China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[charlie Jatinder]

Rank | Title | Daily | Shows | Admits | Total Gross

 

1	Water Gate Bridge	471,109,300	163,711	8,511,209	1,111,055,200
2	Too Cool To Kill	214,800,400	91,554	3,918,764	428.849,300
3	Only Fools Rush In	106,198,700	85,251	1,935,386	333,210,200
4	Boonie Bears: Back to Earth	105,486,000	48,251	2,016,818	217,846,500
5	Nice View	97,999,300	72,571	1,845,622	279,926,700
6	Sniper	31,125,900	30,085	587,682	79,374,500

 

Yday numbers.

[peludo]

6 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Seems like 350M today. 1425M 3 days. Can see it end around 2.5B. Let's see.

It is already at 378m today by 18:20 (1.489b cume)

[charlie Jatinder]

10 minutes ago, peludo said:

It is already at 378m today by 18:20 (1.489b cume)

Yeah that was based on 435-340M yday but the number is now adjusted to 470M.

[peludo]

I just noticed that To cool to kill has increased each day relative to previous one (yesterday increase is barely null, but still an increase):

Day 1: 214.1m

Day 2: 214.9m

Day 3: 219.0m (at 19:05)

 

Maoyan was projecting yesterday 2.35b final for it.

[charlie Jatinder]

Just 91.6% online gross for Lake Changjin II y'day. CNY biggies usually have 95%, they pumping numbers already?

 

[Olive]

1 hour ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Just 91.6% online gross for Lake Changjin II y'day. CNY biggies usually have 95%, they pumping numbers already?

 

online share lower than usual for all movies, some even under 90%

[charlie Jatinder]

8 minutes ago, Olive said:

online share lower than usual for all movies, some even under 90%

Smaller films is understandble since they are anyways doing smaller numbers. But bigger films gotta have more online sale.

[druv10]

2 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Just 91.6% online gross for Lake Changjin II y'day. CNY biggies usually have 95%, they pumping numbers already?

 

Lol, I thought you said numbers were legit unlike the Maoyan score

[charlie Jatinder]

Just now, druv10 said:

Lol, I thought you said numbers were legit unlike the Maoyan score

yes generally. and even here one can suspect when they dont look like.

[juni78ukr]

Is it possible that after weak New Year grosses Chinese authorities will be more lenient towards Hollywood movies? Apparently they do not want to see box office decreased compared to last year and do not want to lose box office crown to US again. 

[Tokugennumataka]

38 minutes ago, juni78ukr said:

Is it possible that after weak New Year grosses Chinese authorities will be more lenient towards Hollywood movies? Apparently they do not want to see box office decreased compared to last year and do not want to lose box office crown to US again. 

All for it if it means Avatar 2 will get a release date. 

[charlie Jatinder]

On 2/1/2022 at 5:17 PM, Issac Newton said:

Difference in Ratings

 

Douban Ratings

Nice View : 7.4 (~35K)

Water Gate Bridge : 7.2 (~20K)

Too Cool To Kill : 6.9 (~11K)

Only Fools Rush in : 5.6 (~26K)

 

Maoyan Ratings

Water Gate Bridge : 9.6 (~76K)

Nice View : 9.5 (~55K)

Too Cool To Kill : 9.2 (~25K)

Only Fools Rush in : 9.1 (~30K)

 

*No. of Ratings in Brackets

Too Cool To Kill seems to be having best trending while Nice View has sustained after day two drop and is now having better occupancies than Lake Changjin. Will probably by Monday that Too Cool To Kill will start winning daily numbers, though Lake Changjin has 1B lead, will be tough to beat it.

 

So even when everything is underperforming, the curse lives.

[charlie Jatinder]

Day	2022	2021	2019	2018
1	25,910	34,434	32,288	32,630
2	19,250	27,954	22,238	25,768
3	18,910	29,309	20,825	23,496
4	17,000	24,381	19,271	21,685
5		23,113	18,841	20,584
6		20,690	17,602	20,185
7		16,693	14,279	16,953
8		12,927	10,729	13,953
9		11,500	9,106	13,518
10		10,000	16,022	13,397

 

 

[Issac Newton]

On 2/1/2022 at 5:17 PM, Issac Newton said:

Difference in Ratings

 

Douban Ratings

Nice View : 7.4 (~35K)

Water Gate Bridge : 7.2 (~20K)

Too Cool To Kill : 6.9 (~11K)

Only Fools Rush in : 5.6 (~26K)

 

Maoyan Ratings

Water Gate Bridge : 9.6 (~76K)

Nice View : 9.5 (~55K)

Too Cool To Kill : 9.2 (~25K)

Only Fools Rush in : 9.1 (~30K)

 

*No. of Ratings in Brackets

Difference in Ratings

 

Douban Ratings

Nice View : 7.4 (~142K)

Water Gate Bridge : 7.2 (~110K)

Too Cool To Kill : 6.8 (~105K) (-0.1)

Only Fools Rush in : 5.6 (~96K)

 

Maoyan Ratings

Water Gate Bridge : 9.6 (~365K)

Nice View : 9.5 (~187K)

Too Cool To Kill : 9.2 (~144K)

Only Fools Rush in : 9.0 (~108K) (-0.1)

 

*No. of Ratings in Brackets.

