Hong Kong Hong Kong Box Office

[Olive]

WTF？Zootopia opens the same day as BVS and a week after KFP3?

[Bluebomb]

On 3/1/2016 at 0:32 AM, Olive said:

WTF？Zootopia opens the same day as BVS and a week after KFP3?

Yeah. It's pretty stupid. Did you read my Kung Fu Panda 3 China redux section a little while back?

 

Don't have the tables with me just yet. I will re-post this with nice and neat tables and drops later.

Thursday admissions

1. London Has Fallen - 7,501
2. Gods of Egypt - 7,353
3. The Danish Girl - 5,655
4. The Finest Hours - 4,060
5. The Mermaid - 3,062
6. Room - 2,114
7. Deadpool - 2,009
8. Spotlight - 1,299
9. Son of Saul - 644
10. How to Be Single - 480

Very close for the Gerard Butler pics. I'd say that's a slight disappointment for London Has Fallen and a surprise for Gods of Egypt after its subpar N.American and OS openings last week. Strong for The Danish Girl. Spotlight enjoyed a nice post-Oscar bump.

Friday admissions (so far)

1. The Danish Girl - 4,970
2. Gods of Egypt - 3,476
3. London Has Fallen - 2,988
4. The Finest Hours - 2,959
5. Room - 1,428
6. Spotlight - 1,140
7. The Mermaid - 1,091
8. Deadpool - 913
9. Son of Saul - 388
10. The Revenant - 263

The Danish Girl had a nice increase. Shocked to see Gods of Egypt ahead of London Has Fallen in pre-sales.

[TigerPaw]

11 minutes ago, Bluebomb said:

Yeah. It's pretty stupid. Did you read my Kung Fu Panda 3 China redux section a little while back?

 

Don't have the tables with me just yet. I will re-post this with nice and neat tables and drops later.

Thursday admissions

1. London Has Fallen - 7,501
2. Gods of Egypt - 7,353
3. The Danish Girl - 5,655
4. The Finest Hours - 4,060
5. The Mermaid - 3,062
6. Room - 2,114
7. Deadpool - 2,009
8. Spotlight - 1,299
9. Son of Saul - 644
10. How to Be Single - 480

Very close for the Gerard Butler pics. I'd say that's a slight disappointment for London Has Fallen and a surprise for Gods of Egypt after its subpar N.American and OS openings last week. Strong for The Danish Girl. Spotlight enjoyed a nice post-Oscar bump.
 

Did you see my post on the Bluray release on the previous page? haha.

Anyway, gosh. Gods of Eygpt is a bad movie, one of the worst movies I have ever seen...it underperformed here in Singapore... I can't believe it is opening well in HK.

[Bluebomb]

14 hours ago, TigerPaw said:

Did you see my post on the Bluray release on the previous page? haha.

Anyway, gosh. Gods of Eygpt is a bad movie, one of the worst movies I have ever seen...it underperformed here in Singapore... I can't believe it is opening well in HK.

I did but I was in a rush to post and I didn't have enough time to respond back then.

 

I think it's a major disappointment that China delayed their release. It seems it's doing well in China so they got away with it and they'll make a profit overall with the theatrical release but I think this highlights that they need to revisit their home theatrical release policies especially in Asia in light of this situation. A studio should not have to beg each territories DVD distributor in order to get them to delay the DVD/Blu-Ray release because of a big country's theatrical release. If this was Disney, you know they would be asking for heads if Star Wars 7 DVD/Blu-Ray was out after 1-2 months.

 

This also could shed some light on the Ip Man 3/Star Wars 7 fiasco during the Christmas holidays. It shows that Pegasus does not have the clout or influence that Disney has that allowed them to take advantage of theaters and schedule UA in 2 theaters including the biggest screens. I have no idea why HK Island did not show Ip Man 3 very often either. If Ip Man 3 was allowed to play like normal at UA and in HK Island, this would have for sure beaten Kung Fu Hustle for #1 local film of all time, grossed over 8m and could have possibly grossed 9m or more. I am still a little peeved that Star Wars 7 was allowed to play so long in the biggest theaters after so many places reported very bad pre-sales and admissions on opening weekend. It certainly was not the force it was made out to be.

