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[fishstick]

Someone has to spread the real buzz cause you guys are overhyping this. In fact, this is by far the most positive forum about this movie.

[Gazz]

People are simply enjoying the film. What a shocker.

 

At least they're basing their opinion on the fact they've actually seen it.

Edited April 12, 2013 by Gazz

[zackzack]

Cruise is still big in Asia. 

[SentryTrans]

Hope Oblivion can get 20M+.

 

20m has been locked.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Legs to be seen...

[SentryTrans]

Legs to be seen...

 

Even with a 2 multiplier, it will pass 20m.

[kayumanggi]

People are simply enjoying the film. What a shocker.

 

At least they're basing their opinion on the fact they've actually seen it.

 

Exactly.

[Bluebomb]

Bluebomb, how long do you see LOP playing in HK? It's holding tremendously well with limited screens.

 

With my track record of predicting its demise, forever.

But seriously, not very long. The weekend after New Year's is always terrible. Most films drop in the 60-70% range. As for new movies coming out, lots of Chinese movies are making their way to theaters in the next 2 weeks including The Grandmaster, The Last Tycoon and The Last Supper. You've also got Oscar bait films too like The Sessions, Django Unchained, Anna Karenina, The Impossible coming out. And then there's action films like The Last Stand. If I had to guess though, maybe 3 or 4 weeks at most. It's been doing well for so long that I think a couple of theaters will keep on playing it just as a placeholder once its gross gets into the ten thousands.

Oh look, Life of Pi is still in theaters (21st week).

 

At least Ang Lee can boast about Life of Pi being shown in HK more weeks than Avatar.

[druv10]

Where did LOP finish for the year and also on the all-time list?

[POLYLOVE]

Great hold for FMR. I hope it could pass 10M.

[Bluebomb]

Where did LOP finish for the year and also on the all-time list?

Life of Pi ended at #4 for 2012, behind the 3 superhero movies. All-time is a bit harder to track since no site has published accurate data but it's around the top 30, either just inside or barely out.

 

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	Saturday adm.	(so far)			April 13
Rank	Title	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Oblivion	--	14,086	--	+53.9%
2	Conspirators	--	5,982	--	+32.1%
3	Finding Mr. Right	2,562	1,931	-24.6%	+15.4%
4	The Croods	4,689	1,599	-65.9%	+179.5%
5	Saving General Yang	3,124	1,390	-55.5%	+46.5%
6	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	6,732	1,111	-83.5%	+20.5%
7	Drug War	--	794	--	--
8	I Give It A Year	--	726	--	+5.8%
9	Will You Still Me Love Me Tomorrow?	--	598	--	-2.1%
10	Ip Man: The Final Fight	1,864	536	-71.2%	--

	Saturday adm.				April 13
Rank	Title	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Oblivion	--	45,504	--	+62.2%
2	Conspirators	--	21,852	--	+54.3%
3	Finding Mr. Right	9,775	6,738	-31.1%	+41.4%
4	Saving General Yang	12,157	5,100	-58.0%	+50.5%
5	The Croods	13,719	4,753	-65.4%	+172.7%
6	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	19,684	4,127	-79.0%	+38.7%
7	Drug War	--	3,829	--	+187.5%
8	I Give It A Year	--	3,739	--	+44.8%
9	Will You Still Me Love Me Tomorrow?	--	1,742	--	+15.4%
10	Ip Man: The Final Fight	7,980	1,650	-79.3%	+34.8%

	Daily admissions (OW)
	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Total
Battleship	23,029	25,616	46,523	40,916	136,084
Oblivion	21,845	28,050	45,504		95,399
Gap	-1,184	1,250	231	-40,685

Now the lead shrinks to 231 for Oblivion. No changes for the top 4. The Croods had a huge jump on Saturday but weekend hold is still looking at -75%. Drug War had a lot of Saturday sneaks, hence the huge increase from Friday.

Edited April 14, 2013 by Bluebomb

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Oblivion could not beat Battleship on Sat ... 

[SentryTrans]

Oblivion could not beat Battleship on Sat ... 

 

Oblivion's legs would be better than Battleship.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Oblivion's legs would be better than Battleship.

Nope. Worse Sat jump = worse legs

[SentryTrans]

Nope. Worse Sat jump = worse legs

 

Worse week drops = worse legs

[Bluebomb]

	Sunday adm.	(so far)			April 14
Rank	Title	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Oblivion	--	15,536	--	+10.3%
2	Conspirators	--	6,822	--	+14.0%
3	The Croods	5,627	2,287	-59.4%	+43.0%
4	Finding Mr. Right	2,509	1,994	-20.5%	+3.3%
5	Saving General Yang	3,637	1,929	-47.0%	+38.8%
6	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	6,526	1,327	-79.7%	+19.4%
7	Ip Man: The Final Fight	2,405	1,298	-46.0%	+142.2%
8	I Give It A Year	--	997	--	+37.3%
9	Drug War	--	787	--	-0.9%
10	Jurassic Park 3D	2,180	707	-67.6%	--

	Sunday adm.				April 14
Rank	Title	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Oblivion	--	40,565	--	-10.9%
2	Conspirators	--	20,980	--	-4.0%
3	Finding Mr. Right	8,304	6,222	-25.1%	-7.7%
4	The Croods	14,387	6,194	-56.9%	+30.3%
5	Saving General Yang	11,572	5,597	-51.6%	+9.7%
6	I Give It A Year	--	3,530	--	-5.6%
7	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	16,701	3,468	-79.2%	-16.0%
8	Drug War	--	3,389	--	-11.5%
9	Ip Man: The Final Fight	7,451	2,651	-64.4%	+60.7%
10	Will You Still Me Love Me Tomorrow?	--	1,628	--	-6.5%

