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[Bluebomb]

Bluebomb, any changes to the screen allocation?

Monsters U is getting an extra screen on Saturday/Sunday. Showtimes are being bumped from 19 to 23-25. Still not enough showtimes but it should be enough to allow it to pass 100,000 admissions on both days.

 

I'll be seeing it later today so hope it's as good as everyone says it is.

[Bluebomb]

At 7:30 PM, Monsters University has eclipsed 60,000 admissions. That means it has already done better than yesterday's admissions. Even if it gets the same adjustment down as yesterday, it has already done more for the day than yesterday.I watched Monsters University today and I really enjoyed it.

I think it's better than Monsters Inc. Monsters Inc. has a better story but Monsters University is much funnier and I just had a better time watching it. I rewatched Monsters Inc. a few weeks ago and I don't think it stood the test of time for me.

[Olive]

Glad you loved it, bluebomb.

I still have to wait for more than a month ..

[druv10]

At 7:30 PM, Monsters University has eclipsed 60,000 admissions. That means it has already done better than yesterday's admissions. Even if it gets the same adjustment down as yesterday, it has already done more for the day than yesterday.I watched Monsters University today and I really enjoyed it.

I think it's better than Monsters Inc. Monsters Inc. has a better story but Monsters University is much funnier and I just had a better time watching it. I rewatched Monsters Inc. a few weeks ago and I don't think it stood the test of time for me.

 

 

Glad you enjoyed it. I had the same thought about MU being better than MI. 

[Leyla]

glad u enjoyed it B

Im not interested in animation mostly

tomorrow WWZ finally ! hopefully this time it won't be sold out

Edited July 12, 2013 by Leyla

[druv10]

glad u enjoyed it B

Im not interested in animation ostly

tomorrow WWZ!

 

 

But did you watch MU? It's a great movie. 

[Leyla]

But did you watch MU? It's a great movie. 

no

& dont plan to

just like DM2

 

 

btw B, when is the release of WHD in HK???

Edited July 12, 2013 by Leyla

[Dilusha Bandara]

Bluebomb, will DM2 pass 5 million at the end?? and how many days does such a movie runs?? about 50 days??

Edited July 12, 2013 by dilusha117

[Bluebomb]

Glad you loved it, bluebomb.

I still have to wait for more than a month ..

I thought Monsters University already came out in China?

 

no

& dont plan to

just like DM2

 

 

btw B, when is the release of WHD in HK???

White House Down comes out August 22.

 

Bluebomb, will DM2 pass 5 million at the end?? and how many days does such a movie runs?? about 50 days??

DM2 is not going to make 4m...let alone 5m. Movies usually run 4-6 weeks. Leggier films show for about 2 months. Despicable Me 2 should make it to about week 6 or 7.

 

Last check of opening Saturday pre-sales for Monsters University.

 

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	108	163	66.26%	Jul. 13	9:10 AM	116	163	71.17%	Jul. 13	9:25 AM	86	111	77.48%
	11:15 AM	145	163	88.96%		11:55 AM	46	163	28.22%
	1:20 PM	104	163	63.80%		2:00 PM	102	163	62.58%
	1:40 PM	65	111	58.56%		3:45 PM	76	111	68.47%
	3:25 PM	125	163	76.69%		4:05 PM	122	163	74.85%
	4:05 PM	76	111	68.47%		6:10 PM	116	163	71.17%
	5:30 PM	132	163	80.98%		7:55 PM	72	111	64.86%
	5:50 PM	81	111	72.97%		8:15 PM	112	163	68.71%
	7:35 PM	127	163	77.91%		10:20 PM	100	163	61.35%
	8:00 PM	81	111	72.97%		12:05 AM	8	111	7.21%
	9:40 PM	111	163	68.10%
	10:00 PM	54	111	48.65%
	11:45 PM	13	163	7.98%
Total		1222	1859	65.73%	Total		870	1474	59.02%	Total		86	111	77.48%

Extremely high pre-sales over at The ONE. Pretty much everywhere in HK is over 50% full on Saturday. Monsters University needs more screens.

