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[vincentff]

Does anybody know how long a movie like star wars will stay in an Imax screen in HK?

[Bluebomb]

8 hours ago, vincentff said:

Does anybody know how long a movie like star wars will stay in an Imax screen in HK?

It won't stay in IMAX much longer. Deadpool will grab all the screens on Feb. 11 but CNY comes before that and theaters will use their IMAX screens for the new openers. Star Wars 7 will stay in IMAX for 2 more weeks max. Whether it lasts another week in IMAX depends on its performance this week.

[Bluebomb]

Monday-Wednesday admissions

The 5th Wave won in admissions on Monday but it lost to The Revenant on Tuesday. The Revenant has seen its daily admissions drops increase from -12% on Monday to -17% on Tuesday. This is an encouraging sign since this was when the awards effect started to take place last week. Meanwhile, The 5th Wave has been losing admissions against Ip Man 3 this week. Ip Man 3 was behind about 1,100 admissions on Monday but went under 1,000 on Tuesday. Both Ip Man 3 and The Revenant were the only 2 films of the top 5 to increase with Wednesday's pre-sales from Monday's pre-sales. Ip Man 3 has also seen its week-to-week holds decrease as the week progressed from 30% on Monday to 27% on Tuesday. Wednesday is expected to come in under 25% week-to-week.

There's no real frontrunner for the upcoming weekend. The Revenant has the edge in screens with a couple of theaters adding it this week to their lineup but any one of the openers or even Ip Man 3 could surprise and take #1 this weekend with admissions on the low side.

[Bluebomb]

Deadpool has been moved to February 9 (2nd day of Chinese New Year) from February 11. The move is decent and this allows Deadpool to amass money in the CNY period but I question why it is opening on the 2nd day rather than the 1st day of CNY on Monday?

I have no idea what FOX is doing. They should go back to their original schedule with Deadpool out February 4 and Alvin out February 11, screw worldwide synchro.

[TigerPaw]

1 hour ago, Bluebomb said:

Deadpool has been moved to February 9 (2nd day of Chinese New Year) from February 11. The move is decent and this allows Deadpool to amass money in the CNY period but I question why it is opening on the 2nd day rather than the 1st day of CNY on Monday?

I have no idea what FOX is doing. They should go back to their original schedule with Deadpool out February 4 and Alvin out February 11, screw worldwide synchro.

 

Hope this move is throughout Asia not just in Hong Kong. China has officially killed it by not allowing its release.... so 4th Feb will be better throughout Asian region.. But 9th Feb is great too,MUCH better than 11feb. Mermaid will be in trouble, 1 day to earn before Fox moves in.

Chipmunks still on 4th Feb with the Good Dinosaur? not shifting? Good dinosaur will kill it....

Fox needs local analysts in Asia lol.

[Bluebomb]

6 hours ago, TigerPaw said:

 

Hope this move is throughout Asia not just in Hong Kong. China has officially killed it by not allowing its release.... so 4th Feb will be better throughout Asian region.. But 9th Feb is great too,MUCH better than 11feb. Mermaid will be in trouble, 1 day to earn before Fox moves in.

Chipmunks still on 4th Feb with the Good Dinosaur? not shifting? Good dinosaur will kill it....

Fox needs local analysts in Asia lol.

Mermaid won't be a big film in HK. It's geared toward the mainland audience.

 

The Good Dinosaur should be the bigger animation of the 2 but it won't do amazing business like Minions or Toy Story 3 or Monsters University. Alvin will survive just fine against Good Dinosaur.

[TigerPaw]

1 hour ago, Bluebomb said:

Mermaid won't be a big film in HK. It's geared toward the mainland audience.

 

The Good Dinosaur should be the bigger animation of the 2 but it won't do amazing business like Minions or Toy Story 3 or Monsters University. Alvin will survive just fine against Good Dinosaur.

10th is a Holiday in HK, but not in SG or Msia, so Deadpool might not be making that move here because it will only have 1 day holiday difference.

