China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[Issac Newton]

According to me, TOP 5 works are expected to be around $600M-$1.2B. Among them Avatar 2 &WaterGate Bridge are expected to pass $1.000B.

 

Single Day in Spring Festival is clearly expected to pass $300M. We are likely to get the biggest OW of all time ($1.000B+) for all the works releasing in Spring Festival (both 3-days &Extended Weekend). 

[XXR vs XXR]

25 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

According to me, TOP 5 works are expected to be around $600M-$1.2B. Among them Avatar 2 &WaterGate Bridge are expected to pass $1.000B.

 

Single Day in Spring Festival is clearly expected to pass $300M. We are likely to get the biggest OW of all time ($1.000B+) for all the works releasing in Spring Festival (both 3-days &Extended Weekend). 

 

What films are coming during Spring Festival and what is their expected BO? 

 

[Issac Newton]

18 minutes ago, RiddlerXXR said:

 

What films are coming during Spring Festival and what is their expected BO? 

 

Animation Category:

1) Jurassicland & Dinosaurs

2) Run,Tiger Run!

3) Chibi Maruko Chan：The Fantastic Notebook

4) DUNK FOR FUTURE

5) Boonie Bears：Back To Earth

 

Romance Category:

1) The second face

2) The Story Of Youth

 

Comedy Category:

1) Too Cool To Kill

2) Advancing of ZQ

 

Over-Crowded. One-two of them will be blockbuster. BTW, I am missing some of them.

 

Spoiler

I am not sure about their performance but at the same time can not overpredict the numbers. I will just wait for pre-sales to start before markings some project for each works.

 

Edited January 2, 2022 by Issac Newton

[The GOAT]

2 hours ago, RiddlerXXR said:

Domestically, most people have predictions about what will be the top 5 biggest films of 2022 already. 

What do most people think will be the 5 biggest in China in 2022, and how much do you think they'll make? 

 

Chungking Express 2

Ip man 5

Drunken Master 4 

Comrades, Almost a Love story

Police Story 6

[XXR vs XXR]

50 minutes ago, The GOAT said:

Chungking Express 2

Ip man 5

Drunken Master 4 

Comrades, Almost a Love story

Police Story 6

 

Shouldn't that Water Gate movie be top 5? Probably 1st?

[The GOAT]

An absolute gem of a movie that I found on youtube the other day. 

 

 

[xieh tie]

 

[Issac Newton]

On Dec 29, The test screening of Japanese Film was done in Beijing. But, the name is still unknown. 🥲

[xieh tie]

Wuhan lockdown-inspired movie dominates China’s New Year box office

 

The Chinese mainland box office for the New Year weekend has broken 1 billion yuan ($157 million) as of 9 pm on Monday, ranking the 3rd in Chinese film history's same film period, according to Chinese ticketing platform Maoyan. While Xi'an in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province remains in lockdown, a movie inspired by the Wuhan lockdown rose to the top to dominate the box office.

In light of the robust performance, Chinese film observers are predicting that China will still hold onto the title of "world's largest film market" in 2022.

Maoyan shows that a total of six films were released during the holiday period, with the top three highest-grossing ones being the warm-hearted Embrace Again (315 million yuan), crime and action film G Storm (223 million yuan) and comedy Another Me (223 million yuan.)  

Chinese movie observers noted that the New Year box office hosted a diverse range of films including the genres of romance, comedy, action and family animation. However, it seems that reviews for the films this time are all lower than that in the same period of 2021.

"G Storm cannot be compared with Shock Wave 2, and Another Me is not funnier than the 2020 Warm Hug," Shi Wenxue, a film critic, told the Global Times on Monday.

Xiao Fuqiu, a film critic based in Shanghai, also pointed out that 2022's New Year films lacked a blockbuster like A Little Red Flower during the 2021 holiday weekend. 

While Embrace Again depicts the love stories of people living through the COVID-19 lockdown in Wuhan from January to March 2020, it did not make a big wave at the box office compared to A Little Red Flower, which grossed 761 million yuan during its three-day opening weekend. 

Both film experts pointed out that a lack of foreign language films in the schedule is one of the biggest characteristics of the New Year weekend.

According to Maoyan, Japanese animation Ponyo was released around the 2021 New Year holiday in the Chinese mainland, while Hollywood's Angel Has Fallen and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse were respectively released in the mainland right before the 2020 and 2019 New Year holidays. However, this time no foreign language films were screened over the New Year. 

"The absence of foreign language films this New Year may be related to the situation that there were not many foreign language films released in China throughout the entirety of 2021. Meanwhile, with more domestic blockbusters rushing to get into the holiday schedule, it left less room for films from overseas," Xiao said. 

The China Film Administration on Saturday released data showing that the Chinese film market in 2021 was the largest in the world at 47.258 billion yuan, with domestic films accounting for 84.49 percent of the total box office. Additionally, the total number of screens ranked first in the world.

"The Chinese film market has continued to wear the crown of the world's largest film market since 2020 amid the global pandemic. This is both the achievement of our country's anti-pandemic measures and the success of Chinese homegrown films. I'm very confident that China can continue holding on to this leading position in 2022," said Shi.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202201/1243975.shtml

[Issac Newton]

Jujutsu Kaisen Movie 0's Ratings

 

Maoyan : 9.0

Douban : 8.6 

 

Spoiler

According to Maoyan, 13.4K awaiting to see the film.

 

[efialtes76]

Encanto OW will be ridiculous!

[Olive]

Hollywood will have a hard time in 2022, even Encanto is not allowed to presale until last 10 hours.

[Issac Newton]

3 hours ago, Olive said:

Hollywood will have a hard time in 2022, even Encanto is not allowed to presale until last 10 hours.

Golden Age of China Box Office.....

 

The test screening on Dec 29 was held for "I felt in love like a Flower bouquet", schedule for Chinese Release....

[LPLC]

After the cold war against Russia, USA is now in a cold war against China except that it is especially China which provokes.

[The GOAT]

18 minutes ago, LPLC said:

After the cold war against Russia, USA is now in a cold war against China except that it is especially China which provokes.

Trade War started 4 years ago? 

[LPLC]

3 hours ago, The GOAT said:

Trade War started 4 years ago? 

Speak about movies and cinemas in general

[The GOAT]

7 minutes ago, LPLC said:

Speak about movies and cinemas in general

I mean they have been cracking down on what they call "spiritual opium" lately

[Cap]

MODERATION:

 

Let’s try and keep the politics to the politics sub forum, and keep on the box office numbers here. Thanks everyone

[druv10]

9 hours ago, Olive said:

Hollywood will have a hard time in 2022, even Encanto is not allowed to presale until last 10 hours.

Lol, Isaac wanted Marvel to apologize for this nonsense.

[cannastop]

so how is it looking for Encanto this Friday in China? 🤔