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[firedeep]

China Box Office Thread Achive

2013 Box Office Weekly Chart:
18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 

2012 Box Office Weekly Chart:
52 | 51 | 50 | 49 | 48 | 47 | 46 | 45 | 44 | 43 | 42 | 41 | 40 | 39 | 38 | 37 | 36 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 32 | 31| 30 | 29| 28 | 27 | 26 | 25 | 24| 23 | 22| 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 |8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1

2011 Box Office Weekly Chart:
52 | 51 | 50 | 49 | 48 | 47 | 46

China Box Office Yearly Chart:

2013 [Q1 + Report]
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Biggest Film in China From 1995 to 2012 by Year

Records Related:

All Time Top Gross [Over 200M Yuan]
All Time Foreign Gross [Over 100M Yuan]
All Time Midnight Gross
All Time IMAX Gross
All Time Re-release Gross
All Time Foreign Animation Gross

Breakdown & Statistics Related:
2013 Foreign Revenue Sharing Films Gross in China [Updated as of Apr 15]

2002~2012 China Theatrical Statistics
2012 Foreign Films Box Office in China [RS + Buyout]
2012 Foreign Buyout Films Gross in China
2012 Foreign Revenue Sharing Films Gross in China
Ratios of 2012 Foreign Revenue Sharing Films China Gross
2012 Hollywood Major Studios Box Office Gross & Market Share in China

Hollywood stars with most movies released in China
Hollywood Actors (As Major Role) With Most Total Gross in China

Possible major Hollywood release schedule 2013

IMAX Gross Breakdown for Avatar
IMAX Gross Breakdown for Life Of Pi

When and Where You Can Get Weekly Numbers:

As explained, there are only three regular box office report outlets currently in China: Entgroup, a Chinese entertainment media site, has an English page and it report weekly top 10 on Tuesday since 2011. Entgroup now is cooperating with the National Film Development Funds Management Committee (NFDFMC) on weekly box office reports

Mtime, biggest movie site in China, have been reporting weekly top 10 numbers since 2008. And currently they claim their source (since early 2011) comes from China Film Newspaper, an official film newspaper belongs to CHINA FILM ART RESEARCH CENTER, which is part of SARFT/ Film Bureau. China Film Newspaper now also release weekly numbers on Weibo.com, the most popular Chinese social site, every Tuesday.

Or simply here in this thread every Tuesday.

China Theatrical Status Updates:

As of April 2013, there are about a total of 3,600 theaters from 45 commercial cinema chains in China, about 3000 of which report box office daily.

Total screen number as of April crossed 15,000, of which more than 12,000 is 2K digital, 10,000 is 3D and 110 is IMAX.

As of now, there are about 70000 or plus screenings per day national wide with the widest releases each getting 20000 or more.

Other Useful Links:

How China’s Three Stooges Out-Grossed “Titanic”; “Lost in Thailand” Reaches 1 Billion RMB Box Office in 19 Days
Must Read: A QUICK JOURNEY TO THE MYSTERY CHINA BOX OFFICE
Why Would There be Protection Month for Local Movies ?
China Film Biz: News, analysis and opinion on the world's fastest-growing film market; A blog run by China film market expert Robert Cain.

Edited by firedeep, 20 May 2013 - 12:23 AM.

[firedeep]

ALL TIME

 

Records	Title	Gross (M/¥)	Gross (M/$)	Release Date	Atendance
All Time Gross #1	Avatar	1391.2	200	1/4/10	27645400
All Time Attendance #1	Titanic	827.5	118	4/10/98	28500336

LONGEST AT

 

 

Records	Title	Days/Weeks/Years
All Time #1	Titanic	11 Years
All Time #1	True Lies	3 Years
All Time #1	Avatar	1 Year 11 Months
All Time #1	Transformers 2	3 Months 15 Days
All Time #1	2012	45 Days
All Time 3D Release #1	Titanic 3D
All Time Re-release #1	Titanic 3D

