Hong Kong Hong Kong Box Office

[Bluebomb]

Thanks Bluebomb. I see, it's interesting that studios can influence ticket prices in HK, thank God they're not allowed to do that here. High ticket prices could turn me away from watching a movie, I'm a student so gotta save that money 

 

When do you plan on seeing MOS?

2 weeks from now on opening weekend. I intend on seeing the film in 2D as I hate converted 3D. The only 3D that I like are the 3D movies that are filmed with RED Epic cameras.

[Sam]

2 weeks from now on opening weekend. I intend on seeing the film in 2D as I hate converted 3D. The only 3D that I like are the 3D movies that are filmed with RED Epic cameras.

Great choice, save money as well. I generally just can't stand 3D cause I usually got headaches from it. If the 3D is not amazing, or one of the major selling points of the movie like in Avatar or Life of Pi, then it's not worth it for me.

[Bluebomb]

	Wednesday adm.	(so far)			June 12
Rank	Title	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Hangover 3	--	6,282	--	--
2	After Earth	--	5,808	--	--
3	Now You See Me	--	5,559	--	--
4	Fast & Furious 6	--	2,814	--	--
5	Switch	--	2,688	--	--
6	American Dreams in China	--	2,068	--	--
7	Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery	--	1,455	--	--
8	Pee Mak Phra Khanong	--	1,153	--	--
9	The Great Gatsby	--	950	--	--
10	So Young	--	760	--	--

Decent for The Hangover 3 and After Earth. Strong pre-sales for Now You See Me. Ok for Switch. Wow Thomas & Friends. It beat its Saturday admissions with Wednesday pre-sales.At 3 PM, Now You See Me, After Earth and Hangover 3 are separated by less than 300 admissions. Very close battle between the top 3.

 

[Bluebomb]

Tuen Ng Festival holiday admissions

	Wednesday adm.				June 12
Rank	Title	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Hangover 3	--	18,963	--	+14.5%
2	After Earth	--	17,921	--	+19.1%
3	Now You See Me	--	16,704	--	--
4	Fast & Furious 6	--	7,448	--	+6.5%
5	Switch	--	6,350	--	--
6	American Dreams in China	--	4,897	--	+24.5%
7	Pee Mak Phra Khanong	--	3,636	--	+5.2%
8	The Great Gatsby	--	2,285	--	+28.2%
9	So Young	--	1,923	--	--
10	Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery	--	1,792	--	--

Good for Hangover 3 and After Earth. Incredible for Now You See Me. It will make more than $500,000 combined. Ok for Fast & Furious 6. Average opening for Switch. Nice gain for American Dreams in China. Not great for Pee Mak Phra Khanong. The Great Gatsby saw a huge increase. Disappointing sneaks for So Young. Weak for Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery although it rocketed up 650% today.
 

	3-day admissions		Jun 10-12
Rank	Title	3-day adm	% chg from 4-day
1	The Hangover 3	45,632	-43.5%
2	After Earth	42,423	-47.5%
3	Fast & Furious 6	19,348	-35.8%
4	Now You See Me	16,704	-19.7%
5	American Dreams in China	11,275	-29.6%
6	Pee Mak Phra Khanong	9,347	-22.4%
7	Switch	6,350	--
8	The Great Gatsby	5,091	-30.0%
9	Star Trek Into Darkness	3,751	-23.7%
10	Long Weekend	2,881	-35.6%

The top 2 dropping the most from the 4-day suggests weak WOM. Contrast that with Now You See Me which had excellent holiday numbers. Fantastic. OK for Fast & Furious 6. Decent for American Dreams in China and Pee Mak Phra Khanong. Not bad for The Great Gatsby. Good for Star Trek Into Darkness. Ouch for Long Weekend.

[Sam]

I hope NYSM breaks out 

[Bluebomb]

I hope NYSM breaks out 

It's doing good.

