China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[fmpro]

Surprisenly a pretty decent drop for Mummy..

[A Marvel Fanboy]

I think the 'better than expected' drops ——it's still no good holds by any means, just not as extremely terrible as supposed—— of Mummy so far were resulted by two facts: a)middle of June being half-summer with maybe a quarter of students out of school and b)the lack of horror content on Chinese big screens making its WOM among GA not quite as horrible as review platforms all suggested. It's still bad WOM but maybe I could describe it like this: compared with 99% of those local horror flicks, The Mummy, as bad as it is, is almost a horror masterpiece... in this context, we probably could expect a relatively decent run for the upcoming Alien: Covenent as well.

 

However, good days can only last till June 23. 

Edited June 14, 2017 by firedeep

[POTUS 2020]

11 hours ago, a2knet said:

550m Yuan/80m USD for Mummy?

 

42 minutes ago, fmpro said:

Surprisenly a pretty decent drop for Mummy..

Drops are softening as schools let out. With 27m today, perhaps 23m tomorrow.  Alien PS will get to 16-17m. Open 50-60m. I think Mummy will score 18-20m on Friday with competition and screen loss being light and be close to 550m on Sunday. 580-585m on Thursday neck and neck with WW. They will footrace to 600m. Mummy wins by a Sphinx nose

 

I was in India during the Commonwealth games 2010.   I remember machine gun nests set up on intersections in Delhi and was told it was because of the games. No idea about the wrestling win that became Dangal that I just watched. Great movie. Geeta is the real WW in China, doubling Marvel's WW BO.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

A handful of Chinese brands probably paid Hasbro some $50 million combined for products placements in TF5. ATP, a TF film doesn't need 1B WW to break even before after-theatrical revenues hit.

[a2k]

45 minutes ago, POTUS said:

 

Drops are softening as schools let out. With 27m today, perhaps 23m tomorrow.  Alien PS will get to 16-17m. Open 50-60m. I think Mummy will score 18-20m on Friday with competition and screen loss being light and be close to 550m on Sunday. 580-585m on Thursday neck and neck with WW. They will footrace to 600m. Mummy wins by a Sphinx nose

 

I was in India during the Commonwealth games 2010.   I remember machine gun nests set up on intersections in Delhi and was told it was because of the games. No idea about the wrestling win that became Dangal that I just watched. Great movie. Geeta is the real WW in China, doubling Marvel's WW BO.

That's a really nice and poetic way to put it.

[POTUS 2020]

1 hour ago, firedeep said:

A handful of Chinese brands probably paid Hasbro some $50 million combined for products placements in TF5. ATP, a TF film doesn't need 1B WW to break even before after-theatrical revenues hit.

I took a look at a Shanghai  IMAX theater site.  It had 4 shows listed on Friday and Saturday at 3.5 hour spacings. Is that the case for other theaters? If so it will only have 135k shows on OD compared to FF8s 165k. 

[Jame007]

Who could definitively say The Mummy is 110 minutes not 107 minutes. Don't quote me IMDb. It's not a reliable source per Wikipedia. I also don't believe that reasoning of the American Made trailer. Trailers appear in the front in American theaters, not after. thx. Please actually write a news report.

[jiangsen]

2 hours ago, Jame007 said:

Who could definitively say The Mummy is 110 minutes not 107 minutes. Don't quote me IMDb. It's not a reliable source per Wikipedia. I also don't believe that reasoning of the American Made trailer. Trailers appear in the front in American theaters, not after. thx. Please actually write a news report.

It ran uncensored in China. Runtime difference is related to the trailer. https://m.douban.com/movie/subject/20451290/questions/746107?from=question_open

[jiangsen]

3 hours ago, POTUS said:

I took a look at a Shanghai  IMAX theater site.  It had 4 shows listed on Friday and Saturday at 3.5 hour spacings. Is that the case for other theaters? If so it will only have 135k shows on OD compared to FF8s 165k. 

Definitely not. I'm seeing screenings every 20/30 mins for most Beijing theaters. 

Edited June 14, 2017 by jiangsen

[Olive]

Showtimes are not the problem for super blockbusters, theaters always dump the holdovers to give priority to them.

It's the per-show-attendee that matters.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Just took a look. Beijing Joycity Jinyi Cinema is assigning two IMAX shows on Friday, 6 IMAX shows on Saturday with 2 hours 50 mins spacings. The other Jinyi cinema at IKEA has both 5 IMAX shows on Friday and Saturday. A Lumiere cinema has a crazy 7 IMAX shows from 8:40am to 1:10am per day through opening Sunday. So it's a theater by theater case just like usual. Most listed theaters have distributed two screens to TF5. On average, one screen will do 4~5 shows per day for TF5.

 

Yang Mi's sci-fi thriller RESET was supposed to take over half of TF5 IMAX screenings on June 30, only one week later, making TF5 IMAX window is the shortest among the franchise. But it seems Reset was dumped by IMAX.

Edited June 15, 2017 by firedeep

[POTUS 2020]

14 hours ago, jiangsen said:

Definitely not. I'm seeing screenings every 20/30 mins for most Beijing theaters. 

 

10 hours ago, Olive said:

Showtimes are not the problem for super blockbusters, theaters always dump the holdovers to give priority to them.

It's the per-show-attendee that matters.

I was referring to the amount of showings per screen per day which @firedeep answered.  That has an impact as big as PTA as typically a 1:45 movie can have 6 shows, 2:15 - 5 shows and 3:00 - 4 shows if there aren't midnights.  