BIGGEST

Records	Title	Gross (M/¥)	Gross (M/$)	Dates
Biggest Week	Titanic 3D	468	74	2012/4/10~4/15
Biggest Opening Week	Titanic 3D	468	74	2012/4/10~4/15
Biggest 2nd Week	Transformers 3	370	57	2011/7/25~7/31
Biggest 3nd Week	Avatar	172	25	2010/1/04~1/11
Biggest 4nd Week	Avatar	177	26	2010/1/12~1/18
Biggest 5nd Week	Avatar	120	17	2010/1/19~1/25
Biggest 6nd Week	Avatar	83	12	2010/1/26~2/01
Biggest 7nd Week	Avatar	98	14	2010/2/01~2/07
Biggest 8nd Week	Avatar	58	8	2010/2/08~2/14
Biggest Opening Week Not At #1	Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (3D) 龙门飞甲	142	22	2011/12/15~12/18
Biggest Week Not At #1	Let The Bullets Fly 让子弹飞	210	31	2010/12/20~12/26
Biggest Opening Day	Transformers 3	102.3	15	07/21/11
Biggest Day	Transformers 3	112	17	07/23/11

FASTEST TO

Records	Title	Days
Fastest to 100M RMB	Transformers 3	1
Fastest to 200M RMB	Transformers 3	2
Fastest to 300M RMB	Transformers 3	3
Fastest to 400M RMB	Transformers 3	4
Fastest to 500M RMB	Transformers 3; Tianic 3D	7
Fastest to 600M RMB	Transformers 3	9
Fastest to 700M RMB	Transformers 3	10
Fastest to 800M RMB	Transformers 3	12
Fastest to 900M RMB	Transformers 3	17
Fastest to 1B RMB	Transformers 3	20

BIGGEST OPENING WEEK [Over 100M Yuan]

Title	Gross (M/¥)	Days	Year
Titanic 3D	468	6	2012
Transformers 3	401	4	2011
Avatar	287	7	2010
You Are the One 2 非诚勿扰2	209	5	2010
Deathly Hallows 2	188	4	2011
Love is Not Blind  失恋33天	188	6	2011
Let The Bullets Fly 让子弹飞	181	4	2010
After Shock 唐山大地震	180	4	2010
Transformers 2	160	5	2009
The Flowers of War 金陵十三钗	152	5	2011
Pirates of the Caribbean 4	145	3	2011
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (3D) 龙门飞甲	141	5	2011
Founding of the Republic 建国大业	124	4	2009
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame 狄仁杰之通天帝国	118	5	2010
Beginning of The Great Revival 建党伟业	116	5	2011
Kung Fu Panda 2 (3D)	109	2	2011
Red Cliff 1 赤壁（上）	108	4	2008
Shaolin 新少林寺	105	5	2011
Mission impossible 4	101	2	2012
Inception	101	5	2010
A Simple Noodle Story 三枪拍案惊奇	101	4	2009
Wu Xia 武侠	101	7	2011
The Lost Bladesman 关云长	100	6	2011

BIGGEST OPENING DAY TOP 10

Title	Gross (M/¥)	Day of The Week	Year
Transformers 3	102	Thu	2011
Titanic 3D	72	Tue	2012
Mission impossible 4	57	Sat	2012
Kung Fu Panda 2	54	Sat	2011
Deathly Hallows 2	43	Thu	2011
After Shock 唐山大地震	37	Thu	2010
Avatar	36	Mon	2010
Pirates of the Caribbean 4	36	Fri	2011
You Are the One 2 非诚勿扰2	34	Wed	2010
Transformers 1	33	Wed	2009
Let The Bullets Fly 让子弹飞	31	Thu	2010