Spoiler

On 2/1/2022 at 8:21 PM, Issac Newton said:

~¥2000M or ½ of TBALC (¥5776M) should be a decent Finals. Sequel intend to drop 💧☔

Will Pass my 1st est. (¥200M) tomorrow.

 

 

[Issac Newton]

Comparing Dailies With TBALC

 

WGB vs TBALC

D1 : ¥640M vs ¥205M 

D2 : ¥471M vs ¥410M 

D3 : ¥438M vs ¥438M  

D4 : ¥360M vs ¥473M  

 

Cumulative Total Until Day 4 : ¥1911M* vs ¥1528M 

[porginchina]

3 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

Comparing Dailies With TBALC

 

WGB vs TBALC

D1 : ¥640M vs ¥205M 

D2 : ¥471M vs ¥410M 

D3 : ¥438M vs ¥438M  

D4 : ¥360M vs ¥473M  

 

Cumulative Total Until Day 4 : ¥1911M* vs ¥1528M 

The daily tallies for the two movies really aren't directly comparable given the massive differences in the two holiday periods in which they launched (TBALC was always going to rise from opening day to day two; WGB was always going to have its highest-grossing day on opening day). A head-to-head comparison like this doesn't reveal anything, other than WGB's lack of staying power compared to its predecessor.

[Issac Newton]

3 minutes ago, porginchina said:

The daily tallies for the two movies really aren't directly comparable given the massive differences in the two holiday periods in which they launched (TBALC was always going to rise from opening day to day two; WGB was always going to have its highest-grossing day on opening day). A head-to-head comparison like this doesn't reveal anything, other than WGB's lack of staying power compared to its predecessor.

Yeah, I get that. Since, it was falling from Day 2, I was looking for how far it can hold ahead of TBALC or it's prequel. By Sun/Mon, I guess TBALC will go ahead of it's sequel WGB

[Issac Newton]

From Global Times (China) : 

Korean War films ignite moviegoers’ patriotism in Chinese New Year

Chinese audience's patriotic sentiments and ode to the heroic spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53) reached a peak after two war epics — The Battle at Lake Changjin II and Snipers — hit theaters during the lucrative Chinese New Year period.

As of Friday afternoon, the total box office for the film season had reached 4.24 billion yuan ($ 667 million). The Battle at Lake Changjin II, also known as Watergate Bridge, has kept atop of the list by grossing 1.84 billion yuan, which is over 200 million yuan than the box office of The Battle at Lake Changjin on their fourth screening days, according to Chinese ticketing platform Maoyan.

The "effect of Changjinhu" seems to have continued from the first film released in October 2021 until the 2022 Chinese New Year as many Chinese moviegoers took to social media to share the moments that touched them most after watching Watergate Bridge.

"The blizzard on the battlefield was so big that the Chinese People's Volunteers could not walk, the enemy's planes covered the sky, and the blasting of tons of artillery lit up the night sky. This scene made me tremble from outside the screen," one Chinese netizen commented on Sina Weibo.

"1950 was also the Year of the Tiger… At that time, the Chinese People's Volunteers crossed the Yalu River to resist US aggression and aid Korea. We won victory and brought decades of peaceful development. After 72 years, the seventh year of the Tiger in New China is coming. In such a special year, we should remember this great victory even more, and the younger generation should know their happy life today is hard to come by," Bona Film Group CEO Yu Dong told the Global Times in an exclusive interview.

Adapted from real historical events, Watergate Bridge tells the story of Chinese People's Volunteer soldiers bombing the Watergate Bridge in battle with US troops.

Shi Wenxue, a film critic based in Beijing told the Global Times that the scale of the two sequels is very different: The Battle at Lake Changjin is more macro, and involves a multi-arm joint operation, whereas Watergate Bridge is a small-scale and single-task operation, and many plots show individual combat and small company coordination.

"There are two places that impress me the most: One is the red scarf fluttering on the dead trees in the snow-capped mountains, and the other is that there is only one soldier who survived from the whole military team. It is the fearless sacrifice of the revolutionary martyrs that brought about today's prosperous China," he said. 

Although the other same themed film, Snipers, directed by the well-known director Zhang Yimou and his daughter Zhang Mo, did not perform very well in the box office (currently grossing 145 million yuan), it has earned the highest review score (7.7/10) among the seven other films released during Chinese New Year, according to reviewing website Douban. 

"It can be said that Snipers is a biography for every unsung hero from the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. The film did not deliberately belittle the opponent, and confrontations between the two sides truly became a confrontation between fighters, rather than a general battlefield confrontation. By digging deeper into the details of the characters, we can restore the cruelty of the battlefield. We Chinese cannot forget this history," one film critic commended on Douban.

[Landon1195]

What's the news on a release date for The Batman in China?

[Issac Newton]

6 hours ago, Landon1195 said:

What's the news on a release date for The Batman in China?

Not happening. See CFA page (chinafilm.gov.cn) if it has a license for release in Mainland China approved or not. If you can not find it getting a licensed number than it is yet to be approved for release.

 

For Example : The Battle At Lake Changjin has the licensed number : 368 (link : https://www.chinafilm.gov.cn/chinafilm/contents/168/3792.shtml)

 

Again, you can search it on (chinafilm.org.cn) if it has a date or not.

 

For example: Spirited Away : http://www.chinafilm.org.cn/Item/Show.asp?m=117&d=13687&fid=36713

Edited February 5, 2022 by Issac Newton