Would you say that 2016 is the most competitive Lunar New Year Box Office fight in Hong Kong? As in compare to 2015 Lunar New or 2015 Lunar New Year.

Edited January 20, 2016 by TigerPaw

[Bluebomb]

15 hours ago, TigerPaw said:

10th is a Holiday in HK, but not in SG or Msia, so Deadpool might not be making that move here because it will only have 1 day holiday difference.

Would you say that 2016 is the most competitive Lunar New Year Box Office fight in Hong Kong? As in compare to 2015 Lunar New or 2015 Lunar New Year.

Nope. 2015 is much stronger. You had the new openers + Kingsman's 2nd weekend fighting for screens all week.

 

	Thursday adm.	(so far)		January 21
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	The Revenant	1,850	1,239	-33.0%
2	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	1,617	972	-39.9%
3	Dirty Grandpa	--	861	--
4	The Big Short	--	813	--
5	House of Wolves	--	771	--
6	The 5th Wave	2,565	766	-70.1%
7	Ip Man 3	809	510	-37.0%
8	Concussion	--	351	--
9	Ten Years	539	328	-39.1%
10	Steve Jobs	818	320	-60.9%

Boring admissions. Only 1 film cleared 1,000 adm. in pre-sales on Thursday.

[Bluebomb]

	Thursday			January 21
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	House of Wolves	--	5,662	--
2	Dirty Grandpa	--	4,672	--
3	The Revenant	6,853	4,528	-33.9%
4	Ip Man 3	4,540	2,947	-35.1%
5	The 5th Wave	12,091	2,895	-76.1%
6	The Big Short	--	2,692	--
7	Ten Years	1,271	1,588	+24.9%
8	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	2,670	1,324	-50.4%
9	Concussion	--	1,107	--
10	Anniversary	2,649	1,004	-62.1%

House of Wolves had the most walk-ins today and that booked its ticket to #1. It was close but Dirty Grandpa snuck past Revenant for #2 in admissions. Revenant and Ip Man 3 had decent holds. Terrible hold for The 5th Wave. Weak for The Big Short.

 

TigerPaw, to expand on my above comment, 2016 does not look all that strong except for 3-4 openers. I don't believe in either Mermaid or The Monkey King and the holdovers look drab. That should mean bigger grosses for Deadpool, Good Dinosaur, Alvin and the Chipmunks and From Vegas to Macau.

[Bluebomb]

	Friday adm.	(so far)			January 22
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Revenant	3,747	2,362	-37.0%	+90.6%
2	Dirty Grandpa	--	1,762	--	+104.6%
3	The Big Short	--	1,510	--	+85.7%
4	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	2,059	1,254	-39.1%	+29.0%
5	The 5th Wave	3,837	1,203	-68.6%	+57.0%
6	Ten Years	857	1,173	+36.9%	+257.6%
7	House of Wolves	--	1,154	--	+49.7%
8	Ip Man 3	1,676	1,153	-31.2%	+126.1%
9	Concussion	--	627	--	+78.6%
10	Steve Jobs	1,293	521	-59.7%	+62.8%

Good for the Revenant. Solid increase for Dirty Grandpa. Not bad for The Big Short. Great for Ten Years. House of Wolves looks frontloaded. Pretty good hold for Ip Man 3.

[Bluebomb]

		Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun)							Jan 11-17
LW	TW	Title	Last Week (HKD)	This Week (HKD)	Days in release	% chg	Total (HKD)	This Week (USD)	Total (USD)
5	1	The Revenant	$3,537,560	$7,153,220	10	+102.2%	$10,690,780	$914,850	$1,367,282
--	2	The 5th Wave	--	$5,438,917	4	--	$5,438,917	$695,602	$695,602
1	3	Ip Man 3	$7,541,150	$4,994,730	25	-33.8%	$53,032,023	$638,793	$6,782,454
4	4	Anniversary	$3,931,427	$2,318,389	18	-41.0%	$17,979,967	$296,507	$2,299,522
3	5	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	$4,777,788	$2,299,601	32	-51.9%	$79,760,486	$294,104	$10,200,853
2	6	Sherlock: The Abominable Bride	$5,353,252	$1,983,892	15	-62.9%	$11,124,860	$253,727	$1,422,798
--	7	Steve Jobs	--	$1,462,368	4	--	$1,697,717	$187,027	$217,127
--	8	The Gigolo 2	--	$1,069,990	4	--	$1,069,990	$136,844	$136,844
9	9	Ten Years	$1,013,019	$1,030,546	32	+1.7%	$3,237,585	$131,800	$414,066
6	10	Daddy's Home	$1,269,601	$832,806	11	-34.4%	$2,102,407	$106,510	$268,884

