China Box Office Thread | Deadpool & Wolverine- July 26

[alee7915]

Friday numbers #c'mon olive ,,,be our china Nikki lol

 

Olive---> china Nikki?

[alee7915]

Amazing openings!

 

So IM3's OD record survived? Or the figures can be revised further?

 

No as IM3's OD is  121M/$19.5M and Monkey King's OD is 122M/$19.7M.  

Edited February 1, 2014 by deep mama

[druv10]

Olive---> china Nikki?

China Rth. 

[Donald]

Yeah,he's more like rth.Am thinkin he was offended by my post:|

[Olive]

Monkey King beat IM3 3D opening day record just barely.

And Dad beat the previous 2D OD record too.

Daily gross record is 242M yuan...

Saturday numbers coming shortly.

[alee7915]

Monkey King beat IM3 3D opening day record just barely.

And Dad beat the previous 2D OD record too.

Daily gross record is 242M yuan...

Saturday numbers coming shortly.

 

Olive, Sunday will be busy or it will back to normal?

[Olive]

Olive, Sunday will be busy or it will back to normal?

Won't slow down till Feb 6th.

[POLYLOVE]

Monkey King and Dad, two crap movies with poor WOM are now sweeping Chinese movie market, and claiming records.....LOL, this is the ture reality of China's movie industry.

Edited February 1, 2014 by POLYLOVE

[alee7915]

edited 

Edited February 1, 2014 by deep mama

[Olive]

Sat estMonkey King 92m 215mDad, where are we going 80m 170mThe Man From Macau 24m 49m EX-Files 4.2m 18.2mBoonie Bear 3.3m 217mDM2 1.6m 316m

[alee7915]

Sat est

Monkey King 92m 215m

Dad, where are we going 80m 170m

The Man From Macau 24m 49m

EX-Files 4.2m 18.2m

Boonie Bear 3.3m 217m

DM2 1.6m 316m

 

Saturday early #s

The Monkey King 92M, 215M/$35M(in 2 days)

Dad 80M, 170M/$27.4M(in 2 days)

The Man From Macau 24M, 49M/$8M(in 2 days)

[efialtes76]

Sat estMonkey King 92m 215mDad, where are we going 80m 170mThe Man From Macau 24m 49mEX-Files 4.2m 18.2mBoonie Bear 3.3m 217mDM2 1.6m 316m

Poor Frozen...

[Olive]

Sunday est

Monkey King------------------ 85m --------302m

Dad, where are we going-- 72m --------243m

The Man From Macau------ 20m ----------69m

EX-Files-------------------------3.8m -------22.1m

Boonie Bear----------------------------------219m

DM2 -------------------------------------------317m

[Olive]

Sorry to disappoint Frozen fans.

Because of  Monkey and Dad's strong performance, many theaters won't give screens to Frozen.

Some  only schedule 1-3 showings per day for Frozen while dozens of showings for those 2 shitty movies...

[Dingdong123]

Sorry to disappoint Frozen fans.Because of Monkey and Dad's strong performance, many theaters won't give screens to Frozen.Some only schedule 1-3 showings per day for Frozen while dozens of showings for those 2 shitty movies...

Urgh, that's some opportunity lost. Japan better cooperate now to get that billion.

[Fullbuster]

Sorry to disappoint Frozen fans.

Because of  Monkey and Dad's strong performance, many theaters won't give screens to Frozen.

Some  only schedule 1-3 showings per day for Frozen while dozens of showings for those 2 shitty movies...

 

It's ok, I didn't expect something from China, I saw ominous signs

But it's really sad to see a lot of viewers in China won't be able to see this great movie.

[druv10]

Sorry to disappoint Frozen fans.

Because of  Monkey and Dad's strong performance, many theaters won't give screens to Frozen.

Some  only schedule 1-3 showings per day for Frozen while dozens of showings for those 2 shitty movies...

 

I wasn't expecting much from China anyway. Their taste in movies is ridiculously bad. DM2 and Croods make 50 and 60M respectively while MU and now, Frozen will struggle to do even half. 

[Omni]

Their taste in movies is ridiculously bad.

That's the summary. Period.

And the worrying thing is that the most pathetic market is also the one that's increasing very fast.

 

I really don't get how someone who have been following the box office for years and have some knowledge of China's history and of basic psychology could rationally think Frozen could have been a hit there.

Weeks ago I predicted Despicable Movie 2 to triple Frozen in China. Sub-20M, here we come.

[Bob Violence]

Planning to see The Monkey King (which I'm expecting to be a clusterfuck) and The Man from Macau (which I don't expect much from either, though I actually thought The Last Tycoon was a decent movie and deserved better at the box office).

