China Box Office Thread | Deadpool & Wolverine- July 26

[Hernan Gonzalez]

[Olive]

 

Olive, do you know how much did Trans4mers in Taiwan? 

 

This is Transformers 3 box office run in Taiwan according to BOM. It looks completely wrong, isn't it?

 

TAIWAN

Weekend Box Office

2011

 

TF3 made 760M NT$ in Taiwan, TF4 about 30-40% drop.

[rockNrollaDIM]

Screendaily:

China’s box office increased by 25% to reach $2.23bn (RMB13.74bn) in the first half of 2014, according to official figures from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRT).

Foreign productions accounted for 52% of the total with a combined gross of $1.15bn (RMB7.1bn), boosted by recent Hollywood releases such as Transformers: Age Of Extinction, X-Men: Days Of Future Past and Captain America: The Winter Solider.

Soi Cheang’s 3D fantasy adventure The Monkey King was the top-grossing local film in the first half of 2014 (Jan 1 to June 30), and the highest-grossing film overall in this six month time frame with $169.5m.

Still on release, Transformers: Age Of Extinction is expected to boost year-end totals. Released on June 27, the film has so far grossed $280m in China. Big local productions scheduled for release before the end of the year include Jiang Wen’s Gone With The Bullets, Tsui Hark’s The Taking Of Tiger Mountain and Peter Ho-sun Chan’s Dearest.

CHINA TOP TEN LOCAL FILMS (Jan-June 2014)

1.The Monkey King - $169.5m (RMB1.05bn)

2.Where Are We Going, Dad? - $112.8m (RMB696m)

3.From Vegas to Macau - $85m (RMB525m)

4.My Old Classmate - $73.9m (RMB456m)

5.Beijing Love Story - $65.8m (RMB406m)

6.Overheard 3 - $50.1m (RMB309m)

7.Coming Home - $47.3m (RMB292m)

8.The Great Hypnotist - $44.4m (RMB274m)

9.Boonie Bears: To The Rescue - $40.1m (RMB248m)

10.The Breakup Guru - $30.8m (RMB190m)*

*Still on release

CHINA TOP TEN FOREIGN FILMS (Jan-June 2014)

1.Transformers: Age Of Extinction - $122.3m (RMB754m)*

2.X-Men: Days Of Future Past - $117.4m (RMB724m)

3.Captain America: The Winter Soldier - $116.8m (RMB721m)

4.The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - $95.7m (RMB590m)

5.Godzilla - $77.6m (RMB479m)*

6.The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug - $75.1m (RMB464m)

7.Need For Speed - $66.8m (RMB412m)

8.Edge Of Tomorrow - $65.8m (RMB406m)

9.Despicable Me 2 - $52.6m (RMB324m)

10.RoboCop - $51.1m (RMB315m)

*Still on release

Damn. Maleficent probably could have gotten 65-70m without transformers in the way.

[Accursed Arachnid!™]

China 311m

U.S. 230m

 

[scabab]

Just a quick question but Expendables 3's Chinese box office potential, what could we be looking at there?

 

Ex2 did $50 million and the market has grown a ton since then, could it be another movie where it grosses more in China than U.S?

[Bob Violence]

Is TF4 going to stay on IMAX screens until White Haired Witch opens on 8/1?

[Olive]

Is TF4 going to stay on IMAX screens until White Haired Witch opens on 8/1?

No, Continent will rob the IMAX screens.

[Tower]

Just a quick question but Expendables 3's Chinese box office potential, what could we be looking at there?

 

Ex2 did $50 million and the market has grown a ton since then, could it be another movie where it grosses more in China than U.S?

 

I'm expecting that to happen.

[Donald]

Yes its highly likely that exp3 in china will exceed its us gross.....infact I think its locked.!

[alee7915]

Thursday est 
***The Continent 100M/$16.1M (NEW/1 DAY)***

The House That Never Dies 18.1M/$2.9M, Total : 264M/$42.6M(7 days)

Tiny Times 3 15.3M/$2.5M, Total : 417M/$67.3M(8 days)

Transformers 4 8.3M/$1.3M,  Total : 1935M/$312.1M(28 days)

Old Boy:The Way of The Dragon 1.8M/$0.3M, Total : 198M/$31.9M(15 days)
The Breakup Guru 1.2M/$0.2M, Total : 654M/$105.5M(28 days)

[KATCH-2D2]

 

Thursday est 

***The Continent 100M/$16.1M (NEW/1 DAY)***

The House That Never Dies 18.1M/$2.9M, Total : 264M/$42.6M(7 days)

Tiny Times 3 15.3M/$2.5M, Total : 417M/$67.3M(8 days)

Transformers 4 8.3M/$1.3M,  Total : 1935M/$312.1M(28 days)

Old Boy:The Way of The Dragon 1.8M/$0.3M, Total : 198M/$31.9M(15 days)

The Breakup Guru 1.2M/$0.2M, Total : 654M/$105.5M(28 days)

 

The Continent is huge. Is it going to be another $100m grosser?

 

TF4 made half of TT3 number with less than 1/3 of TT3's show times, that's impressive!

[alee7915]

The Continent is huge. Is it going to be another $100m grosser?

 

TF4 made half of TT3 number with less than 1/3 of TT3's show times, that's impressive!

 

 

It is early to say.  Need to see how The Continent run for the next few days as take TT3 as an example, it opened huge however it is running out of steam soon and I don't think TT3 will reach $100M.

[Donald]

Jesus!!!!continent!I think the entire top 10 of the yr will have 100mill films!lets bet aka

[Donald]

Yes it looks like tt3 wont even touch 80mill lol. Talk abt front loading!isn't it a1.4x multiplier!

[Donald]

Oh.......every week these past few weeks has a major hit!..Are we looking at record grosses for july!---$500mill?

[alee7915]

Yes it looks like tt3 wont even touch 80mill lol. Talk abt front loading!isn't it a1.4x multiplier!

 

TT1 and TT2 both are front loading too!

[baumer]

Thing about Expendables is, they too get a bigger share of the gate than a typical Hollywood film as well.  I think there is some kind of Chinese investment in it, plus they have some big Asian stars on their roster as well.

[Olive]

The Continent OD is more like 76.5M yuan.

[juni78ukr]

Why such a huge difference?

[alee7915]

Why such a huge difference?

 

There are two sources on weibo which provide everyday's est numbers.  One normally released their est numbers around 10pm (China time) and another one normally released their est numbers around 12am(China time).  Sometimes the 10pm one is closer to the actual numbers and sometimes is the 12am one is closer to the actual numbers.  Since they both are est sources, therefore they is no official est source.  This is why we call it "est" and we will get the actual numbers on tomorrow afternoon(China time) for today numbers.

 

*Both estimate sources most of the time their est numbers are close to each another(for example for today, the 10pm one estimated TF4 took 8.3M/$1.3M and the 12am one estimeated TF4 took 8M/$1.29M), however sometimes they do have a huge difference est numbers but rare for example today's est numbers for "The Continent".

Edited July 24, 2014 by A K A