China Box Office Thread | Oppenheimer-August 30

[Quigley]

BH6 projection：

Week 1 ----- 85m (37.5m+47.5m)

Week 2 ----- 188m (18m+18m+20m+20m+21m+45m+50m, Saturday-Sunday dip: +17%, nuts !)

Week 3 ----- 120m (15m+15m+15m+13m+13m+28m+24m, ?)

Week 4 ----- 70m

Week 5 ----- 30m

Rest --------- 20m

Total -------- 513m $81m

Jupiter Ascending, around 150m $24M OW, decent, should target $50m

Why would it increase on Sunday?

[ClaudeManhattan]

Glad to see Jupiter Ascending is doing well in China.

Unlike the West, I guess the Chinese and the Eastern Europeans appreciate original space operas.

[Lihongkim]

Why would it increase on Sunday?

Women Day

[Olive]

I feel like the BH6 increase is too good to be true. #buzzkill

Actuals turn out to be higher than estimates, BH6 made 47.7M yuan, biggest daily for the movie.

[Olive]

Sat actuals

JA 57.1/99.9

BH6 48.2/226

Macau2 25.7/853

Paddington 16.3/31.8

[James]

Sat actuals

JA 57.1/99.9

BH6 48.2/226

Macau2 25.7/853

Paddington 16.3/31.8

JA increased a bit from estimates. Great!

[Lihongkim]

Macau 2 & Wolf Totem were uploaded on youtube days ago...

so bad, it will effects its box office...

they do not yet release in my country untill April (new year in my country)

even Outcast was uploaded too

[Olive]

Sunday(March 8th) estimates

#/Title: Daily(yuan)~Total(yuan)~Total($)

1.Big hero 6: 47.7M~274M~$43.8m 

2.Jupiter Ascending: 46.1M ~146M~$23.3m

3.Macau 2: 24M~877M~$140.5M

4.Wolf Totem: 20.6m~625m~$100m 

5.Paddington: 14.7M ~46.5M~$7.4m 

6.Dragon Blade: 8m~713m~$114m

 

*USD total based on current exchange rate.

It seems that Women's Day didn't help as much as expected.

Edited March 8, 2015 by Johnny Storm

[Quigley]

Sunday(March 8th) estimates

#/Title: Daily(yuan)~Total(yuan)~Total($)

1.Big hero 6: 47.7M~274M~$43.8m

2.Jupiter Ascending: 46.1M ~146M~$23.3m

3.Macau 2: 24M~887M~$141.8M

4.Wolf Totem: 20.6m~625m~$100m

5.Paddington: 14.7M ~46.5M~$7.4m

6.Dragon Blade: 8m~713m~$114m

*USD total based on current exchange rate.

It seems that Women's Day didn't help as much as expected.

Saturday was so high that even a small decrease in Sunday is great. $18M weekend. Wow.

[pepsa]

Saturday was so high that even a small decrease in Sunday is great. $18M weekend. Wow.

 

Decrease? Yesterday was 45M before actuals, and the actuals made it 48 so maybe the actuals will be 50M today. Just sayin it could be, because the last days it always goes up.

[Olive]

Top Animated movies in China

1.Kung Fu Panda 2 - 617M -2011

2.Ice Age 4 - 449M - 2012

3.How to Train Your Dragon 2 - 409M -2014

4.The Croods - 395M -2013

5.Despicable Me 2 - 324M - 2014

6.Frozen - 299M -2014

7.Bonnie Bears 2 - 292M -2015

8.Big Hero 6 -274M -2015

9.Smurfs - 255M - 2011

10. Peguins of Madagascar - 251M

11.Bonnie Bears - 247M -2014

12.Rio 2 - 243M -2014

13.Madagascar 3 - 211M -2012

14. Monsters University -210M -2013

15.Kung Fu Panda - 190M -2008

 

None-franchise movie

current exchange rate: 1$ =6.26 yuan

Edited March 8, 2015 by Johnny Storm

[Olive]

LOL, Kingsman Chinese version will be 39 min shorter than international one, laughable.

[picores]

LOL, Kingsman Chinese version will be 39 min shorter than international one, laughable.

 

 Why? Violence?

[Olive]

 Why? Violence?

Should be. Cloud Atlas was also 37 min shorter in China.

[pepsa]

37 min??? Holy moly that is 1/3 of film 

[seduh]

great numbers for BH6, I hope it makes $70

[Bob Violence]

Should be. Cloud Atlas was also 37 min shorter in China.

 

Very few of those 37 minutes were censorship cuts, though. The local distributor just cut out everything that wasn't absolutely essential to the plot. Maybe the Film Bureau really did censor nearly 40 minutes of Kingsman, but I think that might qualify it as the most heavily censored film ever released to Chinese theaters. Even all the cuts to Django Unchained amounted to a minute or two. Cloud Atlas isn't the only time an import has been heavily recut by the Chinese distributor—in another example, The Grey was missing about 20 minutes of footage when it came out in China, most of which would've posed no problems at the Film Bureau—so maybe the 39 minutes in Kingsman are combination of censorship edits (which the film would certainly need) and "improvements" by the distributor.

Edited March 9, 2015 by Bob Violence

[BadAtGender]

37 min??? Holy moly that is 1/3 of film 

 

37 minutes is not 1/3 of Cloud Atlas. Damn thing's about 3 hours long.

 

It's great, but... long.

[druv10]

With BH6 breaking out (it had potential with robots and SH), I can only imagine what crazy high gross TA2 is going to do in May.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Highly anticipated cop thriller Helios just dated Apr 30, battling for May holiday. Nice ! It's interesting to see which one will be the highest grossing cop thriller of this year, Helios or Ringo Lam's Hustle ?

Johnnie To's Three On The Road, which will come out next year, already began shooting. Louis Koo + Vicki Zhao + Wallace Chung = first $100m+ cop thriller ! It's like Drug War 2, so excited for it.

Edited March 9, 2015 by firedeep