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		Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun)							Apr 25-May 1
LW	TW	Title	Last Week (HKD)	This Week (HKD)	Days in release	% chg	Total (HKD)	This Week (USD)	Total (USD)
--	1	Captain America: Civil War	--	$50,929,068	4	--	$50,929,068	$6,570,480	$6,570,480
1	2	Zootopia	$3,202,625	$1,181,005	39	-63.1%	$49,756,818	$152,364	$6,419,245
--	3	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	--	$820,295	4	--	$820,295	$105,828	$105,828
5	4	The Boy	$1,132,869	$802,252	11	-29.2%	$1,935,121	$103,500	$249,654
3	5	Trivisa	$1,853,362	$639,467	25	-65.5%	$8,861,651	$82,499	$1,143,262
2	6	10 Cloverfield Lane	$2,356,540	$470,301	18	-80.0%	$5,954,427	$60,674	$768,194
6	7	Port of Call	$1,080,143	$411,062	151	-61.9%	$4,066,169	$53,032	$524,586
10	8	My Wife is a Superstar	$671,841	$276,844	11	-58.8%	$992,502	$35,716	$128,045
4	9	The Huntsman: Winter's War	$1,706,774	$275,905	25	-83.8%	$10,632,915	$35,595	$1,371,777
8	10	Hardcore Henry	$808,634	$268,925	11	-66.7%	$1,077,559	$34,694	$139,018

Captain America 3 is confirmed to have the biggest opening weekend of all time. It took an extra day to do it though.
 

	Top 15 Opening Weekends
Rank	Movie	HK Gross	US Gross
1	Captain America 3	$50,929,068	$6,570,480
2	Avengers: Age of Ultron	$49,517,186	$6,405,895
3	Transformers 3	$39,672,804	$5,132,356
4	Transformers: Age of Extinction	$37,274,585	$4,822,105
5	Iron Man 3	$36,625,419	$4,738,124
6	Minions	$34,402,090	$4,450,499
7	The Avengers	$34,252,069	$4,431,091
8	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	$32,603,311	$4,211,876
9	Jurassic World	$31,253,631	$4,043,191
10	Deadpool	$28,930,446	$3,732,385
11	Spider-Man 3	$28,663,114	$3,708,064
12	Harry Potter 7-2	$28,203,934	$3,648,661
13	The Mermaid	$28,160,742	$3,633,084
14	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	$26,645,964	$3,447,541
15	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	$26,617,352	$3,443,409

Look at that. Captain America 3 on top.

 

I've decided to add Deadpool and The Mermaid's OW grosses to the chart for the sake of convenience and access to data. I was really torn initially about how to handle it but seeing Captain America 3's numbers come in, I've rationalized that if we exclude those opening weekends because of extra days and holidays then any films with more than 4 days, holidays or both would be left off the chart and that would affect about 50%, possible more, of the above chart. Plus with no access to data, it would make it almost impossible to separate the traditional 4 day weekend from any other additional days or extraneous reasons.

[maxima]

Just a reminder (did mentioned a few pages ago):

Girls and Panzer der Film has a 4DX screen along with two normal screen (a very rare case as a non-3D film and having very low screen count), so don't be surprised if this produced a non usual total Today.

(The evening showing of 4DX has been full few weeks ago, the earlier one almost too as of this writing)

 

 

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17 hours ago, maxima said:

(a very rare case as a non-3D film and having very low screen count), so don't be surprised if this produced a non usual total Today.

 

 

That is not true. There are many arthouse films that get only 1-3 theaters (Cinematheque and/or IFC and/or The GRAND). This theater arrangement is not new to Japanese anime films either. Doukyusei only got a release in 1 theater last month and played fairly strong as well. There are quite a number of Japanese anime films that have gotten less than 5 theaters in the past few years so it is nothing new.

 

	Thursday adm.	(so far)		May 12
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Captain America: Civil War	9,993	6,683	-33.1%
2	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	--	1,306	--
3	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	963	967	+0.4%
4	High Speed! Free! Starting Days	251	461	+83.7%
5	I Am A Hero	362	432	+19.3%
6	The Inerasable	--	323	--
7	The Lobster	--	244	--
8	Hana's Miso Soup	196	166	-15.3%
9	Chongqing Hot Pot	--	89	--
10	The Propaganda Game	86	87	+1.2%

 

	Thursday			May 12
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Captain America: Civil War	19,276	11,942	-38.0%
2	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	--	5,852	--
3	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	5,231	3,221	-38.4%
4	I Am A Hero	1,762	1,396	-20.8%
5	The Inerasable	--	1,271	--
6	The Lobster	--	681	--
7	Girls und Panzer	--	501	--
8	Hana's Miso Soup	494	407	-17.6%
9	Zootopia	385	295	-23.4%
10	The Himalayas	154	257	+66.9%

Good hold for Captain America 3. Neighbors 2 had a slightly bigger opening day than Dirty Grandpa. It should make about $450,000 this weekend. Opening day reviews have it at a 3.7. Not bad for Finding Mr. Right 2. Nice hold for I Am A Hero. All holdovers should see a slightly bigger drop on Friday with Money Monster opening.
 