Nice to have confirmation on last week's numbers.
 

	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***	$132,985,487	$17,065,603
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	Jurassic World	$96,295,976	$12,357,355
8	Toy Story 3	$89,364,118	$11,527,276
9	Transformers 3	$84,703,797	$10,926,131
10	The Dark Knight Rises	$80,269,966	$10,354,201
11	Star Wars: The Force Awakens*	$79,760,486	$10,200,853
12	Minions	$78,403,991	$10,061,334
13	Monsters University	$77,407,664	$9,984,987
14	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2	$76,785,999	$9,904,797
15	Inside Out	$66,053,079	$8,476,381
16	The Amazing Spider-Man	$61,983,852	$7,995,435
17	Jurassic Park	$61,898,795	$7,943,275
18	You Are the Apple of My Eye	$61,857,826	$7,938,017
19	Kung Fu Hustle	$61,278,697	$7,863,699
20	Shaolin Soccer	$60,739,847	$7,794,550
21	Furious 7	$59,634,515	$7,674,814
22	The Dark Knight	$58,524,393	$7,531,944
23	Inception	$58,380,823	$7,513,467
24	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	$58,231,885	$7,494,299
25	Police Story 4: First Strike	$57,518,795	$7,402,526
26	Rumble in the Bronx	$56,912,536	$7,324,502
27	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	$56,552,117	$7,278,117
28	Infernal Affairs	$55,057,176	$7,085,722
29	Spider-Man 3	$55,016,986	$7,080,550
30	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	$54,692,104	$7,038,738
31	Ip Man 3*	$53,032,023	$6,782,454
32	Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation	$52,970,115	$6,817,122
33	God of Gamblers Returns	$52,541,028	$6,761,900
34	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	$52,417,858	$6,746,048
35	Interstellar	$51,786,434	$6,664,786
36	CJ7	$51,440,832	$6,620,307
37	X-Men: Days of Future Past	$50,768,991	$6,533,843
38	Ant-Man	$50,710,391	$6,526,302
39	Justice, My Foot!	$49,884,734	$6,420,042
40	Independence Day	$49,380,096	$6,355,096
41	Alls Well Ends Well	$48,992,188	$6,305,173
42	Lust Caution	$48,758,480	$6,275,095
43	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	$48,115,274	$6,192,316
44	Life of Pi	$47,334,447	$6,091,826
45	2012	$47,027,272	$6,052,293
46	Stand By Me Doraemon	$46,891,675	$6,034,842
47	Little Big Master	$46,729,492	$6,013,970
48	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	$46,542,244	$5,989,871
49	Speed	$46,430,056	$5,975,433
50	Thunderbolt	$45,647,210	$5,874,683

* - without re-release (Re-release included: $183,411,471 HK)
** - without re-release (Re-release included: $128,003,033 HK)
*** - Incomplete. Box office gross up to June 30, 2015 only.
* - still in release
Up to January 17, 2015.

Ignore Ip Man 3's US$ number.
 

