Passengers | Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence | Dec 21, 2016 | Trailer pg 70

[misafeco]

New estimates have a much bigger Sunday drop. It was expected but that much. I don't believe this either. Monday gross seems good.

[Frozen]

Mojo says China weekend was $14.8 million. 

[Peanut]

Box Office Mojo have Passengers at a little over 20 million in China so far. But an opening weekend of 14,8 wouldn't really make sense, unless the movie did almost 6 million there yesterday, which it did not. 

http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Passengers-(2016)#tab=international

They have it at 17,34 opening weekend, which is what we were told previously, and what adds up with the number Box Office Mojo have on their site now. (20 million. Weekend plus Monday)

[trifle]

8 hours ago, misafeco said:

New estimates have a much bigger Sunday drop. It was expected but that much. I don't believe this either. Monday gross seems good.

 

5 minutes ago, Peanut said:

Box Office Mojo have Passengers at a little over 20 million in China so far. But an opening weekend of 14,8 wouldn't really make sense, unless the movie did almost 6 million there yesterday, which it did not. 

http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Passengers-(2016)#tab=international

They have it at 17,34 opening weekend, which is what we were told previously, and what adds up with the number Box Office Mojo have on their site now. (20 million. Weekend plus Monday)

 

are those still estimates?  I'm waiting until actuals are in, domestically as well.

[Frozen]

9 minutes ago, Peanut said:

Box Office Mojo have Passengers at a little over 20 million in China so far. But an opening weekend of 14,8 wouldn't really make sense, unless the movie did almost 6 million there yesterday, which it did not. 

http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Passengers-(2016)#tab=international

They have it at 17,34 opening weekend, which is what we were told previously, and what adds up with the number Box Office Mojo have on their site now. (20 million. Weekend plus Monday)

 

 

This is their tweet. They still have the total at over $20 million, so I don't know what's going on.

 

 

 

Edited January 17, 2017 by Frozen

[trifle]

14 minutes ago, Frozen said:

 

 

This is their tweet. They still have the total at over $20 million, so I don't know what's going on.

 

 

 

 

I'm going with this which says $17.5 M for the weekend.  I have run into the fact that some sites use just Saturday and Sunday, not Friday for the weekend in China.

 

 

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Passengers (太空旅客), the sci-fi romance featuring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence as starship-wrecked lovers, took advantage of a quiet pre-Lunar New Year release date to debut with RMB 121 million (US$17.5 million) in first place this weekend at the Chinese box office. Meanwhile, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (星球大战外传：侠盗一号) plummeted 70 percent on its second weekend of release, grossing just RMB 63 million ($9.1 million) for a 10-day total of RMB 365 million ($52.9 million).

 

China’s chūnyùn (春运), the world’s largest human mass migration in which Chinese citizens will take an estimated 2.5 billion trips over the next 40 days, began in full force on Friday as college students finished midterm exams and headed home for the Lunar New Year.

 

New Year’s Day — or chū yī (初一) —  falls on Saturday, January 28, this year, and moviegoing business during the preceding two weeks will be among the slowest of the entire year as travel, family visits, and preparation for the traditional New Year’s Eve feast take precedence over leisure activities.

 

Passengers entered this pre-Lunar New Year malaise with understandably limited box office potential, and in that light, its $17.5 million debut this weekend should be seen as a modest victory....

 

Edited January 17, 2017 by trifle

[JennaJ]

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Passengers entered this pre-Lunar New Year malaise with understandably limited box office potential, and in that light, its $17.5 million debut this weekend should be seen as a modest victory....

 

Ugh. Still don't get why Sony couldn't have bargained for a better release date in China.

I thought that was gonna be one upside of having a partnership with Wanda, but hey, guess not.

[misafeco]

BO.com has the weekend at  $5,345,892 and Moday  $1,145,92. DOM total: 

$90,871,545

[Frozen]

2 hours ago, JennaJ said:

 

Ugh. Still don't get why Sony couldn't have bargained for a better release date in China.

I thought that was gonna be one upside of having a partnership with Wanda, but hey, guess not.

 

The Return of Xander Cage has a better release date than this.

 

https://movie.douban.com/coming

 

BTW if you are translating this page from English

 

Come = Arrival

City of Philharmonic = La La Land

[trifle]

 

 

Spoiler, it includes Passengers.

 

Edited January 18, 2017 by trifle

[UTJeff]

Thanks for the updates on Passengers guys.

[AndyLL]

1 hour ago, trifle said:

 

 

Spoiler, it includes Passengers.

 

 

I thought the visuals were fantastic.  

[trifle]

9 hours ago, juni78ukr said:

Yesterday Passengers passed billion RUB. 1000.4 mln or $16.4 mln. 14th billion RUB movie in 2016 and 60th all-time.

 

From the Russia thread.

[baumer]

I really hope this does get some Oscar recognition. The technical side of the film was absolutely mind-blowing.

[amelin]

I'm mainly hoping the score gets some love, but I've got my fingers crossed for visual effects as well.

 

[A District 3 Engineer]

Guy Hendrix Dyas deserves some recognition too. Production Design was impressive. 

[trifle]

Personally, I don't remember the fireflies....

 

 

[A District 3 Engineer]

There're no fireflies, pics are edited and were cut.

 

 

[trifle]

9 minutes ago, A District 3 Engineer said:

There're no fireflies, pics are edited and were cut.

 

 

 

I was kidding. I assumed they were using a filter or something.  I like them, though!

[JennaJ]

Really sad it lost so many theaters again this week. A lot of the holdovers were doing weaker business per-theater, but this will obviously hurt Passengers' holds going forward.

 

Is 100m still on the table? What do you think?