China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[Gavin Feng]

a reminder, today's showtimes start from 6pm for Boy and the Heron.

[tarabeesley]

10 minutes ago, Gavin Feng said:

a reminder, today's showtimes start from 6pm for Boy and the Heron.

So it only showed for 6 hours and still made that huge opening amount?

How does it compare to the openings of other recent animated films?

 

I find the Chinese box office fascinating since it exploded about 10 years ago.

Edited April 3 by tarabeesley

[Gavin Feng]

6 minutes ago, tarabeesley said:

So it only showed for 6 hours and still made that huge opening amount?

How does it compare to the openings of other recent animated films?

 

I find the Chinese box office fascinating since it exploded about 10 years ago.

 

 

yes Boy & Heron make that number in just 6 hours. So it's actually more like previews (though local industry still call things like this OD).

 

It's the first import movie hitting ¥100M OD since FX... third best OD for import animated movies behind Despicable Me 3, Kong Fu Panda 3. 

 

THU-FRI-SAT are national holidays (SUN this time is a workday). It can try the daily record for a import animated movie held by Frozen 2 with ¥167.55M. Then:

 

- ¥337M lifetime gross to beat North America

- ¥433M lifetime gross to beat Japan

 

I hope it can challenge US+CANADA+JAPAN (China finally beat The US Japan Alliance somehow)

[tarabeesley]

1 hour ago, Gavin Feng said:

 

 

yes Boy & Heron make that number in just 6 hours. So it's actually more like previews (though local industry still call things like this OD).

 

It's the first import movie hitting ¥100M OD since FX... third best OD for import animated movies behind Despicable Me 3, Kong Fu Panda 3. 

 

THU-FRI-SAT are national holidays (SUN this time is a workday). It can try the daily record for a import animated movie held by Frozen 2 with ¥167.55M. Then:

 

- ¥337M lifetime gross to beat North America

- ¥433M lifetime gross to beat Japan

 

I hope it can challenge US+CANADA+JAPAN (China finally beat The US Japan Alliance somehow)

It seems like a 75 - 90 million dollar 5 day opening is possible. Absolutely astonishing numbers. If it does manage something in this range, its final gross could far surpass any predictions. 

Edited April 3 by tarabeesley

[Issac Newton]

Seems like SEED Freedom release in China is called off (same reason as JJK but this time it's the director instead of PR Team). 

 

Seed Freedom was originally supposed to release in May

[Issac Newton]

$90M / ¥650M is roughly equivalent to wait SLAM DUNK did in it's entire run - ¥660M. I can't see that happening unless God's willing 

 

Maoyan Projection for OW

 

¥101M Wednesday 18:00

¥160M Thursday 

¥104M Friday 

  ¥68M Saturday 

  ¥20M Sunday 

 

¥453M / $63M - 5-Days OW

[ando]

It seems that Dune is getting an extension until May 7th now? 

[fmpro]

4 hours ago, Issac Newton said:

Wednesday

1. The Boy and The Heron - ¥101.00M / ¥101.24M
2. Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire - ¥37.80M / ¥409.95M
3. Dwelling by the West Lake - ¥10.82M / ¥10.90M
4. The Victims ! - ¥10.00M / ¥10.60M
5. Viva De Vida - ¥4.10M / ¥173.09M

Is it holidays?

[fmpro]

14 hours ago, SaltyPistola said:

Are the Monday/Tueday drops for GxK good? How far can the total leg out? 100M?

maoyan has updated its projections to 126 mill $ total

[Issac Newton]

24 minutes ago, fmpro said:

Is it holidays?

Holidays are from today i.e. Thursday to Saturday 

 

 

[tarabeesley]

17 minutes ago, fmpro said:

maoyan has updated its projections to 126 mill $ total

How can you see these? Can you send a website link please? 

[Issac Newton]

1 hour ago, ando said:

It seems that Dune is getting an extension until May 7th now? 

Somehow should reach $50M but I guess it will still miss

 

Wednesday - ¥950K / ¥337.18M 

Edited April 3 by Issac Newton

[Parasite]

Is this good for Dwelling by the west lake ?

[AoKi]

8 hours ago, Issac Newton said:

Seems like SEED Freedom release in China is called off (same reason as JJK but this time it's the director instead of PR Team). 

 

Seed Freedom was originally supposed to release in May

So it will no longer release, such a shame I think SEED is the most popular of the Gundam series in China so it could have done good numbers.

[Issac Newton]

3 minutes ago, AoKi said:

So it will no longer release, such a shame I think SEED is the most popular of the Gundam series in China so it could have done good numbers.

Some are still waiting to confirm but Mitsuo Fukuda tweets were all viral across the Weibo. He has deleted all the tweets but I guess it will hardly make a difference - 

 

Extremely shameful because SEED was supposed to get a confirmed date in a couple 2-3 days

 

 

[Issac Newton]

3 hours ago, Parasite said:

Is this good for Dwelling by the west lake ?

Numbers are quite inferior to be honest 

 

Maoyan Predicted ¥85M / $12M Final

[Issac Newton]

Day 2 will be above ¥160M / $22M Forecast 

 

Live Forecast is at ¥180M / $25M

 

I wonder how good is ¥200M / $28M is looking

[tarabeesley]

Would a 28 million single day gross for a non-Chinese animation in China be some sort of record? 

[Issac Newton]

5 minutes ago, tarabeesley said:

Would a 28 million single day gross for a non-Chinese animation in China be some sort of record? 

 

16 hours ago, Gavin Feng said:

It can try the daily record for a import animated movie held by Frozen 2 with ¥167.55M.

Yeah 

 

Biggest Single Day BO for an Imported Animation (Prev Record - ¥167.55M by Frozen II)

 

Suzume did ¥152.98M, Highest among Japanese Animation

Edited April 4 by Issac Newton

[tarabeesley]

8 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

 

Yeah 

 

Biggest Single Day BO for an Imported Animation (Prev Record - ¥167.55M by Frozen II)

 

Suzume did ¥152.98M, Highest among Japanese Animation

It seems like almost all countries except Japan underestimated 'The Boy and the Heron' in terms of initial screen counts... most countries increased them in the next week after opening. I wonder why?