		Thursday Actuals						January 21
LW	TW	Movie	Last Thu. (USD)	Thu. (USD)	% chg	Theaters	Days	Total
--	1	Dirty Grandpa	--	$57,552	--	33	1	$57,552
--	2	House of Wolves	--	$56,528	--	30	1	$56,528
2	3	The Revenant	$85,025	$54,569	-35.8%	35	14	$1,624,248
3	4	Ip Man 3	$51,530	$33,252	-35.5%	34	29	$6,964,556
--	5	The Big Short	--	$31,973	--	26	1	--
1	6	The 5th Wave	$141,709	$28,136	-80.1%	41	8	$895,254
9	7	Ten Years	$12,882	$16,626	+29.1%	6	36	$473,206
4	8	Anniversary	$28,341	$12,022	-57.6%	23	22	$2,366,031
--	9	Concussion	--	$11,510	--	19	1	$11,510
--	10	The Big Bee	--	$8,952	--	18	1	$8,952

Huge race up top with 3 films in the running for #1 this weekend. Dirty Grandpa led all releases despite a 1,000 admissions deficit from House of Wolves. House of Wolves was not far behind but will be the 3rd place grosser barring a miraculous jump this weekend with frontloading expected to occur. The Revenant finished in 3rd place on Thursday but will be in the hunt for a 2nd week at #1. Where it finishes this weekend will depend if it experiences another weekend surge like last weekend. Ip Man 3 had a pretty good hold. It will pass 7m on Friday and is looking at a 7.5m finish, just a few hundred thousand behind Kung Fu Hustle for #1 local film all time. The Big Short disappointed slightly but with Oscar nominations in hand, this could see a big increase this weekend. The 5th Wave crumbled on its 2nd weekend. The terrible word of mouth accelerated its decline and this could be looking at less than a 2 multiplier when its run is done. Ten Years keeps on impressing and will pass $500,000 on Friday and will make back its production budget of $600,000 by Wednesday at the latest. Anniversary had a weaker decline with no gimmicks to trot out this week. It will clear 2.5m by the end of next week.

Surprising that Star Wars 7 did not even make the top 10 in gross even with it ranking #8 in admissions.
 

	Friday				January 22
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Dirty Grandpa	--	7,420	--	+58.8%
2	The Revenant	12,046	7,057	-41.4%	+55.9%
3	House of Wolves	--	5,904	--	+4.3%
4	The Big Short	--	4,555	--	+69.2%
5	Ip Man 3	6,880	3,925	-43.0%	+33.2%
6	The 5th Wave	12,787	3,407	-73.4%	+17.7%
7	Ten Years	1,751	2,279	+30.2%	+43.5%
8	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	3,468	1,934	-44.2%	+46.1%
9	Concussion	--	1,756	--	+58.6%
10	The Big Bee	--	1,351	--	--

Another close finish although Dirty Grandpa led at the start of the evening on Friday unlike Thursday where it just nipped Revenant at the end of Thursday. House of Wolves is really frontloaded while The Big Short is gaining some traction. Decent hold for Ip Man 3.

Edited January 22, 2016 by Bluebomb

[Bluebomb]

	Saturday adm.	(so far)			January 23
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Revenant	7,555	4,138	-45.2%	+75.2%
2	Dirty Grandpa	--	3,219	--	+82.7%
3	The Big Short	--	2,811	--	+86.2%
4	Ten Years	1,975	2,622	+32.8%	+123.5%
5	House of Wolves	--	2,167	--	+87.8%
6	Ip Man 3	2,656	1,854	-30.2%	+60.8%
7	The 5th Wave	5,526	1,577	-71.5%	+31.1%
8	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	3,003	1,526	-49.2%	+21.7%
9	Steve Jobs	1,965	834	-57.6%	+60.1%
10	Concussion	--	723	--	+15.3%

Decent hold for Revenant. Solid increases for Dirty Grandpa and The Big Short. Excellent for Ten Years. Better for House of Wolves.

[TigerPaw]

On 1/21/2016 at 1:53 PM, Bluebomb said:

Nope. 2015 is much stronger. You had the new openers + Kingsman's 2nd weekend fighting for screens all week.