 

 

	Thursday adm.	(so far)		June 13
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Now You See Me	--	3,408	--
2	After Earth	4,253	1,637	-61.5%
3	The Hangover 3	4,587	1,630	-64.5%
4	Switch	--	1,119	--
5	So Young	--	763	--
6	American Dreams in China	974	384	-60.6%
7	Fast & Furious 6	1,265	289	-77.2%
8	The Great Gatsby	385	242	-37.1%
9	Miracle in Cell No. 7	--	219	--
10	Pee Mak Phra Khanong	457	199	-56.5%

Good for Now You See Me. Bad for After Earth and Hangover 3. OK for Switch. Not good for So Young. Weak for American Dreams in China. Catastrophic for Fast & Furious 6. Horrible for Miracle in Cell No. 7. Not good for Pee Mak Phra Khanong.

[Bluebomb]

Wow Sam, Now You See Me is really breaking out. It's pulling in crazy numbers. It has already beaten After Earth/Hangover 3's opening day numbers. It could pull in 1m total.

[Sam]

Wow Sam, Now You See Me is really breaking out. It's pulling in crazy numbers. It has already beaten After Earth/Hangover 3's opening day numbers. It could pull in 1m total.

:wub:Thats so awesome!!! Thanks for the update. I'm glad it will do well, I really like the movie Edited June 13, 2013 by Sam

[Bluebomb]

	Thursday			June 13
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Now You See Me	--	17,613	--
2	The Hangover 3	14,607	6,334	-56.6%
3	After Earth	15,957	5,635	-64.7%
4	Switch	--	3,075	--
5	So Young	--	1,917	--
6	Fast & Furious 6	5,452	1,640	-69.9%
7	Pee Mak Phra Khanong	2,364	1,390	-41.2%
8	American Dreams in China	2,661	1,360	-48.9%
9	Miracle in Cell No. 7	--	897	--
10	The Great Gatsby	995	597	-40.0%

Now You See Me is breaking out. It actually gained from its holiday admissions and it beat After Earth and Hangover 3's opening day numbers. 1m is assured. It's going to make anywhere from 1.075m-1.2m this weekend.

Not a great hold for Hangover 3. It's a better hold than what its WOM suggests but it seems the finale factor is having some pull with people. Terrible for After Earth. It has a rating score of 71% but it has come way down after it pulled a 91% rating from opening day users. Switch lost more than half of its holiday business. Of the 3 films that held sneak previews yesterday, Switch was the biggest loser of them all. Now You See Me increased from its holiday sneaks and So Young was flat. So Young did poorly. Ouch for Fast & Furious 6. It'll pass 3m this weekend. OK for Pee Mak Phra Khanong. Clearly, the distributor is going for one last push to make $10m HK ($1.288m US). It should be able to make it before Man of Steel opens. American Dreams in China suffered a setback with So Young and Switch making the rounds this week. It still held up pretty well with the amount of direct competition. Not good for Miracle in Cell No. 7. The Great Gatsby pulled out another good hold.

	Now You See Me's	Weekend Explosion
	Fri	Sat
Olympian City	6	12
Palace APM	7	16
The One	7	11
Pacific Place	7	8
Palace IFC	6	8
Festival Walk	6	11
Tsuen Wan	6	12
iSquare	7	8
Langham Place	12	14
Cityplaza	10	12
Windsor Cinema	8	8
STAR Cinema	7	12
The Grand Cinema	18	13

After its exceptional Thursday performance, most theaters have gone ahead and given it 2 screens this weekend. It could go even bigger than my high range of 1.2m. It's slim but if Now You See Me does exceptionally well, it could move 1.3-1.4m this weekend.

 

[Sam]

Wasn't Miracle in Cell No.7 the SK movie that came out over there like ages ago? 

 

Very impressive for NYSM   

[Bluebomb]

Wasn't Miracle in Cell No.7 the SK movie that came out over there like ages ago? 

 

Very impressive for NYSM   

It came out in SK in January so only a 5 month delay here.

[Olive]

Wasn't Miracle in Cell No.7 the SK movie that came out over there like ages ago? 

 

Very impressive for NYSM   

It's a great movie.

[Sam]

It's a great movie.

