Hong Kong Hong Kong Box Office

[Olive]

MU is doing great in Taiwan too.

Way higher than Ice ages and KFP

[Olive]

So that 34000 includes both Cantonese and English versions?

[druv10]

Olive, when is MU opening in SK and what are the expectations?

[Olive]

Olive, when is MU opening in SK and what are the expectations?

In September.

Don't expect too much, the animations loved by Koreans are Kungfu Panda's

5-8M perhaps.

Edited July 10, 2013 by Olive

[druv10]

In September.

Don't expect too much, the animations loved by Koreans are Kungfu Panda's

5-8M perhaps.

 

Why would they wait 3 months after the domestic release? 

[Fullbuster]

In September.

Don't expect too much, the animations loved by Koreans are Kungfu Panda's

5-8M perhaps.

 

I want to believe in SK about MU

[Olive]

Why would they wait 3 months after the domestic release? 

Movies with little box office potential are alway delayed in SK.

DM2 in Sep. too.

Edited July 10, 2013 by Olive

[druv10]

Movies with little box office potential are alway delayed in SK.

DM2 in Sep. too.

 

The animation taste in Asia is all over the map. Japan, HK love Pixar while China and SK loathe them. Hopefully, it'll change sometime in the future and I bet TGD will breakout in China at least.  

[Bluebomb]

So that 34000 includes both Cantonese and English versions?

It includes everything. 2D + 3D and both language versions.

[Bluebomb]

Saw some near sellouts for Monsters University this morning. Very strong sales so far.

[Bluebomb]

Pacific Rim watch

Telford
	Pacific Rim
Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled
Jul. 18	9:05 AM	1	147	0.68%
	11:40 AM		147	0.00%
	2:15 PM	2	147	1.36%
	4:50 PM	5	147	3.40%
	7:25 PM	4	147	2.72%
	10:00 PM		147	0.00%
Total		12	882	1.36%

1 week out and Pacific Rim is looking terrible at Telford. It already had 1 week of priority booking for club members and didn't do anything. This is looking really bad.
_________________________________________________________________
At 7 PM, Monsters University is nearing 58,000 admissions. It will hit 60,000 admissions within the next couple of hours.

Opening Saturday Monsters University watch

Palace APM
	Monsters University	3D Can.
Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled
Jul. 13	9:00 AM	88	112	78.57%
	11:05 AM	99	112	88.39%
	1:10 PM	61	112	54.46%
	3:15 PM	81	112	72.32%
	5:20 PM	76	112	67.86%
	7:25 PM	70	112	62.50%
	9:30 PM	63	112	56.25%
	11:35 PM	6	112	5.36%
Total		544	896	60.71%

Extraordinary numbers for Monsters University. Huge pre-selling.
 

Festival Walk
	Monsters University	3D Can.				Monsters University	3D Eng.
Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled	Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled
Jul. 13	11:15 AM	290	354	81.92%	Jul. 13	9:10 AM	204	354	57.63%
	1:20 PM	144	354	40.68%		3:25 PM	222	354	62.71%
	5:30 PM	235	354	66.38%
	7:35 PM	207	354	58.47%
	9:40 PM	106	354	29.94%
Total		982	1770	55.48%	Total		426	708	60.17%

Not to be outdone, Festival Walk continues to shine for Monsters University. It is beating Iron Man 3's early pre-sales though Iron Man 3 had one less showtime and had nearly a week to buy tickets. Monsters University only had 1 day of pre-selling.

[druv10]

As always thanks for your great reports Bluebomb. They're the best and the most detailed.

[Olive]

Wow, that's disastrous  for PR.

[Bluebomb]

	Thursday			July 11
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Monsters University	--	59,870	--
2	Tales from the Dark Pt. 1	--	14,265	--
3	Despicable Me 2	16,978	10,546	-37.9%
4	Blind Detective	13,441	6,778	-49.6%
5	World War Z	8,480	3,367	-60.3%
6	Man of Steel	12,374	2,366	-80.9%
7	Now You See Me	4,447	1,942	-56.3%
8	Midsummer Formula	3,986	666	-83.3%
9	Epic	2,962	373	-87.4%
10	A Story of Yonosuke	265	150	-43.4%

Great number for Monsters University. I saw admissions go down at night so don't know what happened there. It should have made over 60,000 admissions today. That is still a great number for it though considering it got only 2 screens at most places. That means most showtimes were 90%+ full. Tales from the Dark Part 1 recovered well with good walk-ins. I still think it would have done better had they released this next weekend. Despicable Me 2 had a excellent hold in admissions. Let's see how much it falls in gross. Blind Detective did pretty good as well. World War Z did OK. Man of Steel got stopped in its tracks by Monsters University. Now You See Me did alright. Enormous drops for Midsummer Formula and Epic.

Opening Saturday Monsters University watch

The One
	Monsters University	3D Eng.				Monsters University	3D Can.				Monsters University	Eng.
Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled	Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled	Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled
Jul. 13	9:50 AM	11	163	6.75%	Jul. 13	9:10 AM	100	163	61.35%	Jul. 13	9:25 AM	61	111	54.95%
	11:15 AM	122	163	74.85%		11:55 AM	8	163	4.91%
	1:20 PM	98	163	60.12%		2:00 PM	28	163	17.18%
	1:40 PM	10	111	9.01%		3:45 PM	61	111	54.95%
	3:25 PM	122	163	74.85%		4:05 PM	85	163	52.15%
	4:05 PM	46	111	41.44%		6:10 PM	71	163	43.56%
	5:30 PM	130	163	79.75%		7:55 PM	28	111	25.23%
	5:50 PM	27	111	24.32%		8:15 PM	52	163	31.90%
	7:35 PM	124	163	76.07%		10:20 PM	18	163	11.04%
	8:00 PM	61	111	54.95%		12:05 AM	4	111	3.60%
	9:40 PM	107	163	65.64%
	10:00 PM	26	111	23.42%
	11:45 PM	10	163	6.13%
Total		894	1859	48.09%	Total		455	1474	30.87%	Total		61	111	54.95%

Doing pretty well at The ONE.

