Hong Kong Hong Kong Box Office

[Olive]

Friday presales:

Demon Within 15,278

Rio 2 12,818

CA2 12,441(last Friday 9,255)

Midnight After 8,832 (15,554)

[Olive]

Thursday actuals:

Demon Within 1.42M hk$

CA2 1.21M

RIO2 970k

 

Friday BO update:

Title-------------------------------------------Daily Adm.---------Daily BO(HKD)

That Demon Within---------------------------31,804-------------2,164,160

Captain America 2----------------------------23,090-------------2,324,425

Rio 2---------------------------------------------21,584-------------1,736,845

The Midnight After----------------------------20,074-------------1,401,275

Iceman--------------------------------------------7,047--------------585,455

[Olive]

Friday revised:

CA2-----3.22M-----45.26M hk$

Will be close to 50M after Sunday,us$7M should happen since it has 2 weeks till Spidey arrives.

Demon-2.19M

Rio2----1.72M

Midnight---1.30M---14.16M

[23IsEverywhere]

 

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Edited April 19, 2014 by 23IsEverywhere

[Olive]

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Actuals are always a bit different from that.

[23IsEverywhere]

Friday revised:

CA2-----3.22M-----45.26M hk$

Will be close to 50M after Sunday,us$7M should happen since it has 2 weeks till Spidey arrives.

Demon-2.19M

Rio2----1.72M

Midnight---1.30M---14.16M

That is $5.84M for CA2

[23IsEverywhere]

Actuals are always a bit different from that.

I had just mistaken the OW for CA1 for the OW of CA2 and was making a comparison.  Then I noticed my mistake and couldn't delete the whole post

[Olive]

That is $5.84M for CA2

CA2 looks to finish around 50% higher than Thor2.

[Olive]

Saturday BO est:

Title-------------------------------------------Daily Adm.---------Daily BO(HKD)

That Demon Within---------------------------30,628-------------2,107,180

Captain America 2----------------------------22,496-------------2,256,145

Rio 2---------------------------------------------19,031-------------1,511,980

The Midnight After----------------------------17,494-------------1,212,895

Iceman--------------------------------------------6,221---------------519,560

[Olive]

Weekly #s April 14-20:

Title-------------------------------------------weekly BO---------Total BO(HKD)

Captain America 2----------------------------10.73M-------------49.05M

That Demon Within----------------------------7.62M---------------7.62M

The Midnight After-----------------------------7.52M-------------16.34M

Rio 2----------------------------------------------5.50M---------------5.50M

3D Naked Ambition----------------------------2.52M-------------14.51M

 

Captain America 2 passed 50M today, and is likely to pass 55M because Spidey opens on May 1st.

[Olive]

Monday numbers

Title-------------------------------------------Daily Adm.---------Daily BO(HKD)

That Demon Within---------------------------27,193-------------1,597,579

Captain America 2----------------------------18,078-------------1,498,335

Rio 2---------------------------------------------21,132-------------1,411,143

The Midnight After----------------------------14,623--------------882,392

 

Total Grosses As of Monday 4/21

Title........................Total Gross...................Total Admissions

Demon Within.........9,232,959.....................156,032

Cap Ameirca 2.........50,551,600....................579,714

Rio 2.......................6,910,405....................101,467

Midnight After..........17,239,539...................283,059

Edited April 22, 2014 by Olive

[Bob Violence]

Just read that Rigor Mortis is being recut (again) in the hopes of a mainland release

 

Here's an idea: Naked Ambition 2, Mainland Edition. Get on it, fellas.

Edited April 23, 2014 by Bob Violence

[Olive]

CA2 may enter all-time top 20 sellers list in HK...

[Bluebomb]

Looking ahead to The Amazing Spider-Man 2 next week, I fully expect it to make 6m in 6 days. It will take the OD record and should come close to 4m in 4 days. Its total should come in around 12-13m. Godzilla won't affect it too much but I expect X-Men: Days of Future Past to halt its chances of surpassing Iron Man 3.