 

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	109	202	53.96%
	9:20 AM	111	191	58.12%
	11:10 AM	142	202	70.30%
	11:30 AM	86	191	45.03%
	11:50 AM	90	176	51.14%
	1:20 PM	135	202	66.83%
	1:40 PM	99	191	51.83%
	2:00 PM	114	176	64.77%
	3:10 PM	138	202	68.32%
	3:30 PM	164	202	81.19%
	4:10 PM	130	176	73.86%
	5:20 PM	140	202	69.31%
	5:40 PM	144	202	71.29%
	6:20 PM	134	176	76.14%
	7:30 PM	137	202	67.82%
	7:50 PM	146	202	72.28%
	8:00 PM	132	191	69.11%
	9:40 PM	130	202	64.36%
	10:00 PM	136	202	67.33%
	11:50 PM	58	202	28.71%
	12:10 AM	30	202	14.85%
Total		2648	4296	61.64%

61% sold for the day. Even midnights are starting to fill up. 15% & 30% sold out...fantastic.

 

	Friday				July 12
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Monsters University	--	60,944	--	+1.8%
2	Tales from the Dark Pt. 1	--	13,951	--	-2.2%
3	Despicable Me 2	17,096	11,201	-34.5%	+6.2%
4	Blind Detective	15,965	7,977	-50.0%	+17.7%
5	World War Z	9,446	3,884	-58.9%	+15.4%
6	Man of Steel	15,733	2,524	-84.0%	+6.7%
7	Now You See Me	5,105	1,735	-66.0%	-10.7%
8	Midsummer Formula	5,654	685	-87.9%	+2.9%
9	Epic	3,199	466	-85.4%	+24.9%
10	Liar Game: Reborn	--	139	--	+18.8%

Awesome number for Monsters University. I was worried that Friday would be its weak spot but it turned out just fine. Friday saw a similar dip like Thursday's. At one point, it had more than 61,000 admissions and then dropped back into the 60,000 range. Tales from the Dark Part 1 is frontloaded but word of mouth is good. Superb hold for Despicable Me 2, however, next week, it will be targeted directly and indirectly. Blind Detective did pretty well. Good hold for World War Z. Disaster for Man of Steel. Now You See Me fell hard today. Tomorrow won't be much better. Midsummer Formula and Epic got doused by Monsters University. Liar Game: Reborn enters the top 10 with 3 theaters.

 

	Daily admissions (OW)
	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Total
Monsters University	59,870	60,944			120,814
Toy Story 3	71,663	71,042	112,971	119,140	374,816
Gap	-11,793	-21,891	-134,862	-254,002

Monsters University won't be winning the OW admissions battle against Toy Story 3 but it may pull out a minor weekend victory. Saturday and Sunday will end up being extremely close either way.

[Olive]

I thought Monsters University already came out in China?

 

Not yet.

It comes here on August 23rd.

[Sam]

Thanks for the updates Bluebomb. And glad to hear you enjoyed Monsters University, especially when you said it will be the only animation you'd spend your money on this summer. It would suck if you didn't like it 

 

If you don't mind, can you tell me the Top 10 movies in HK in 2013 so far? Thank you 

[Bluebomb]

Thanks for the updates Bluebomb. And glad to hear you enjoyed Monsters University, especially when you said it will be the only animation you'd spend your money on this summer. It would suck if you didn't like it 

 

If you don't mind, can you tell me the Top 10 movies in HK in 2013 so far? Thank you 

I will update after this weekend. In the meantime, you can check out the 2013 Records here. They are only updated through June 23 so Man of Steel isn't on there yet.

 

General Records are also updated.

[Bluebomb]

	Saturday adm.	(so far)			July 13
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Monsters University	--	60,286	--	+72.8%
2	Despicable Me 2	13,875	7,873	-43.3%	+75.2%
3	Blind Detective	11,110	6,584	-40.7%	+82.0%
4	Tales from the Dark Pt. 1	--	5,502	--	+22.4%
5	Man of Steel	10,297	2,189	-78.7%	+113.1%
6	World War Z	5,358	1,649	-69.2%	+15.2%
7	Now You See Me	2,935	1,258	-57.1%	+109.0%
8	Midsummer Formula	3,379	963	-71.5%	+228.7%
9	SDU: Sex Duties Unit	--	532	--	--
10	Epic	2,716	279	-89.7%	+4.9%

Wonderful for Monsters University.

 

[Sam]

The Sat increase for WWZ is very underwhelming, did it got shortchanged with too many releases and ended up with limited showtimes?

[Bluebomb]

The Sat increase for WWZ is very underwhelming, did it got shortchanged with too many releases and ended up with limited showtimes?

Yes. Most had to cut showtimes or completely cut it and Now You See Me to make room for more showtimes for other releases.

