will make its box office sort of get hurt. So we would rather to be conservative this time and have the 2 days opening of TA at 16M. And with that opeing, it should be able to touch 80M if the legs are solid. All after all, 80M should still be well enough to claim the biggest OS market for TA.

The other blockbuster comes in May is MIB3. The Will Smith sci-fi action comedy wont come until the forth Friday of the month. Though without any reviews or other further information, it is a little hard to make a solid prediction, we think the flick could do around 70M $. We will do more analysis when we are closed to the release.

About 20 films have been scheduled in May. And only 4 of them of are foreign/hollywood releases. With less major hits, May 2012 looks could not match that of 2011, which had hits like POTC4, FF5 and KFP2.

Edited May 3, 2012 by firedeep

[Rudolf]

Although BS and Titanic are both ships, the movies are totally different. Why are they competition to each other?

[lab276]

Is it very likely that Titanic will be the number one movie of the year?

[dezorz]

And why would they make a film about Battleship in the first place?

the answer is, why not.i think there are two better questions, why hasbro decided to do it and why universal joined.hasbro has been long in tv business making tv series based on their intellectual properties. not only they make money on such tv shows, these shows also help to sell more hasbro toys. next logical step was movie business. with 3 billion gross from TF franchise, Hasbro feels lucky. GI Joe wasn’t not a success I doubt it broke even but from the fact that there will be a sequel I suppose there must have been increase in G.I.Joe toys sales. Of course, Hasbro is happy to sell Avengers figures and any toys based on popular films, but for such toys they pay a lot of money to license them. By making their own films based on their own figures they make money and increase sales of their own figures and probably they can sell licenses (to make comic books, any other merchandise).but why universal? they are in need for a strong franchise. ok. TF is doing pretty well, so anything which sounds like next TF is a big temptation for them. But did their really had to do Hasbro Battleship? They could have done their own Battleship (based on original story, no need to buy a license for original characters and story). I suppose coproduction with hasbro mitigates potential risk.

[lab276]

The deal with Hasbro was a disaster and it's good that they're out of it now.

[dezorz]

Although BS and Titanic are both ships, the movies are totally different. Why are they competition to each other?

because these films are both huge 4 quadrant blockbusters.

[dezorz]

5.31 Hugo

how do you see Hugo´s performance in China?