Taking a peek at pre-sales, at the iSQUARE IMAX, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is looking pretty solid.
 

iSquare IMAX
	The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D
Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled
May 1	8:20 AM	100	380	26.32%
	11:05 AM	161	380	42.37%
	1:50 PM	191	380	50.26%
	4:35 PM	235	380	61.84%
	7:20 PM	213	380	56.05%
	10:05 PM	134	380	35.26%
	12:50 AM	31	380	8.16%
Total		1065	2660	40.04%

The 8:20 AM showtime is filling up nicely. Strong pre-sales for the 10 PM session too.

Over at regular theaters, pre-sales one week out are looking decent.

The One
	The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D
Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled
May 1	9:00 AM	64	163	39.26%
	11:35 AM	101	163	61.96%
	2:10 PM	52	163	31.90%
	4:45 PM	73	163	44.79%
	7:20 PM	62	163	38.04%
	9:55 PM	21	163	12.88%
	12:30 AM	6	163	3.68%
Total		379	1141	33.22%

Pretty good numbers all around except for the 10 PM showtime. I see 4, possibly 5 screens for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on Thursday.

[Olive]

Thursday 4/24

Title........................Daily BO...................Total BO(HKD)

Demon Within.........637,779.....................11,487,101

Other Woman..........465,989.........................811,917

Cap Ameirca 2.........452,734....................52,231,595

Rio 2........................447,844......................8,673,460

Midnight After...........287,971....................18,394,010

 

7.75HKD=1USD

[Olive]

Friday est

Demon Within.........760,000

Other Woman..........570,000

Cap Ameirca 2.........540,000

Rio 2........................370,000

Midnight After...........370,000

[baumer]

What is the Other Woman looking to gross for the weekend, in US $?

[Olive]

[baumer]

Would u say thats a good start for TOW in J0J?

[Bluebomb]

Would u say thats a good start for TOW in J0J?

Yes, it is. It surprised this weekend. So much so that theaters will keep it around for another week.

 

I'm going to break this up into 2 posts. This one will only focus on Broadway/AMC theaters.

Thursday schedules

Broadway/AMC

 

Pacific Place
New	Holdovers	Leaving
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D - 21 showings	The Other Woman - 5 showings (▼ 7)	Grand Piano
	Rio 2 (3D Eng.) - 4 showings (=)	Vampire Academy
	Heaven Is For Real - 2 showings (▼ 5)	That Demon Within
	Yves Saint Laurent - 1 showing (▼ 2)	Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D
	Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 2 showings (=)	Noah 3D
	The Grand Budapest Hotel - 2 showings (▼ 3)	Divergent

Palace APM
New	Holdovers	Leaving
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D - 19 showings	Bilocation - 1 showing (▼ 5)	The Truth About Beauty
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - 9 showings	The Other Woman - 4 showings (▼ 5)	Kiki's Delivery Service (Can.)
Aberdeen - 3 showings	Iceman - 2 showings (▼ 4)	Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D
	Rio 2 (Can.) - 2 showings (▼ 3)	Captain America: The Winter Soldier
	That Demon Within - 2 showings (▼ 7)	Naked Ambition
	The Midnight After - 1 showing (▼ 6)	Kano

Festival Walk
New	Holdovers	Leaving
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D - 27 showings	The Other Woman - 4 showings (▼ 6)	Grand Piano
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - 3 showings	Heaven Is For Real - 2 showings (▼ 4)	The Truth About Beauty
Aberdeen - 4 showings	That Demon Within - 2 showings (▼ 6)	The Midnight After (IIB version)
		The Midnight After (III version)
		Iceman
		Rio 2 (Can.)
		Rio 2 (3D Eng.)
		Rio 2 (Eng.)
		Kiki's Delivery Service (Jap.)
		Yves Saint Laurent
		Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D
		Captain America: The Winter Soldier
		Kano

Note: Aberdeen has not officially been released yet. It will officially come out on May 8.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is getting 4 screens mostly. Some places it is getting 3 screens and in others, it is getting 5 screens.