Langham Place
	Monsters University	3D Can.
Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled
Jul. 13	9:00 AM	143	202	70.79%
	9:00 AM	47	202	23.27%
	9:20 AM	55	191	28.80%
	11:10 AM	142	202	70.30%
	11:30 AM	42	191	21.99%
	11:50 AM	41	180	22.78%
	1:20 PM	131	202	64.85%
	1:40 PM	39	191	20.42%
	2:00 PM	59	180	32.78%
	3:10 PM	92	202	45.54%
	3:30 PM	162	202	80.20%
	4:10 PM	104	180	57.78%
	5:20 PM	102	202	50.50%
	5:40 PM	144	202	71.29%
	6:20 PM	86	180	47.78%
	7:30 PM	111	202	54.95%
	7:50 PM	144	202	71.29%
	8:00 PM	123	191	64.40%
	9:40 PM	103	202	50.99%
	10:00 PM	136	202	67.33%
	11:50 PM	11	202	5.45%
	12:10 AM	8	202	3.96%
Total		2025	4312	46.96%

Wow, Langham Place has sold nearly half of its tickets already. Not enough shows are being given to Monsters University. No matter, this will see a fantastic hold next week. Early reviews have poured in and almost all have given Monsters University excellent marks.

 

[druv10]

Great for MU and thanks Bluebomb. Why didn't the theaters give MU more screens to compensate for the demand? If the rush is there, why not?

[Olive]

Yay!

[Sam]

Wonderful for MU   

 

Wow, that's disastrous for MOS, it even fell behind WWZ 

 

Thanks for the updates Bluebomb   

[Bluebomb]

Great for MU and thanks Bluebomb. Why didn't the theaters give MU more screens to compensate for the demand? If the rush is there, why not?

I'm not really sure what the real reasons are. I can only speculate.

 

Broadway/AMC have an out. They're promoting their film and want it to do well so it's kind of understandable that they would give the biggest screens to their film. However, everyone knows that Monsters University was going to be big. To not at least give Monsters University the biggest screen is an injustice. I guess they're not in the business of making the most money after all. They would rather lose hundreds of thousands of dollars just to deny another film from grabbing it. I'm not sure about the other theater chains though.

 

As for the holdovers, Despicable Me 2 and Blind Detective were kept around for another week because they did well last week but I'm surprised they passed up on giving 2 more screens to Monsters University to show diversity. They didn't do that with Iron Man 3 or The Dark Knight Rises or The Avengers so I'm not sure why all of a sudden they did that to Monsters University. World War Z/Now You See Me were kept on because of their good holds the past several weeks. Man of Steel only got showtimes because it's only in its 3rd week.

 

I'm actually pissed off that theaters would do this to a big film. Disney should bitch about this to the theater owners till the cows come home because they did not deserve that kind of treatment at all. I still can't believe that Monsters University could have had a chance at 4m but lost it due to theater interference. That's a first.

 

The fact that Monsters University did so well when theaters gave it at best 3 screens is a miracle. Iron Man 3 had 5-6 screens and only made 76,778 admissions on opening day. If theaters did this to Iron Man 3, The Avengers would still have the OW record and people would be aghast that Iron Man 3 was denied an OW record in an Asian territory.

[Bluebomb]

		Thursday Actuals						July 11
LW	TW	Movie	Last Thu. (USD)	Thursday (USD)	% chg	Screens	Days	Total
--	1	Monsters University	--	$627,860	--	100	1	$627,860
--	2	Tales from the Dark Pt. 1	--	$101,850	--	38	1	$101,850
1	2	Despicable Me 2	$177,978	$101,850	-42.8%	54	8	$2,062,786
3	4	Blind Detective	$105,755	$59,305	-43.9%	37	8	$1,197,705
4	5	World War Z	$83,830	$32,231	-61.6%	25	22	$5,194,353
2	6	Man of Steel	$125,100	$21,917	-82.5%	34	15	$4,061,109
5	7	Now You See Me	$32,242	$15,470	-52.0%	20	29	$3,415,200
6	8	Midsummer Formula	$28,373	$5,543	-80.5%	14	13	$614,968
7	9	Epic	$24,504	$4,641	-81.1%	10	15	$857,345

July 11 Thursday Actuals

	Friday adm.	(so far)			July 12
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Monsters University	--	34,893	--	+2.6%
2	Tales from the Dark Pt. 1	--	4,495	--	+20.1%
3	Despicable Me 2	6,746	4,495	-33.4%	+39.6%
4	Blind Detective	6,513	3,618	-44.4%	+85.2%
5	World War Z	3,247	1,431	-55.9%	+72.6%
6	Man of Steel	6,906	1,027	-85.1%	+5.1%
7	Now You See Me	1,924	602	-68.7%	+30.6%
8	Midsummer Formula	2,317	293	-87.4%	+18.1%
9	Epic	1,526	266	-82.6%	+24.3%
10	Liar Game: Reborn	--	52	--	--

To see Monsters U up from Thursday pre-sales is a huge surprise. Friday was tracking to have lower pre-sales so this is great news! Good for Tales from the Dark. Great for Despicable Me 2 and Blind Detective. Nice for World War Z.

 

[druv10]

Bluebomb, any changes to the screen allocation?