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Post Re: HK 8/27 PRO: Pixels dines at #1 for a 2nd week; IO nears
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I don't get it. Hero 2015 more than doubled its Friday admission number. It went from 2,870 from Friday to 6,182 Saturday. How did it manage only a +34.9% QD % increase? The movie appeals to an older demo given its huge Saturday increase and does not seem frontloaded.
That is obviously a mistake. Forgot to adjust the daily % for all films on Saturday. Corrected table is below. Thanks for pointing it out.

SaturdayAugust 29
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1Pixels15,82916,760+5.9%+40.5%
2Inside Out18,38713,046-29.0%+83.4%
3Hitman: Agent 4718,54310,379-44.0%+47.7%
4Undercover Duet--10,107--+54.7%
5Hero 2015--6,182--+115.4%
6Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation9,8435,975-39.3%+98.6%
7Knock Knock Who's There?--5,665--+23.6%
8Wild City10,2303,598-64.8%+60.7%
9Assassination--3,400--+66.9%
10To the Fore4,1262,602-36.9%+57.3%
5 PM update: Inside Out has already surpassed yesterday's admissions. It is currently behind Pixels by 600 admissions. No other film in the top 10 has done it yet. It seems like Pixels won't be getting the same Sunday boost as last week.

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SundayAugust 30
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1Pixels22,25016,734-24.8%-0.2%
2Inside Out19,10514,734-22.9%+12.9%
3Hitman: Agent 4718,12010,135-44.1%-2.4%
4Undercover Duet--9,978---1.3%
5Knock Knock Who's There?--5,757--+1.6%
6Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation8,5595,658-33.9%-5.3%
7Hero 2015--5,585---9.7%
8Assassination--3,457--+1.7%
9Wild City9,8143,337-66.0%-7.3%
10To the Fore4,1202,666-35.3%+2.5%
Pixels won the day but Inside Out had the best hold and biggest increase on Sunday. Pixels wasn't able to capitalize with walk-ins on this Sunday like it did last Sunday. Interesting to note that the gap between Pixel and Inside Out's walk-ins shrunk quite rapidly as the weekend progressed. (Thu +1400 > Fri +1700 > Sat +1000 > Sun +300) Outside of Friday (Pixels might be playing like a date movie), Inside Out decreased the gap by around 1,100 admissions to just 300 on Sunday. Pixels average admissions per showing stood at a good 71 but almost 100 fewer showtimes did not deter Inside Out crowds as it posted an average of 98 people per showing. In the first of 4 big battles this weekend, Hitman won Sunday although I did see Undercover Duet lose 1,000 admissions today. Sunday turned out to be a intense fight between #5-#7 as those three settled within less than 200 admissions of each other. Knock Knock actually increased while Hero posted a huge 10% decline. It was topsy-turvy weekend for Hero and Mission Impossible 5 as both won 2 days in admissions this weekend. The 3rd close battle belonged to Wild City and Assassination. Wild City won the previous 3 days but Assassination won Sunday over Wild City with an increase. The last duel came courtesy from To the Fore and The Assassin who both stayed within 100 admissions of each other the past 3 days. Sunday saw To the Fore winning by just over 100 admissions so it seems there is a winner that will emerge the next couple of days between those two.

Weekend adm.Aug 27-30
RankMovieLWTW% chg
1Pixels58,33855,061-5.6%
2Inside Out56,45939,854-29.4%
3Hitman: Agent 4761,00632,927-46.0%
4Undercover Duet--32,245--
5Knock Knock Who's There?--20,634--
6Hero 2015--17,114--
7Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation27,44616,775-38.9%
8Wild City33,46210,894-67.4%
9Assassination--10,603--
10To the Fore13,5358,339-38.4%
11The Assassin--8,054
You can see the number of close battles there were this week. All 4 battles were within 700 admissions of each other. 3 of them had gaps of less than 500 between them.

Weekend EstimatesAugust 27
RankMovieTW% chgTotal
1Pixels$690,000-9.4%$1,880,000
2Inside Out$420,000-28.2%$8,009,000
3Hitman: Agent 47$325,000-47.2%$1,562,000
4Undercover Duet$305,000$305,000
5Knock Knock Who's There?$189,500$198,500
Pixels was downgraded thanks to its lower than expected Sunday while Inside Out impressed enough to send it past 8m. Hitman had an OK hold. Undercover Duet was a non-starter while Knock Knock did not do well at all.

6Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation$178,000-43.5%$6,642,000
Mission Impossible 5 was adjusted up with its better than expected Sunday.

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Post Re: HK 8/27 EST: Pixels triumphs but IO catching up, makes 8
Monday adm.(so far)August 31
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1Pixels4,5603,935-13.7%-47.3%
2Inside Out1,7881,261-29.5%-78.1%
3Undercover Duet--914---70.4%
4Hitman: Agent 471,201565-53.0%-79.7%
5Knock Knock Who's There?--508---70.0%
6Hero 2015--499---85.8%
7Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation532374-29.7%-78.3%
8Wild City868370-57.4%-69.9%
9Assassination--343---76.7%
10The Assassin--337---70.0%
Great hold for Pixels. Very good for Inside Out. How holdovers do today and with Wednesday night pre-sales will affect their holiday showings on Thursday.

RankMovieLast Thu. Pre-salesMon. Pre-sales% chg
1Pixels4,6283,935-15.0%
2Inside Out1,3541,261-6.9%
3Undercover Duet1,137914-19.6%
4Hitman: Agent 47982565-42.5%
5Knock Knock Who's There?825508-38.4%
6Hero 20151,031499-51.6%
7Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation484374-22.7%
8Wild City551370-32.8%
9Assassination547343-37.3%
10The Assassin593337-43.2%
Both Pixels and Inside Out seem to be playing well with kids which would explain the slightly inflated pre-sales today. Today is the last day of summer so there will be some frontloading that occurs today. That drop is very strong for Inside Out.