At Broadway/AMC, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has been getting mostly 4 screens everywhere. In some theaters, like The One or Festival Walk, it has gotten 5 screens at varying points of the day.

Apart from TASM 2, Aberdeen is launching with special screenings on Wednesday night and into Thursday. It is mostly playing with 3-4 showtimes at Broadway/AMC. This will take a slight chunk out of TASM 2's potential earnings tomorrow.

Holdovers such as That Demon Within and The Other Woman remain for another week but for the others, they are getting the axe at different places. One movie that is not showing up on the admissions site, Heaven is for Real, is doing especially well at the theaters it is in and is being kept by all theaters it is showing at.

Biggest losers this week are Captain America 2, Rio 2 and one-weeker Vampire Academy.

TASM vs. TASM 2 Opening Day Showtimes Comparison

Palace APM: 33 showtimes vs. 28 showtimes

Festival Walk: 32 showtimes vs. 30 showtimes

Tsuen Wan: 21 showtimes vs. 19 showtimes

The Grand: 39 showtimes vs. 28 showtimes

Apart from The Grand, everywhere is just slightly below TASM's showtime count on its opening day. Part of that is due to the longer running time of TASM 2 but I think it mostly comes from Aberdeen getting special screenings everywhere. I am surprised that it's getting so many showtimes everywhere on a big tentpole's opening day (even if it is a holiday). Normally, I do not include special screenings in showtime reports, however, this has had an impact on TASM 2's showtimes.

Some good news for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 though...at Festival Walk, it has gotten a lot of morning showtimes.

9 showtimes in the morning. It also has gotten every house in the morning which is pretty incredible. Sadly, 2D has no morning showtimes so it does not tie the morning showtimes record set by The Avengers (with 10) here.

Checking ticket sales one day out, at Palace APM, TASM 2 is looking alright.

 

Palace APM
	The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D					The Amazing Spider-Man 2 2D
Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled	Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled
May 1	9:00 AM	191	286	66.78%	May 1	12:00 PM	48	167	28.74%
	9:20 AM	57	167	34.13%		1:00 PM	33	112	29.46%
	10:25 AM	63	112	56.25%		3:35 PM	57	112	50.89%
	11:00 AM	76	114	66.67%		5:35 PM	36	98	36.73%
	11:35 AM	228	286	79.72%		7:45 PM	19	167	11.38%
	1:35 PM	6	114	5.26%		8:00 PM	20	112	17.86%
	2:10 PM	116	286	40.56%		9:00 PM	5	98	5.10%
	2:30 PM	15	167	8.98%		10:20 PM	15	286	5.24%
	3:10 PM	16	98	16.33%		12:00 AM	6	114	5.26%
	4:10 PM	10	114	8.77%	Total		239	1266	18.88%
	4:45 PM	122	286	42.66%
	5:10 PM	24	167	14.37%
	6:45 PM	9	114	7.89%
	7:20 PM	83	286	29.02%
	8:10 PM	12	98	12.24%
	9:20 PM	4	114	3.51%
	9:55 PM	32	286	11.19%
	11:35 PM	8	98	8.16%
	12:30 AM	22	286	7.69%
Total		903	3193	28.28%

Total: 1,142 seats sold/4,459 seats available = 25.61% filled

It manages to beat TASM's opening day pre-sales at this theater 1 day out, however, comparing a holiday versus a non-holiday weekday is kind of useless. Judging from these pre-sales though, it seems like it will begin with about 50,000 admissions on Thursday.

Tomorrow we will look at UA scheduling, ticket prices, updated theater location pre-sales and of course, opening day pre-sales.