	Friday adm.	(so far)			May 13
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Captain America: Civil War	17,161	10,565	-38.4%	+58.1%
2	Money Monster	--	2,794	--	--
3	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	--	1,700	--	+30.2%
4	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	3,164	1,462	-53.8%	+51.2%
5	Girls und Panzer	--	385	--	--
6	I Am A Hero	655	376	-42.6%	-13.0%
7	The Inerasable	--	305	--	-5.6%
8	The Lobster	--	276	--	+13.1%
9	The Taste of Youth	--	108	--	--
10	Hana's Miso Soup	322	107	-66.8%	-35.5%

All holdovers saw heavier week-to-week drops on Friday. Captain America 3 fared the best of the holdovers. Not a bad start for Money Monster. Meh for Neighbors 2. Big turnaround in week-to-week hold for Finding Mr. Right 2.

[maxima]

4 hours ago, Bluebomb said:

That is not true. There are many arthouse films that get only 1-3 theaters (Cinematheque and/or IFC and/or The GRAND). This theater arrangement is not new to Japanese anime films either. Doukyusei only got a release in 1 theater last month and played fairly strong as well. There are quite a number of Japanese anime films that have gotten less than 5 theaters in the past few years so it is nothing new.

The main point is that is unusual move for utilizing 4DX for a film having low screen count AND non-3D.

[Bluebomb]

12 hours ago, maxima said:

The main point is that is unusual move for utilizing 4DX for a film having low screen count AND non-3D.

It's not unusual. It has never happened before. This could be a new trend because the old 4D screen at the Airport would only show the big movies. Essentially it acted like an IMAX. This is a new 4DX screen built into a regular theater but there has never been a 4DX screen that has shown a movie with a limited theater count.

 

		Thursday Actuals						May 12
LW	TW	Movie	Last Thu. (USD)	Thu. (USD)	% chg	Theaters	Days	Total
1	1	Captain America: Civil War	$325,764	$174,116	-46.6%	46	16	$12,465,566
--	2	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	--	$71,979	--	40	1	$71,979
2	3	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	$57,018	$37,531	-34.2%	42	8	$772,561
3	4	I Am A Hero	$19,558	$14,187	-27.5%	27	8	$245,052
--	5	The Inerasable	--	$11,865	--	15	1	$11,865
--	6	Girls und Panzer	--	$7,738	--	2	1	$7,738
--	7	The Lobster	--	$6,577	--	6	1	$6,577
5	8	Zootopia	$4,274	$3,365	-21.3%	13	50	$6,575,509
4	9	Hana's Miso Soup	$5,088	$3,256	-36.0%	13	8	$64,487
--	10	The Himalayas	--	$2,749	--	6	8	$2,749

Those are solid holds for all films. Captain America 3 saw a slightly bigger drop with the switch from 3D to 2D this week. Neighbors 2 performed at expectations. The holiday on Saturday will push it in the half a million range. Very good for Finding Mr. Right 2 and I Am A Hero. Meh for The Inerasable but excellent for Girls und Panzer. Mediocre opening day for The Lobster.
 

