China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[POLYLOVE]

IM3 surpassed SY on Saturday, one day earlier than we estimated.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

June 8 would be a great date for FF6 but they replaced it with the shitty "Switch". It would do at least $100M with June 8, $120M possible. June 20 is a terrible date. In its 2nd week, most of FF6 screens will be taken and it will have to compete with After Earth the same time. Now even 65M would be lucky.

[messipotamia]

 

 

 

Firedeep do you know for a fact that MOS is being released in late Aug? or is that a prediction? 32 million for superman would be great (4X as much as SR did).

Edited May 20, 2013 by messipotamia

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Firedeep do you know for a fact that MOS is being released in late Aug? or is that a prediction? 32 million for superman would be great (4X as much as SR did).

More a prediction at the moment but I am pretty sure it will be like that.

[messipotamia]

thanks for that.....what's the prob btw WB and china? I heard they've been at odds for a while.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Sunday for ADIC didnt drop from Saturday ...   Another 500M+ local film here we come. 

 

Hollywood movies only have won 4 weeks so far of all 20 weeks. The next Hollywood to win one week will be FF6 then it will be over. Cant catch a break. 

 

Last year 2012 Hollywood won more than 30 weeks, this year 15 would be lucky.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

WEEKLY BOX OFFICE 2013 CHINA
Week 20 (May 13 ~ May 19)
RANK	TITTLE	OPEN	WEEKLY (￥)	WEEKLY ($)	CHANGE (+/-%)	CUME (￥)	CUME ($)
1	American Dream in China	May 17	￥104,000,000	$16,693,419	NEW	￥104,000,000	$16,693,419
2	Iron Man 3 (3D/IMAX)	May 01	￥80,400,000	$12,905,297	-60.0%	￥684,400,000	$109,855,538
3	So Young	Apr 26	￥54,000,000	$8,667,737	-62.5%	￥677,000,000	$108,667,737
4	Oblivion	May 10	￥53,500,000	$8,587,480	-6.1%	￥110,500,000	$17,736,758
5	The Croods (3D)	Apr 20	￥36,800,000	$5,906,902	-31.8%	￥317,800,000	$51,011,236
6	Django Unchained	May 12	￥9,543,000	$1,531,782	151.1%	￥13,343,000	$2,141,734
7	Mortician	May 16	￥3,618,700	$580,851	NEW	￥3,618,700	$580,851
8	Piano Trojan	May 10	￥438,600	$70,401	56.6%	￥718,600	$115,345
9	Conspirators	Apr 27	￥316,600	$50,819	-81.6%	￥22,196,600	$3,562,857
10	G.I. Joe: Retaliation (3D/IMAX)	Apr 15	￥212,000	$34,029	-92.9%	￥337,200,000	$54,125,201
OVERAL WEEK 20 BO 2012			￥250,000,000	$39,619,651
OVERAL WEEK 20 BO 2013			￥360,000,000	$57,784,912	44.0%	45.8%
OVERAL BO YEAR-TO-DATE 2012			￥6,200,000,000	$982,567,353
OVERAL BO YEAR-TO-DATE 2013			￥8,552,000,000	$1,372,712,681	37.9%	39.7%

 

American Dream in China --- Big 70%+ jump on Saturday helped by growwing word of mouth and almost flat on Sunday. Based on how it held through the week and how it is doing on Monday (Mondday number to be around Friday), this is obviously another 500M+ local film, especially considering excellent wom and less competitions within one month following. One thing to note, this movie is especially hot among college students. These audience could power it with great legs through the entire graduation season, which means it probably will even have a shot at $100M.

 

Iron Man 3 --- Down 60% from last week, the superhero coproduction finally managed to catch So Young on Sunday morning. It was not an easy work. And from here, the gap between the two will be very small that it doesnot really matter which does (slightly) better in the end. It is a TIE.

 

So Young --- It got hurt from ADIC. 700M+ for a crap YA cash-grabber ? Anyway, it doesnot deserve this much box office. Nothing more to say. 

 

Oblivion --- Movies with good word of mouth usually increase at least 50% from three days opening. Oblivion decreased. Another Hollywood movie with poor legs. It will end less than $25M.

 

Croods, The --- what a beast run for an animated film. It already beat Hobbit. With a run extended to June 24, even 400M $64M total is possible. It will pass GIJ2 at 337M next week and then Skyfall at 375M to become second biggest foreign film behind IM3 of the year to date.

    And since Croods now will be closed on June 24th, we can guess that the next Hollywood animation, Monsters University, will be released on June 25th. 

[A Marvel Fanboy]

IMAX gross for IM3 has reached $10M as of May 19.

[cjk]

Sunday for ADIC didnt drop from Saturday ...   Another 500M+ local film here we come. 

 

Hollywood movies only have won 4 weeks so far of all 20 weeks. The next Hollywood to win one week will be FF6 then it will be over. Cant catch a break. 