BIGGEST SINGLE DAY TOP 10

Title	Gross (M/¥)	Date
Transformers 3	112	07/23/2011
Titanic 3D	107	04/14/2012
Transformers 3	102	07/21/2011
Transformers 3	99	07/24/2011
Titanic 3D	92	04/15/2012
Transformers 3	88	07/22/2011
Titanic 3D	73	04/13/2012
Titanic 3D	72	04/10/2012
Deathly Hallows 2	63	08/06/2011
Let The Bullets Fly 让子弹飞	62	12/18/2010
Avatar	57	01/09/2010
Mission impossible 4	57	01/28/2012
Let The Bullets Fly 让子弹飞	56	12/19/2010
Kung Fu Panda 2 (3D)	55	05/29/2011

MOST (CONSECUTIVE) WEEKS AT #1

Title	Weeks
Avatar	10
The City of Golden Armor	5
Assembly 集结号	5
Ironman	5
After Shock 唐山大地震	4
2012	4
Red Cliff 1 赤壁（上）	4
Transformers	4
Harry Potter 5	4
Spiderman 3	4
Pirates of the Caribbean 3	4
Lust Caution 色·戒	4
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame 狄仁杰之通天帝国	4

MOST WEEKS IN TOP 10

Title	Weeks
Avatar	13
Beginning of The Great Revival 建党伟业	13
Inception	9
Assembly 集结号	9
After Shock 唐山大地震	9
Transformers 3	8
Fast Five	8
Mission impossible 4	7

BIGGEST GROSS NEVER HIT #1 [Over 100M Yuan]

Title	Gross (M/¥)	Gross (M/$)	Year
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (3D) 龙门飞甲	558	88	2.11
Little Big Soldier 大兵小将	160.9	23	2010
Ice Age 3 (3D)	156.9	23	2009
The Love of the Hawthorn Tree 山楂树之恋	145	21	2010
Moon Castle: The Space Adventure	144.8	22	2011
Blades 锦衣卫	143.89	21	2010
Rio (3D)	138.05	21	2011
The Tourist	137.06	20	2011
Hot Summer Days 全城热恋	131.83	19	2010
Go Lala Go! 杜拉拉升职记	128.82	18	2010
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf 喜羊羊与灰太狼	127.03	18	2010
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	126.5	18	2011
Sanctum (3D)	119.5	18	2011
Kung Fu Dunk 大灌篮	109.7	15	2008
Silver Medalist 疯狂的赛车	108.8	15	2009
Treasure Inn 财神客栈	103.2	15	2011
Confucius 孔子	101	14	2010

IMAX

Title	Opening Week (M/¥)	Opening Week (M/¥)	Total Gross (M/$)	Total Gross (M/$)	Screen Counts
Avatar	13.32	1.95	200	30	13
Transformers 3	24	3.7	90	13.8	31
Titanic 3D	39	6.1	39	6.1	63
Deathly Hallows 2	11	1.7	30	4.6	31
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (3D) 龙门飞甲	16	2.5	NA	NA	51
Mission impossible 4	16	2.5	NA	NA	65

MIDNIGHT

Title	Gross (M/¥)	Gross (M/$)
Transformers 3	12	1.85
Titanic 3D	10	1.6
Avatar	4	0.6
Transformers 2	3.5	0.51
After Shock 唐山大地震	3	0.44
You Are the One 2 非诚勿扰2	2.05	0.3
Let The Bullets Fly 让子弹飞	1	0.15
Quantum of Solace	1	0.14

Note: You can get the weekly (updated every Tuesday afternoon) Box Office on Entgroup:

http://english.entgr...n/boxoffice/cn/

Edited by firedeep, 17 April 2012 - 09:44 PM.

[Fake]

How much do you expect Tintin to open with next weekend?