Wow 2:50 spacing is tight. Get em out, get em in start the trailers.

FF8  had 165k on Friday on what I assumed was 33k screens of the 44k total at 5 shows per.  If TF5 can average 5, as firedeeps observation suggests, then it too should have at least 165k.  FF8 had 180k on Saturday.  Maybe with school out TF5 could approach that number on Friday with the help of 2k more screens built. 

[jiangsen]

3 hours ago, POTUS said:

 

I was referring to the amount of showings per screen per day which @firedeep answered.  That has an impact as big as PTA as typically a 1:45 movie can have 6 shows, 2:15 - 5 shows and 3:00 - 4 shows if there aren't midnights.  

Wow 2:50 spacing is tight. Get em out, get em in start the trailers.

FF8  had 165k on Friday on what I assumed was 33k screens of the 44k total at 5 shows per.  If TF5 can average 5, as firedeeps observation suggests, then it too should have at least 165k.  FF8 had 180k on Saturday.  Maybe with school out TF5 could approach that number on Friday with the help of 2k more screens built. 

Usually no trailers in China.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

I catch trailers only once or twice a year. It depends on the circuit operators and screen formats it seems. For example, IMAX screenings (at least at Wanda) always have no trailers, except for the movie and IMAX logo, nothing else. The Poly theaters would usually play trailers before the movie. And when there are trailers, they are often two or three very short ones, like TV spots, 30 seconds tops. 2 mins 27s full length theatrical trailers, no such thing in China. Commercials are much more common though. Sometimes you get up to a dozen of commercials.

 

My first modern theater experience was in 2007 I remember. Once I put down my butt and the light went out, I was immediately blown away ... by a commercial (yes a commercial) playing before the movie. The sound was so loud, the screen was so wide, so bright. The commercial galloping before my eyes, almost alive. The movie itself was forgetable. Today I would by annoyed by an ugly commercial. But ever since then, that screen has been by far the best one I've ever seen. Even the IMAX cannot match.

Edited June 15, 2017 by firedeep

[fmpro]

Around 15% drop for Mummy today. 23ish Mill

Sould hit 550 mill this weekend and around 600 mill Total

[Gavin Feng]

THU estimates
 
before service charges

The Mummy  -  21.7m / 446.6m

Wonder Woman  -  10.1m / 492.7m
Pirates 5  -  6.6m / 1,062m

Alien: Covenant  -  5.11m / 5.76m(previews+MN)

Dangal  -  4.01m / 1,143m

after service charges

The Mummy  -  23.3m / 477.4m

Wonder Woman  -  10.9m / 525.4m
Pirates 5  -  7.1m / 1,135m

Alien: Covenant  -  5.5m / 6.17m(previews+MN)

Dangal  -  4.35m / 1,240m

[Gavin Feng]

			Rank	Title	Lifetime Gross (Million)
			1	Fate of the Furious	¥2,670	$387.93
			2	Kung Fu Yoga	¥1,753	$254.87
			3	Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back	¥1,656	$240.87
			4	Dangal	¥1,239	$179.51
			5	Kong: Skull Island	¥1,161	$168.75
			6	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	¥1,134	$165.49
			7	xXx: Return of Cage	¥1,127	$163.88
			8	Resident Evil: The Final Chapter	¥1,110	$161.65
			9	Duckweed	¥1,049	$152.49
			10	Buddies in India	¥758.3	$110.27
			11	Logan	¥730.5	$105.94
			12	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2	¥685.7	$99.35
			13	A Dog's Purpose	¥607.3	$88.07
			14	Beauty and the Beasts	¥591.6	$85.74
			15	Wonder Woman	¥525.4	$77.17
			16	Bonnie Bears: Entangled Worlds	¥522.6	$75.99
			17	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	¥478.3	$69.15
			18	The Mummy	¥477.4	$70.24
			19	The Devotion of Suspect X	¥402.2	$58.44
			20	Shock Wave	¥400.3	$58.09

[Premium George]

There are two hollywood movies in this list that were surprises, xxx and re6.

And ofcourse one movie that noone would have thought of being #3 import of 2017.

[James]

50 minutes ago, Gavin Feng said:

			Rank	Title	Lifetime Gross (Million)
			1	Fate of the Furious	¥2,670	$387.93
			2	Kung Fu Yoga	¥1,753	$254.87
			3	Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back	¥1,656	$240.87
			4	Dangal	¥1,239	$179.51
			5	Kong: Skull Island	¥1,161	$168.75
			6	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	¥1,134	$165.49
			7	xXx: Return of Cage	¥1,127	$163.88
			8	Resident Evil: The Final Chapter	¥1,110	$161.65
			9	Duckweed	¥1,049	$152.49
			10	Buddies in India	¥758.3	$110.27
			11	Logan	¥730.5	$105.94
			12	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2	¥685.7	$99.35
			13	A Dog's Purpose	¥607.3	$88.07
			14	Beauty and the Beasts	¥591.6	$85.74
			15	Wonder Woman	¥525.4	$77.17
			16	Bonnie Bears: Entangled Worlds	¥522.6	$75.99
			17	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	¥478.3	$69.15
			18	The Mummy	¥477.4	$70.24
			19	The Devotion of Suspect X	¥402.2	$58.44
			20	Shock Wave	¥400.3	$58.09

Wow, never realized Kong did that well! That bodes well for future movies in the Kong/Godzilla franchise.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

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