Hit by piracy and poor word-of-mouth, Disney’s live-action retelling of a popular Chinese myth has grossed $36.3m since its September 11 release.
Disney’s Mulan grossed just $6.5m on its second weekend in China, according to figures from Artisan Gateway, a decline of 72% over its opening, and placing it second in the weekend chart (September 18-20) behind local war epic The Eight Hundred.
Hit by piracy and poor word-of-mouth, Disney’s live-action retelling of a popular Chinese myth has grossed a cumulative $36.3m since its September 11 release. In comparison, The Eight Hundred, which grossed $17.7m on its fifth weekend, reached...
Disney’s Mulan grossed just $6.5m on its second weekend in China, according to figures from Artisan Gateway, a decline of 72% over its opening, and placing it second in the weekend chart (September 18-20) behind local war epic The Eight Hundred.
Hit by piracy and poor word-of-mouth, Disney’s live-action retelling of a popular Chinese myth has grossed a cumulative $36.3m since its September 11 release. In comparison, The Eight Hundred, which grossed $17.7m on its fifth weekend, reached...
- 9/21/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Tenet grossed $30m over three days, coming in second behind The Eight Hundred, which took $32.3m in the same frame.
Christopher Nolan’s Tenet has grossed $30m on its opening weekend in China (September 4-6), according to figures from Artisan Gateway, coming in second behind Guan Hu’s The Eight Hundred, which took $32.3m in the same frame.
Tenet outgrossed The Eight Hundred on its opening day with $9.11m, including previews, while Huayi Brothers’ war epic grossed $8.3m on the same day. But the Warner Bros title slipped to second position on Saturday and has stayed there since. The Eight...
Christopher Nolan’s Tenet has grossed $30m on its opening weekend in China (September 4-6), according to figures from Artisan Gateway, coming in second behind Guan Hu’s The Eight Hundred, which took $32.3m in the same frame.
Tenet outgrossed The Eight Hundred on its opening day with $9.11m, including previews, while Huayi Brothers’ war epic grossed $8.3m on the same day. But the Warner Bros title slipped to second position on Saturday and has stayed there since. The Eight...
- 9/7/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” has been hailed by the Western film industry as a savior of the in-person theatrical experience around the world, but this weekend in China it lost out repeatedly to the local savior of Chinese cinema, Huayi Brothers’ war film “The Eight Hundred.”
The Chinese title bested “Tenet” each day of its three-day debut weekend. Despite already being in its third weekend in theaters, director Guan Hu’s patriotic retelling of a 1937 fight against the Japanese grossed $32.3 million to beat out Nolan’s critically acclaimed thriller, which debuted to just $29.6 million, according to figures that including online ticketing service fees from industry tracker and ticketer Maoyan.
Maoyan is currently projecting a $66.9 million total for “Tenet” in China, which would mean that the film has already earned about half its total box office from the first three days — showing a limited pull among Chinese audiences.
Unlike previous Nolan films,...
The Chinese title bested “Tenet” each day of its three-day debut weekend. Despite already being in its third weekend in theaters, director Guan Hu’s patriotic retelling of a 1937 fight against the Japanese grossed $32.3 million to beat out Nolan’s critically acclaimed thriller, which debuted to just $29.6 million, according to figures that including online ticketing service fees from industry tracker and ticketer Maoyan.
Maoyan is currently projecting a $66.9 million total for “Tenet” in China, which would mean that the film has already earned about half its total box office from the first three days — showing a limited pull among Chinese audiences.
Unlike previous Nolan films,...
- 9/6/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Huayi Brothers war epic has a cumulative gross of $276.8m after 10 days.
Huayi Brothers’ war epic The Eight Hundred grossed $69m on its second weekend (August 28-30), according to figures from Artisan Gateway, for a cumulative box office of $276.8m after 10 days.
Underscoring the rate of box office recovery in China, where cinemas were shuttered for six months until July 20 due to the Covid-19 coronavirus, The Eight Hundred’s second weekend was down just 13% from its opening weekend haul of $79.6m. Chinese cinemas are continuing to operate at 50% capacity to comply with social distancing requirements.
Filmed entirely with IMAX digital cameras,...
