hmm that seems nice. Thanks for the updates

Someone from BOM says the Chinese number is now $10.6m for DH1. Is this right? And how does it compare to HBP's $12.4m 5-day?

mtime actually reported 75m yuan, or $11.3m.

Does that put it over RE 5-day?

Yes, about 10m yuan more (and RE is 6-day).

Actuals:

Harry Potter 7 - 81m yuan ($12.2m)
Resident Evil 4 (6-day) - 68.5m yuan ($10.3m)

Should reach 250m yuan with that opening.

mtime reported 76m yuan for HP7 on its second week. That's not a great hold as it couldn't manage an increase even though it's 7 days comparing to 3 days for the opening frame.

11/15 - 21:

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1（哈利·波特与死亡圣器(上)）- 81m ($12.21m) New 29,621 2,493,074 81m ($12.21m)
2. Resident Evil: Afterlife（生化危机4：来生）- 68.5m ($10.32m) New 45,229 1,706,528 68.5m ($10.32m)
3. Unstoppable（危情时速）- 15.5m ($2.34m) -61.3% 24,122 516,666 55.5m ($8.36m)
4. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole（猫头鹰王国：守卫者传奇）- 7.3m ($1.10m) -47.9% 9,475 185,467 21.3m ($3.21m)
5. Color Me Love（爱出色）- 3.6m ($0.54m) -56.1% 10,023 126,448 11.8m ($1.78m)
6. My Sassy Girl 2（我的野蛮女友2）- 2.7m ($0.41m) -66.3% 8,091 95,271 18.4m ($2.78m)
7. Wind Blast（西风烈）- 2.4m ($0.36m) -73.3% 7,658 78,074 63.4m ($9.51m)
8. Xin Kang Ding Qing Ge（康定情歌）- 1.8m ($0.27m) -18.2% 2,579 64,423 5.6m ($0.84m)
9. Love Tactics（爱情36计）- 1m ($0.15m) -73.7% 4,418 34,435 4.8m ($0.72m)
10. Di Yi Shu Ji（第一书记）- 0.87m ($0.13m) - 594 39,295 12m ($1.8m)

11/22 - 28:

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1（哈利·波特与死亡圣器(上)）- 84m ($12.61m) +3.7% 62,038 2,636,534 165m ($24.82m)
2. Resident Evil: Afterlife（生化危机4：来生）- 46m ($6.90m) -32.8% 36,170 1,126,346 114.5m ($17.22m)
3. Bruce Lee（李小龙） 8.5m ($1.28m) - New 11,412 267,379 8.5m ($1.28m)
4. Unstoppable（危情时速）- 7m ($1.05m) -54.8% 10,600 234,663 62.5m ($9.41m)
5. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole（猫头鹰王国：守卫者传奇）- 5m ($0.75m) -31.5% 5,267 132,872 26.3m ($3.96m)
6. Super Player（大玩家）- 4.5m ($0.68m) New 8,111 168,602 4.5m ($0.68m)
7. Xin Kang Ding Qing Ge（康定情歌）- 2.1m ($0.32m) +16.7% 2,478 72,891 7.7m ($1.16m)
8. Color Me Love（爱出色）- 1.2m ($0.18m) -66.7% 4,077 42,643 13m ($1.96m)
9. Di Yi Shu Ji（第一书记）- 1m ($0.13m) +14.9% 749 50,787 13m ($1.93m)

That's better for HP7. 250m yuan is still achievable, but not much more than that. It will start getting hit pretty hard later this week.

How is that compared to previous Potter movies?

Good for RE4 as well...it is definitely one of the most surprising OS runs this year.

HP7 increased looks good but nothing great, considering xia was expecting it to increase...I guess?

It's certainly outpacing what any of the previous ones got.

The way China reports its numbers (on a weekly basis), almost all Friday openers would see a second week increase since it would have 7 days comparing to just 3 days for the opening week, and there was very little new competition last week. That's why I wouldn't call HP7's hold great, but it's still fairly good, as we know it's going to be frontloaded like everywhere else.

Hmm makes sense since it always a weekly update.

xia how is the run of Unstoppable compared to similar movies, Pelham for instance and maybe few more?

I need to check, but it's doing quite well comparing to past Washington's films.