 

Okay so I've seen these now, here are some rambling thoughts on the pair:

 

The Man from Macau - The Last Tycoon (Wong Jing's previous collaboration with Chow Yun-fat) belonged to the minority of "serious" Wong Jing movies (A True Mob Story, I Corrupt All Cops, Colour of the Truth, etc.). The Man from Macau—notionally a spirtual successor to God of Gamblers and its assorted offspring—is Wong Jing at his Wong Jing-iest, which means dick jokes, bad puns, cleavage, fat women used for cheap laughs, over-the-top mugging, cartoon sound effects, characters spontaneously breaking into song, and comic book-style elements (Chow fights his enemies by throwing metal playing cards; a secret agent has a cybernetic eyeball with a built-in camera).This won't convert anyone who isn't already on board with Wong's infantile humor, but it does show why his infantile humor is preferable to a wannabe like Badges of Fury. Badges of Fury seemed more and more desperate for laughs as it went on, withholding the really ridiculous stuff until the very end. Wong is too balls-out to pace himself that way and throws the kitchen sink into every scene. He's proudly and genuinely shameless, but however bad his jokes might be, they're bad in a way that privileges energy and effort above calculation.And to be fair, there's actually some clever stuff here, like the surprise outcome of a baccarat game or the way co-producer TVB is actually incorporated into the plot. I also liked the understated visual gag where Chow's car phone turns out to be a handset connected to a cell. Best of all is the chance to see Chow let his hair down and prove that roles like Confucius and Cao Cao haven't sapped his playfulness. The biggest disappointment is the dearth of gambling scenes, which might have something to do with the killjoys at the Film Bureau. (They're at least somewhat sensitive to the subject matter, given the title change this underwent in the mainland—from "Casino Turmoil" to "Macau Turmoil"—and the similar retitling of Wong's recent Mr. and Mrs. Gambler.) But Chinese audiences evidently dig that stuff even if the regulators don't: the audience I saw this with actually gasped in unison when a character got a really good mahjong hand.The Monkey King - As advertised, this is a total SFX orgy. Practically every shot seems to have a CG element, which typically varies from "acceptable" to "crap" (very rarely "good" or "great"). It's certainly more technically sophisticated than the TV versions, but a. so what, they spent somewhere around 300-500 million yuan and you could make multiple TV versions for that price, and b. the difference between the effects here and the effects there is more quantitative than qualitative. The overall aesthetic isn't much different, with unconvincing greenscreen work (the actors almost never seem to be inhabiting the same planet as the backgrounds) and a garish plastic sheen on everything from the costumes to the architecture.The artificiality can be amusing, especially the contrast between the CGI and the practical effects. Some of the "demons" look like veterans of the Chuck E. Cheese house band, which has been widely criticized but in my opinion adds some goofy charm. But there's very little imagination at work. Like the TV versions, it's a mostly dutiful illustrated text; where it takes liberties with the story, it's either for the sake of compression or nods to Hollywood-style formula. The Jade Emperor is given more power, so Chow Yun-fat can have a couple of big and awkward-looking fight scenes. There's also a token romance between Sun Wukong and a fox spirit, which is as cringeworthy as it sounds but thankfully doesn't go very far. But the biggest change drastically alters Wukong's traditional character: he's no longer an antihero, just an unwitting dupe of the Bull Demon King.To my mind this is an almost debilitating shift, eliminating the character's anarchic and vaguely political edge. In this version, for example, Wukong isn't even really upset when the Jade Emperor assigns him to oversee Heaven's stables, he just gets goaded to anger by one of the Bull Demon King's minions. It's as if someone (and I'm prepared to blame Donnie Yen here, since this is clearly his project more than anyone's) decided that the story needed to obey simplistic black hat/white hat logic and turned Wukong into a naive nice guy. One knock-on effect is that the entire "uproar in Heaven" part (which takes up the last half-hour of the film) isn't an expression of the character's personality, but just a big misunderstanding that goes on far longer than it has any right to. The Monkey King is inevitably being compared to Stephen Chow's Journey to the West movies (which were original stories incorporating the same characters), but this is really the Chinese equivalent of Man of Steel: another movie about a cultural icon that also had more money than brains and was also less interested in character than in mind-numbing spectacles of destruction.

Edited February 2, 2014 by Bob Violence

[alee7915]

Sorry to disappoint Frozen fans.

Because of  Monkey and Dad's strong performance, many theaters won't give screens to Frozen.

Some  only schedule 1-3 showings per day for Frozen while dozens of showings for those 2 shitty movies...

 

Olive, but Frozen's release date in China is next weekend.  Monkey and Dad's should be less busier by next weekend?