 

		Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun)							Feb 22-28
LW	TW	Title	Last Week (HKD)	This Week (HKD)	Days in release	% chg	Total (HKD)	This Week (USD)	Total (USD)
1	1	Deadpool	$17,300,575	$7,948,620	20	-54.1%	$54,179,531	$1,017,736	$6,937,115
2	2	Mermaid	$14,692,403	$7,785,344	21	-47.0%	$50,638,489	$996,830	$6,483,722
--	3	The Finest Hours	--	$4,595,615	4	--	$4,595,615	$588,419	$588,419
--	4	The Danish Girl	--	$3,306,081	4	--	$3,306,081	$423,308	$423,308
4	5	13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi	$2,826,571	$2,059,704	11	-27.1%	$4,886,275	$263,723	$625,635
--	6	Zoolander 2	--	$1,640,822	4	--	$1,640,822	$210,089	$210,089
6	7	How to Be Single	$1,929,436	$1,334,141	11	-30.9%	$3,593,313	$170,822	$460,085
8	8	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny	$1,259,768	$1,076,646	10	-14.5%	$2,490,598	$137,853	$318,894
3	9	The Good Dinosaur	$3,428,891	$872,149	25	-74.6%	$2,555,905	$111,669	$327,256
RE	10	The Hateful Eight	$785,253	$573,372	11	-27.0%	$1,358,625	$73,414	$173,957

Deadpool is less than 1m away from the top 30. The Mermaid joins the top 40 all time. Both should finish around the top 25. OK opening for The Finest Hours. Superb for The Danish Girl. 13 Hours did pretty well in HK compared with other territories. Zoolander 2 flopped.
 

	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	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	$81,701,193	$10,512,900
11	The Dark Knight Rises	$80,269,966	$10,354,201
12	Minions	$78,404,191	$10,088,659
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	$66,016,979	$8,494,734
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	Ip Man 3*	$60,261,407	$7,715,835
22	Furious 7	$59,634,515	$7,674,814
23	The Dark Knight	$58,524,393	$7,531,944
24	Inception	$58,380,823	$7,513,467
25	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	$58,231,885	$7,494,299
26	Police Story 4: First Strike	$57,518,795	$7,402,526
27	Rumble in the Bronx	$56,912,536	$7,324,502
28	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	$56,552,117	$7,278,117
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	Deadpool*	$54,179,531	$6,937,115
33	Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation	$52,970,115	$6,817,122
34	God of Gamblers Returns	$52,541,028	$6,761,900
35	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	$52,417,858	$6,746,048
36	Interstellar	$51,786,434	$6,664,786
37	CJ7	$51,440,832	$6,620,307
38	X-Men: Days of Future Past	$50,768,991	$6,533,843
39	Ant-Man	$50,719,129	$6,526,283
40	Mermaid*	$50,638,489	$6,483,722
41	Justice, My Foot!	$49,884,734	$6,420,042
42	Independence Day	$49,380,096	$6,355,096
43	Alls Well Ends Well	$48,992,188	$6,305,173
44	Lust, Caution	$48,758,480	$6,275,095
45	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	$48,115,274	$6,192,316
46	Life of Pi	$47,334,447	$6,091,826
47	2012	$47,027,272	$6,052,293
48	Stand By Me Doraemon	$46,891,675	$6,034,842
49	Little Big Master	$46,729,492	$6,013,970
50	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	$46,542,244	$5,989,871

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

Up to February 28, 2016.

Re-posting...