	Top 50 Films of All Time (Hong Kong)
Rank	Movie	HK Gross	US Gross
1	Avatar*	$178,029,440	$22,964,414
2	Avengers: Age of Ultron	$133,061,397	$17,121,674
3	Titanic**	$114,939,000	$14,826,276
4	Iron Man 3	$106,389,801	$13,723,457
5	Transformers 4	$98,196,851	$12,601,288
6	The Avengers	$96,705,670	$12,474,280
7	Captain America: Civil War*	$96,650,887	$12,465,566
8	Jurassic World	$96,295,976	$12,357,355
9	Toy Story 3	$89,364,118	$11,527,276
10	Transformers 3	$84,703,797	$10,926,131
11	Star Wars: The Force Awakens*	$81,701,193	$10,512,900
12	The Dark Knight Rises	$80,269,966	$10,354,201
13	Minions	$78,404,191	$10,088,659
14	Monsters University	$77,407,664	$9,984,987
15	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2	$76,785,999	$9,904,797
16	Inside Out	$66,016,979	$8,494,734
17	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	$62,972,176	$8,121,848
18	The Amazing Spider-Man	$61,983,852	$7,995,435
19	Jurassic Park	$61,898,795	$7,943,275
20	You Are the Apple of My Eye	$61,857,826	$7,938,017
21	Kung Fu Hustle	$61,278,697	$7,863,699
22	Shaolin Soccer	$60,739,847	$7,794,550
23	Ip Man 3	$60,261,407	$7,715,835
24	Furious 7	$59,634,515	$7,674,814
25	The Dark Knight	$58,524,393	$7,531,944
26	Inception	$58,380,823	$7,513,467
27	Deadpool	$58,332,555	$7,535,722
28	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	$58,231,885	$7,494,299
29	Police Story 4: First Strike	$57,518,795	$7,402,526
30	Rumble in the Bronx	$56,912,536	$7,324,502
31	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	$56,552,117	$7,278,117
32	The Mermaid	$56,224,292	$7,263,365
33	Infernal Affairs	$55,057,176	$7,085,722
34	Spider-Man 3	$55,016,986	$7,080,550
35	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	$54,692,104	$7,038,738
36	Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation	$52,970,115	$6,817,122
37	God of Gamblers Returns	$52,541,028	$6,761,900
38	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	$52,417,858	$6,746,048
39	Interstellar	$51,786,434	$6,664,786
40	CJ7	$51,440,832	$6,620,307
41	Zootopia*	$50,982,747	$6,575,509
42	X-Men: Days of Future Past	$50,768,991	$6,533,843
43	Ant-Man	$50,719,129	$6,526,283
44	Justice, My Foot!	$49,884,734	$6,420,042
45	Independence Day	$49,380,096	$6,355,096
46	Alls Well Ends Well	$48,992,188	$6,305,173
47	Lust, Caution	$48,758,480	$6,275,095
48	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	$48,115,274	$6,192,316
49	Life of Pi	$47,334,447	$6,091,826
50	2012	$47,027,272	$6,052,293

* - without re-release (Re-release included: $183,411,471 HK)
** - without re-release (Re-release included: $128,003,033 HK)
* - still in release

Captain America 3 is only less than $150,000 from the top 5 and it will pass both Transformers 4 and The Avengers by Friday. It should pass Iron Man 3 by Monday or Tuesday and Titanic will go down next weekend. Meanwhile, Zootopia sits just outside the top 40. I'm not sure if it can surpass CJ7 to crack the top 40 but it has done very well to make it to even the top 50.

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	Friday				May 13
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Captain America: Civil War	28,407	17,912	-36.9%	+50.0%
2	Money Monster	--	8,196	--	--
3	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	--	6,791	--	+16.0%
4	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	8,148	4,268	-47.6%	+32.5%
5	I Am A Hero	2,610	1,374	-47.4%	-1.6%
6	The Inerasable	--	1,184	--	-6.8%
7	The Lobster	--	741	--	+8.8%
8	Zootopia	592	430	-27.4%	+45.8%
9	Girls und Panzer	--	412	--	-17.8%
10	The Surprise	--	268	--	--

Good hold for Captain America 3. Nice start for Money Monster. Weak increase for Neighbors 2.
 

	Saturday adm.	(so far)			May 14
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Captain America: Civil War	31,668	20,055	-36.7%	+89.8%
2	Money Monster	--	4,355	--	+55.9%
3	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	--	2,877	--	+69.2%
4	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	3,768	2,274	-39.6%	+55.5%
5	I Am A Hero	1,173	828	-29.4%	+120.2%
6	The Lobster	--	606	--	+119.6%
7	The Inerasable	--	553	--	+81.3%
8	Zootopia	482	491	+1.9%	--
9	Hana's Miso Soup	443	438	-1.1%	+309.3%
10	Girls und Panzer	--	239	--	-37.9%

Today's holiday will have an effect on holds and admissions. We are seeing great holds for family friendly films while Captain America 3 had a nice hold as well.

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	Saturday				May 14
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Captain America: Civil War	51,173	35,795	-30.1%	+99.8%
2	Money Monster	--	13,318	--	+62.5%
3	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	--	10,471	--	+54.2%
4	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	11,327	6,757	-40.3%	+58.3%
5	I Am A Hero	4,203	2,670	-36.5%	+94.3%
6	Zootopia	1,594	1,819	+14.1%	+323.0%
7	The Inerasable	--	1,648	--	+39.2%
8	The Lobster	--	1,456	--	+96.5%
9	Hana's Miso Soup	1,092	825	-24.5%	--
10	The Himalayas	541	510	-5.7%	--

Every holdover saw much better week-to-week holds on the holiday Saturday than Friday. Captain America 3 doubled its Friday admissions and will hold around the 40-45% mark this weekend despite the switch from 3D prices to 2D. It will accumulate over 13.5m by Sunday.

Very good increase for Money Monster. Although its rating has come down from the early high of 5.0, the early reviews have helped to bring in moviegoers. Not bad increases for Neighbors 2 and Finding Mr. Right 2. Solid increase for I Am A Hero. Zootopia gains from last Saturday. Incredible.
 

