Thursday schedules

Broadway/AMC

Palace APM
New	Holdovers	Leaving
The Martian 3D - 13 showings	The Intern - 7 showings (▼ 9)	The Beauty Inside
The Martian - 1 showing	Office - 7 showings (=)	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Hotel Transylvania 2 (Can.) - 3 showings	Everest - 1 showing (▼ 7)	American Ultra
The Transporter Refueled - 2 showings		Attack on Titan: End of the World
Veteran - 1 showing		Love Detective

Note: all holdover showtimes in parentheses are from Tuesday for B/AMC only

The Martian will start with 2-3 screens on Broadway/AMC. Pre-sales are a little underwhelming at the moment. Hotel Transylvania 2 will enter with half day showtimes. Pre-sales look OK but most will show only 2D for Hotel T 2 as opposed to 3D for The Martian.

Holdovers aside from Intern and Office will get heavily cut this week. Intern gets 1 screen (3rd biggest). Office is left on the 4th biggest screen.

Cityplaza
New	Holdovers	Leaving
The Martian 3D - 7 showings	The Intern - 5 showings (▼ 7)	Office
Hotel Transylvania 2 (3D Can.) - 1 showing	The Beauty Inside - 2 showings (▼ 5)	Northern Limit Line
Hotel Transylvania 2 (Can.) - 1 showing	Everest - 2 showings (▼ 6)	Attack on Titan: End of the World
Hotel Transylvania 2 (Eng.) - 1 showing	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials - 2 showings (▼ 4)	Everest 3D
Veteran - 3 showings	PK - 3 showings (▼ 4)
Dark Places - 3 showings

Martian will only get 1 screen at UA. Hotel T gets 2 or 3 showtimes. Dark Places will be booked in almost every UA theater on 3 showtimes. Veteran/Transporter Refueled gets a few theaters but with 2-3 showtimes at each location.

Intern remains on 1 screen. Office will leave a few UA theaters on Thursday. PK goes back into IMAX theaters but with only 2-3 showtimes.
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The Walk will have special screenings starting on Saturday. Sicario previews begin on October 1.

Now let's see how The Martian is doing...

Festival Walk
	The Martian 3D					The Martian
Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled	Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled
Oct. 1	10:45 AM	43	156	27.56%	Oct. 1	8:30 AM	91	354	25.71%
	11:10 AM	188	354	53.11%		10:30 PM	8	144	5.56%
	12:10 PM	7	138	5.07%
	1:20 PM	7	156	4.49%
	1:50 PM	38	354	10.73%
	2:45 PM	16	144	11.11%
	3:55 PM	13	156	8.33%
	4:30 PM	41	354	11.58%
	5:20 PM	6	144	4.17%
	6:30 PM	5	156	3.21%
	7:10 PM	42	354	11.86%
	7:55 PM	12	144	8.33%
	9:05 PM	7	156	4.49%
	9:50 PM	28	354	7.91%
Total		453	3120	14.52%	Total		99	498	19.88%

A little slow considering it's a holiday but almost all of its showtimes are 3D so they will take more time to fill up.

	Wednesday adm.	(so far)			September 30
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Martian	--	4,005	--	--
2	The Intern	--	3,733	--	--
3	Everest	--	3,566	--	--
4	Office	--	1,220	--	--
5	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	--	743	--	--
6	PK	--	559	--	--
7	Attack on Titan: End of the World	--	359	--	--
8	The Beauty Inside	--	334	--	--
9	Hotel Transylvania 2	--	246	--	--
10	Irrational Man	--	183	--	--

Good start for The Martian. Based solely on these, I think it could get up to 50,000 admissions on Thursday. It still has a long way to go. I think it could potentially secure around 15,000 admissions if walk-ins are really brisk. 12,000 admissions should be its ballpark figure for today. Great for The Intern. Decent for Everest. Weak for Office. Maze Runner 2 is being rushed out quite quickly. Very good for PK. That looks terrible for Hotel Transylvania 2.

		Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun)							Sept. 21-27
LW	TW	Title	Last Week (HKD)	This Week (HKD)	Days in release	% chg	Total (HKD)	This Week (USD)	Total (USD)
2	1	Everest	$6,085,953	$5,738,612	11	-5.7%	$12,889,806	$742,126	$1,666,929
--	2	The Intern	--	$5,546,801	4	--	$5,546,801	$717,320	$717,320
1	3	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	$10,469,702	$4,325,466	18	-58.7%	$29,714,200	$559,375	$3,842,686
--	4	Office	--	$2,530,642	4	--	$2,530,642	$327,266	$327,266
3	5	Attack on Titan: End of the World	$1,625,666	$1,687,620	9	+3.8%	$3,313,286	$218,245	$428,479
5	6	PK	$1,229,324	$1,021,404	25	-16.9%	$4,325,157	$132,089	$559,335
4	7	No Escape	$1,501,067	$628,196	25	-58.2%	$10,980,781	$81,239	$1,420,051
--	8	Hotel Transylvania 2	--	$627,854	0	--	$627,854	$81,195	$81,195
--	9	Irrational Man	--	$288,201	4	--	$288,201	$37,270	$37,270
--	10	The Beauty Inside	--	$274,895	4	--	$322,298	$35,549	$35,549

Note: These figures do not include the Monday holiday.

Maze Runner 2 will pass 4m very soon. Everest will push for 2m this weekend. Intern seems headed for at least 2.5m with a chance at 3m. Dreadful for Attack on Titan 2. Its increase over last weekend's 2 day opening took 7 days. PK is slowly but surely on its way to 1m. Hotel Transylvania 2 is looking pretty good at the moment. It's looking like its 3-day (SSM) previews passed $150,000.

Others:

Inside Out passed 8.5m. Mission Impossible 5 has raked in 6.845m.

	Wednesday adm.				September 30
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Intern	--	14,513	--	--
2	The Martian	--	11,709	--	--
3	Everest	--	7,199	--	--
4	Office	--	4,218	--	--
5	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	--	3,183	--	--
6	PK	--	1,639	--	--
7	The Beauty Inside	--	956	--	--
8	Attack on Titan: End of the World	--	877	--	--
9	Dark Places	--	766	--	--
10	Irrational Man	--	635	--	--
11	Hotel Transylvania 2	--	379	--	--

Intern is doing really well. The Martian did alright.

	Thursday adm.	(so far)		October 1
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	The Martian	--	23,265	--
2	The Intern	1,797	11,348	+531.5%
3	Hotel Transylvania 2	--	9,713	--
4	Everest	3,186	3,595	+12.8%
5	Office	2,226	1,799	-19.2%
6	Dark Places	--	1,789	--
7	PK	380	1,673	+340.3%
8	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	1,262	1,434	+13.6%
9	The Transporter Refueled	--	705	--
10	Attack on Titan: End of the World	524	432	-17.6%

Awesome for The Martian. 50,000 is in the works for today. Very strong for The Intern. It and PK were the only 2 holdovers to beat last Thursday's final admissions with just its pre-sales. Good start for Hotel Transylvania 2. It's entirely possible that HT2's opening day beats HT's opening weekend. Whether HT2's opening weekend beats HT's final gross is a bit tougher. It will depend on walk-ins. OK for Everest. Bad for Office. Eh for Dark Places. Not good for Maze Runner 2. On the bright side, it looks like it will pass MR's final gross in a few days. Awful for Transporter Refueled/Attack on Titan 2.

One last look for The Martian @ Festival Walk

Festival Walk
	The Martian 3D					The Martian
Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled	Day	Time	Seats sold	Seats available	% filled
Oct. 1	10:45 AM	117	156	75.00%	Oct. 1	8:30 AM	217	354	61.30%
	11:10 AM	276	354	77.97%		10:30 PM	18	144	12.50%
	12:10 PM	37	138	26.81%
	1:20 PM	36	156	23.08%
	1:50 PM	129	354	36.44%
	2:45 PM	56	144	38.89%
	3:55 PM	35	156	22.44%
	4:30 PM	112	354	31.64%
	5:20 PM	35	144	24.31%
	6:30 PM	12	156	7.69%
	7:10 PM	75	354	21.19%
	7:55 PM	30	144	20.83%
	9:05 PM	19	156	12.18%
	9:50 PM	37	354	10.45%
Total		1006	3120	32.24%	Total		235	498	47.19%

Much better for The Martian. I wonder if this could even hit 60,000 admissions today.