On Thursday, there will be 10 new releases fighting for attention. They are

No Escape
Kidnapping Freddy Heineken (Hollywood remake of Dutch that's been long overdue for HK release)
The Gunman
Love Detective
PK (Bollywood)
Assassination Classroom
Cat Funeral
Every Thing Will Be Fine
How To Make Love Like An Englishman
A Tale of Three Cities

PK looks like it's a UA release only. It will try to Broadway/AMC's answer to 3 Idiots. No Escape will be the big Hollywood release this week. Love Detective is the other big release of the weekend. Kidnapping Freddy Heineken is a semi-wide release. Gunman could be a wide release. The rest look like semi-wide or limited releases.

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Post Re: HK: 10 new films enter on Thursday holiday, who will win
Monday adm.August 31
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1Pixels11,2408,534-24.1%-49.0%
2Inside Out6,4095,190-19.0%-64.8%
3Undercover Duet--4,673---53.2%
4Hitman: Agent 477,4273,864-48.0%-61.9%
5Knock Knock Who's There?--2,863---50.3%
6Hero 2015--1,860---66.7%
7Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation2,6581,744-34.4%-69.2%
8Wild City3,5631,346-62.2%-59.7%
9Assassination--1,174---66.0%
10To the Fore1,8521,172-36.7%-56.0%
Good hold for Pixels. Excellent for Inside Out. Decent for Undercover Duet.

RankMovieLast Thu.Mon.% chg
1Pixels9,6398,534-11.5%
2Inside Out4,9625,190+4.6%
3Undercover Duet5,6284,673-17.0%
4Hitman: Agent 475,3863,864-28.3%
5Knock Knock Who's There?4,6302,863-38.2%
6Hero 20152,4771,860-24.9%
7Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation2,1331,744-18.2%
8Wild City1,7201,346-21.7%
9Assassination1,7091,174-31.3%
10To the Fore1,4171,172-17.3%
The top 3 had the best holds from last Thursday and Inside Out was the only film to increase.

Tuesday adm.(so far)September 1
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1Pixels5,4473,419-37.2%-13.1%
2Inside Out2,507981-60.9%-22.2%
3Undercover Duet--934--+2.2%
4Hero 2015--828--+65.9%
5Hitman: Agent 471,613688-57.3%+21.8%
6Knock Knock Who's There?--548--+7.9%
7Assassination--471--+37.3%
8The Assassin--440--+30.6%
9Wild City1,161419-63.9%+13.2%
10Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation683283-58.6%-24.3%
That is a weird number for Pixels. It should have much lower admissions than that. It's possible that Pixels admissions are being inflated by D-BOX seats and IMAX. It's definitely not in line with early Thursday schedules already out. Nevertheless, big drops for both Pixels and Inside Out from Monday due to school being back in session today. Rest of the films besides family-friendly Mission Impossible 5 saw increases today from yesterday.

Back to Thursday's 10 new openers where a few films will play with a heavy presence at one theater chain. They include:

A Tale of Three Cities - distributed by EDKO (Broadway/AMC) - 1 screen
PK - exclusive UA release only (UA)
Love Detective - UA Film (UA)
No Escape - distributed by MCL (MCL) - 2 screens

The other new openers are being released under small distributors here and are not major competition this weekend.

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Post Re: HK: 10 new films enter on Thursday holiday, who will win
Tuesday adm.September 1
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1Pixels12,7167,123-44.0%-16.5%
2Undercover Duet--4,595---1.7%
3Hitman: Agent 478,6143,850-55.3%-0.4%
4Inside Out7,9293,604-54.5%-30.6%
5Knock Knock Who's There?--2,842---0.7%
6Hero 2015--2,171--+16.7%
7Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation3,3501,493-55.4%-14.4%
8The Assassin--1,462--+25.9%
9Assassination--1,396--+18.9%
10Wild City4,4211,338-69.7%-0.6%
Family friendly films took a big hit today as school is now back in session. Good hold for Pixels overall. OK for Undercover Duet. Not good for Hitman. On the surface, Inside Out had a bad hold but its afternoon showings were severely hindered by school starting today. Poor for Knock Knock.

Wednesday adm.(so far)September 2
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1Pixels4,6393,553-23.4%+3.9%
2Undercover Duet--1,120--+19.9%
3Inside Out1,8781,070-43.0%+9.1%
4Hero 2015--822---0.7%
5Hitman: Agent 471,172809-31.0%+17.6%
6Knock Knock Who's There?--604--+10.2%
7No Escape--536----
8Assassination--441---6.4%
9Wild City854413-51.6%-1.4%
10The Assassin--362---17.7%
Bad increase for Pixels. Solid jump for Undercover Duet. Not good for Inside Out. No Escape sneaks debut at #7.

Thursday schedules

Broadway/AMC
The ONE
NewHoldoversLeaving
A Tale of Three Cities - 7 showingsAssassination - 1 showing (▼ 5)
No Escape - 6 showingsKnock Knock Who's There? - 1 showing (▼ 5)
Love Detective - 2 showingsThe Assassin - 1 showing (▼ 3)
Kidnapping Freddy Heineken - 3 showingsThe Emperor in August - 1 showing (▼ 3)
The Gunman - 4 showingsUndercover Duet - 1 showing (▼ 5)
Pixels - 4 showings (▼ 7)
Hitman: Agent 47 - 3 showings (▼ 6)
Attack on Titan - 2 showings (▼ 3)
Paper Towns - 1 showing (=)
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - 1 showing (=)
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 1 showing (=)
Inside Out (Eng.) - 6 showings (▲ 5)
A Tale of Three Cities gets 1 screen (and usually on the biggest screen) at every location. No Escape gets 4-5 showings average at Broadway/AMC. Love Detective is getting half day showtimes. Kidnapping Freddy Heineken/Cat Funeral/The Gunman/Every Thing Will Be Fine/Assassination Classroom/How to Make Love Like An Englishman are all being shown in less than half of the theaters owned by this group.

Due to Thursday being a holiday, 4 theaters have increased Inside Out's showtimes on Thursday. Friday will see a reversal as many will give more showtimes back to openers/holdovers due to school. Pixels is reduced to half day showings on Thursday. Hitman is following suit with about 3 showings per day. Undercover Duet gets slashed down to 1 or 3 showings depending on the theater. Mission Impossible 5 is being served with only 1 or 2 showtimes on Thursday.