 

Last year 2012 Hollywood won more than 30 weeks, this year 15 would be lucky.

 

The world gets crazy!!!! China box office will reach ￥23B（$3.7B) in 2013,+35% by last year. ￥500M can‘t rank #10 this year ，#10 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island ￥364M in 2012.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

The world gets crazy!!!! China box office will reach ￥23B（$3.7B) in 2013,+35% by last year. ￥500M can‘t rank #10 this year ，#10 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island ￥364M in 2012.

And what is crazier: maybe IM3 will be the only foreign film in the top 10 of 2013 ...

 

(FF6 had got a chance but then it was moved from a best date to a worst one).

[cjk]

And what is crazier: maybe IM3 will be the only foreign film in the top 10 of 2013 ...

 

(FF6 had got a chance but then it was moved from a best date to a worst one).

The release day seems not bad, it has 7 days before Tiny Times comes, maybe ￥400M already have be finished.

I think the release date much better than Tiny Times and Badges of Fury, the two big movies will release in 2 days,like TDKR and TASM released in the same day last year.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

The release day seems not bad, it has 7 days before Tiny Times comes, maybe ￥400M already have be finished.

I think the release date much better than Tiny Times and Badges of Fury, the two big movies will release in 2 days,like TDKR and TASM released in the same day last year.

Wrong. 7 days later after FF6 opens, most of its screens will be gone. Tiny Times and Badges have nothing to compete for a whole month following during summer holidays, not like TASM/TDKR at all, which was in September and had Prometheus and TE2 the same week.

 

After Earth will also open with FF6. 400M in 7 days ? Kidding ... more like 300M if it is lucky.

 

As someone said, FF6 could have a shot at 800M had it released on June 8, but now 400M will be lucky.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Since IM3 did 120M+ on its only holiday day. It can be assumed that FF6 could do 300M+ from the three days Dragon Boat holidays alone. But it got pushed. Plus June 8 means no competitors within 20 days. In other worlds, that would be some 400M lost for FF6. IM3 lost 200M+ for missing two days of the May holiday.

[Ay72998]

That "American Dreams in China" number is just so astonishing! About $17 million USD in three days?  Firedeep, does that film have similar hype as So Young did?  Review wise, is it better than So Young's?  Do you think its going to do Finding Mr. Right numbers or more?

 

And what is your prediction for Tiny Times boxoffice number?

[POLYLOVE]

Saw ADIC yesterday, a good movie that deserves 500M. Movies like So Young grossing 700M is totally a disaster of Chinese movies.

[druv10]

 

Iron Man 3 --- Down 60% from last week, the superhero coproduction finally managed to catch So Young on Sunday. It is not an easy work. And from here, the gap between the two will be very small that it doesnot really matter which does (slightly) better in the end. It is a TIE.

 

So Young --- It got hurt from ADIC. Nothing more to say.

 

 

 

IM3 would have easily won with the same release date as SY so to me it's a clear winner as it had to deal with a lot of bureaucracy in China. 

[A Marvel Fanboy]

That "American Dreams in China" number is just so astonishing! About $17 million USD in three days?  Firedeep, does that film have similar hype as So Young did?  Review wise, is it better than So Young's?  Do you think its going to do Finding Mr. Right numbers or more?

 

And what is your prediction for Tiny Times boxoffice number?

Its pre-release hype was just about one third atm of that of So Young I would say. Reviews/wom for it is much much much better than SY, probably even better than FMR. Yes, I think it will do FMR numbers, easily. It may dominate until FF6 arrives on June 20.

 

Tiny Times is likely the most hyped local film of the year I think, more hyped than SY. Some who have seen test screening said it is a very solid film. 800M for TT is possible IMO.

Edited May 20, 2013 by firedeep

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Keanu Reeves's directorial debut Man of Tai Chi will be released on July 5th in IMAX 2D, CFGS and regular 2D in China. The film is co-produced by China Film Company (CFC), Wanda Media Company (WMC), Village Roadshow Asia Company (VRAS) and Universal Pictures. It will be distributed by CFC and WMC in China and by Universal internationally (including North America).

 

Here is the official theatrical poster:

 

You can also watch the trailer here: http://news.mtime.com/pix/2013/05/21/374831.html

Edited May 21, 2013 by firedeep

[zackzack]

Is there a Top 10 listing of the current movies playing in China with their accumulative earnings?

[zackzack]

Keanu Reeves's directorial debut Man of Tai Chi will be released on July 5th in IMAX 2D, CFGS and regular 2D in China. The film is co-produced by China Film Company (CFC), Wanda Media Company (WMC), Village Roadshow Asia Company (VRAS) and Universal Pictures. It will be distributed by CFC and WMC in China and by Universal internationally (including North America).

 

Here is the official theatrical poster:

 

You can also watch the trailer here: http://news.mtime.com/pix/2013/05/21/374831.html

 

Keanu killed that dude with a big-ass mace in RELOADED