[firedeep]

Overal Records:

Biggest all time release: Avatar (1391.2M yuan/200M $)

Biggest 2D+3D release: Avatar (1391.2M yuan/200M $)

Biggest 2D release: Mission Impossible 4 (678.9M yuan/107M $)

Biggest 3D release: Titanic 3D (941.5M yuan/150M $)

Biggest re-release: Titanic 3D (941.5M yuan/150M $)

Biggest release that never hit #1: Flying Swords of Dragon Gate（3D) 龙门飞甲 (558M yuan/88M $)

Longest hold at all time #1: Titanic (11 years, 360M yuan/43M $)

IMAX:

Biggest IMAX midnight: Titanic 3D (1.67M yuan/265K $, 62 screens)

Biggest IMAX OD: Titanic 3D (5.7M yuan/0.9M $, 66 screens)

Biggest IMAX Opening Week: Titanic 3D (39M yuan/6.1M $, 66 screens)

Biggest IMAX release: Avatar (200M yuan/30M $, 13 screens)

Widest IMAX release: TDKR (74 screens)

Opening records:

All time opening record: Titanic 3D (468M yuan/74M $)

1 day opening record: Prometheus (29M yuan, $4.6M)

2 days opening record: The Avengers (120M yuan, $19M)

3 days opening record: Men in Black 3 (158M yuan, $25M)

4 days opening record: Transformers 3 (401M yuan, $63M)

5 days opening record: You Are the One 2 非诚勿扰2 (209M yuan, $31M）

6 days opening record: Titanic 3D (468M yuan/74M $)

7 days opening record: Avatar (287M yuan, $42M)

All time biggest opening records & jumps in China:

Titanic (1998) ￥48M

Hero (2002) ￥53M +10%

House of Flying Daggers (2004) ￥55M +3%

KungFu (2004) ￥64M +16%

The Promise (2005) ￥75M +17%

The City of Golden Armor (2006) ￥96M +28%

Transformers (2007) ￥97M +1%

Red Cliff 1 (2008)￥108M +11%

Transformers 2 (2009) ￥160M +48%

Avatar (2010) ￥287M +79%

Transformers 3 (2011) ￥401M +40%

Titanic 3D (2012) ￥468M +17%

[All jumps will be bigger in $. ]

Edited by firedeep, 19 November 2012 - 12:37 AM.

[iceroll]

Wow that much? Are the comics popular there? I didn't think it had much appeal outside of Europe.

[Fake]

Opening on 15th, a Tuesday. Should do 12M~15M 5 days.

6 days, right?

So that would mean a final total in 30-40m range. I hope it is closer to 40m.

[Fake]

Wow that much? Are the comics popular there? I didn't think it had much appeal outside of Europe.

Tintin was a lot popular in 80s and 90s in China and India and other South-East Asian markets.

[firedeep]

China Box Office Yearly 2012 (As of Sep 23) Rank (#) Title Studio Total Gross (￥) Total Gross ($) Open 1 Titanic 3D Fox ￥975,900,000 $154,904,762 Apr 10 2 画皮2 Huayi ￥726,390,000 $115,300,000 Jun 28 3 Mission Impossible 4 Par. ￥679,180,000 $107,806,349 Jan 28 4 The Avengers BV ￥575,960,000 $91,422,222 May 05 5 Men in Black 3 Sony ￥519,200,000 $82,412,698 May 25 6 Ice Age 4 Fox ￥457,800,000 $72,666,667 Jul 27 7 Journey 2 WB ￥387,840,000 $61,561,905 Feb 10 8 The Dark Knight Rises WB ￥343,600,000 $54,539,683 Aug 2

Edited by firedeep, 28 January 2013 - 07:34 AM.

[druv10]

Tintin was a lot popular in 80s and 90s in China and India and other South-East Asian markets.

When my family lived in India I had quite few Tintin comics. A lot of my friends did as well.
Fake, how do you see it doing in India.

[vc2002]

Tintin was very popular in the 80s in China. And many people are waiting to see it.

No. Actually far from it.

The Smurfs was A LOT more popular than Tintin, and it opened less than 14m and earned a total of 40m. Tintin will do less.

Edited by vc2002, 12 November 2011 - 09:21 PM.

[Mattrek]

When my family lived in India I had quite few Tintin comics. A lot of my friends did as well.
Fake, how do you see it doing in India.