UA

Cine Times
NewHoldoversLeaving
Love Detective - 5 showingsUndercover Duet - 2 showings (▼ 5)Pixels (3D Atmos)
A Tale of Three Cities - 3 showingsHero 2015 - 2 showings (▼ 3)Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
No Escape - 3 showingsAssassination - 2 showings (▼ 3)Knock Knock! Who's There?
The Gunman - 2 showingsThe Assassin - 1 showing (▼ 2)
PK - 3 showingsHitman: Agent 47 - 2 showings (▼ 6)
Cat Funeral - 2 showingsPixels - 1 showing (▲ 0)
Assassination - 2 showings (▼ 3)
Wild City - 2 showings (▼ 5)
To the Fore - 2 showings (▼ 3)
Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes - 1 showing (=)
Inside Out (Can.) - 1 showing (▼ 2)
Love Detective will get the biggest screen here and/or the most showings. Only 5 UA theaters + Cine-Art House will pick up No Escape and collectively they have given NE an average of 3-4 showings per day. A Tale of Three Cities fared even worse with just 4 UA theaters adding this into their lineup with only half-day showtimes given. Exclusive release PK is being shown in the Cinehub section of UA and is getting the biggest screen alongside LD in these theaters. The Gunman/Cat Funeral have picked up 3 and 4 theaters each respectively.

Undercover Duet survived quite well here with 2-3 showings per day on Thursday. Hitman also managed to get out relatively unscathed with 2-3 showings at UA. Hero retains 2-3 showings on Thursday. Those theaters that are showing Pixels in IMAX will shrink its showing count to just 1 on Thursday. Normally when that occurs, they will transfer some showings of the same film into their regular theaters but this week, none of them have done that. Remaining regular theaters are being kinder and is leaving it with 2 showings average per day. Inside Out remains on 2-3 showings at most locations. Mission Impossible 5 is the most affected by the new openers and is gone from 3 theaters but was added in 1 theater on Thursday. Wild City scrapes by with 1 or 2 showings on Thursday.

MCL

STAR Cinema
NewHoldoversLeaving
No Escape - 11 showingsHero 2015 - 3 showings (=)Assassination
Love Detective - 5 showingsUndercover Duet - 2 showings (▼ 3)To the Fore
A Tale of Three Cities - 3 showingsKnock Knock Who's There? - 1 showing (▼ 5)Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes
Cat Funeral - 2 showingsPixels - 3 showings (▼ 5)Hollywood Adventures
Assassination Classroom - 5 showingsHitman: Agent 47 - 1 showing (▼ 2)
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 1 showing (▼ 4)
Inside Out (Can.) - 3 showings (=)
MCL is like the Broadway/AMC of normal times. Usually it's MCL who is the liberal one and gives showings to every film when one of their new film arrives but not this week. They have gone gung ho with No Escape and have pushed it onto 2 screens (biggest + one other...usually 2nd biggest) A Tale of Three Cities gets half day showings while Love Detective takes off with 4. Other openers such as Assassination Classroom gets 5 showings while Cat Funeral/Gunman/Kidnapping Freddy Heineken open in just 1 theater (not including The GRAND).

Holdovers: Mission Impossible 5 is saved with 1 showtime here. Inside Out remains with 3-4 showtimes. Pixels gets flattened to about 3 showings. Hitman is axed to just 1-2 showings. Hero gets 3 showtimes. Undercover Duet gets a pair of showtimes.

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Openers: You know the openers are weak when one theater sticks with the holdovers and doesn't pick up any new films or another theater picks up fluff like Gunman/How to Make Love like an Englishman and not any of the top 3. Hilarious stuff. Of those that are adding the top 3 openers into their schedules, No Escape turned out to the best with 5 showings on 3 theaters. Love Detective is also getting added by 3 with 4 showings. A Tale of Three Cities gets only 1.

Inside Out corners the market at this theater chain with the biggest screen or most showtimes. Pixels down to about 3 or 4 showtimes. Mission Impossible 5 moves down to 3 theaters on 2 showtimes. Hitman came out of here alive with 3 showings apiece. Undercover Duet gets shaken down to 2 showtimes.

Pre-sales

Pre-sales of the expected top 5 (taken at 10 PM)

The ONEA Tale of Three CitiesLove DetectiveNo EscapePixelsInside Out
Showings72646
Total admissions15924366478
Admissions per showing22.711261613
Cine TimesA Tale of Three CitiesLove DetectiveNo EscapePixelsInside Out
Showings35311
Total admissions344662204
Admissions per showing11.339.2020.67204
STAR CinemaA Tale of Three CitiesLove DetectiveNo EscapePixelsInside Out
Showings351133
Total admissions24491743455
Admissions per showing89.815.8211.3318.33
Total admissions (from all 3 theaters)217119272118137
A Tale of Three Cities is way out in front at The ONE but it got early pre-selling. Inside Out is doing particular well on Thursday after being way behind Pixels/Hitman in pre-sales the past week. Pixels is also doing solid business. Love Detective is way behind and No Escape is a surprisingly slow starter at The ONE. This type of film does well at that theater.

At UA, No Escape and Love Detective are doing alright. A Tale is doing OK-ish while Pixels pre-sales are good here. Inside Out is doing terribly which is a surprise considering this theater has had very strong pre-sales in the past.

HUGE pre-sales at MCL for No Escape (with no early pre-selling too). Love Detective is doing OK but A Tale is very weak at STAR. Pixels is doing steady while Inside Out is cruising along with good pre-sales.

No Escape will be #1 on Thursday. #2 will be up for grabs between A Tale of Three Cities/Inside Out. #4 is a tossup between Love Detective and Pixels.

This theater report has been brought to you by the three theater chain heads (Br./AMC, UA, MCL) 'Anger' (from Inside Out) who secretly want to push the other 2 films out the door for shoving their films on terrible showtimes or screens.
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UA Windsor Cinema closed last week but it has been taken over by MCL who will reopen the theater at the end of this month. This is huge because MCL oversees the other Causeway Bay theater (which is just across from Windsor Cinema) so this could play like a 2nd theater where JP will host the 2 biggest films and Windsor will showcase the 3 smaller ones.

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I don't understand why STAR Cinema gets almost no admissions for Three Cities but The ONE gets shit loads, and vice versa for No Escape. Is there any reason for this? Is it due to auditorium size? If so, that's just bad planning by the cinema.

