China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[peludo]

10 minutes ago, newbie BO buff said:

 

 

Is this like an overall industry slump or just some movies failing?

Worse CNY results than last year

Edited March 12, 2022 by peludo

[Issac Newton]

Wuhan Variants are finally returning home after having a World Tour 🥲

[Flamengo81]

Any news regarding Batman pre-sales? How it compares to Uncharted..?

[ThatWaluigiDude]

Today's launch of Uncharted was the pre-release right? The amount of showings was pretty low and the average per screen was pretty high.

[Issac Newton]

Uncharted : ¥5.8M /$0.9M (M1)

 

If I/EnData is not wrong "The Batman" Total Pre-sales is at ¥1.5M!!

Edited March 12, 2022 by Issac Newton

[BruiseCruise]

Just now, Issac Newton said:

Uncharted : ¥5.8M /$0.9M (M1)

How does that compare to matrix resurrections? I saw on twitter yesterday that presales for uncharted were weaker than MR at the same point

[Issac Newton]

6 minutes ago, BruiseCruise said:

How does that compare to matrix resurrections? I saw on twitter yesterday that presales for uncharted were weaker than MR at the same point

Whenever, someone talks about Matrix Resurrection, it gives me negative hypes. Uncharted is 1000000 billion times better than MR, the later was affected by WOM, even if Uncharted has a bad Opening date, The Batman &Wuhan Variants Immigrants in it's way, my guess say ¥200M+ /$31.5M+ (at C.E.R) is still at play ✨

[dax33]

22 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

If I/EnData is not wrong "The Batman" Total Pre-sales is at ¥1.5M!!

How good is that compared to Uncharted/Matrix at the same point? $50M OW possible?

[Olive]

15 hours ago, dax33 said:

How good is that compared to Uncharted/Matrix at the same point? $50M OW possible?

presales not good ,maybe 40-50M total luckily if the COVID won't get worse.

[AnDr3s]

there's no hype or just bad timing?

[YourCake]

Well from an extremely positive point of view, getting released in China and earning a few dollars is still better than not getting released at all. Needless to say, no one expected China to support DC/The Batman as they did for Marvel in the past.

[TigerPaw]

1 hour ago, AnDr3s said:

there's no hype or just bad timing?

1. Presales increase over the weekend is always negligible in China; presales barely opened at like 5pm on Fri evening.

2. Shanghai and Shenzhen and some other key cities for Hollwood films are down..

3. Some DC films are popular in China - i.e Aquaman but Batman's popularity is yet to be proven. But to be fair Dark Knight rises beat (barely due to no 3D) Amazing Spiderman there but the 2 prev Nolan Batman films were not released there, Batman villain films like Joker, TSS and SS were never released there.

 

Let's see. China is a Word of mouth market - but without Shanghai and Shenzhen, and being a 3 hr film.. not sure how it will be received.

Edited March 13, 2022 by TigerPaw

[Gavin Feng]

Big cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen, Changchun, Qingdao, Dongguan are totally down due to COVID.

 

 

[efialtes76]

14 minutes ago, Gavin Feng said:

Big cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen, Changchun, Qingdao, Dongguan are totally down due to COVID.

 

 

"Covid Zero"...

A lockdown in 2022 is stupid as fuck.

More vaccines and less restricctions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[porginchina]

According to a post on Maoyan, 60 cities have shut their cinemas for a total of 1944 movie theaters, representing 16.4% of China's movie theaters and 15.9% of China's box office. This as of 15ish minutes ago… the situation is extremely fluid and could change; COVID-zero has been remarkably effective thus far in terms of keeping China's deaths astonishingly low and keeping pressure off the hospital systems, but Omicron is tearing through the country impressively quickly. Here in Shanghai, tons of apartment complexes have been cordoned off; the general mood in the city is not the greatest.

[efialtes76]

46 minutes ago, porginchina said:

According to a post on Maoyan, 60 cities have shut their cinemas for a total of 1944 movie theaters, representing 16.4% of China's movie theaters and 15.9% of China's box office. This as of 15ish minutes ago… the situation is extremely fluid and could change; COVID-zero has been remarkably effective thus far in terms of keeping China's deaths astonishingly low and keeping pressure off the hospital systems, but Omicron is tearing through the country impressively quickly. Here in Shanghai, tons of apartment complexes have been cordoned off; the general mood in the city is not the greatest.

You can't keep Covid-zero forever and ever.

Covid won't dissapear...

Edited March 13, 2022 by efialtes76

[Legion Again]

Quite frankly, it’s surprising that omicron took this long. It’s pretty clearly past the containment phase now, probably gonna rack up over 500M infections on the next couple months, reaching every region. Depending on the attempted government+Societal response could pretty much wipe out BO until June.

[porginchina]

The next week/week and a half will be key for determining whether China manages to contain this wave or whether the country gets thoroughly overwhelmed. The political cost of omicron getting out and tearing through the Chinese population would be unfathomable and the loss of life would be staggering… China is densely populated and has a massive elderly population and a ton of smokers… basically, the perfect recipe for disaster with a respiratory illness. So far, they're heading back to the same well of tricks (Shanghai's in an unofficial partial lockdown; Changchun and Jilin in northern China are in full lockdown; megacity Shenzhen entered a week of full lockdown today; and that's just listing some of the more high-profile locations). With China's enthusiasm for mass testing and contact tracing and shutting things down to stop spread, think there's still at least some cause for hope. Really hoping that this gets contained quickly and with a minimum of fuss… looking forward to being able to return to a movie theater when this wave is over.

 

And, no, Covid-zero isn't sustainable forever; official rhetoric is slowly turning in a direction where the country might move away from the policy in the quasi-foreseeable future. Given China's unique vulnerabilities to Covid-19 (and the lack of immunity in the population), it'll take time. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

 

Anyhow, speaking of box office… looks like the weekend box office is in the low 120 million RMB range (~$19 million USD); in other words, not good. March 2022 box office to date is just over 500 million RMB (under $80 million) across almost two weeks.

[Issac Newton]

Uncharted:

 

M1 : ¥21.6K

M2 : ¥5.8M

M3 : ¥2.8M

[Flamengo81]

Any news is Batman's pre sales compared with Uncharted?