	Thursday			March 3
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	London Has Fallen	--	7,501	--
2	Gods of Egypt	--	7,353	--
3	The Danish Girl	5,565	5,655	+1.6%
4	The Finest Hours	10,910	4,060	-62.8%
5	The Mermaid	8,591	3,062	-64.4%
6	Room	--	2,114	--
7	Deadpool	8,272	2,009	-75.7%
8	Spotlight	--	1,299	--
9	Son of Saul	--	644	--
10	How to Be Single	1,101	480	-56.4%

 

	Friday adm.	(so far)			March 4
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Danish Girl	3,908	4,970	+27.2%	--
2	Gods of Egypt	--	3,476	--	--
3	London Has Fallen	--	2,988	--	--
4	The Finest Hours	5,236	2,959	-43.5%	--
5	Room	--	1,428	--	--
6	Spotlight	--	1,140	--	--
7	The Mermaid	3,188	1,091	-65.8%	--
8	Deadpool	3,063	913	-70.2%	--
9	Son of Saul	--	388	--	--
10	The Revenant	--	263	--	--

[ting72]

Disney have a global rollout for Star Wars, Pegasus does not have that kind of setup. Disney also control their own home entertainment releases, they haven't sold it to a third party to release. Each company is looking to exploit its own interests so why would a HK video company care if China hasn't released the film yet? In fact it would be in its own interest as it increases demand in their own product. In the end of the day, they dropped the ball in the delayed China release and everyone else is just doing what the industry standard is. The window between theatrical HK movies and DVD is short because why leave a gap in the middle when it's not available? That just gives pirates an opportunity.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Bluebomb]

4 hours ago, ting72 said:

Disney have a global rollout for Star Wars, Pegasus does not have that kind of setup. Disney also control their own home entertainment releases, they haven't sold it to a third party to release. Each company is looking to exploit its own interests so why would a HK video company care if China hasn't released the film yet? In fact it would be in its own interest as it increases demand in their own product. In the end of the day, they dropped the ball in the delayed China release and everyone else is just doing what the industry standard is. The window between theatrical HK movies and DVD is short because why leave a gap in the middle when it's not available? That just gives pirates an opportunity.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Which is why they need to re-evaluate the home release strategy for Asia. If they cannot secure release dates within a specific time, they need to allow the studio to set the DVD release dates or have a rule stating that they cannot release within 3-4 months of its first theatrical release. It is really stupid that they would want to release the DVD/Blu-Ray 2 months after its opening day in theaters. You're just asking for people to watch it on the small screen instead. They need to leave a gap to make sure that the theatrical run is finished or almost finished. Waiting an extra month isn't going to kill anyone and it's not giving pirates an opportunity. Pirates would have uploaded within a few days of theatrical release anyways so there is no reason to shorten the window from theatrical release to DVD/Blu-Ray.

 

		Thursday Actuals						March 3
LW	TW	Movie	Last Thu. (USD)	Thu. (USD)	% chg	Theaters	Days	Total
--	1	Gods of Egypt	--	$114,416	--	--	1	$114,416
--	2	London Has Fallen	--	$109,274	--	--	1	$109,274
4	3	The Danish Girl	$57,864	$63,893	+10.4%	--	11	$707,070
3	4	The Mermaid	$92,583	$42,424	-54.2%	--	25	$6,723,602
2	5	Deadpool	$96,441	$32,139	-66.7%	--	24	$7,149,130
1	6	The Finest Hours	$102,871	$30,854	-70.0%	--	8	$809,917
--	7	Room	--	$25,711	--	--	1	$25,711
RE	8	Spotlight	--	$12,855	--	14	1	$218,549

Gods of Egypt was #1! It's not really a surprise when you think about it but expectations across the board were lowered after its extremely dull OWs in N. America and OS. That might have been what scared theaters off from ordering 3D too much because 3D market share was only 14% on Thursday. London Has Fallen did OK and will surpass the original's OW but it is a little disappointing to see it lose to Gods of Egypt. Theaters and Lark/UA (LHF's distributor) must be disappointed. Theaters were really pushing for London Has Fallen by gifting it the biggest screen on Thursday/Friday but it still lost. Strong hold for The Danish Girl. Post-Oscar bumps don't last long and in TDG's case the next few weeks will be unsettling to watch with major Hollywood films coming out every week. Another surprise is perhaps The Mermaid and Deadpool outmuscling The Finest Hours for the top 5. For The Finest Hours, it did not garner many admissions registering an average of 20 per showing. Room opened decently. With a low turnout from theaters, it did respectably. Spotlight re-entered the top 10 with its Oscar wins but if there wasn't much interest in this movie before even with Oscar nominations, then this resurfacing won't last very long.
 