11/29 - 12/5:

1. Just Call Me Nobody（大笑江湖）- 60m ($9.01m) New 36,928 1,639,926 60m ($9.01m)
2. Sacrifice（赵氏孤儿）- 50m ($7.51m) New 18,296 1,403,311 50m ($7.51m)
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1（哈利·波特与死亡圣器(上)）- 34.5m ($5.18m) -58.9% 39,426 1,052,471 199.5m ($30.00m)
4. Resident Evil: Afterlife（生化危机4：来生）- 21.3m ($3.20m) -53.7% 23,643 515,364 135.8m ($20.42m)
5. Righteous Kill（火线特工）- 5.3m ($0.80m) New 9,796 184,070 5.3m ($0.80m)
6. Bruce Lee（李小龙）- 4.6m ($0.69m) -45.9% 10,513 147,341 13.1m ($1.97m)
7. Super Player（大玩家）- 2.9m ($0.44m) -35.6% 8,919 113,237 7.4m ($1.11m)
8. Unstoppable（危情时速）- 2.5m ($0.38m) -64.3% 4,880 85,149 65m ($9.79m)
9. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole（猫头鹰王国：守卫者传奇）- 2.2m ($0.33m) -56.0% 3,243 60,689 28.5m ($4.29m)
10. Xin Kang Ding Qing Ge（康定情歌）- 0.52m ($0.078m) -75.2% 740 19,976 8.2m ($1.24m)

Tron will open on 1/11/11.

Chen Kaige's (陳凱歌) historical drama Sacrifice (趙氏孤兒, pictured) made RMB98 million ($14.7 million) in China last week, for a gross of RMB147.6 million ($22.2 million) by Sunday night.

Comedy Just Call Me Nobody (大笑江湖), which had a stronger opening weekend than Sacrifice, dropped to second place with RMB71 million ($10.7 million), bringing its total to RMB131.9 million ($19.8 million).

Both films face stiff competition with the release of Let the Bullets Fly (讓子彈飛) at midnight tonight starring its director Jiang Wen (姜文), Chow Yun-fat (周潤發), Ge You (葛優) and Carina Lau (劉嘉玲).

Combined, Sacrifice and Nobody represented 87% of box office income last week. The latest Harry Potter and Resident Evil films came in at a distant third and fourth place with 10.5% of box office income.

filmbizasia

Producers of Chinese western Let the Bullets Fly (讓子彈飛) are claiming that Jiang Wen's (姜文) film made RMB30.18 million ($4.5 million) in China on its opening day, Thursday 16 Dec.

The film's Hong Kong co-producer, Emperor Motion Pictures (英皇電影有限公司), have stated a slightly lower figure of $4.2 million. The discrepency may be due to the accounting of midnight shows on Wednesday night.

The China-side is now claiming more than RMB40 million ($6 million) income on Friday and RMB60 million ($9 million) on Saturday, which would put the film neck-and-neck with Aftershock's (唐山大地震) record performance.

Feng Xiaogang's (馮小剛) melodrama made RMB36.2 million ($5.4 million) on its Thursday opening in July 2010, also crossing RMB100m on Saturday for takings of RMB180 million ($27 million) over its four-day opening weekend.

filmbizasia

Let the Bullets Fly is also enjoying one of the best WOMs for a domestic film in a long long time. This film now has serious potential of setting some records for a Chinese film.

Actual for Let the Bullets Fly: 181.5m yuan in the first four days, or $27.26m. This in fact surpassed what Aftershock earned in its first four days. Simply remarkable.

In its opening four days in Chinese cinemas, Jiang Wen's (姜文) Let the Bullets Fly (讓子彈飛) made RMB181.5 million ($27.3 million) setting a new record for a local film.

In July, Feng Xiaogang's (馮小剛) Aftershock (唐山大地震), which also opened on a Thursday, made RMB180 million ($27 million) in its opening four days. It ended its run with RMB647.8 million ($97 million).

Bullets faces competition today with the opening of Feng's latest film, If You are the One 2 (非誠勿擾2) starring Ge You (葛優) and Shu Qi (舒淇). The original film made RMB314 million ($47.2 million) on release in Dec 2008.

The second highest grossing film at China's box office last week was Chen Kaige's (陳凱歌) Sacrifice (趙氏孤兒) with RMB37 million ($5.6 million). After 16 days in cinemas, it has made RMB184.6 million ($27.7 million).

Kevin Chu's (朱延平) Just Call Me Nobody (大笑江湖), the early winner at the December box office, made RMB22.7 million ($3.4 million) last week for a current gross of RMB154.6 million ($23.2 million).

After 31 days in theaters, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 has made RMB221.1 million ($33.2 million).

http://www.filmbiz.asia/

The actual actually got raised again to 190m yuan, or $28.5m.

What's the film about?

Hey 33.2m for HP 7.1 in 31 days doesn't sound that great....xia?

I do understand there are holidays still coming up though still these are known to open bigger...aren't they bigger in China?