	Sunday adm.	(so far)			May 15
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Captain America: Civil War	30,999	16,288	-47.5%	-18.8%
2	Money Monster	--	4,199	--	-3.6%
3	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	--	2,357	--	-18.1%
4	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	4,428	2,100	-52.6%	-7.7%
5	The Lobster	--	619	--	+2.1%
6	I Am A Hero	1,354	612	-54.8%	-26.1%
7	Zootopia	947	592	-37.5%	+20.6%
8	The Inerasable	--	502	--	-9.2%
9	Hana's Miso Soup	657	438	-33.3%	+0.0%
10	Girls und Panzer	--	327	--	+36.8%

Big but expected drops for most films after the holiday. Zootopia increased from its holiday Saturday pre-sales. Wow.
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X-Men: Apocalypse enters HK which is coming off a new opening weekend record set by a superhero film. X-Men doesn't have the flair or drawing power to reel in a substantial amount of the general public but X-Men has been growing organically since the first film in 2000. The last X-Men film, Days of Future Past, more than doubled First Class's OW thanks to the 3D surcharges and drummed up 2.7m OW. Apocalypse will be the first X-Men film to gross more than 3m thanks to high ticket prices. Ticket prices for the latest X-Men film will come in $20 HK higher than The Avengers 2 in IMAX and regular theaters will up their regular 3D prices by $15 HK. It doesn't match the super sky high prices set by The Hobbit or Captain America 3 but its prices are still higher than past X-Men films.

Pre-sales look decent almost everywhere. It should be able to surpass Star Wars 7's OW despite a $20-$60 disadvantage in IMAX.

OW: $3,500,000
Total: $7,600,000
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The Jungle Book is looking pretty scarce in IMAX. It released pre-selling for IMAX a couple of days ago but most peak shows are empty. Early OW prediction: $1,200,000.

I still believe it was a mistake to release this so late. I believe the major players for mid-May to June will be X-Men: Apocalypse, Now You See Me 2 and Independence Day 2.

[Bluebomb]

Sorry for the delay. First, let's finish off last weekend's numbers.
 

	Sunday				May 15
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Captain America: Civil War	45,461	26,561	-41.6%	-25.8%
2	Money Monster	--	11,061	--	-16.9%
3	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	--	8,165	--	-22.0%
4	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	10,319	5,464	-47.0%	-19.1%
5	I Am A Hero	3,176	1,950	-38.6%	-27.0%
6	Zootopia	2,664	1,640	-38.4%	-9.8%
7	The Lobster	--	1,354	--	-7.0%
8	The Inerasable	--	1,291	--	-21.7%
9	Hana's Miso Soup	1,242	752	-39.5%	-8.8%
10	The Himalayas	495	471	-4.8%	-7.6%

 

	Weekend adm.			May 12-15
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Captain America: Civil War	144,317	92,210	-36.1%
2	Money Monster	--	32,575	--
3	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	--	31,279	--
4	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	35,025	19,710	-43.7%
5	I Am A Hero	20,758	7,390	-64.4%
6	The Inerasable	--	5,394	--
7	The Lobster	--	4,232	--
8	Zootopia	5,235	4,184	-20.1%

 

	Weekend Estimates			May 12
Rank	Movie	TW	% chg	Total
1	Captain America: Civil War	$1,405,000	-42.3%	$13,695,000
2	Money Monster	$370,000		$370,000
3	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	$350,000		$350,000
4	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	$230,000	-55.8%	$965,000
5	I Am A Hero	$75,000	-42.3%	$305,000

Good for Captain America 3 even though it just misses passing Iron Man 3 for #4 all time. Good start for Money Monster. Neighbors 2 did not see much of a boost this weekend.
 

	Thursday adm.	(so far)		May 19
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	X-Men: Apocalypse	--	16,408	--
2	Captain America: Civil War	6,683	994	-85.1%
3	Money Monster	--	865	--
4	Assassination Classroom 2	--	770	--
5	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	1,306	636	-51.3%
6	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	967	384	-60.3%
7	What A Wonderful Family!	--	283	--
8	Terra Formars	--	190	--
9	The Lobster	244	189	-22.5%
10	Mon Roi	--	99	--

X-Men: Apocalypse is almost flat from X-Men: Days of Future Past's OD pre-sales. Ouch for Captain America 3. Obviously X-Men plus post holiday effect hammered it into the ground.

[Blackout]

is that good or bad for X-Men?

[TigerPaw]

Reviews of X Men seems to be good from the HKMovie6 website, but it is stinking on Rotten Tomatoes. Might be another one of those movies that has great commercial appeal but lack of critical appeal. 

[Bluebomb]

21 hours ago, Blackout said:

is that good or bad for X-Men?

@Blackout Flat is the new up. It's good.

 

5 hours ago, TigerPaw said:

Reviews of X Men seems to be good from the HKMovie6 website, but it is stinking on Rotten Tomatoes. Might be another one of those movies that has great commercial appeal but lack of critical appeal. 