	Friday				March 4
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Gods of Egypt	--	10,485	--	+42.6%
2	London Has Fallen	--	10,478	--	+39.7%
3	The Danish Girl	6,932	8,854	+27.7%	+56.6%
4	The Finest Hours	12,446	5,170	-58.5%	+27.3%
5	The Mermaid	11,597	4,272	-63.2%	+39.5%
6	Deadpool	10,713	3,161	-70.5%	+57.3%
7	Room	--	2,902	--	+37.3%
8	Spotlight	--	2,190	--	+68.6%
9	Son of Saul	--	727	--	+12.9%
10	How to Be Single	1,832	639	-65.1%	+33.1%

Gods of Egypt overtakes London Has Fallen in admissions. Interesting. Opening weekend scores have drifted back and forth but London Has Fallen has a 4.0 rating while Gods of Egypt is below it with a 3.7/5. Superb for The Danish Girl. Poor for The Finest Hours. Ok increase for The Mermaid. Deadpool had a nice increase but a weak week-to-week hold.

Edited March 4, 2016 by Bluebomb

[ting72]

Batman vs Superman IMAX tickets are 230 hkd!!!!

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Bluebomb]

12 minutes ago, ting72 said:

Batman vs Superman IMAX tickets are 230 hkd!!!!

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh shit! FUCK YOU DISNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

	Saturday adm.	(so far)			March 5
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Danish Girl	8,935	7,794	-12.8%	+56.8%
2	Gods of Egypt	--	6,277	--	+80.6%
3	London Has Fallen	--	5,185	--	+73.5%
4	The Finest Hours	8,080	4,332	-46.4%	+46.4%
5	Room	--	2,300	--	+61.1%
6	The Mermaid	5,416	1,947	-64.1%	+78.5%
7	Spotlight	--	1,584	--	+38.9%
8	Deadpool	5,510	1,348	-75.5%	+47.6%
9	The Revenant	--	400	--	+52.1%
10	Miss You Already	--	327	--	--

Great hold for The Danish Girl. Strong increase for Gods of Egypt. Solid increase for London Has Fallen.

[ting72]

Not Warners?

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[TigerPaw]

3 hours ago, Bluebomb said:

Oh shit! FUCK YOU DISNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Haha, Warner Bros!!

Its a DC movie ^^ 

[Bluebomb]

6 hours ago, ting72 said:

Not Warners?

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

6 hours ago, TigerPaw said:

Haha, Warner Bros!!

Its a DC movie ^^ 

BvS is a Warner Bros. movie but Warner Bros. wouldn't have charged people so much if Disney hadn't gone off the rails and charged $250 in IMAX for Star Wars 7. Within the next 2 years, I could see an IMAX release costing $300 a ticket.

 

	Saturday				March 5
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Gods of Egypt	--	18,614	--	+77.5%
2	London Has Fallen	--	17,937	--	+71.2%
3	The Danish Girl	14,829	15,008	+1.2%	+69.5%
4	The Mermaid	19,517	7,842	-59.8%	+83.6%
5	The Finest Hours	21,029	7,781	-63.0%	+50.5%
6	Room	--	5,214	--	+79.7%
7	Deadpool	18,719	5,080	-72.9%	+60.7%
8	Spotlight	--	3,192	--	+45.8%
9	13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi	3,450	929	-73.1%	--
10	How to Be Single	2,833	900	-68.2%	+40.8%

Strong for Gods of Egypt. Good increase for London Has Fallen. Excellent for The Danish Girl. Not very good for The Mermaid or The Finest Hours. Decent for Room. Deadpool continues its massive slide down.
 