 

	Thursday adm.	(so far)		January 21
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	The Revenant	1,850	1,239	-33.0%
2	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	1,617	972	-39.9%
3	Dirty Grandpa	--	861	--
4	The Big Short	--	813	--
5	House of Wolves	--	771	--
6	The 5th Wave	2,565	766	-70.1%
7	Ip Man 3	809	510	-37.0%
8	Concussion	--	351	--
9	Ten Years	539	328	-39.1%
10	Steve Jobs	818	320	-60.9%

Boring admissions. Only 1 film cleared 1,000 adm. in pre-sales on Thursday.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

If RT scores is any indication of WOM, then Dirty Grandpa is even worse than 5th Wave. Rotten Tomatoes scores are mostly stable now, and they are highly co-related to Word of Mouth in most cases(With the exception of artistic or award winning films which may not have commercial value). So if this is the case, its legs won't be strong.... It will crumple worse than 5th Wave, reviews are saying it is the WORST De Niro movie..

BTW Ip Man 3 rotten tomatoes rating is also out, because it is premiering in 90 theaters in US, and its at a solid 83% which is higher than Revenant's 82%. The only thing stopping it from exploding in North America is the weather, where 30 of its 90 theaters actually closed due to the Snow Storm and people are hiding in their house and unwilling to travel(due to limited theaters) to watch it.

Anyway, something fun for you: 

 Haha, seems like Donnie is going to break out into Hollywood even before Rogue One or CTHD2, and regardless of Ip Man 3's North America box office results, because he has been appearing on a lot of talk shows, including Extra, Access Hollywood, Hollywood Today etc. (The Hype and Publicity is much more than The Grandmaster in 2013)

Fingers crossed that he is the next representative of Asia and Hong Kong, he speaks excellent english and has worked hard over 30 years and definitely deserves to get out of the shadow of Jackie Chan and Jet li.
 

Edited January 23, 2016 by TigerPaw

[Bluebomb]

4 hours ago, TigerPaw said:

4 hours ago, TigerPaw said:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

If RT scores is any indication of WOM, then Dirty Grandpa is even worse than 5th Wave. Rotten Tomatoes scores are mostly stable now, and they are highly co-related to Word of Mouth in most cases(With the exception of artistic or award winning films which may not have commercial value). So if this is the case, its legs won't be strong.... It will crumple worse than 5th Wave, reviews are saying it is the WORST De Niro movie..

BTW Ip Man 3 rotten tomatoes rating is also out, because it is premiering in 90 theaters in US, and its at a solid 83% which is higher than Revenant's 82%. The only thing stopping it from exploding in North America is the weather, where 30 of its 90 theaters actually closed due to the Snow Storm and people are hiding in their house and unwilling to travel(due to limited theaters) to watch it.

Anyway, something fun for you: 

 Haha, seems like Donnie is going to break out into Hollywood even before Rogue One or CTHD2, and regardless of Ip Man 3's North America box office results, because he has been appearing on a lot of talk shows, including Extra, Access Hollywood, Hollywood Today etc. (The Hype and Publicity is much more than The Grandmaster in 2013)

Fingers crossed that he is the next representative of Asia and Hong Kong, he speaks excellent english and has worked hard over 30 years and definitely deserves to get out of the shadow of Jackie Chan and Jet li.
 

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

If RT scores is any indication of WOM, then Dirty Grandpa is even worse than 5th Wave. Rotten Tomatoes scores are mostly stable now, and they are highly co-related to Word of Mouth in most cases(With the exception of artistic or award winning films which may not have commercial value). So if this is the case, its legs won't be strong.... It will crumple worse than 5th Wave, reviews are saying it is the WORST De Niro movie..

BTW Ip Man 3 rotten tomatoes rating is also out, because it is premiering in 90 theaters in US, and its at a solid 83% which is higher than Revenant's 82%. The only thing stopping it from exploding in North America is the weather, where 30 of its 90 theaters actually closed due to the Snow Storm and people are hiding in their house and unwilling to travel(due to limited theaters) to watch it.