Is it? I plan on watching it if I can find it online. It starred Park Shin Hye so gotta check it out 

[Bluebomb]

	Friday adm.	(so far)			June 14
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Now You See Me	--	6,089	--	+78.7%
2	The Hangover 3	7,018	2,701	-61.5%	+65.0%
3	After Earth	5,293	2,191	-58.6%	+34.4%
4	Switch	--	1,360	--	+21.5%
5	So Young	--	996	--	+30.5%
6	American Dreams in China	1,417	688	-51.4%	+79.2%
7	Legend No. 17	--	564	--	--
8	Fast & Furious 6	1,762	355	-79.9%	+22.8%
9	Pee Mak Phra Khanong	570	312	-45.3%	+56.8%
10	Miracle in Cell No. 7	--	275	--	+25.6%

The strength of Now You See Me this weekend is remarkable. It will conjure up at least 25,000 admissions today. Hangover 3 and After Earth got abandoned. Switch and So Young are disappointing. American Dreams in China posted the biggest increase of the top 10 but didn't hold that well week to week due to direct competition. Legend No. 17 did fantastic with just 3 showings (which all have sold out) at The GRAND. Disaster for Fast & Furious 6. Pee Mak Phra Khanong is holding OK. Miracle in Cell No. 7 had a small Friday increase. WOM is not bad at the moment.

 

[Leyla]

YAYYYYYYY nysm :wub:

 

 

So Young are disappointing.

wow is that this movie with Mark Chao ??

I thought it had great postential

too bad it failed

Edited June 14, 2013 by Leyla

[Bluebomb]

YAYYYYYYY nysm :wub:

 

wow is that this movie with Mark Chao ??

I thought it had great postential

too bad it failed

Yes it is. The theater chains and distributor thought that since this movie was a huge success in China that it would be a hit in Hong Kong.

[Sam]

Yes it is. The theater chains and distributor thought that since this movie was a huge success in China that it would be a hit in Hong Kong.

I'm glad it failed in HK, I dislike Mark Chao.

[Bluebomb]

		Thursday Actuals						June 13
LW	TW	Movie	Last Thu. (USD)	Thursday (USD)	% chg	Theaters	Days	Total
--	1	Now You See Me	--	$127,516	--	42	1	$443,085
2	2	The Hangover 3	$117,262	$45,081	-61.6%	35	8	$1,060,057
1	3	After Earth	$134,014	$39,929	-70.2%	41	8	$1,057,481
--	4	Switch	--	$21,896	--	29	1	$74,706
3	5	Fast & Furious 6	$42,523	$12,880	-69.7%	26	23	$2,947,036
4	6	Pee Mak Phra Khanong	$19,329	$11,205	-42.0%	20	29	$1,164,388
--	7	So Young	--	$10,948	--	17	1	$45,000
4	8	American Dreams in China	$19,329	$8,372	-56.7%	13	15	$463,694
--	9	Miracle in Cell No. 7	--	$5,924	--	10	1	$14,168
6	10	The Great Gatsby	$9,406	$5,538	-41.1%	11	29	$1,273,872

June 13 Thursday Actuals (with write-up)

 

[Leyla]

I'm glad it failed in HK, I dislike Mark Chao.

why?

 

 

so it was a success in China, good to know

[Bluebomb]

	Friday				June 14
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Now You See Me	--	24,163	--	+37.2%
2	The Hangover 3	18,295	8,564	-53.2%	+35.2%
3	After Earth	17,049	7,427	-56.4%	+31.8%
4	Switch	--	3,501	--	+13.9%
5	So Young	--	2,562	--	+33.6%
6	Fast & Furious 6	6,892	1,799	-73.9%	+9.7%
7	Pee Mak Phra Khanong	2,624	1,702	-35.1%	+22.4%
8	American Dreams in China	3,654	1,597	-56.3%	+17.4%
9	Miracle in Cell No. 7	--	1,349	--	+50.4%
10	Star Trek Into Darkness	937	626	-33.2%	--

Now You See Me is doing great. It will make around 1.25-1.3m this weekend.