	Weekend Projections			March 3
Rank	Movie	TW	% chg	Total
1	Gods of Egypt	$810,000		$810,000
2	London Has Fallen	$755,000		$755,000
3	The Danish Girl	$495,000	+16.9%	$1,140,000
4	The Mermaid	$320,000	-51.4%	$7,000,000
5	Deadpool	$220,000	-65.0%	$7,335,000

Gerard Butler's Gods of Egypt will take over the #1 spot from The Mermaid and will take down his other release London Has Fallen this weekend. In a double shot of Gerard Butler, it was Gerard action film vs. Gerard action-adventure film but in a twist, the sword and sandal flick came out the winner with its special effects and 3D prices. The mixed reviews for Gods of Egypt don't seem to be affecting the film just yet but with a noticeable difference between London's 4.1 score and Gods of Egypt's tepid 3.5 from users, we could see a switch coming as fast as Monday. The Danish Girl reeled off an increase after enjoying its post-Oscar bump. For Tom Hooper, this will be his 3rd straight 1m grosser while it will be Eddie Redmayne's 3rd 1m grossing film in HK. The Danish Girl will power ahead of The King's Speech by next week and it just goes to show how much distributor matters in HK. The King's Speech was distributed by Cable, a small distributor but The Danish Girl is EDKO's film, who are one of the bigwig local distributors in HK. The Mermaid passes 7m while Deadpool is closing in on The Dark Knight and Inception. The Mermaid is looking at 57m HK at the moment while Deadpool's final tally could be around 58.5m HK.

[Bluebomb]

	Sunday adm.	(so far)			March 6
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Danish Girl	9,255	6,783	-26.7%	-13.0%
2	Gods of Egypt	--	6,746	--	+7.5%
3	London Has Fallen	--	6,081	--	+17.3%
4	The Finest Hours	8,546	4,496	-47.4%	+3.8%
5	Room	--	2,695	--	+17.2%
6	The Mermaid	7,126	2,598	-63.5%	+33.4%
7	Spotlight	--	1,615	--	+2.0%
8	Deadpool	4,927	1,604	-67.4%	+19.0%
9	The Good Dinosaur	1,799	448	-75.1%	--
10	The Revenant	--	400	--	+0.0%

Ooh very bad drop from Saturday for The Danish Girl. Good increase for Gods of Egypt. Strong Sunday increase for London Has Fallen. Eh for The Finest Hours. Also strong for Room. Not a great hold for The Mermaid.

[TigerPaw]

8 hours ago, Bluebomb said:

	Sunday adm.	(so far)			March 6
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Danish Girl	9,255	6,783	-26.7%	-13.0%
2	Gods of Egypt	--	6,746	--	+7.5%
3	London Has Fallen	--	6,081	--	+17.3%
4	The Finest Hours	8,546	4,496	-47.4%	+3.8%
5	Room	--	2,695	--	+17.2%
6	The Mermaid	7,126	2,598	-63.5%	+33.4%
7	Spotlight	--	1,615	--	+2.0%
8	Deadpool	4,927	1,604	-67.4%	+19.0%
9	The Good Dinosaur	1,799	448	-75.1%	--
10	The Revenant	--	400	--	+0.0%

Ooh very bad drop from Saturday for The Danish Girl. Good increase for Gods of Egypt. Strong Sunday increase for London Has Fallen. Eh for The Finest Hours. Also strong for Room. Not a great hold for The Mermaid.

Really surprised by Gods of Eygpt's performance in HK, perhaps due to its 3D ticket pricing, but admissions in HK looks good too.

It is not doing that well everywhere else, eg: Singapore and Malaysia. It was beaten by Zootopia in Singapore for 2 weekends in a row. Would be interesting to see how it plays out in China this coming weekend, I hope both Ip Man 3 and Zootopia beats it in China, WOM spreads extremely fast in China right now...

BTW BvS's international marketing rollout is pretty evident here in Singapore, they are having a huge movie and toy exhibition, lasting till April, in one of our most popular shopping centers. Warner Bros have never done this, Universal did it once with Jurassic World while Disney frequently does such events and exhibitions, including for Star Wars and Avengers. Will be fun to see how BvS gross in Asia compared to Avengers... Will it be DC's time to finally shine through Marvel's shadow... Haha.