Yeah, most of the time, mediocre superhero/action/special effects movies get higher ratings on HKMovie6.

 

	Thursday			May 19
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	X-Men: Apocalypse	--	27,787	--
2	Captain America: Civil War	11,942	3,137	-73.7%
3	Money Monster	--	2,713	--
4	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	5,852	1,844	-68.5%
5	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	3,221	1,393	-56.8%
6	Assassination Classroom 2	--	1,232	--
7	The Lobster	681	573	-15.9%
8	What A Wonderful Family!	--	529	--
9	Terra Formars	--	503	--
10	Mon Roi	--	286	--

Apocalypse comes in 29% below Days of Future Past's admissions but it will make up some ground in gross with high IMAX and regular ticket prices.

X-Men: Apocalypse OD estimate - $458,485

Weak hold for Captain America 3. Nice for Money Monster. The Lobster is holding well down at #7.

[Bluebomb]

		Thursday Actuals						May 19
LW	TW	Movie	Last Thu. (USD)	Thu. (USD)	% chg	Theaters	Days	Total
--	1	X-Men: Apocalypse	--	$488,423	--	46	1	$488,423
1	2	Captain America: Civil War	$174,116	$46,271	-73.4%	38	23	$13,912,564
--	3	Money Monster	--	$32,133	--	37	7	$539,836
2	4	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	$71,979	$20,284	-71.8%	40	8	$494,849
3	5	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	$37,531	$15,740	-58.1%	22	15	$1,011,549
--	6	Assassination Classroom 2	--	$9,979	--	11	1	$9,979
7	7	The Lobster	$6,577	$5,398	-17.9%	6	8	$70,692

X-Men goes up from initial estimates. Captain America 3 took a huge nosedive with the loss of IMAX. That's a respectable number for Money Monster. Poor from Neighbors 2. Not a bad hold for Finding Mr. Right 2. Weak start for Assassination Classroom 2. Great hold from The Lobster.
 

	Friday adm.	(so far)			May 20
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	X-Men: Apocalypse	--	17,907	--	+9.1%
2	Captain America: Civil War	10,565	2,068	-80.4%	+108.0%
3	Money Monster	2,794	1,471	-47.4%	+70.1%
4	Assassination Classroom 2	--	837	--	+8.7%
5	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	1,700	800	-52.9%	+25.8%
6	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	1,462	616	-57.9%	+60.4%
7	The Lobster	276	396	+43.5%	+109.5%
8	What A Wonderful Family!	--	327	--	+15.5%
9	Terra Formars	--	196	--	+3.2%
10	Microbe & Gasoline	--	92	--	--

Eek. Not a very good increase for X-Men. Strong increase for Captain America 3. Very nice hold for Money Monster. Not great for Assassination Classroom 2. Average for Neighbors 2 and Finding Mr. Right 2. Wonderful hold for The Lobster.

 

[Bluebomb]

	Friday				May 20
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	X-Men: Apocalypse	--	31,329	--	+12.7%
2	Captain America: Civil War	17,912	4,896	-72.7%	+56.1%
3	Money Monster	8,196	4,275	-47.8%	+57.6%
4	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	6,791	2,752	-59.5%	+49.2%
5	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	4,268	1,750	-59.0%	+25.6%
6	Assassination Classroom 2	--	1,448	--	+17.5%
7	The Lobster	741	941	+27.0%	+64.2%
8	What A Wonderful Family!	--	639	--	+20.8%
9	Terra Formars	--	614	--	+22.1%
10	I Am A Hero	1,374	358	-73.9%	--

A little bit better for X-Men. Captain America 3 is still in some trouble. Great hold for Money Monster. Ok for Neighbors 2, Finding Mr. Right 2.
 

	Saturday adm.	(so far)			May 21
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	X-Men: Apocalypse	--	31,880	--	+78.0%
2	Captain America: Civil War	20,055	3,116	-84.5%	+50.7%
3	Money Monster	4,355	2,231	-48.8%	+51.7%
4	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	2,877	966	-66.4%	+20.8%
5	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	2,274	860	-62.2%	+39.6%
6	Assassination Classroom 2	--	795	--	-5.0%
7	The Lobster	606	539	-11.1%	+36.1%
8	What A Wonderful Family!	--	499	--	+52.6%
9	Terra Formars	--	276	--	+40.8%
10	Zootopia	491	208	-57.6%	--

Strong rebound for X-Men after that muted Friday increase. Every holdover saw much higher drops on Saturday than Friday with the loss of the holiday this weekend. It'll be interesting to see how much they will all come back on Sunday.

[Bluebomb]

Since I was away this week, I wasn't able to update the top 10 from the previous 2 weeks so here they are, beginning with the May 2 week.

		Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun)							May 2-8
LW	TW	Title	Last Week (HKD)	This Week (HKD)	Days in release	% chg	Total (HKD)	This Week (USD)	Total (USD)
1	1	Captain America: Civil War	$50,929,068	$38,344,179	11	-24.7%	$89,273,247	$4,926,411	$11,469,712
3	2	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	$820,295	$3,663,878	4	+346.7%	$4,484,173	$470,730	$576,120
--	3	I Am A Hero	--	$1,162,772	4	--	$1,162,772	$149,391	$149,391
2	4	Zootopia	$1,181,005	$1,001,653	46	-15.2%	$50,758,471	$128,691	$6,521,383
--	5	Hana's Miso Soup	--	$345,399	4	--	$359,094	$44,376	$46,135
4	6	The Boy	$802,252	$337,493	18	-57.9%	$2,272,614	$43,360	$291,982
5	7	Trivisa	$639,467	$316,243	32	-50.5%	$9,177,894	$40,630	$1,179,164
7	8	Port of Call	$411,062	$202,289	158	-50.8%	$4,268,458	$25,989	$548,406
--	9	Race	--	$179,618	4	--	$198,772	$23,077	$25,537
RE	10	Eddie the Eagle	--	$128,802	39	--	$2,810,897	$16,548	$361,140

 

		Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun)							May 9-15
LW	TW	Title	Last Week (HKD)	This Week (HKD)	Days in release	% chg	Total (HKD)	This Week (USD)	Total (USD)
1	1	Captain America: Civil War	$38,344,179	$16,336,212	18	-57.4%	$105,609,459	$2,098,855	$13,568,568
--	2	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	--	$3,411,950	4	--	$3,411,950	$438,362	$438,362
--	3	Money Monster	--	$2,914,355	4	--	$2,914,355	$374,432	$374,432
2	4	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	$3,663,878	$2,869,944	11	-21.7%	$7,354,117	$368,726	$944,847
3	5	I Am A Hero	$1,162,772	$1,270,299	11	+9.2%	$2,433,071	$163,206	$312,597
4	6	Zootopia	$1,001,653	$544,985	46	-45.6%	$51,303,456	$70,018	$6,591,402
--	7	The Lobster	--	$339,361	4	--	$339,361	$43,600	$43,600
5	8	Hana's Miso Soup	$345,399	$318,730	11	-7.7%	$677,824	$40,950	$87,085
--	9	Girls und Panzer	--	$238,029	4	--	$238,029	$30,581	$30,581

Only the top 9 was released.

	Saturday				May 21
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	X-Men: Apocalypse	--	54,454	--	+73.8%
2	Captain America: Civil War	35,795	8,930	-75.1%	+82.4%
3	Money Monster	13,318	6,569	-50.7%	+53.7%
4	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	10,471	3,776	-63.9%	+37.2%
5	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	6,757	2,915	-56.9%	+66.6%
6	Assassination Classroom 2	--	1,773	--	+22.4%
7	The Lobster	1,456	1,436	-1.4%	+52.6%
8	What A Wonderful Family!	--	1,044	--	+63.4%
9	Zootopia	1,819	955	-47.5%	--
10	Terra Formars	--	510	--	-16.9%

Very good increase for X-Men. It really needed that type of increase after the very minor Friday increase. Its score still stands at a very good 4.5 on Saturday. It seems general audiences are enjoying the movie for the most part. Another pretty bad hold for Captain America 3. Very good hold for Money Monster. Not so great for Neighbors 2. OK hold for Finding Mr. Right 2. The Lobster had an amazing hold.
 

	Weekend Projections			May 19
Rank	Movie	TW	% chg	Total
1	X-Men: Apocalypse	$2,780,000		$2,780,000
2	Captain America: Civil War	$375,000	-73.3%	$14,240,000
3	Money Monster	$230,000	-38.6%	$735,000
4	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	$130,000	-70.3%	$605,000
5	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	$95,000	-56.8%	$1,090,000

Despite not coming close to X-Men: Days of Future Past's admissions, Apocalypse will come in just below DOFP's OW in gross. It's a very good start coming after 3 very gigantic superhero OWs in a span of 2 months. Captain America 3 was flattened with X-Men generating ticket sales this weekend. Its chances of passing Avengers 2 now is 0%. It should be able to still pass Titanic for #3 and hit 15m. Very good hold for Money Monster even though it is coming off a 3 day weekend but last weekend is balanced with a holiday nudged in there. Terrible hold for Neighbors 2. Finding Mr. Right 2 passed the 1m mark this weekend and is inching closer to Finding Mr. Right's gross. It is a tough ask because it is about $250,000 away from the original's gross but it can do it with 2 weeks of great holds.

