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[Bluebomb]

 

The Smurfs (it's from Belgium) is a part of my youth, I like them, but this movie seems so bad...Happy to see it failing.

However I think the first one was ok

I grew up on it too. But the decision to change the movie to live action was a bad one.

[Bluebomb]

	Saturday				August 3
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Wolverine	33,794	22,163	-34.4%	+57.1%
2	Monsters University	25,743	14,861	-42.3%	+54.2%
3	The Smurfs 2	--	14,575	--	+74.3%
4	SDU: Sex Duties Unit	21,916	12,335	-43.7%	+26.3%
5	R.I.P.D.	--	11,318	--	+33.4%
6	Pacific Rim	21,455	10,561	-50.8%	+53.6%
7	Despicable Me 2	8,529	4,968	-41.8%	+47.2%
8	The Rooftop	--	4,915	--	+24.4%
9	Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum	7,197	4,413	-38.7%	+55.3%
10	Secretly Greatly	--	3,227	--	+54.3%

Excellent for The Wolverine. It is assured of beating X-Men: First Class now and becoming the highest grossing X-Men feature film ever. 3.5m is a done deal.

In the battle for #2, The Smurfs 2 tried hard to pass Monsters University but Monsters stood its ground. Very good for Monsters University and nice rebound for The Smurfs 2 after that horrible Friday. We still need to see how Sunday unfolds before declaring who is #2 and #3. Right now though, The Smurfs 2 is still ahead due to a stronger Thursday and Friday.

SDU had the 2nd smallest increase of the top 10 but it is a very good hold. Looks like Pang Ho Cheung movies are review proof for now. It has a terrible rating but that is not stopping people from checking it out.

R.I.P.D. is also garnering negative attention from users hence the low increase today. Where Pang Ho Cheung gets a reprieve, this is more susceptible to negative reviews. It should start dropping heavily after this weekend.

Meanwhile, the lower increase for R.I.P.D. was good for Pacific Rim as it enjoyed a wonderful increase today. 4m will be no problem at all now.

Troubling hold for Despicable Me 2. On the surface, it is quite good but if you look deeper, its walk-ins have cooled considerably since Thursday. In fact, Doraemon has had more walk-ins than Despicable Me 2 the last 2 days. Besides that, it also was the only animation in the top 10 to not increase by at least 50%. This weaker hold, however, does not change the fact that it will gross over 4m.

The Rooftop had the lowest increase of the top 10 but that was to be expected given Jay Chou's rabid fanbase wanting to see this as early as possible. It will make over $100,000 this weekend.

Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum had a wicked Saturday. While Despicable Me 2 has seen its drops grow larger this weekend, Doraemon has done the opposite. $500,000 will happen now and it might even take down Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users as the largest Doraemon picture in HK.

Secretly Greatly was boosted by strong reviews and had a very big increase today. It will beat Miracle in Cell No. 7's opening weekend and could make over $250,000 total.

 

Edited August 3, 2013 by Bluebomb

[Bluebomb]

	Daily admissions (OW)
	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Total
The Smurfs	17,712	13,140	24,059	27,443	82,354
The Smurfs 2	8,716	8,360	14,575		31,651
Gap	-8,996	-13,776	-23,260	-50,703

The Smurfs 2 is dropping further behind The Smurfs. Sunday's gap should be over 10,000.

 

	Sunday adm.	(so far)			August 4
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Monsters University	20,878	10,157	-51.4%	+36.8%
2	The Smurfs 2	--	9,211	--	+34.2%
3	The Wolverine	16,382	7,856	-52.0%	+4.9%
4	Pacific Rim	10,936	4,605	-57.9%	-1.5%
5	R.I.P.D.	--	3,827	--	+11.4%
6	SDU: Sex Duties Unit	7,466	3,325	-55.5%	-9.1%
7	Despicable Me 2	6,116	3,301	-46.0%	+22.7%
8	Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum	6,479	3,299	-49.1%	+66.8%
9	The Rooftop	--	1,812	--	-2.7%
10	Secretly Greatly	--	1,275	--	+5.6%

Good for Monsters University. It won't break out from under The Smurfs 2 today but putting as much distance as it can will make a difference in final rankings this weekend. The Smurfs 2 increased nicely. Great for The Wolverine. Routine decrease for Pacific Rim. R.I.P.D. saw a big increase today because it had a very low increase with Saturday's pre-sales. SDU declined a lot. Today will be its largest drop of the weekend. Not good for Despicable Me 2. Doraemon has virtually caught up to it. Doraemon soared today. It might have its best hold today which is the most important since Sunday's are the time where it does its most business. The Rooftop did OK despite being only one of three to drop in pre-sales. Decent for Secretly Greatly.