[ting72]

I'm sure it's just lack of competition. If Zootopia was out in HK I'm pretty certain it would be number one this week too

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Bluebomb]

On 3/6/2016 at 11:45 PM, TigerPaw said:

Really surprised by Gods of Eygpt's performance in HK, perhaps due to its 3D ticket pricing, but admissions in HK looks good too.

It is not doing that well everywhere else, eg: Singapore and Malaysia. It was beaten by Zootopia in Singapore for 2 weekends in a row. Would be interesting to see how it plays out in China this coming weekend, I hope both Ip Man 3 and Zootopia beats it in China, WOM spreads extremely fast in China right now...

BTW BvS's international marketing rollout is pretty evident here in Singapore, they are having a huge movie and toy exhibition, lasting till April, in one of our most popular shopping centers. Warner Bros have never done this, Universal did it once with Jurassic World while Disney frequently does such events and exhibitions, including for Star Wars and Avengers. Will be fun to see how BvS gross in Asia compared to Avengers... Will it be DC's time to finally shine through Marvel's shadow... Haha.

Gods of Egypt was #1 in Malaysia with 1m. I'd say that's a darn good opening weekend. The real surprise actually came from The Philippines where Gods of Egypt turned in a great performance: 1.7m but it was #2 behind Zoolander 2's 2.4m. I'm kind of shocked that Philippines went out in droves to see the movie when it was a flop almost everywhere else.

On 3/6/2016 at 2:12 AM, ting72 said:

I'm sure it's just lack of competition. If Zootopia was out in HK I'm pretty certain it would be number one this week too

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm not so sure about that. There's a reason why no major animation is ever released outside of a holiday period (CNY, Easter, Summer holidays, Christmas). It's why we get stuck with the animation season of 2013...remember that?

 

May 31, 2013 - Thomas & Friends: The Blue Mountain Mystery
June 6 - The Garden of Words

[June 20 - Ernest & Celestine

June 27 - Epic

July 4 - Despicable Me 2

July 11 - Monsters University

July 18 - Turbo

July 25 - Yearly Doraemon release

August 1 - The Smurfs 2

August 8 - The Suicide Shop]

August 22 - Planes

 

8 animation releases in 8 consecutive weeks. 11 animation releases in 13 weeks total. Even then anything outside the last weekend of June and the 2nd last weekend of August is considered as 'outside the norm' for a summer animation release.

 

It's also why this season is going to be crowded.

 

Angry Birds - June 2

The Secret Life of Pets - either June 30 or July 21, not confirmed

Ice Age 5 - July 7

Finding Dory - July 14

Yearly Doraemon release - last weekend of July or first weekend of August

 

Angry Birds is going off script by debuting in June but it will have played 2-3 weeks almost everywhere before it gets to HK and the weekend after is very crowded with 3 films: Now You See Me 2, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 and Warcraft. It has a holiday on Thursday June 9 (Dragon Boat Festival) but it will still be an animation film that has a public holiday within 2 weeks of release.

 

Even when you look at The Good Dinosaur after the holidays the last few weeks, if you look at the daily admissions, it starts off very poor on Thursday/Friday but weekend shoots up 150-300% on Saturday and then another 30-60% on Sunday. Zootopia would likely do the same % increase and it is an original film with no sequel status to its name.

 

	Sunday				March 6
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Gods of Egypt	--	16,531	--	-11.2%
2	London Has Fallen	--	16,052	--	-10.5%
3	The Danish Girl	14,939	12,070	-19.2%	-19.6%
4	The Mermaid	20,230	7,852	-61.2%	+0.1%
5	The Finest Hours	18,899	7,257	-61.6%	-6.7%
6	Room	--	5,055	--	-3.0%
7	Deadpool	14,867	4,506	-69.7%	-11.3%
8	Spotlight	--	2,965	--	-7.1%
9	The Good Dinosaur	3,462	1,290	-62.7%	--
10	How to Be Single	2,021	910	-55.0%	+1.1%

The top 3 all had very steep drops on Sunday which affected their projections. Gods of Egypt officially won on Sunday over London Has Fallen.
 