Anyway, something fun for you: 

 Haha, seems like Donnie is going to break out into Hollywood even before Rogue One or CTHD2, and regardless of Ip Man 3's North America box office results, because he has been appearing on a lot of talk shows, including Extra, Access Hollywood, Hollywood Today etc. (The Hype and Publicity is much more than The Grandmaster in 2013)

Fingers crossed that he is the next representative of Asia and Hong Kong, he speaks excellent english and has worked hard over 30 years and definitely deserves to get out of the shadow of Jackie Chan and Jet li.
 

Dirty Grandpa is enjoying very good word of mouth in HK. In fact, it is the highest rated movie of the week along with The Big Short and tied for the highest rated movie of the winter so far. It should play extremely well next week.

 

So Ip Man 3's score went up which is very good to see. Donnie Yen seems like a humble guy. I wish him all the success in the world. He deserves to be known for more than just his fighting/martial arts.

 

Very cold weather is affecting ticket sales. With Sunday and Monday expected to be the coldest days in a long time, admissions will suffer and that will put holdovers in jeopardy when it comes time to schedule Monday night/Tuesday morning. There will be some leeway at the top but the ones in the middle such as Ip Man 3 and The Big Short might be the most affected.

 

	Saturday				January 23
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Revenant	22,164	12,723	-42.6%	+80.3%
2	Dirty Grandpa	--	12,123	--	+63.4%
3	House of Wolves	--	10,276	--	+74.1%
4	The Big Short	--	8,074	--	+77.3%
5	Ip Man 3	11,059	6,150	-44.4%	+56.7%
6	The 5th Wave	19,585	4,850	-75.2%	+42.4%
7	Ten Years	2,853	2,959	+3.7%	+29.8%
8	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	5,875	2,801	-52.3%	+44.8%
9	Concussion	--	2,329	--	+32.6%
10	Steve Jobs	6,630	2,041	-69.2%	--

All holdovers were affected by the cold weather on Saturday as week-to-week drops took a dive on Saturday. When we compare last week's Saturday daily increase to this Saturday's daily increase, all holdovers fell. Even new releases did not see a major spike on Saturday.
 

	Weekend Projections			January 21
Rank	Movie	TW	% chg	Total
1	Dirty Grandpa	$440,000		$440,000
2	The Revenant	$430,000	-38.7%	$2,000,000
3	House of Wolves	$315,000		$315,000
4	The Big Short	$290,000		$340,000
5	Ip Man 3	$215,000	-44.6%	$7,145,000

Well, it was a close weekend but I don't think anyone expected Dirty Grandpa of all movies to come out on top. Dirty Grandpa is riding very good word of mouth with a strong 4.4/5 rating from users. It is tops along with The Big Short among new releases for highest reviewed movie this week. The Revenant had a pretty good hold. The increasingly larger drops this weekend are a slight cause of concern but for now, it is doing well. It will bank around 2m by Sunday and with Oscars likely upcoming, this will see an upswing next month provided that it still plays well enough to get past the Chinese New Year massacre. House of Wolves is the first real local comedy for HK moviegoers in a while and the empty marketplace along with starpower from Francis Ng and Ronald Cheng took it to #3. The Big Short was a slight disappointment this weekend as The Revenant stole the spotlight from it despite its own Oscar nominations and strong performances from the cast. Although The Big Short is playing extremely well in the financial district, more people were interested in seeing Leo or leaned toward a comedy this weekend almost everywhere else. Ip Man 3 rounds out the top 5 with a decent hold but its chances of passing Kung Fu Hustle or Shaolin Soccer look extremely grim. It will need a Hail Mary recovery the next 2 days to have any chance of sniffing Shaolin Soccer's gross.