[Bluebomb]

August 1 Weekend Estimates

[Bluebomb]

	Sunday				August 4
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Wolverine	32,238	19,012	-41.0%	-14.2%
2	The Smurfs 2	--	16,839	--	+15.5%
3	Monsters University	27,974	15,856	-43.3%	+6.7%
4	R.I.P.D.	--	10,659	--	-5.8%
5	SDU: Sex Duties Unit	20,770	10,475	-49.6%	-15.1%
6	Pacific Rim	20,657	9,449	-54.3%	-10.5%
7	Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum	9,639	5,749	-40.4%	+30.3%
8	Despicable Me 2	9,251	5,419	-41.4%	+9.1%
9	The Rooftop	--	4,286	--	-12.8%
10	Secretly Greatly	--	2,815	--	-12.8%

Monsters University lost over 1,000 admissions today. It should have had the best hold of today. Doraemon did great.

	Weekend adm.			Aug 1-4
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	The Wolverine	111,186	67,092	-39.7%
2	The Smurfs 2	--	48,490	--
3	Monsters University	84,644	48,349	-42.9%
4	SDU: Sex Duties Unit	75,732	40,600	-46.4%
5	R.I.P.D.	--	38,025	--
6	Pacific Rim	70,336	32,679	-53.5%
7	Despicable Me 2	26,005	17,015	-34.6%
8	The Rooftop	--	16,867	--
9	Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum	27,688	15,853	-42.7%
10	Secretly Greatly	--	10,189	--

	Weekend Estimates			August 1
Rank	Movie	TW	% chg	Total
1	The Wolverine	$720,000	-43.8%	$2,470,000
2	The Smurfs 2	$500,000		$500,000
3	Monsters University	$495,000	-47.5%	$9,433,000
4	R.I.P.D.	$400,000		$400,000
5	Pacific Rim	$343,000	-54.6%	$3,686,000

August 1 Weekend Estimates

 

[Bluebomb]

	Monday adm.	(so far)			August 5
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Smurfs 2	--	2,821	--	-69.4%
2	Pacific Rim	3,628	2,113	-41.8%	-54.1%
3	The Wolverine	3,556	2,029	-42.9%	-74.2%
4	Monsters University	5,375	1,964	-63.5%	-80.7%
5	R.I.P.D.	--	1,344	--	-64.9%
6	SDU: Sex Duties Unit	2,189	1,195	-45.4%	-64.1%
7	Despicable Me 2	1,816	1,102	-39.3%	-66.6%
8	Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum	1,605	751	-53.2%	-77.2%
9	The Rooftop	--	738	--	-59.3%
10	Secretly Greatly	--	468	--	-63.3%

Pretty strong Monday for The Smurfs 2. Good for Pacific Rim and The Wolverine. Poor for Monsters University. Not good for R.I.P.D.

[Bluebomb]

August 1 Weekend Actuals

1. The Wolverine - $2,514,045 [$764,596 (-40.3%)]
2. The Smurfs 2 - $479,602 (opening weekend actual)
3. R.I.P.D. - $424,164 (including previews; opening weekend actual)
4. Monsters University - $9,312,281 ($72.23m HK) [$374,234 (-60.3%)]
5. Pacific Rim - $3,704,026 [$361,122 (-52.2%)]
6. SDU: Sex Duties Unit - $1,694,079 [$357,083 (-45.3%)]
7. Despicable Me 2 - $3,867,762 [$145,832 (-39.0%)]
8. Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum - $402,247 [$125,069 (-34.5%)]
9. The Rooftop - $113,454 (opening weekend actual)
10. Secretly Greatly - $86,380 (opening weekend actual)

Outside the top 10
Forbidden Super Hero - $103,140
Mood Indigo - $14,181 (opening weekend actual)

The Wolverine pushed hard on its 2nd weekend and came through with a spectacular hold. It will take down X-Men: First Class by next weekend.