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A Tale of Three Cities got early pre-selling at The ONE but No Escape did not at MCL. I'm not really sure why those 2 are doing well at their distributor's theater while they are doing poorly in other areas. Perhaps Three Cities is doing better at The ONE because TST is a tourist area while TKO is not. As for No Escape, it is the type of film that does well at The ONE. Very surprised to see it performing weak there.

Wednesday adm.September 2
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1Pixels10,7357,328-31.7%+2.9%
2Undercover Duet--5,143--+11.9%
3Hitman: Agent 476,6403,907-41.2%+1.5%
4Inside Out5,8393,874-33.7%+7.5%
5No Escape--3,343----
6Knock Knock Who's There?--2,770---2.5%
7Hero 2015--2,231--+2.8%
8Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation2,6791,890-29.5%+26.6%
9Assassination--1,555--+11.4%
10Wild City3,2821,511-54.0%+12.9%
With the exception of Undercover Duet, the rest of the top 4 only did marginally better than Tuesday. No Escape got off to an OK start with previews.

Thursday adm.(so far)September 3
RankMovieLWTW% chg
1No Escape--5,885--
2Inside Out1,3545,344+294.7%
3Pixels4,6283,669-20.7%
4Love Detective--3,491--
5A Tale of Three Cities--3,486--
6Hero 20151,0312,939+185.1%
7Undercover Duet1,1371,828+60.8%
8PK--1,408--
9Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation4841,387+186.6%
10Hitman: Agent 479821,338+36.3%
Decent for No Escape. Excellent for Inside Out. It along with Hero were the only 2 films from last week who beat its final admissions from last Thursday with just its pre-sales. Terrible hold for Pixels. Not good for Love Detective or A Tale of Three Cities. Love Detective could see huge walk-ins though. Wonderful for Hero. Incredible start for PK. It sits at 67 people per showing with just its pre-sales alone. Great for Mission Impossible 5. Bad for Hitman.

The ONEA Tale of Three CitiesLove DetectiveNo EscapePixelsInside Out
Showings72646
Total admissions34164181179278
Admissions per showing48.713230.1666666744.7546.333333
Cine TimesA Tale of Three CitiesLove DetectiveNo EscapePixelsInside Out
Showings35421
Total admissions1011461737745
Admissions per showing33.6729.2043.2538.545
STAR CinemaA Tale of Three CitiesLove DetectiveNo EscapePixelsInside Out
Showings351133
Total admissions7510241786170
Admissions per showing2520.437.9128.6756.67
Total admissions (from all 3 theaters)517312771342493
Inside Out is the most steady of the 5 films with each theater managing an average of 45 people per showing. Three Cities/No Escape's admissions have been volatile with No Escape/Three Cities each scoring 25-30 average per showing at 1 theater.

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Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun)August 24-30
LWTWTitleLast Week (HKD)This Week (HKD)Days in release% chgTotal (HKD)This Week (USD)Total (USD)
21Pixels$5,827,790$6,172,93111+5.9%$12,000,721$794,873$1,545,304
12Inside Out$7,075,172$4,770,32739-32.6%$61,261,851$614,263$7,888,545
33Hitman: Agent 47$4,709,486$4,364,93611-7.3%$9,074,422$562,062$1,168,492
--4Undercover Duet--$2,912,3204--$2,912,320$375,012$375,012
45Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation$4,059,478$2,213,84232-45.5%$50,949,330$285,071$6,560,626
66Wild City$2,492,385$1,634,15611-34.4%$4,126,541$210,426$531,365
--7Knock Knock Who's There?--$1,574,0184--$1,667,594$202,682$214,732
--8Hero 2015--$1,258,7934--$1,301,433$162,091$167,582
89To the Fore$1,831,518$993,11925-45.8%$9,268,913$127,881$1,193,536
--10Assassination--$758,7424--$783,309$97,701$100,864
Just OK for Pixels. 2m will be broken by next week. Inside Out has already passed 8m and is currently #14 of all time. 9m will depend on how well it holds up on weekdays. Weekends have been doing pretty well but its weekdays that is concerning right now. Pretty bad for Hitman to decrease from last week's 4-day opening. Mission Impossible 5 has blown past 6.6m and 6.7m will happen by this weekend.

ThursdaySeptember 3
RankMovieLWTW% chg
1No Escape--22,646--
2Inside Out4,96213,185+165.7%
3Love Detective--11,305--
4Pixels9,6399,711+0.7%
5A Tale of Three Cities--7,952--
6Undercover Duet5,6285,654+0.5%
7Hero 20152,4775,236+111.4%
8Hitman: Agent 475,3864,850-10.0%
9Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation2,1334,503+111.1%
10PK--2,944--
No Escape absolutely crushed the competition. Walk-ins were a staunch 74%. Opening day reviews sit a very good 4.5/5. Playing on incredible word of mouth, Inside Out did not just shot up two-fold from last week but it was the only holdover of the top 10 to defeat its Saturday admissions. Ok for Love Detective. It's doing similar numbers to Undercover Duet. Opening day users have given it a 3.3/5...not exactly inspiring confidence. Pretty bad for Pixels. It only marginally increased from last week despite Thursday being a holiday. Awful for A Tale of Three Cities. No one cares for these types of films here. Early reviews have it at a 3.8/5. Bad for Undercover Duet. Very good for Hero. That is ghastly for Hitman. Nice for Mission Impossible 5. PK had a fantastic opening day. Showing in just 5 theaters and with 21 showings, it averaged 140 people per showtime. Superb. Early reviews have said that this is better than 3 Idiots and that made 3m in HK. It is unknown if any more UA theaters will pick this up next week but for now, a great start. Opening day users have tagged it with a 4.8/5 so far. Incredible score.

Thursday actuals

2. Inside Out - $141,268/$8,139,613
8. Mission Impossible 5 - $52,506/$6,665,139

Inside Out should be at 8.4m by the end this weekend. Mission Impossible 5 will pass 6.7m this weekend and jump over Interstellar and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for #25 foreign film of all time.