	Weekend adm.			Mar 3-6
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Gods of Egypt	--	52,983	--
2	London Has Fallen	--	51,968	--
3	The Danish Girl	42,265	41,587	-1.6%
4	The Finest Hours	63,284	24,268	-61.7%
5	The Mermaid	59,935	23,028	-61.6%
6	Room	--	15,285	--
7	Deadpool	52,571	14,756	-71.9%
8	Spotlight	RE	9,646	--
	How to Be Single	7,787	2,929	-62.4%

 

	Weekend Estimates			March 3
Rank	Movie	TW	% chg	Total
1	Gods of Egypt	$780,000		$780,000
2	London Has Fallen	$725,000		$725,000
3	The Danish Girl	$470,000	+11.0%	$1,115,000
4	The Mermaid	$320,000	-51.4%	$7,000,000
5	Deadpool	$220,000	-65.0%	$7,335,000

The top 3 all lost more than $10,000 from projections due to weaker than expected Sunday holds.

Actuals
Ip Man 3 - $7,756,561
Deadpool - $7,327,983
The Mermaid - $6,974,547

Ip Man 3's run officially ended on Wednesday however, it did gain a few extra thousand from Mon-Wed. Deadpool is closing in on Inception/The Dark Knight while The Mermaid will have to wait until Monday to officially pass 7m.

[ting72]

Granted I'm not looking at deeply into it, I'm just saying reason why 'Gods of Egypt' did ok in HK compared to everywhere else is because of lack of competition and it may not be a coincidence that Zootopia is number 1 in territories where 'Gods' is doing badly.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Bluebomb]

	Thursday adm.	(so far)		March 10
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Allegiant	--	2,078	--
2	Gods of Egypt	--	1,314	--
3	The Danish Girl	--	1,266	--
4	London Has Fallen	--	904	--
5	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies	--	575	--
6	Room	--	562	--
7	Hail, Caesar!	--	455	--
8	iGirl	--	444	--
9	Spotlight	--	298	--
10	Brooklyn	--	213	--

Nothing outstanding for any film. Allegiant's opening day pre-sales are meh. It comes down to how many people will walk up and see the film but I don't see a whole lot of interest. Gods of Egypt, The Danish Girl and London Has Fallen all had pretty steep falls despite weak openers. Bombs away for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Room had a mediocre hold.

[TigerPaw]

54 minutes ago, Bluebomb said:

Nothing outstanding for any film. Allegiant's opening day pre-sales are meh. It comes down to how many people will walk up and see the film but I don't see a whole lot of interest. Gods of Egypt, The Danish Girl and London Has Fallen all had pretty steep falls despite weak openers. Bombs away for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Room had a mediocre hold.

Too many teenage, young adults survival movie like Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Divergent... 3 series each with 4 movies, its saturating the market and making people lose interest. Soon, Superhero Fatigue will take place too.

Look at Allgiant's Rotten Tomatoes score, 0% right now with 11 reviews. It will be murdered by KFP3 next week, and then BvS the week after.

Edited March 9, 2016 by TigerPaw

[TigerPaw]

Ip Man 3's Bluray officially appeared on every major torrent website, and chinese pirated illegal movie websites, over a million views + download in China alone in the past 12hours. Drop in China box office today is quite high, probably end up less than 900m yuan in total BO.

[Bluebomb]

Kung Fu Panda 3 - Part 1/3 Easter series
Opening: March 17 (sneaks March 12-13)



Opening nearly 2 months after N.America and China, Kung Fu Panda 3 heads into HK one week ahead of the Easter holidays. This will be the first film in the series that does not open during the summer period and is looking at the Easter holidays to bolster its legs. The problem that Kung Fu Panda 3 has is exactly the same problem that Kung Fu Panda 2 had but in reverse.