Huayi Brothers’ war epic The Eight Hundred grossed $69m on its second weekend (August 28-30), according to figures from Artisan Gateway, for a cumulative box office of $276.8m after 10 days.
Underscoring the rate of box office recovery in China, where cinemas were shuttered for six months until July 20 due to the Covid-19 coronavirus, The Eight Hundred’s second weekend was down just 13% from its opening weekend haul of $79.6m. Chinese cinemas are continuing to operate at 50% capacity to comply with social distancing requirements.
Filmed entirely with IMAX digital cameras,...
- 8/31/2020
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Chinese war film, “The Eight Hundred” was the highest scoring film in the world over the weekend.
According to data from Artisan Gateway, “The Eight Hundred” grossed $69 million between Friday and Sunday, its second weekend on release in China. That compares with the $53 million total achieved by “Tenet” in the 41 international territories where it debuted in the past days.
The Guan Hu-directed, Huayi Bros.-distributed “Eight Hundred” earned $19.5 million on Friday, topped that with $26 million on Saturday and added $24 million on Sunday. The weekend total represents a strong holdover performance, down only 11% on its opening weekend score of $79.6 million.
The spectacle continued to play well on premium large format screens. Over the weekend “The Eight Hundred” earned another $3.5m from 633 Imax screens, pushing the Imax cume to $15.6m, or 6% of the movie’s overall gross in China.
After 10 days of official release, plus bountiful previews, “The Eight Hundred” has accumulated a $277 million running total.
According to data from Artisan Gateway, “The Eight Hundred” grossed $69 million between Friday and Sunday, its second weekend on release in China. That compares with the $53 million total achieved by “Tenet” in the 41 international territories where it debuted in the past days.
The Guan Hu-directed, Huayi Bros.-distributed “Eight Hundred” earned $19.5 million on Friday, topped that with $26 million on Saturday and added $24 million on Sunday. The weekend total represents a strong holdover performance, down only 11% on its opening weekend score of $79.6 million.
The spectacle continued to play well on premium large format screens. Over the weekend “The Eight Hundred” earned another $3.5m from 633 Imax screens, pushing the Imax cume to $15.6m, or 6% of the movie’s overall gross in China.
After 10 days of official release, plus bountiful previews, “The Eight Hundred” has accumulated a $277 million running total.
- 8/31/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” launched internationally this weekend, generating a surprisingly robust $53 million debut despite the ongoing pandemic.
The sci-fi epic, long pegged as the film that would restart moviegoing after prolonged cinema closures, had the strongest start in the United Kingdom, where it made $7.1 million. “Tenet” launched in 41 international markets this weekend, including France ($6.7 million), Korea ($5.1 million) and Germany ($4.2 million). Next weekend, the Warner Bros. film will touch down in the U.S., Russia and China.
“We are off to a fantastic start internationally and couldn’t be more pleased,” said Toby Emmerich, Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman. “Christopher Nolan has once again delivered an event-worthy motion picture that demands to be seen on the big screen, and we are thrilled that audiences across the globe are getting the opportunity to see ‘Tenet.'”
“Tenet,” a twisty, time-bending thriller starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, was originally supposed to debut in July.
The sci-fi epic, long pegged as the film that would restart moviegoing after prolonged cinema closures, had the strongest start in the United Kingdom, where it made $7.1 million. “Tenet” launched in 41 international markets this weekend, including France ($6.7 million), Korea ($5.1 million) and Germany ($4.2 million). Next weekend, the Warner Bros. film will touch down in the U.S., Russia and China.
“We are off to a fantastic start internationally and couldn’t be more pleased,” said Toby Emmerich, Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman. “Christopher Nolan has once again delivered an event-worthy motion picture that demands to be seen on the big screen, and we are thrilled that audiences across the globe are getting the opportunity to see ‘Tenet.'”
“Tenet,” a twisty, time-bending thriller starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, was originally supposed to debut in July.
- 8/30/2020
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
China this week became the first global market to make a “full box office recovery” according to targets developed by the U.K.-based film industry analytics firm Gower Street, the company said Thursday.
The firm created five targets to track and compare the paths of different territories’ exhibition sectors back to recovery. The indicators move from stage one — a point when a significant majority (80%) of cinemas are ready to resume operations — to stage five, in which business over the course of a week is equivalent to that of the top quartile of weekly earnings from the past two years.