It'll do about 2m including previews destroying the last animated feature record of 1.25m by KFP2

[Mattrek]

No. Actually far from it.

The Smurfs was A LOT more popular than Tintin, and it opened less than 14m and earned a total of 40m. Tintin will do less.

Probably about 25m from China I'd guess.

[Fake]

No. Actually far from it.

The Smurfs was A LOT more popular than Tintin, and it opened less than 14m and earned a total of 40m. Tintin will do less.

All the articles I have read from Chinese press, it seemed pretty popular (whether at the levels of Smurfs, I don't know).

Also, China seems to like action-adventure. So it could have done fairly decently in China even with no earlier awareness.

[Fake]

Any word on Chinese opening?

[Tesseract]

Any word on Chinese opening?

UIP dailies (which include China I believe) jumped from $400K on the 14th to $1.5M and $1.3M on the 15th and the 16th. An educated guess would be that Tintin scored about $1M in China on these 2 days.

[Noctis]

Am I missing something? Didn't DH2 do just as well as POTC4?

[Robertron of Oz]

Any chance of getting the Top 30 list in the first post in US Dollars?

Just wondering, no biggy if not.

[firedeep]

Weekly BO(11.14-11.20) from Entgroup

Rank Title Gross(MUS$) Cumulative Gross(MUS$) Screening days Screening numbers Admissions Average Ticket Price Distributors
1 Love is Not Blind $14.92 $43.41 13 85802 3101326 $4 CFGC
2 The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn $9.39 $9.39 6 47421 1663887 $5 Huaxia CFGC
3 Real Steel $5.77 $14.52 13 37629 1173225 $4 CFGC Huaxia
4 Immortals $4.43 $9.54 10 34496 801134 $5 Huaxia
5 Legendary Amazons $3.53 $3.53 3 26284 747009 $4 Eastern Mordor CFGC
6 Rise of the Planet of the Apes $1.58 $30.10 24 15514 321332 $4 Huaxia CFGC
7 Detective Conan Quarter of Silence $0.26 $4.56 17 4908 59401 $4 CFGC
8 Starry Starry Night $0.14 $2.44 18 3310 28868 $4 Huayi Brothers CFGC CFGDC
9 Kora $0.08 $0.70 18 1412 16700 $4 Tailhe Universal Film Investment Co., LTD An Le( Bei Jing) Dian Ying Fa Hang Co., LTD CFGC
10 Zuo Li Jun $0.08 $0.24 14 87 16007 $4 Huaxia

Edited by firedeep, 22 November 2011 - 01:24 AM.

[firedeep]

 