Kung Fu Panda 2 opened in July one week after Harry Potter 7-2 and 3 weeks after Transformers 3 but by then a whopping 15m was spread between the 2 films before Kung Fu Panda 2 even opened. It opened to formidable 2nd week competition from Harry Potter 7-2 and nearly lost, thereby suppressing its opening weekend and it never really recovered with its legs from the two blockbusters that preceded it.

Kung Fu Panda 3 will hightail into theaters officially next week but it will launch with sneak previews this weekend. Sneak previews this weekend is an excellent idea that will help to alleviate some of the problems that will come with its legs. Opening weekend will play very well as its the only mainstream release and it will be the first major kid film since Chinese New Year. Reviews are strong and the early word of mouth from previews this weekend will roll over into opening weekend. Opening weekend including previews could see it bounce to 2.3m total.

Its 2nd weekend, Easter weekend, is the major problem for Kung Fu Panda 3. While Kung Fu Panda 2 had competition preceding it that affected its box office, Kung Fu Panda 3 will face intense competition head on with a huge Hollywood superhero film and one of the hottest films out right now. Batman v Superman and Zootopia will make their entrances on Easter weekend and it is shaping up to be one of the strongest Easter weekends on record.

Easter weekend has always been a mid-tier holiday weekend unlike Chinese New Year or Christmas where recent 4-day weekends eclipse 6-7m total in business. This year, however, is poised to become the strongest weekend on record with the top 3 all commanding big business. In recent years, Easter weekend has grown from 3m total for all films in the early part of this decade to 4m total in 2013 and 5m total for all films last year. This year, we could see the top 3 come in with more than 6m alone.

For Kung Fu Panda 3, the concern stems from 2 problems. How much will Batman v Superman take away but maybe more importantly, will viewers flock to Zootopia instead? Batman v Superman will be the runaway #1 winner of the weekend obviously but will it do so well that theaters put it on a 4th screen and in the process cut down on Kung Fu Panda 3's 2nd weekend gross? As for Zootopia, HK has a mixed history in the past with talking animal films. The Lion King made $15,819,203, ranked #20 for the year back in 1994 while more recent talking animation films like the Ice Age series enjoys good word of mouth and is a worthy competitor at the box office and the Madagascar series is not far behind. If we're talking about who has the edge between the two films, it's definitely Kung Fu Panda 3. Still, the boisterous praise for the Zootopia film is a big concern and with Batman v Superman out, they both will have to rely on legs to survive. 2nd weekend should see it come in with a decent 1m (-57%).

The weekend after, only a local film, The Bodyguard will open but the loss of the holidays will hurt. Sunday will be inflated again with Monday being a holiday. 3rd weekend could see it scarf down another $450,000 (-55%). By then, it will have surpassed Kung Fu Panda 2's total.

4th weekend sees the Huntsmen: Winter's War released and by then, I think we'll start to see some theaters push Kung Fu Panda 3 away. With no holidays inflating its previous weekend, 4th weekend should see it relax a bit and it could rope in another $300,000 (-33%) added to Kung Fu Panda 3's total.

Rest of its run should take in about $450,000.

Opening weekend - $2,300,000 (including previews)
Total - $6,400,000 (2.78 multiplier)
 

	Thursday			March 10
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Allegiant	--	5,001	--
2	London Has Fallen	7,501	3,960	-47.2%
3	Gods of Egypt	7,353	3,877	-47.3%
4	The Danish Girl	5,655	3,364	-40.5%
5	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies	--	2,922	--
6	Room	2,114	1,535	-27.4%
7	Hail, Caesar!	--	1,080	--
8	The Mermaid	3,062	1,065	-65.2%
9	iGirl	--	1,048	--
10	Spotlight	1,299	903	-30.5%

Poor for Allegiant. It will be the lowest opening weekend of the 3 in the Divergent series. Meh for London Has Fallen/Gods of Egypt considering how weak the openers did this week. OK for The Danish Girl. Terrible for Pride. Nice for Room.