Friday adm.(so far)September 4
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1No Escape--2,739---53.5%
2A Tale of Three Cities--1,730---50.4%
3Pixels5,3731,179-78.1%-67.9%
4Love Detective--1,154---66.9%
5Undercover Duet1,664693-58.4%-62.1%
6Hero 20151,175679-42.2%-76.9%
7Inside Out2,292648-71.7%-87.9%
8PK--436---69.0%
9Hitman: Agent 471,759343-80.5%-74.4%
10The Assassin754309-59.0%--
Good for No Escape. A Tale of Three Cities only jumped to 2nd place because it plays to the older crowd. Still not good enough. Awful for Pixels. The wheels have fallen off now. OK for Love Detective. Decent hold for Undercover Duet. Very good hold for Hero. This is exactly what I was worried about with Inside Out. Very weak pre-sales have seen it slip to #7. It will no doubt rebound a bit with walk-ins but will theaters want to continue showing this 5 days in a row with very slow sales just for 2 days of solid but not outstanding ticket sales? Excellent for PK considering it's a very long film and holiday is over.

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Thursday ActualsSeptember 3
LWTWMovieLast Thu. (USD)Thursday (USD)% chgTheatersDaysTotal
--1No Escape--$238,550--311$274,780
42Inside Out$50,924$130,420+156.1%3543$8,109,785
--3Love Detective--$108,919--351$112,827
14Pixels$119,124$87,234-26.8%3715$1,822,259
--5A Tale of Three Cities--$74,571--341$79,455
36Undercover Duet$52,593$63,916+21.5%318$599,289
77Hero 2015$21,608$49,101+127.2%338$277,917
68Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation$22,626$48,012+112.2%2536$6,644,953
29Hitman: Agent 47$52,788$47,974-9.1%208$1,327,990
--10PK--$34,037--51$38,501
Very good for No Escape. Excellent for Inside Out. 8.3m will happen by the end of this weekend at least. Not bad for Love Detective. Shockingly awful for Pixels to decrease week-to-week on a holiday. Bad for A Tale of Three Cities. MI5 will likely pass 6.7m this weekend.

FridaySeptember 4
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1No Escape--12,198---46.1%
2Love Detective--5,116---54.7%
3A Tale of Three Cities--4,382---44.9%
4Pixels11,9282,947-75.3%-69.7%
5Undercover Duet6,5322,740-58.1%-51.5%
6Inside Out7,1122,734-61.6%-79.3%
7Hitman: Agent 477,0271,869-73.4%-61.5%
8Hero 20152,8701,760-38.7%-66.4%
9PK--1,448---50.8%
10Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation3,0091,395-53.6%-69.0%
Great for No Escape. Decent for Love Detective. Obviously the holiday will trade off a bit with Friday-Sunday this weekend so holds will be larger than normal. Although it had the best hold of the top 10 in admissions from Thursday, A Tale of Three Cities is not doing well. Major ouch for Pixels. 3m might not happen after all. Undercover Duet just pipped Inside Out for #5. Not a great hold for Duet or Inside Out. Very good for Hero. Remarkable for PK to drop just 50% from the Thursday holiday despite the long running time. Surprisingly decent for MI5. Teens were really driving MI5 over the summer so to see a near 50% hold in admissions is not too bad at all.

Saturday adm.(so far)September 5
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1No Escape--4,734--+72.8%
2A Tale of Three Cities--1,971--+13.9%
3Love Detective--1,951--+69.1%
4Inside Out4,5261,780-60.7%+174.7%
5Pixels7,2991,721-76.4%+46.0%
6Hero 20152,9481,399-52.5%+106.0%
7PK--1,243--+185.1%
8Undercover Duet2,4751,101-55.5%+58.9%
9Hitman: Agent 472,482628-74.7%+83.1%
10Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation1,553613-60.5%--
Really good for No Escape. Perhaps it could hit 17,500 admissions today. #2-#5 are only separated by 250 admissions but the trend here is what's important. Inside Out will be 2nd. Love Detective will be 3rd and Pixels/Three Cities will fight for #4/#5. PK continues to do well as it beat Inside Out at its own game: have the biggest increase of the entire top 10.

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SaturdaySeptember 5
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1No Escape--20,734--+70.0%
2Love Detective--8,278--+61.8%
3Inside Out13,0466,362-51.2%+132.7%
4A Tale of Three Cities--5,393--+23.1%
5Pixels16,7604,979-70.3%+69.0%
6Undercover Duet10,1073,991-60.5%+45.7%
7Hero 20156,1823,405-44.9%+93.5%
8Hitman: Agent 4710,3792,974-71.3%+59.1%
9Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation5,9752,962-50.4%+112.3%
10PK--2,845--+96.5%
Superb for No Escape. Decent for Love Detective. Not great for Inside Out. 9m looks to be a stretch now. The only consolation that it can take away from today is that it held 10% better than yesterday (% wise) where it is tracking the best of the holdovers. While Hero had the best hold, it seems to be slowing down, dropping 6% more on Saturday than Friday. Terrible increase for Three Cities but that was expected. Pixels had another disaster. Bad hold for Undercover Duet. Love Detective is affecting its hold this weekend. Good hold overall for Hero. Yikes for Hitman. Good for Mission Impossible 5. PK is doing really well.

Sunday adm.(so far)September 6
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1No Escape--4,835--+2.1%
2Love Detective--2,234--+14.5%
3Inside Out5,7642,048-64.5%+15.1%
4A Tale of Three Cities--1,939---1.6%
5PK--1,718--+38.2%
6Pixels7,4631,712-77.1%-0.5%
7Hero 20153,5241,344-61.9%-3.9%
8Undercover Duet3,0881,135-63.2%+3.1%
9Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation1,727721-58.3%+17.6%
10Assassination Classroom--620----
Good for No Escape. Surprised that Inside Out did not overtake Love Detective in pre-sales. Inside Out should be able to hold better than 50% today even with that bad hold in pre-sales. Wow PK. It might have its best day today instead of the Thursday holiday.