 

Lots of sellouts this morning for Monsters University.

Festival Walk's 11 AM 3D Cantonese showing on the biggest screen was 99% filled. It's a pretty difficult theater to fill due to its size (354 seats).

Reviews for the Pixar toon are extremely strong with many giving it positive marks.

[Sam]

Yes. Most had to cut showtimes or completely cut it and Now You See Me to make room for more showtimes for other releases.

 

Well, WWZ was doing better than MOS, maybe they should have cut down MOS's showtimes instead. 

 

Kidding, I know MOS is in its 3rd weekend, so of course they can't do that 

 

Well, both NYSM and WWZ are break out success, so I can't ask for more.

 

 

Thanks for updates as always, Bluebomb Keep on chugging MU 

[Leyla]

 

Yes. Most had to cut showtimes or completely cut it and Now You See Me to make room for more showtimes for other releases.

boo

 

thx for the WHD info

[Bluebomb]

8 PM Saturday: Monsters University is far away from Toy Story 3's opening Saturday admissions and is not having much of an increase. The other films aren't having much luck with Saturday increases either.It will depend on Sunday but Monsters University is looking at 3.1m for the weekend, good enough for #2 animated OW of all time.

[Bluebomb]

I have some news to announce.

The opening day gross that I posted earlier for Monsters University is wrong. The number reported was incorrect. Straight from Disney, Monsters University made $648,520 ($5,031,687 HK) and edged out Toy Story 3's opening day to place itself as the highest grossing animated release on the first day.

Both the records page and the July 11 Thursday Actuals have since been changed to reflect the more accurate information.

As a side note, I also went back and checked other films on the top 10 opening day list and The Dark Knight Rises moves from #10 to #7 on the list.
 

	Saturday				July 13
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Monsters University	--	84,282	--	+38.3%
2	Tales from the Dark Pt. 1	1,374	18,633	+1256.1%	+33.6%
3	Despicable Me 2	33,588	16,175	-51.8%	+44.4%
4	Blind Detective	25,286	11,199	-55.7%	+40.4%
5	Man of Steel	22,716	4,161	-81.7%	+64.9%
6	World War Z	14,281	3,473	-75.7%	-10.6%
7	Now You See Me	5,917	2,713	-54.1%	+56.4%
8	Midsummer Formula	7,091	1,364	-80.8%	+99.1%
9	Epic	6,116	555	-90.9%	+19.1%
10	SDU: Sex Duties Unit	--	542	--	--

Awesome for Monsters University. Yes, today also saw downward adjustments for the film so admissions likely won't be of any help this week. That is better for Tales from the Dark 1. Despicable Me 2 had a mild increase today compared with last Saturday but it will make over $500,000 this weekend. Blind Detective saw a bigger drop with Monsters University clamoring for screens. Man of Steel bumped World War Z out of the top 5 due to it getting showtimes over World War Z. Its hold, however, is ghastly. World War Z decreased from Friday due to losing showtimes and theaters. Many theaters were not able to support so many films with Monsters University leading the charge over the weekend so a couple of films got the axe. Now You See Me held well considering showtime loss today. Midsummer Formula saw a huge spike today. Epic lost showtimes as well hence the soft increase. SDU: Sex Duties Unit got off to a frolicking start.

[Bluebomb]

	Sunday adm.	(so far)			July 14
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Monsters University	--	68,730	--	+14.0%
2	Despicable Me 2	18,446	11,110	-39.8%	+41.1%
3	Blind Detective	12,797	6,194	-51.6%	-5.9%
4	Tales from the Dark Pt. 1	--	5,662	--	+2.9%
5	Man of Steel	10,816	1,787	-83.5%	-18.4%
6	World War Z	6,054	1,766	-70.8%	+7.1%
7	Now You See Me	3,145	1,465	-53.4%	+16.5%
8	Midsummer Formula	3,638	1,196	-67.1%	+24.2%
9	SDU: Sex Duties Unit	--	496	--	-6.8%
10	Epic	4,048	423	-89.6%	+51.6%

Monsters University sees a massive 8,500 bump similar to Kung Fu Panda 2's opening Sunday pre-selling admissions increase. Despicable Me 2 also saw a big family gain on Sunday. Those that wanted to see Monsters University this weekend but couldn't likely went over to Despicable Me 2 to see something else. Blind Detective's drop is just OK. Tales from the Dark Part 1 is doing not bad this weekend. Man of Steel is shedding a lot of viewers this weekend.