The Smurfs 2 came up short this weekend, unable to grab its first #1 ranking here. This really disappointed in a summer full of animation hits. This should be able to get more than 1m here but 1.5m is a stretch.

R.I.P.D. was slightly below average but still managed to post a weekend over $400,000. This won't be crossing 1m.

Pacific Rim had a good hold, down 52%. 4m is upcoming next week.

Despite the horrible reviews, SDU had an outstanding hold. Although there was no local competition, it had to contend with widespread condemnation from users. There are 2 local movies coming out next week so it will have a hard time replicating this week's hold onto next week. 2m will be cleared.

Despicable Me 2 did not have the best hold this weekend but it still did relatively well. Although Saturday and Sunday fell harder than usual, this will leave with more than 4m.

Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum took everyone by surprise when it not only bucked the usual 60% decrease on its 2nd weekend for a Doraemon film but came through with the best hold of the top 10. This played to a wider base than most Doraemon films.

The Rooftop did not generate a lot of interest this weekend. Most was centered on The Wolverine and SDU. This might not make it to $250,000.

Secretly Greatly had a pretty good opening weekend and surpassed Miracle in Cell No. 7's opening weekend. There is still a lot of work to be done if it wants to make $250,000 but it has a really good head start with excellent WOM.

Now, on to Monsters University. The reason why I labelled it in red is because I think the total is wrong. There is no way that it did less than R.I.P.D. and barely edged Pacific Rim. It was already ahead of Pacific Rim by almost $13,000 on Thursday so the end result is Monsters University is ahead by $13,000 this weekend? R.I.P.D. was ahead of Monsters University on Thursday but Monsters University steamrolled R.I.P.D. on the weekend so it does not make any sense why it would lose to R.I.P.D. Most likely it was a typo and the correct total should be $9,441,207 ($73.23m HK), which would be $503,160 (-46.6%) for the weekend.

[Bluebomb]

	Monday adm.				August 5
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Wolverine	13,954	7,567	-45.8%	-60.2%
2	The Smurfs 2	--	6,370	--	-59.8%
3	SDU: Sex Duties Unit	11,319	6,096	-46.1%	-42.8%
4	Monsters University	12,344	5,645	-54.3%	-66.5%
5	R.I.P.D.	--	5,491	--	-47.6%
6	Pacific Rim	9,662	4,844	-49.9%	-48.7%
7	Despicable Me 2	4,746	2,585	-45.5%	-55.0%
8	The Rooftop	--	2,092	--	-61.4%
9	Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum	4,113	2,080	-49.4%	-51.5%
10	Secretly Greatly	--	1,830	--	-35.0%

Good for The Wolverine. Decent Monday hold for The Smurfs. SDU did quite well. Bad for Monsters University. Not bad for R.I.P.D. Not bad for Pacific Rim and Despicable Me 2. Pretty awful for The Rooftop. Very good for Doraemon. Strong for Secretly Greatly.

 

[Bluebomb]

Movies releasing in Fall/Winter 2013

Release Date	Movie Title
September 5 (Fall)	Before Midnight Riddick Shield of Straw The Bling Ring Grown Ups 2 The Midas Touch Red 2
September 12	The Reluctant Fundamentalist 2 Guns Barfi!
September 19	3096 Days We're the Millers jOBS Love is in the Air Sadako 2 The Best Plan Is No Plan
September 26	This is the End Runner, Runner Elysium The Place Beyond the Pines
October 3	Gravity About Time Twice Born Special ID Inferno
October 10	Captain Phillips Haunt Rush
October 12	The Girl in the Sun
October 17	Don Jon Blue Jasmine Make Your Move
October 24	Escape Plan Rigor Mortis (Compass)
October 31 (Winter)	Ender's Game
November 7	Thor: The Dark World Venus in Fur
November 14	The Counselor Insidious: Chapter 2 Machete Kills
November 21	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
November 28	Carrie Like Father Like Son Project Blue Book
December 5	Battle of the Year
December 12	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
December 19	Frozen Tarzan Walking with Dinosaurs The Wind Rises The Monkey King
December 25	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 47 Ronin The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Fall begins with an interesting battle between Riddick and Red 2. Shield of Straw is looking to be this fall's leggiest foreign film. Before Midnight will be also be a film to watch given that its early special previews at Cityplaza and iSQUARE sold out within 1 hour. Growns Up 2 will be a major flop. The first one did really bad and it will have competition. It is being bookended by The Internship a week before and This is the End at the end of September.