 

Edited January 23, 2016 by Bluebomb

[Bluebomb]

	Sunday adm.	(so far)			January 24
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Revenant	8,512	3,900	-54.2%	-5.8%
2	Dirty Grandpa	--	3,286	--	+2.1%
3	Ten Years	2,272	3,049	+34.2%	+16.3%
4	The Big Short	--	2,705	--	-3.8%
5	House of Wolves	--	2,687	--	+24.0%
6	Ip Man 3	3,923	2,064	-47.4%	+11.3%
7	The 5th Wave	5,890	1,621	-72.5%	+2.8%
8	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	3,182	1,524	-52.1%	-0.1%
9	Concussion	--	674	--	-19.2%
10	Sherlock: The Abominable Bride	1,994	648	-67.5%	--

Rough day for most films on Sunday. It looks like only Ten Years, Ip Man 3 and maybe House of Wolves are looking at an increase from Saturday. As temperatures dip to its lowest levels in ages, this will be an extremely tough and slow couple of days for almost all films.

[Bluebomb]

At 6 PM on Sunday, these are the daily drops so far from Saturday's final admissions for the top 5

The Revenant: -27.4%
Dirty Grandpa: -26.3%
House of Wolves: -17.7%
The Big Short: -24.3%
Ip Man 3: -13.6%

Obviously, the cold weather is putting a huge damper on admissions as all of these holds should be 10% better at this point in time than what they are now.

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	Sunday				January 24
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	House of Wolves	--	10,674	--	+3.9%
2	The Revenant	19,345	10,210	-47.2%	-19.8%
3	Dirty Grandpa	--	10,064	--	-17.0%
4	The Big Short	--	6,694	--	-17.1%
5	Ip Man 3	11,566	5,903	-49.0%	-4.0%
6	The 5th Wave	18,307	4,011	-78.1%	-17.3%
7	Ten Years	3,068	3,291	+7.3%	+11.2%
8	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	5,848	2,757	-52.9%	-1.6%
9	Concussion	--	1,830	--	-21.4%
10	The Big Bee	--	1,639	--	-19.7%

All films dropped from their Sunday pre-sales daily holds unlike last week where 2 films had better holds with final numbers vs. pre-sales. Only Ten Years posted a better Sunday daily hold this week than last week out of all holdovers. 6 films dropped 17% from Saturday on Sunday vs. 2 last Sunday. The cold is to blame for all this mess. We should see admissions recover on Tuesday/Wednesday to normal levels.
 

	Weekend Estimates			January 21
Rank	Movie	TW	% chg	Total
1	Dirty Grandpa	$425,000		$425,000
2	The Revenant	$415,000	-40.9%	$1,985,000
3	House of Wolves	$325,000		$325,000
4	The Big Short	$265,000		$315,000
5	Ip Man 3	$215,000	-44.6%	$7,145,000

Actuals

1. Dirty Grandpa - $398,864
1. The Revenant - about $398,000/$1,968,670
3. House of Wolves - $346,280 (estimate)
4. The Big Short - $293,697 (includes advanced screenings)
5. Ip Man 3 - $7,157,793
6. The 5th Wave - $1,026,017
7. Ten Years - $550,201
8. Star Wars 7 - $10,361,205

It is incredibly close to call who actually won this weekend. House of Wolves total was not given so an estimate was provided.
 