After reaching this stage five goal, a particular market “should react as normal, with an ebb and flow dependent on the release calendar,” Gower Street explained.
To reach that target, post-covid China needed to generate a weekly box office of $184 million (RMB1.27 billion). According to data from Comscore Movies, China...
The firm created five targets to track and compare the paths of different territories’ exhibition sectors back to recovery. The indicators move from stage one — a point when a significant majority (80%) of cinemas are ready to resume operations — to stage five, in which business over the course of a week is equivalent to that of the top quartile of weekly earnings from the past two years.
After reaching this stage five goal, a particular market “should react as normal, with an ebb and flow dependent on the release calendar,” Gower Street explained.
To reach that target, post-covid China needed to generate a weekly box office of $184 million (RMB1.27 billion). According to data from Comscore Movies, China...
- 8/28/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Epic stands at $163m through all cinemas since August 21 debut.
Huayi Brothers’ Chinese box office smash The Eight Hundred has delivered IMAX’s biggest single day of the year-to-date in China.
The large screen format reported $2.7m on Tuesday (August 25) from 647 screens – approximately 10% of the day’s overall gross – to bring the IMAX running total to $11m.
By Wednesday The Eight Hundred, Guan Hu’s account of how a band of Chinese soldiers held off Japanese forces at the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai in 1937, stood at $163m since launching in recently reopened cinemas on August 21.
The film shot entirely on...
Huayi Brothers’ Chinese box office smash The Eight Hundred has delivered IMAX’s biggest single day of the year-to-date in China.
The large screen format reported $2.7m on Tuesday (August 25) from 647 screens – approximately 10% of the day’s overall gross – to bring the IMAX running total to $11m.
By Wednesday The Eight Hundred, Guan Hu’s account of how a band of Chinese soldiers held off Japanese forces at the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai in 1937, stood at $163m since launching in recently reopened cinemas on August 21.
The film shot entirely on...
- 8/26/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Epic stands at $163m through all cinemas since August 21 debut.
Huayi Brothers’ Chinese box office smash The Eight Hundred has delivered IMAX’s biggest single day of the year-to-date in China.
The large screen format reported $2.7m on Tuesday (August 25) from 647 screens – approximately 10% of the day’s overall gross – to bring the IMAX running total to $11m.
By Wednesday The Eight Hundred, Guan Hu’s account of how a band of Chinese soldiers held off Japanese forces at the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai in 1937, stood at $163m since launching in recently reopened cinemas on August 21.
The film shot entirely on...
Huayi Brothers’ Chinese box office smash The Eight Hundred has delivered IMAX’s biggest single day of the year-to-date in China.
The large screen format reported $2.7m on Tuesday (August 25) from 647 screens – approximately 10% of the day’s overall gross – to bring the IMAX running total to $11m.
By Wednesday The Eight Hundred, Guan Hu’s account of how a band of Chinese soldiers held off Japanese forces at the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai in 1937, stood at $163m since launching in recently reopened cinemas on August 21.
The film shot entirely on...
- 8/26/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Mainstream cinema is probably the one that most frequently is shunned, particularly among film festival circuits, for its lack of quality and the misappropriation of the huge budgets these movies usually have. Occasionally, however, titles that prove that even the a-thousand-times-used recipes can result in something magnificent do come out. “Love You Forever”, which earned a humongous $39.39 million on Tuesday, is one of those movies.
“Love You Forever” is screening in UK cinemas, courtesy of Trinity Cine Asia
The script is based on the homonymous, best-selling short novel by Zheng Zhi, and revolves around the love story of a man, Lin Ge and a woman, Qiu Qian, which truly transcends time. The story begins in the “present”, where Qiu Qian is a prima ballerina with the Shanghai ballet and Lin Ge, an older man who works as a janitor in the opening building. As the latter collapses after a show...
“Love You Forever” is screening in UK cinemas, courtesy of Trinity Cine Asia
The script is based on the homonymous, best-selling short novel by Zheng Zhi, and revolves around the love story of a man, Lin Ge and a woman, Qiu Qian, which truly transcends time. The story begins in the “present”, where Qiu Qian is a prima ballerina with the Shanghai ballet and Lin Ge, an older man who works as a janitor in the opening building. As the latter collapses after a show...