	Sunday adm.	(so far)			May 22
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	X-Men: Apocalypse	--	32,621	--	+2.3%
2	Captain America: Civil War	16,288	3,487	-78.6%	+11.9%
3	Money Monster	4,199	2,196	-47.7%	-1.6%
4	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	2,357	1,071	-54.6%	+10.9%
5	Assassination Classroom 2	--	913	--	+14.8%
6	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	2,100	838	-60.1%	-2.6%
7	What A Wonderful Family!	--	513	--	+2.8%
8	The Lobster	619	480	-22.5%	-10.9%
9	Terra Formars	--	310	--	+12.3%
10	Zootopia	592	306	-48.3%	+47.1%

Decent for X-Men. All holdovers except for The Lobster saw better holds on Sunday than Saturday.

[Bluebomb]

	Sunday				May 22
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	X-Men: Apocalypse	--	49,947	--	-8.3%
2	Captain America: Civil War	26,561	7,802	-70.6%	-12.6%
3	Money Monster	11,061	5,414	-51.1%	-17.6%
4	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	8,165	2,976	-63.6%	-21.2%
5	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	5,464	2,379	-56.5%	-18.4%
6	Assassination Classroom 2	--	1,826	--	+3.0%
7	The Lobster	1,354	1,133	-16.3%	-21.1%
8	What A Wonderful Family!	--	1,046	--	+0.2%
9	Terra Formars	--	828	--	+62.4%
10	Zootopia	1,640	824	-49.8%	-13.7%

A very tough Sunday for most films. X-Men faded a bit on Sunday and dropped 4,500 admissions from Saturday while Captain America 3 was surprisingly the only holdover to improve from Saturday's hold on Sunday.

	Weekend adm.			May 19-22
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	X-Men: Apocalypse	--	163,517	--
2	Captain America: Civil War	92,210	24,765	-73.1%
3	Money Monster	32,575	18,971	-41.8%
4	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	31,279	11,348	-63.7%
5	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	19,710	8,437	-57.2%
6	Assassination Classroom 2	--	6,279	--
7	The Lobster	4,232	4,083	-3.5%
8	What A Wonderful Family!	--	3,258	--
9	Terra Formars	--	2,455	--

X-Men: Apocalypse drops 30% in admissions from Days of Future Past.

	Weekend Estimates			May 19
Rank	Movie	TW	% chg	Total
1	X-Men: Apocalypse	$2,780,000		$2,780,000
2	Captain America: Civil War	$365,000	-74.0%	$14,230,000
3	Money Monster	$225,000	-39.9%	$730,000
4	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	$125,000	-71.5%	$600,000
5	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	$95,000	-56.8%	$1,090,000

Due to the lackluster Sunday, the middle 3 were adjusted down. X-Men: Apocalypse had a very good start considering the conditions such as coming off a record breaking OW set by Captain America 3 just 3 weeks ago, 3 massive superhero OWs preceding it and the diminishing buzz that this movie has seen. 6m is a lock. Opening weekend score stands at a very good 4.4/5. Captain America 3 unsurprisingly imploded with X-Men releasing. It needed a great hold for a chance at #2 but that is out of the question now. It has about an 80% chance to make 15m. Money Monster had a fantastic hold. This should be able to get to 1m total. Awful hold for Neighbors 2. Finding Mr. Right 2 had an average hold. Beating the first one's gross will be tough but not impossible. It really needs to hold great next week for a shot to pass the original.

[Bluebomb]

	Thursday adm.	(so far)		May 26
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	The Jungle Book	--	6,377	--
2	X-Men: Apocalypse	16,408	4,481	-72.7%
3	The Wave	--	460	--
4	Captain America: Civil War	994	456	-54.1%
5	Money Monster	865	393	-54.6%
6	The Faith of Anna Waters	--	185	--
7	The Lobster	189	183	-3.2%
8	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	384	177	-53.9%
9	What A Wonderful Family!	283	174	-38.5%
10	Brother Bajranji	--	146	--

Very underwhelming start for The Jungle Book but it has some time to turn it around. It has looked weaker than X-Men in IMAX even though it has a 2:1 - 5:1 advantage over Apocalypse in showtimes. X-Men: Apocalypse had an iffy drop but its inflated with the loss of most of its IMAX showtimes to The Jungle Book. It might retain #1 if The Jungle Book fails to increase like a well received family friendly movie like this should this weekend.

[Bluebomb]

	Thursday			May 26
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	The Jungle Book	--	13,434	--
2	X-Men: Apocalypse	27,787	10,766	-61.3%
3	The Wave	--	1,418	--
4	Captain America: Civil War	3,137	1,417	-54.8%
5	Money Monster	2,713	1,219	-55.1%
6	The Faith of Anna Waters	--	649	--
7	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	1,393	634	-54.5%
8	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	1,844	532	-71.1%
9	What A Wonderful Family!	529	515	-2.6%
10	The Lobster	573	482	-15.9%

The Jungle Book is #1 in admissions but because of the IMAX sessions inflating The Jungle Book's number and X-Men: Apocalypse having higher ticket prices, X-Men is likely #1 in gross. Jungle Book's start is kind of meh. Opening day score is a 4.2. Mediocre for X-Men even with the loss of IMAX.
 