Not a bad hold for Oblivion. Battleship fell 12% on its opening Sunday so it's doing in line with typical sci-fi apocalyptic movies. Conspirators had the best drop on Sunday but it also had the worst increase on Friday. Go figure. Croods was #3 on Sunday. It posted a solid increase. Saving General Yang outranked Finding Mr. Right on Sunday but it couldn't catch Mr. Right overall. Great drop for Mr. Right on Sunday. Huge spike for Ip Man: The Final Fight on Sunday. I'm not sure if this is an aberration or if it's genuine but it helped Ip Man: TFF to pass Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow in the official weekend rankings.

 

	Daily admissions (OW)
	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Total
Battleship	23,029	25,616	46,523	40,916	136,084
Oblivion	21,845	28,050	45,504	40,565	135,964
Gap	-1,184	1,250	231	-120

This concludes the fight between Battleship and Oblivion. Warships and aliens over Tom Cruise and aliens.

 

	Weekend adm.			Apr 11-14
Rank	Title	LW	TW	% chg
1	Oblivion	--	135,964	--
2	Conspirators	--	69,256	--
3	Finding Mr. Right	35,933	21,097	-41.3%
4	Saving General Yang	43,448	16,743	-61.5%
5	The Croods	64,728	13,971	-78.4%
6	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	80,045	13,042	-83.7%
7	I Give It A Year	--	11,398	--
8	Drug War	--	8,550	--
9	Ip Man: The Final Fight	33,634	6,539	-80.6%
10	Will You Still Me Love Me Tomorrow?	--	5,990	--

April 11 Weekend Estimates

 

[Bluebomb]

April 11 Weekend Actuals1. Oblivion - $1,024,266 (weekend actual)2. Conspirators - $497,316 (weekend actual)3. Finding Mr. Right - $986,9034. Saving General Yang - $662,2295. The Croods - $2,538,1186. G.I. Joe: Retaliation - $3,174,580I Give It A Year - $81,168 (weekend actual)Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? - $34,786 (weekend actual)The Hunt - $15,460 (weekend actual)Seven Psychopaths - $15,460 (weekend actual)Oblivion drops from estimates. I see Oblivion making 2.3m. Good for Conspirators. It'll be the first in the series to reach 1m. Finding Mr. Right will go away with about 1.2-1.3m. After that sluggish start, it's a good total. Saving General Yang had the 2nd best hold of the top 10. The Croods passed 2.5m and it is $225,000 away from Wreck-It Ralph. I don't think it will get there after this weekend. Lots of theaters will dump it next week. GI Joe sputtered. Terrible hold this week. It'll gross 3.25m before leaving. I Give It A Year did bad but not as disgustingly bad as Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?. Tomorrow will have one of the worst PTA's of the year. The Hunt was solid. $7,600 PTA from 2 theaters. Seven Psychopaths scared off people making only a $2,576 PTA from 6 theaters.

[Bluebomb]

Hong Kong held their Film Awards last Saturday. Cold War pulverized the competition and cleaned up with 4/5 big awards and 9 statues in all. Full list:Best Film - Cold WarBest Director - Longman Leung, Sunny Luk (Cold War)Best Actor - Tony Leung Ka-fai (Cold War)Best Actress - Miriam Yeung (Love in the Buff)Best Screenplay - Cold WarBest Supporting Actor - Ronald Cheng (Vulgaria)Best Supporting Actress - Dada Chen (Vulgaria)Best New Performer - Alex Tsui (Cold War)Best Cinematography - The Silent WarBest Film Editing - Cold WarBest Art Direction - The Last TycoonBest Costume & Make Up Design - The Great MagicianBest Action Choreography - CZ12Best Original Score - Cold WarBest Original Song - Ding Feng Bo by Jacky Cheung (The Last Tycoon)Best Sound - Cold WarBest Visual Effects - Cold WarBest New Director - Chow Hin Yeung (Nightfall)Best Mainland/Taiwan Film - Back to 1942

 

[Sam]

Bluebomb, I read the entry on your blog about IM3's prospect. Great blog BTW  I have some questions if you don't mind?

 

How popular is Superman in Hong Kong? Since it's the question in the poll, do you think MOS could do better than IM3 provided that both are good? TA was the biggest Hollywood release in HK last year, so could that help IM3 at all?

 

Sorry for asking too much. Thank you in advance for your responses 

[Bluebomb]

Bluebomb, I read the entry on your blog about IM3's prospect. Great blog BTW  I have some questions if you don't mind?

 

How popular is Superman in Hong Kong? Since it's the question in the poll, do you think MOS could do better than IM3 provided that both are good? TA was the biggest Hollywood release in HK last year, so could that help IM3 at all?

 

Sorry for asking too much. Thank you in advance for your responses 

Superman's very popular but not as popular as Spider-Man. I'd rank them like this

 

1. Spider-Man

2. Superman

3. Batman

4. Iron Man

 

It's possible that MoS could do better than IM3 but the prequel factor stops me from believing it could. Superman has a better chance of beating IM3's OW. Legs will be a huge factor. Iron Man 3 has 3 weeks of no competition but Superman has The Lone Ranger on July 3, Monsters University on July 11, Pacific Rim on July 18 and The Wolverine on July 25. Superman isn't exactly known as a franchise built by legs so I expect opening weekend to be huge.