- 8/26/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Growth of Asian streaming platforms also gives industry hope in post-pandemic era.
Hong Kong’s Filmart Online (August 26-29) got underway today with two presentations that should give global content industries hope that market recovery is possible in the post-pandemic era.
By coincidence, the virtual market kicked off just one day after Chinese romantic drama Love You Forever had a record-breaking opening in China, grossing $39m on its opening day (August 25), and Hong Kong received confirmation that its cinemas would finally reopen this weekend.
In addition, Huayi Brothers’ war epic The Eight Hundred has marched to $179m box office since...
Hong Kong’s Filmart Online (August 26-29) got underway today with two presentations that should give global content industries hope that market recovery is possible in the post-pandemic era.
By coincidence, the virtual market kicked off just one day after Chinese romantic drama Love You Forever had a record-breaking opening in China, grossing $39m on its opening day (August 25), and Hong Kong received confirmation that its cinemas would finally reopen this weekend.
In addition, Huayi Brothers’ war epic The Eight Hundred has marched to $179m box office since...
- 8/26/2020
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Chinese romance film “Love You Forever” earned a stunning $38.3 million on Tuesday, its opening day in mainland China cinemas. That figure is the highest single day score achieved by any film worldwide in 2020.
The film tells the story of a man who is able to go back in time to save the tragically-shortened life of his young lover, but his ability comes with a heavy price. It features rising Taiwan star Lee Hongchi and Li Yitong (TV’s “Legend of the Condor”).
“Love You Forever” was released to coincide with Chinese Valentine’s Day, otherwise known as Qixi Festival, a moveable feast that takes place on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar.
For most of the past seven months, Chinese cinemas were closed due to the coronavirus that broke out at Chinese New Year, and the disease control measures that followed. Theaters re-opened on...
The film tells the story of a man who is able to go back in time to save the tragically-shortened life of his young lover, but his ability comes with a heavy price. It features rising Taiwan star Lee Hongchi and Li Yitong (TV’s “Legend of the Condor”).
“Love You Forever” was released to coincide with Chinese Valentine’s Day, otherwise known as Qixi Festival, a moveable feast that takes place on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar.
For most of the past seven months, Chinese cinemas were closed due to the coronavirus that broke out at Chinese New Year, and the disease control measures that followed. Theaters re-opened on...
- 8/26/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Trinity Cine Asia has acquired from Edko Films Love You Forever, the most anticipated film in China, on Chinese Valentine’s Day 25 Aug 2020 in UK cinemas.
Love You Forever is a fantasy rom-com adapted from the best-selling short novel of the same name by Zheng Zhi. Directed by Yao Tingting (Yesterday Once More) and produced by Edko’s Bill Kong, Love You Forever stars Golden Horse Best New Performer, Taiwanese actor Lee Hong-chi and one of the top emerging Chinese actresses, Li Yitong.
The film is currently the most anticipated film according to Chinese leading ticketing operator Maoyan and has pre-sold more than 5.2 million tickets two weeks before release.
Synopsis
Some lives are linked across time, connected by destiny. While aiding an old theatre attendant Lin Ge (Lee Hongchi), aspiring dancer Qiu Qian (Li Yitong) stumbles upon his diary which chronicles the life and memories they shared together since childhood,...
Love You Forever is a fantasy rom-com adapted from the best-selling short novel of the same name by Zheng Zhi. Directed by Yao Tingting (Yesterday Once More) and produced by Edko’s Bill Kong, Love You Forever stars Golden Horse Best New Performer, Taiwanese actor Lee Hong-chi and one of the top emerging Chinese actresses, Li Yitong.
The film is currently the most anticipated film according to Chinese leading ticketing operator Maoyan and has pre-sold more than 5.2 million tickets two weeks before release.
Synopsis
Some lives are linked across time, connected by destiny. While aiding an old theatre attendant Lin Ge (Lee Hongchi), aspiring dancer Qiu Qian (Li Yitong) stumbles upon his diary which chronicles the life and memories they shared together since childhood,...
- 8/25/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
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