	Friday adm.	(so far)			May 27
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Jungle Book	--	8,402	--	+31.8%
2	X-Men: Apocalypse	17,907	7,659	-57.2%	+70.9%
3	Captain America: Civil War	2,068	743	-64.1%	+62.9%
4	The Wave	--	504	--	+9.6%
5	Money Monster	1,471	433	-70.6%	+10.2%
6	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	616	244	-60.4%	+37.9%
7	The Faith of Anna Waters	--	232	--	+25.4%
8	The Lobster	396	202	-49.0%	+10.4%
9	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	800	193	-75.9%	--
10	What A Wonderful Family!	327	180	-45.0%	+3.4%

Not a great increase for The Jungle Book. Very strong increase for X-Men. Ouch for Captain America 3.

[Bluebomb]

		Thursday Actuals						May 26
LW	TW	Movie	Last Thu. (USD)	Thu. (USD)	% chg	Theaters	Days	Total
1	1	X-Men: Apocalypse	$488,423	$167,389	-65.7%	46	8	$3,798,455
--	2	The Jungle Book	--	$154,513	--	43	1	$154,513
2	3	Captain America: Civil War	$46,271	$20,601	-55.5%	34	30	$14,346,398
3	4	Money Monster	$32,133	$19,314	-39.9%	33	14	$824,071
--	5	The Wave	--	$14,034	--	12	1	$14,034
--	6	The Faith of Anna Waters	--	$7,596	--	13	1	$7,596
5	7	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	$15,740	$6,910	-56.1%	13	22	$1,139,536
4	8	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	$20,284	$5,745	-71.7%	23	15	$811,195
7	9	The Lobster	$5,398	$4,916	-8.9%	4	15	$128,761
9	10	What A Wonderful Family!	$3,256	$3,193	-1.9%	8	8	$57,942

The loss of most of its IMAX showtimes for X-Men hurt it as that was its big moneymaker but it will pass 4m on Friday. The Jungle Book had an OK start but the real concern will come in the upcoming weeks. Its legs will be cut short within the next 2 weeks: Angry Birds, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, Now You See Me 2, Warcraft and The Conjuring 2 all release within that period and there are other movies that are scheduled for release as well. Then Disney's Alice is out on the following weekend. It really needs a fantastic hold next weekend in order to have any chance of being saved on the June 9 holiday weekend. Captain America 3 had an mediocre hold. It's about $3.5m HK ($450,000 US) away from overtaking Titanic for #3. Its hopes of besting Titanic are fading and it really needs to start holding better for any chance of grabbing #3 all time along with 15m. Another solid hold for Money Monster. It will pass 1m. The Wave actually did pretty good. Foreign language films are a tough sell so legs will be what's most important here rather than opening weekend. Bad for The Faith of Anna Waters but horror movies rarely do well in Hong Kong.

[TigerPaw]

@Bluebomb
How big/small do you think TMNT 2 will be? The first Instalment didn't do well in HK, grossing 1 Million USD, but it was up against Guardians of the Galaxy and Lucy, which both had better distributors. TMNT 2 will be in a more packed market place, but arguably better release date due to summer.. Do you think it can gross more than its predecessor?

[Bluebomb]

5 hours ago, TigerPaw said:

@Bluebomb
How big/small do you think TMNT 2 will be? The first Instalment didn't do well in HK, grossing 1 Million USD, but it was up against Guardians of the Galaxy and Lucy, which both had better distributors. TMNT 2 will be in a more packed market place, but arguably better release date due to summer.. Do you think it can gross more than its predecessor?

It should do around 1.2-1.5m. Higher opening weekend but similar to slightly worse legs. Now You See Me 2 will release just 6 days after and TMNT 2 will go up against that, The Conjuring 2 and Warcraft, all of which are expected to take away TMNT 2's adult audience.

 

	Friday				May 27
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Jungle Book	--	18,052	--	+34.4%
2	X-Men: Apocalypse	31,329	15,709	-49.9%	+45.9%
3	Captain America: Civil War	4,896	1,987	-59.4%	+40.2%
4	The Wave	--	1,801	--	+27.0%
5	Money Monster	4,275	1,577	-63.1%	+29.4%
6	Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love	1,750	809	-53.8%	+27.6%
7	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	2,752	750	-72.7%	+41.0%
8	The Faith of Anna Waters	--	694	--	+6.9%
9	The Lobster	941	559	-40.6%	+16.0%
10	What A Wonderful Family!	639	486	-23.9%	-5.6%

The Jungle Book continues to lead in admissions but X-Men is still ahead in gross. X-Men has the slight advantage heading into the weekend but The Jungle Book will increase its lead every day and Sunday will be its best day. Not great holds for Captain America 3/Money Monster. Ok for The Wave.