China Box Office Thread | Deadpool & Wolverine- July 26

[Sophia Jane]

Avatar 2 got 3.32m views on Bilibili,beating AEG's 3.29m and NWH's 2.98m

Edited May 30, 2022 by Bruce

[NCsoft]

24 minutes ago, Bruce said:

Rise of Gru Banned in China

Please don't tell me this has anything to do with "yellow minions" = a form of racism?🙄

[IronJimbo]

35 minutes ago, Bruce said:

Avatar 2 got 3.32m views on Bilibili,beating AEG's 3.29m and NWH's 2.98m

whats this mean, 3.32m what? whats bilibil (Sorry I don't come here often!)

[Issac Newton]

8 hours ago, IronJimbo said:

whats this mean, 3.32m what? whats bilibil (Sorry I don't come here often!)

Bilibili is a Video Sharing Platform like YouTube. Bruce is mentioning the view count.

 

But the view count difference in Weibo is very high. Avatar 2 (8.25M) vs Avengers: Endgame (25.98M). Olive had mentioned back that the buzz isn't at the level of Endgame.

 

Spoiler

20th Century Studio's Weibo

Like - 8364

Comment - 986

Share - 2279

 

Marvel Studio's Weibo

Like - 112,000

Comment - 46,000

Share - 145,000

 

[Olive]

9 hours ago, Bruce said:

Rise of Gru Banned in China

And Lightyear.

[keysersoze123]

27 minutes ago, Olive said:

And Lightyear.

So is disney permabanned at this point? What about Thor 4?

[NCsoft]

This is turning out to be a devastating year for China box office tracking.

 

[porginchina]

1 hour ago, Olive said:

And Lightyear.

Hardly surprising between the film's inclusion of a gay kiss and Chapek recently earning the ire of the super-online Chinese nationalists for stating that Disney is going fine without China.

 

Genuinely impressive to see how quickly the folks in Beijing are eroding China's status as a global box office power player.

[porginchina]

34 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:

So is disney permabanned at this point? What about Thor 4?

Permabanning isn't really a thing in China as they can (and often do) get around to forgiving people for perceived slights against China/the nation-state. Plus, even if they're not making it into theaters, Disney still has a significant presence in China between places like Shanghai Disneyland (which has been closed for two and a half months thanks to lockdown) and stores and merchandising and the like.

 

The wildly optimistic best-case scenario for Thor 4 is that the movie receives a release date in September similar to Spider-Man Homecoming and Ant-Man and the Wasp since July and August are traditionally blackout months where Hollywood movies aren't allowed to play in theaters. Realistically, however, Thor won't make it to China.

[charlie Jatinder]

Considering how Paramount is lucky this year, who knows Laal Singh Chaddha breakout in China.

 

 

[Borobudur]

2 hours ago, Olive said:

And Lightyear.

Next - Avatar 2? The authority there is in hysterical mood now and even something safer like Avatar 2 seem vulnerable to get a release date. Without a proper release date confirmed or at least some certainty, it is very hard to market this movie properly for it to become the breakout hit it needed.  

[IronJimbo]

4 hours ago, Issac Newton said:

Bilibili is a Video Sharing Platform like YouTube. Bruce is mentioning the view count.

 

But the view count difference in Weibo is very high. Avatar 2 (8.25M) vs Avengers: Endgame (25.98M). Olive had mentioned back that the buzz isn't at the level of Endgame.

 

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20th Century Studio's Weibo

Like - 8364

Comment - 986

Share - 2279

 

Marvel Studio's Weibo

Like - 112,000

Comment - 46,000

Share - 145,000

 

 

oh its like youtube? Then why aren't you guys giving dates? Also Are you comparing teaser trailers or final trailers?

 

I feel like you might be comparing 3.5 years of endgame views vs less than a month of avatar 2 views.

[MG10]

13 hours ago, NCsoft said:

Please don't tell me this has anything to do with "yellow minions" = a form of racism?🙄

 

If this was the case they are 5 movies late 😅

 

4 hours ago, keysersoze123 said:

So is disney permabanned at this point? What about Thor 4?

 

There was no doubt about Thor 4 from the start, I don't understand why people keep asking for every Marvel movie as if something has changed in the meantime...

 

 

[titanic2187]

Rough calculation have china box office at around ¥730m or around $110m in the entire May, compared to near $780m of domestic market. The different is the box office of the entire second lake movie.

 

How many lakes are there left in china to save box office?

[xieh tie]

 

[Issac Newton]

Tuesday Estimates

 

#1 Bad Guys : ¥2.4M / ¥202.4M 

#2 Doraemon 2021 : ¥2.1M / ¥23.3M 

#3 Man On The Edge : ¥1.3M / ¥146.3M

#4 Love Will Tear Us Apart : ¥0.8M / ¥378.5M [Re-release]

#5 Water Boys : ¥0.5M / ¥67M [Re-release]

 

Others (Total)

Fantastic Beasts 3 (¥181M), The Batman (¥161.7M), Moonfall (¥153.5M), Uncharted (¥143.9M), Hotel Transylvania 4 (¥104M), We Made A Beautiful Bouquet (¥94.9M) Escape Room 2 (¥68.6M), Downton Abbey 2 (¥9.8M) &Marry Me (¥3.7M)

 

Last Tuesday

 

#1 Bad Guys : ¥1.91M

#2 Love Will Tear Us Apart : ¥1.46M

#3 Man On The Edge : ¥1.29M

 

Cinema Opened : 8299 / 11822 (68.6%)

[Krissykins]

I don’t follow China box office but that’s nice to see Escape Room 2 had its worldwide gross inflated a bit. 
 

Is Jurassic World Dominion releasing? Is it expected to do anything? The last two did $228-261m. 

[dudalb]

Western Movies access to China is always on a tightrope, and don't think the studios execs don't occasionally lose sleep over this fact.

[dudalb]

13 hours ago, titanic2187 said:

Rough calculation have china box office at around ¥730m or around $110m in the entire May, compared to near $780m of domestic market. The different is the box office of the entire second lake movie.

 

How many lakes are there left in china to save box office?

And what happens if the Chinese Government decides to reserve the remaining lakes for Chinese films ?

[dudalb]

17 hours ago, porginchina said:

Hardly surprising between the film's inclusion of a gay kiss and Chapek recently earning the ire of the super-online Chinese nationalists for stating that Disney is going fine without China.

 

Genuinely impressive to see how quickly the folks in Beijing are eroding China's status as a global box office power player.

I think for a great many people in China the Mandate of Heaven cannot run out quickly enough for the current regime.