All Time Top Foreign Gross in China [Over 100M Yuan]
Rank	Title	Total Gross (￥)	Total Gross ($)	Year
1	Avatar	￥1,391,200,000	$209,203,008	2010
2	Titanic (With 2012 3D release)	￥1,336,630,000	$198,327,356	1998
3	Transformers 3	￥1,121,040,000	$174,889,236	2011
4	Mission Impossible 4	￥679,180,000	$107,806,349	2012
5	KungFu Panda 2	￥640,690,000	$99,951,638	2011
6	2012 (With 2012 3D release)	￥584,770,000	$87,232,012	2009
7	The Avengers	￥575,960,000	$91,422,222	2012
8	Men in Black 3	￥519,200,000	$82,412,698	2012
9	Pirates of the Caribbean 4	￥488,650,000	$76,232,449	2011
10	Inception	￥475,280,000	$71,470,677	2010
11	Ice Age 4 (3D)	￥457,800,000	$72,666,667	2012
12	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	￥427,900,000	$62,650,073	2009
13	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II	￥415,000,000	$64,742,590	2011
14	Journey 2	￥387,840,000	$61,561,905	2012
15	The Dark Knight Rises	￥350,850,000	$55,690,476	2012
16	The Expendables 2	￥337,920,000	$53,638,095	2012
17	The Amazing Spider-Man (3D)	￥322,020,000	$51,114,286	2012
18	Battleship	￥316,800,000	$50,285,714	2012
19	Life of Pi (3D)	￥310,000,000	$49,600,000	2012
20	The Expendables 2	￥304,100,000	$48,269,841	2012
21	Transformers	￥282,000,000	$38,605,810	2007
22	John Carter	￥264,440,000	$41,974,603	2012
23	The Smurfs (3D)	￥264,070,000	$41,196,568	2011
24	Fast and Furious 5	￥263,150,000	$41,053,042	2011
25	Battle Los Angeles	￥235,000,000	$36,661,466	2011
26	Alice in Wonderland	￥226,400,000	$34,045,113	2010
27	Prometheus (3D)	￥225,750,000	$35,833,333	2012
28	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1	￥221,100,000	$33,248,120	2010
29	The Bourne Legacy	￥222,080,000	$35,532,800	2012
30	The Expendables	￥218,760,000	$32,896,241	2010
31	Madagascar 3 (3D)	￥214,800,000	$34,095,238	2012
32	Rise of the Planet of the Apes	￥208,700,000	$32,558,502	2011
33	Sherlock Holmes 2	￥186,800,000	$29,650,794	2012
34	The Forbidden Kingdom	￥184,260,000	$26,899,270	2008
35	The Hunger Games	￥181,300,000	$28,777,778	2012
36	Kungfu Panda	￥180,130,000	$26,296,350	2008
37	Iron Man 2	￥172,700,000	$25,969,925	2010
38	Wrath of the Titans (3D)	￥165,040,000	$26,196,825	2012
39	Clash of the Titans	￥167,100,000	$25,127,820	2010
40	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	￥161,000,000	$24,210,526	2010
41	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3D)	￥157,000,000	$22,986,823	2009
42	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	￥156,000,000	$22,840,410	2009
43	Spider-Man 3	￥149,000,000	$20,398,105	2007
44	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	￥145,000,000	$19,850,505	2007
45	Resident Evil: Afterlife (3D)	￥143,200,000	$21,533,835	2010
46	Real Steel	￥142,500,000	$22,230,889	2011
47	Quantum of Solace	￥142,000,000	$20,729,927	2008
48	RIO (3D)	￥142,000,000	$22,152,886	2011
49	The Tourist	￥141,600,000	$22,090,484	2011
50	The Green Hornet	￥139,700,000	$21,794,072	2011
51	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra	￥137,000,000	$20,058,565	2009
52	The Adventures of Tintin	￥132,250,000	$20,631,825	2011
53	Looper	￥131,200,000	$20,825,397	2012
54	TRON: Legacy	￥126,700,000	$19,765,991	2011
55	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	￥125,100,000	$19,516,381	2011
56	Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End	￥124,000,000	$16,975,604	2007
57	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	￥121,000,000	$17,715,959	2009
58	Total Recall	￥119,000,000	$19,040,000	2012
59	Sanctum (3D)	￥118,950,000	$18,556,942	2011
60	War Horse	￥118,760,000	$18,850,794	2012
61	Taken 2	￥117,200,000	$18,603,175	2012
62	I Am Number Four	￥114,350,000	$17,839,314	2011
63	Terminator Salvation	￥112,000,000	$16,398,243	2009
64	Toy Story 3 (3D)	￥110,900,000	$16,676,692	2010
65	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor	￥109,920,000	$16,046,715	2008
66	Pearl Harbor	￥105,000,000	$12,685,756	2001
67	King Kong	￥105,000,000	$13,446,540	2006
68	Iron Man	￥104,630,000	$15,274,453	2008
69	Hancock	￥103,390,000	$15,093,431	2008
70	True Lies	￥102,000,000	$12,214,545	1995
71	Da Vinci Code	￥101,000,000	$12,934,291	2006

 

Edited by firedeep, 05 December 2012 - 05:56 AM.

[vc2002]

So Tintin opened $9.39m on a 6-day. For comparison, The Smurfs did $13.79m in 5 days.