The middle of September will feature the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday which is why studios and distributors are snapping up slots quickly. Sadako 2 is coming off a huge hit here with Sadako and it is widely expected to win that weekend. Call the September 26 weekend the weekend of the long delayed films. 3/4 movies on that list have been delayed by at least 1 month from the US release date. Elysium has the edge with IMAX but Runner Runner could pose a challenge.

The most interesting weekend of the fall season comes right at the beginning of October where 2 local releases go head to head. It will be Donnie Yen vs. Lau Ching Wan in the battle of superstars. But Gravity will be ahead of both of them due to IMAX and intense interest.

Winter begins with Ender's Game out and it should be a big event movie. Early marketing has fired off posters with HK's financial district being destroyed. Thor is unleashed the following week and then we've got The Hunger Games 2 two weeks later.

The Hobbit 2 will hope to reclaim the winter crown on December 12.

December 19 is going to be one of the most heavily looked at weekends of the remaining 4 months. 4/5 scheduled releases are family films and 3 of them belong to the animation category. Out of the whole lot, The Wind Rises is the most anticipated with it being Hayao Miyazaki's rumored final film. This will challenge as the biggest film of the winter. Hayao Miyazaki's last 3 films have made 2.5m or more. I expect it to make at least 5m. Something will have to move because The Wind Rises is surely going to be an event film this winter. The Monkey King has just been recently moved to December 19, however, it is unclear if that date will stick. If so, then I guess they are hoping for big HK star + holidays will = Journey to the West box office total.

One more family film will enter on Christmas Day. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 will hope to break 1m this winter. The first one was released on New Year's Eve and was a mild hit. Competition looks to be extremely fierce and until other animations gets out of the way on December 19, Cloudy 2 might not have a chance to get to 1m with this much competition scheduled.

 

[bballman24]

Amazing post!Thanks Bluebomb

[Dilusha Bandara]

So blue, What about Thor2 , CF and DoS? Can any of those movies pass at least 5m?

Edited August 6, 2013 by The Joker

[Bob Violence]

The most interesting weekend of the fall season comes right at the beginning of October where 2 local releases go head to head. It will be Donnie Yen vs. Lau Ching Wan in the battle of superstars. But Gravity will be ahead of both of them due to IMAX and intense interest.

 

Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon has been dated for 9/28 in the mainland, so that might be in the mix as well.

[Dilusha Bandara]

What has happened to blue?

[Olive]

Hope everything is fine with Blue bomb.

I'll update grosses in HK$.

1. The Lone Ranger 4.58M hk$

The Heat 2.17M

Smurfs 2 - 6.98M

MU - 75M

DM2 - 31.42M

Wolverine - 23.2M

PR - 30.81M

[Sam]

Yeah, I miss Bluebomb. I hope everything's okay.

 

Thanks for the update Olive.

[Dilusha Bandara]

[Olive]

Unbeatable will cross 20M hkd this weekend and has a shot at 30M.

Very good for a local movie.

[druv10]

Hopefully, everything is alright with Bluebomb. He hasn't posted in a while and I loved this thread. So much detail from admissions to gross unlike the domestic market. 

[Olive]

Insane hold for Unbeatable, it stayed flat on Sunday fron last Sunday despite it lost 10% of screenings.

11-day total now is 21.91M hkd( $2.82M)

 

The Mortal Instruments City of Bones 4-day OW 5.48M hk($700k)

 

White House Down 3.43M hk($440k)

 

Planes 3.95M hk($509k)

 

Percy Jackson 2 13.16M($1.7M)

 

Kick-ass 2 4.13M hk ($530k)

 

MU 77.10M($9.94M)

Edited August 26, 2013 by Rocket Olive

[Olive]

Bluebomb was right, MUis making $10M.