	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***	$132,985,487	$17,065,603
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	Jurassic World	$96,295,976	$12,357,355
8	Toy Story 3	$89,364,118	$11,527,276
9	Transformers 3	$84,703,797	$10,926,131
10	Star Wars: The Force Awakens*	$80,787,764	$10,361,205
11	The Dark Knight Rises	$80,269,966	$10,354,201
12	Minions	$78,403,991	$10,061,334
13	Monsters University	$77,407,664	$9,984,987
14	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2	$76,785,999	$9,904,797
15	Inside Out	$66,053,079	$8,476,381
16	The Amazing Spider-Man	$61,983,852	$7,995,435
17	Jurassic Park	$61,898,795	$7,943,275
18	You Are the Apple of My Eye	$61,857,826	$7,938,017
19	Kung Fu Hustle	$61,278,697	$7,863,699
20	Shaolin Soccer	$60,739,847	$7,794,550
21	Furious 7	$59,634,515	$7,674,814
22	The Dark Knight	$58,524,393	$7,531,944
23	Inception	$58,380,823	$7,513,467
24	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	$58,231,885	$7,494,299
25	Police Story 4: First Strike	$57,518,795	$7,402,526
26	Rumble in the Bronx	$56,912,536	$7,324,502
27	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	$56,552,117	$7,278,117
28	Ip Man 3*	$55,810,317	$7,157,793
29	Infernal Affairs	$55,057,176	$7,085,722
30	Spider-Man 3	$55,016,986	$7,080,550
31	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	$54,692,104	$7,038,738
32	Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation	$52,970,115	$6,817,122
33	God of Gamblers Returns	$52,541,028	$6,761,900
34	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	$52,417,858	$6,746,048
35	Interstellar	$51,786,434	$6,664,786
36	CJ7	$51,440,832	$6,620,307
37	X-Men: Days of Future Past	$50,768,991	$6,533,843
38	Ant-Man	$50,710,391	$6,526,302
39	Justice, My Foot!	$49,884,734	$6,420,042
40	Independence Day	$49,380,096	$6,355,096
41	Alls Well Ends Well	$48,992,188	$6,305,173
42	Lust Caution	$48,758,480	$6,275,095
43	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	$48,115,274	$6,192,316
44	Life of Pi	$47,334,447	$6,091,826
45	2012	$47,027,272	$6,052,293
46	Stand By Me Doraemon	$46,891,675	$6,034,842
47	Little Big Master	$46,729,492	$6,013,970
48	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	$46,542,244	$5,989,871
49	Speed	$46,430,056	$5,975,433
50	Thunderbolt	$45,647,210	$5,874,683

* - without re-release (Re-release included: $183,411,471 HK)
** - without re-release (Re-release included: $128,003,033 HK)
*** - Incomplete. Box office gross up to June 30, 2015 only.
* - still in release
Up to January 24, 2015.

Star Wars 7 makes it into the top 10 while Ip Man 3 joins the top 30.

 

[Ay72998]

So where is Ip Man 3's final total headed to?  Is it going to pass Shaolin Soccer?

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20 hours ago, Ay72998 said:

So where is Ip Man 3's final total headed to?  Is it going to pass Shaolin Soccer?

No don't think so. It will finish with around 58m HK. All holdovers including Ip Man 3 were lucky this week did not have any solid new openers. Ip Man 3 will see more showtimes this week than last week because more than 10 theaters are adding Ip Man 3 back into their schedule or adding more showtimes on Thursday.

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		Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun)							Jan 18-24
LW	TW	Title	Last Week (HKD)	This Week (HKD)	Days in release	% chg	Total (HKD)	This Week (USD)	Total (USD)
1	1	The Revenant	$7,153,220	$4,661,175	17	-34.8%	$15,351,955	$597,309	$1,967,288
--	2	Dirty Grandpa	--	$3,148,524	4	--	$3,148,524	$403,470	$403,470
3	3	Ip Man 3	$4,994,730	$2,782,313	32	-44.3%	$55,814,336	$356,541	$7,152,370
--	4	House of Wolves	--	$2,702,284	4	--	$2,702,284	$346,286	$346,286
2	5	The 5th Wave	$5,438,917	$2,625,008	11	-51.7%	$8,063,925	$336,383	$1,033,357
--	6	The Big Short	$370,805	$1,949,656	4	+425.8%	$2,320,461	$249,840	$297,357
9	7	Ten Years	$1,030,546	$1,043,527	39	+1.3%	$4,281,112	$133,723	$548,606
5	8	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	$2,299,601	$1,027,278	39	-55.3%	$80,787,764	$131,641	$10,352,609
4	9	Anniversary	$2,318,389	$1,015,973	25	-56.2%	$18,995,940	$130,192	$2,434,249
7	10	Steve Jobs	$1,462,368	$766,179	11	-47.6%	$2,463,896	$98,182	$315,737

Good hold for Revenant. Dirty Grandpa had a nice opening. I believe that it was #1 this weekend over Revenant. Ip Man 3 had an OK hold but beating Shaolin Soccer or Kung Fu Hustle does not seem likely anymore. Not a bad debut for House of Wolves. Awful for The 5th Wave.