Weekend ProjectionsSeptember 3
RankMovieTW% chgTotal
1No Escape$790,000$826,000
2Love Detective$310,000$314,000
3Inside Out$290,000-29.3%$8,270,000
4A Tale of Three Cities$213,000$218,000
5Pixels$208,000-64.1%$1,943,000
Marvelous opening for No Escape. Playing in just 31 theaters, this will garner a possible $25,000+ PTA. Love Detective opened to nearly the same number as Undercover Duet. When you look at the weekend number for Inside Out, it is pretty good but of course the holiday inflated its weekend number and the trend does not look particularly rosy for it. It will have to play well on Sunday/Monday to restore theaters' confidence in it. While I think most theaters were being particularly generous this weekend, they won't be come next Thursday if it continues to have virtually non-existant weekdays and mild weekends. A Tale of Three Cities opened to the 2nd highest of most theaters but it did not register with moviegoers. Period dramas never ever do well on holiday weekends...just ask The Flowers of War. Pixels got off to a poor start on the Thursday holiday and dropped like on a rock this weekend. Huge crash for it and the chance of making 3m is gone.

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As of this moment, PK is a couple hundred admissions away from Thursday's admissions and will pass it before the day ends. The success of PK this weekend can be attributed to 3 Idiots back in 2011.

3 Idiots HK run in 2011

Now it is unlikely that PK would come close to 3 Idiots' gross if it only continues to play in just 5 theaters, however, if this expands to other UA theaters next weekend, this has a shot at catching 3 Idiots. The user rating through opening weekend still sits at an astonishing 4.8/5 and will continue to play well with audiences throughout its run. It will have a bigger opening weekend than 3 Idiots and its PTA will be in the neighborhood of $24,000-$26,000 this weekend.

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SundaySeptember 6
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1No Escape--18,315---11.7%
2Love Detective--7,699---7.0%
3Inside Out14,7346,279-57.4%-1.3%
4Pixels16,7344,921-70.6%-1.2%
5A Tale of Three Cities--4,378---18.8%
6Undercover Duet9,9783,973-60.2%-0.5%
7PK--3,436--+20.8%
8Hero 20155,5852,871-48.6%-15.7%
9Hitman: Agent 4710,1352,856-71.8%-4.0%
10Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation5,6582,428-57.1%-18.0%
Disappointing decreases for everything except PK which rose 20% on Sunday.

Weekend adm.Sep 3-6
RankMovieLWTW% chg
1No Escape--73,893--
2Love Detective--32,398--
3Inside Out39,85428,560-28.3%
4Pixels55,06122,558-59.0%
5A Tale of Three Cities--22,105--
6Undercover Duet32,24516,358-49.3%
7Hero 201517,11413,272-22.4%
8Hitman: Agent 4732,92712,549-61.9%
9Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation16,77511,288-32.7%
10PK--10,673--

Weekend EstimatesSeptember 3
RankMovieTW% chgTotal
1No Escape$773,000$809,000
2Love Detective$312,000$316,000
3Inside Out$282,000-31.2%$8,262,000
4A Tale of Three Cities$208,000$213,000
5Pixels$203,000-65.0%$1,943,000
Great opening for No Escape. HK could turn out to be a top ten market for it. Kind of underwhelming for Love Detective. Inside Out spends its 7th week in the top 3, one of only 3 8m+ grossers to achieve that feat (Avatar, Titanic are the other 2). 9m is pretty much dead at this point. A Tale of Three Cities bombed. Pixels had its lights turned out this week ending any hopes for 3m. #7-#10 will be very close as estimates put them within $5,000 of each other. PK will begin with around $120,000 (+63% 3 Idiots opening weekend showing in just 5 theaters).

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Sept 3 Actuals

Inside Out - $8,283,226
Mission Impossible 5 - $6,725,937

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Awesome that No Escape is doing so well. Might do well in China too!

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Actuals

1. No Escape - $811,766 (including previews)
2. Love Detective - $321,042 (including previews)
3. Inside Out - $8,261,750
4. A Tale of Three Cities - $212,065 (including previews)
5. Pixels - $1,937,750
PK - $127,860 (including previews)
Mission Impossible 5 - $6,717,297

Monday adm.September 7
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1No Escape--6,915---62.2%
2Love Detective--3,335---56.7%
3A Tale of Three Cities--1,911---56.3%
4Pixels8,5341,633-80.9%-66.8%
5Undercover Duet4,6731,520-67.5%-61.7%
6PK--1,487---56.7%
7Inside Out5,1901,189-77.1%-81.1%
8Hitman: Agent 473,864861-77.7%-69.9%
9Hero 20151,860708-61.9%-75.3%
10Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation1,744554-68.2%-77.2%
A disastrous Monday for most films. Ugly daily drop for Inside Out. PK remains a standout as it was the only film of the top 10 to beat its admissions from last Friday.

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Tuesday adm.September 8
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1No Escape--8,194--+18.5%
2Love Detective--3,902--+17.0%
3A Tale of Three Cities--2,380--+24.5%
4PK--2,035--+36.9%
5Pixels7,1231,752-75.4%+7.3%
6Undercover Duet4,5951,608-65.0%+5.8%
7Inside Out3,6041,461-59.5%+22.9%
8Hero 20152,171982-54.8%+38.7%
9Hitman: Agent 473,850971-74.8%+12.8%
10Assassination Classroom--630----
Decent for No Escape. Excellent for PK. What started out in 10th place last Thursday has already soared to #4 on Tuesday. Much better hold for Inside Out today. While every other holdover in the top 10 improved their hold by 2.5-7% from Monday, Inside Out bettered its hold by nearly 20% showing how family oriented/young teens this film is.

Thursday schedules

Maze Runner: Scorch Trials gets 2-3 screens almost everywhere. Other new openers include Lady of the Dynasty, All You Need is Love and Boychoir. Lady of the Dynasty will get major showings in less tourist-y areas. All You Need is Love is getting picked up by MCL and by a few other theaters. Boychoir gets showings at all GH locations and a couple others.

Big major holdover winners this week (besides last week's winner) are A Tale of Three Cities, Love Detective and Inside Out. A Tale will get shown for another week at Broadway/AMC and about half of the other theater chains that showed this last week will show it again this week. Love Detective remains on pretty much every theater while Inside Out will see most theaters retain it for another week. Though Inside Out has performed poorly over the past week since school has begun, it is in its 8th week while the rest are in their 3rd or 4th week. Biggest losers include Pixels and Hitman: Agent 47 and Undercover Duet. Pixels is gone from UA and GH while Hitman will see its theater count drop by more than half. Undercover Duet remains strong at smaller scale theaters but UA will cut this in half on Thursday and MCL has axed this from 3 of its theaters.

PK will only add 1 theater on Thursday, the UA Airport IMAX. I'm unsure if any more UA theaters will pick this up at this point because the other 3 theaters with IMAX from last week have moved PK to their IMAX screen on Thursday and the Airport IMAX is only an extension of them. Perhaps this is a test run for the rest.

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Tuesday actuals

1. No Escape - $86,542/$975,709
2. Love Detective - $37,804/$392,950
3. PK - $23,659/$169,521
4. A Tale of Three Cities - $22,443/$253,713
5. Undercover Duet - $18,279/$759,919
6. Pixels - $15,815/$1,979,089
7. Inside Out - $14,532/$8,334,239
8. Hitman: Agent 47 - $9,658/$1,430,178

So PK came in 3rd on Tuesday. Amazing.

Friday schedules

Everest will begin showing this Friday in IMAX and a number of locations in 2D/3D. As a result, some holdovers have taken hits with showtimes on Friday. Due to Everest being shown in the IMAX screen, PK will be relegated to regular theaters during the times that Everest is showing in IMAX.

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Thursday adm.(so far)September 10
RankMovieLWTW% chg
1Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials--8,563--
2No Escape5,885673-88.6%
3Love Detective3,491590-83.1%
4PK1,408503-64.3%
5All You Need is Love--422--
6A Tale of Three Cities3,486305-91.3%
7Boychoir--294--
8Pixels3,669238-93.5%
9Lady of the Dynasty--213--
10Undercover Duet1,828188-89.7%
Maze Runner got off to a solid start. Terrible holds for all holdovers except for PK once again.

Inside Out5,34476-98.6%
And just like that, Inside Out became a dead zone in just 1 week.

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Post Re: HK 9/10 THU: Maze Runner 2 dominates; Everest out Friday
Maze Runner is a surprisingly strong franchise in HK. The first MR did even bigger numbers on OW/total than the entire Hunger Games series.

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The Maze Runner - HK$11,273,894 ($1,455,423 US)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - HK$10,739,421/$10,955,755 (including previews) ($1,386,424/$1,414,352 including previews)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - HK$9,695,195 ($1,251,618)
The Hunger Games - HK$5,593,710 ($722,129)

ThursdaySeptember 10
RankMovieLWTW% chg
1Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials--27,530--
2No Escape22,6463,497-84.6%
3Love Detective11,3052,273-79.9%
4PK2,9441,619-45.0%
5All You Need is Love--1,144--
6A Tale of Three Cities7,9521,038-86.9%
7Undercover Duet5,654789-86.0%
8Boychoir--779--
9Pixels9,711517-94.7%
10Inside Out13,185447-96.6%
Very strong opening for Maze Runner 2. Almost every holdover suffered due to the holiday last Thursday. PK was an exception, however, and held superbly, down just 45%. Soft openings for Boychoir and All You Need is Love.

Friday adm.(so far)September 11
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials--12,376--+44.5%
2Everest--1,439----
3No Escape2,7391,228-55.2%+82.5%
4PK436902+106.9%+79.3%
5Love Detective1,154730-36.7%+23.7%
6A Tale of Three Cities1,730560-67.6%+83.6%
7All You Need is Love--505--+19.7%
8Boychoir--395--+34.4%
9Pixels1,179288-75.6%+21.0%
10Lady of the Dynasty--267--+25.4%
Good for Maze Runner 2. Slow for Everest but I doubt people know about these special screenings with Maze Runner 2 going on right now. Mediocre for No Escape. Great for PK. Nice for Love Detective.
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Just more evidence why Hong Kong is NOT China.

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The Hundred Regiments Offensive earned an impressive $21.8 million this weekend including three days of preview screenings. In addition, the film made 30% of the total weekend box office on just 10% of China's screens. However, there's more to that number than meets the eye. To commemorate China's 70th anniversary of the Allied victory over Japan in World War II, the government is throwing a huge military parade in Beijing and giving its citizens a 3-day Victory Day Holiday next week. The release of Hundred Regiments, a state-sponsored war epic that retells a key battle between CCP and Japanese forces, is intended to coincide with the celebrations.

On Monday, netizens leaked a SARFT (State Administration of Radio, Film, and TV) directive ordering movie theater chains to use "any means necessary" to bring in a fixed amount of box office revenue for Hundred Regiments in order to "extend societal influence" and build "feelings of patriotism and national sentiment." To motivate them to complete their "mission", theater chains can keep 100% of the box office revenue instead of giving the usual 43% to the distribution company. The directive runs through September 4 when normal revenue sharing will return.


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The heads of two of China’s largest independent film companies took to social media this week to suggest that The Hundred Regiments Offensive “stole” box office from their own Chinese-made films.

“Where’s all the box office gone? Please keep those dirty hands away!” posted Wang Zhonglei, president of studio Huayi Brothers, whose romantic drama A Tale of Three Cities appeared to suffer after opening on the same day as The Hundred Regiments Offensive.

Bona Film Group chief executive Yu Dong, whose detective-themed thriller The Dead End also suffered in comparison with the homegrown blockbuster, wrote on WeChat: “We never steal others’ box office, so please don’t steal ours.”

His post was accompanied by a mock poster for The Dead End inviting followers to reveal examples of box-office fraud at their local cinemas.



Moviegoers post pictures of "fraudulent" tickets issued by theater chains. They bought tickets for the movie The Dead End but instead were given tickets marked for The Hundred Regiments Offensive. Staff at the box office stands had to hand-write the title The Dead End and cross out the title The Hundred Regiments Offensive on the tickets.
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Thursday actual

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials - HK$2,574,528 (US$332,717)

Fox HK reports that Maze Runner 2 opened 50% higher than the first Maze Runner and that it is the highest grossing opening day for a foreign film in September. With that number, 2m should be happening this weekend.

Saturday schedules

Maze Runner 2 is getting upgraded to 3 or 4 screens. Palace APM will show this 23 times on Saturday while an independent theater will give this 37 showings on Saturday.

Everest will get special sneaks this weekend.

Last week's winner, No Escape, will be getting a mixed bag this weekend. Some will upgrade while some will downgrade.

Love Detective will add showtimes this weekend while Inside Out is all over the place this weekend. UA will cut it while Broadway/AMC will go full throttle. One theater is even scheduling Inside Out with 5 showtimes this weekend.

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Thursday ActualsSeptember 10
LWTWMovieLast Thu. (USD)Thursday (USD)% chgTheatersDaysTotal
--1Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials--$332,717--411$332,717
12No Escape$238,550$37,168-84.4%308$1,081,401
33Love Detective$108,919$22,096-79.7%338$448,399
104PK$34,037$18,886-44.5%68$208,946
--5All You Need is Love--$11,121--251$11,121
56A Tale of Three Cities$74,571$9,821-86.8%218$280,941
67Undercover Duet$63,916$8,999-85.9%1715$789,555
--8Boychoir--$8,986--111$8,986
49Pixels$87,234$4,690-94.6%--22$2,003,719
210Inside Out$130,420$4,577-96.5%2750$8,389,165
Note: The reported opening day for Maze Runner 2 was under by nearly $300,000 HK so I used the figure reported by FOX HK instead.

In a nutshell: Great for Maze Runner 2 and PK. Pretty bad for everything else.

Saturday schedules update

PK gains an extra theater in Citygate this weekend. Maze Runner 2 has its showtime count increased by the showtimes that were held back.

FridaySeptember 11
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials--33,520--+21.8%
2No Escape12,1984,967-59.3%+42.0%
3Everest--3,277----
4Love Detective5,1162,657-48.1%+16.9%
5PK1,4482,352+62.4%+45.3%
6All You Need is Love--1,477--+29.1%
7A Tale of Three Cities4,3821,403-68.0%+35.2%
8Boychoir--1,067--+37.0%
9Pixels2,947608-79.4%+17.6%
10Inside Out2,734551-79.8%+23.3%
Excellent for Maze Runner 2. Mediocre hold for No Escape. Very slow for Everest. Ok hold for Love Detective. Incredible for PK. Not good for All You Need is Love or Boychoir. Bad holds for Three Cities, Pixels and Inside Out.

Saturday adm.(so far)September 12
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials--22,854--+84.7%
2Everest--2,317--+61.0%
3PK1,2432,028+63.2%+124.8%
4No Escape4,7341,832-61.3%+49.2%
5Love Detective1,9511,005-48.5%+37.7%
6All You Need is Love--778--+54.1%
7Inside Out1,780760-57.3%--
8Boychoir--669--+69.4%
9A Tale of Three Cities1,971642-67.4%+14.6%
10Lady of the Dynasty--342--+28.1%
10Hero 20151,399342-75.6%--
Superb increase for Maze Runner 2. Weak for Everest. This is not good news for next weekend. Outstanding for PK. This will increase from last weekend. Meh for No Escape. Average for Love Detective. All You Need is Love had an OK increase. Not a good hold for Inside Out but it does have the distinction of having the best increase of the top 10 with a 300% push.

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Post Re: HK 9/11 FRI: MR2 huge; Everest scales low heights; PK up
Saturday admissions will not be posted due to wmoov being down for the morning and most of the afternoon. Currently, Maze Runner 2 stands at just 38,000 admissions at 5 PM when it should be over 50,000. All the holdovers except PK are down significantly from last weekend which should not be the case.

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Sunday adm.(so far)September 13
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials--23,965--+4.9%
2Everest--2,348--+1.3%
3PK1,7182,311+34.5%+14.0%
4No Escape4,8352,197-54.6%+19.9%
5Love Detective2,2341,168-47.7%+16.2%
6All You Need is Love--1,100--+41.4%
7Inside Out2,048897-56.2%+18.0%
8Boychoir--870--+30.0%
9A Tale of Three Cities1,939760-60.8%+18.4%
10Lady of the Dynasty--416--+21.6%
Wonderful for Maze Runner 2. Weak for Everest. Outstanding for PK. Mediocre for No Escape. Love Detective did alright.

Weekend ProjectionsSeptember 10
RankMovieTW% chgTotal
1Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials$2,110,000$2,110,000
2No Escape$285,000-63.6%$1,330,000
3Love Detective$140,000-65.9%$565,000
4Everest$135,000$135,000
5PK$133,000+7.8%$323,000
Note: Due to the complexity of this week, estimates may vary greatly from projections.

Maze Runner 2 claims biggest September opening weekend ever. It also is the first film to make over 2m OW in September. No Escape/Love Detective had bad 2nd weekend holds. Everest had very slow sales this weekend. Incredible for PK to rise on its 2nd weekend with huge competition and the holiday last weekend.

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SundaySeptember 13
RankMovieLWTWWKD % chgQD % chg
1Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials--55,658----
2No Escape18,3157,230-60.5%--
3Everest--5,593----
4PK3,4364,395+27.9%--
5Love Detective7,6993,706-51.9%--
6Inside Out6,2792,786-55.6%--
7All You Need is Love--2,494----
8Boychoir--1,777----
9A Tale of Three Cities4,3781,463-66.6%--
10Pixels4,921897-81.8%--
Outstanding for Maze Runner 2. Big drop for No Escape even with gigantic competition. Everest sneaks did not do great. Impressive for PK. Love Detective did OK. Not bad for Inside Out despite losing theaters or some theaters reducing showtimes on Sunday.

Weekend EstimatesSeptember 10
RankMovieTW% chgTotal
1Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials$2,110,000$2,110,000
2No Escape$257,000-67.2%$1,302,000
3PK$147,000+19.2%$337,000
4Everest$145,000$145,000
5Love Detective$130,000-59.0%$555,000
Maze Runner 2 has the biggest September weekend on record and is likely the only film to make 2m on OW in September pending actuals. No Escape got crushed by Maze Runner 2. Of course, no holidays this weekend did not help either. It's still a very good total though considering it has only banked 24m in 3 weeks domestically. #3 and #4 will be very close but the nod was given to PK who rose from opening weekend. PK added 2 theaters this week, one on Thursday and one on Saturday so the potential is there for the rest of the theaters from UA to add this in the coming weeks. PK's run is only just beginning. I'll be shocked if this does not pass 1m. 2m is likely IMO. Everest had a poor outing with sneak previews. 3 days of sneaks and it could only muster $145,000 despite 3D premium charge. Next week will be interesting to watch. Love Detective held up alright with no direct competition this week.

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