3 PM Update: The Martian is closing in on 45,000 admissions. Early reception is very positive with an average user rating of 4.7/5. Intern is also scoring big time with over 22,000 admissions so far on Thursday.

	Thursday			October 1
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	The Martian	--	53,128	--
2	The Intern	7,565	27,876	+268.5%
3	Hotel Transylvania 2	--	14,968	--
4	Everest	6,767	6,974	+3.1%
5	Office	6,278	4,737	-24.5%
6	Dark Places	--	4,731	--
7	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	4,349	3,443	-20.8%
8	PK	1,142	3,244	+184.1%
9	The Transporter Refueled	--	2,244	--
10	Attack on Titan: End of the World	2,144	1,184	-44.8%

Martian is certainly not lost. It will be aiming for 2m this week. Reviews are on the strong side with opening day reviews coming in at an average of 4.5/5. Intern is tearing it up. 3m is locked and 4m is possible. Not bad for Hotel Transylvania 2. It will at least double Hotel Transylvania's OW but reviews are not great at the moment with only a 3.7/5 to show for on opening day. OK for Everest. At least it increased but Office/Maze Runner 2 and Attack on Titan 2 did terribly. Attack on Titan 2 did so bad that 4 Broadway/AMC theaters are dropping this on Friday after Thursday's letdown. Meh for Dark Places. Great for PK. Transporter Refueled stunk.

Thursday estimates

1. The Martian - $721,907/$941,058
2. The Intern - $257,824/$1,469,597
3. Hotel Transylvania 2 - $167,585/$322,280

	Friday adm.	(so far)			October 2
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Martian	--	7,522	--	-67.7%
2	The Intern	3,967	5,391	+35.9%	-52.5%
3	Everest	4,289	2,073	-51.7%	-42.3%
4	Hotel Transylvania 2	--	1,689	--	-82.6%
5	Office	2,839	846	-70.2%	-53.0%
6	Dark Places	--	620	--	-65.3%
7	PK	579	517	-10.7%	-69.1%
8	The Transporter Refueled	--	473	--	-32.9%
9	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	2,014	328	-83.7%	-77.1%
10	Attack on Titan: End of the World	944	325	-65.6%	-24.8%

Very good for The Martian. Strong for The Intern. Decent for Everest. Ouch for Hotel T 2. Terrible for Office. Incredible for PK.

Thursday actual
FOX HK reports that The Martian made $779,918 in HK/Macau on opening day.

Highlights

- 9th biggest opening day of all time
- biggest opening day for FOX
- 2nd highest non-sequel opening day behind The Avengers
- 2nd highest opening day of 2015 behind The Avengers 2
- Matt Damon's highest grossing opening day ever
- Ridley Scott's highest opening day ever
- 2.2x higher than opening day of Avatar
- 3.3x higher than opening day of Interstellar
- 3.6x higher than opening day of Life of Pi
- 5.5x higher than opening day of Gravity

	Top 10 Opening Days
Rank	Movie	US Gross	HK Gross
1	Avengers: Age of Ultron 3D	$1,242,606	$9,611,044
2	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	$1,233,114	$9,560,768
3	Spider-Man 3	$974,580	$7,556,265
4	Transformers: Age of Extinction	$973,956	$7,550,000
5	Pirates of the Caribbean 3	$869,176	$6,800,000
6	Iron Man 3	$851,192	$6,614,837
7	Harry Potter 7-2	$821,324	$6,368,018
8	The Avengers	$779,647	$6,044,881
9	The Martian*	$750,000	$5,817,917
10	Transformers 3	$741,998	$5,752,975

* - Estimate Only

Since The Avengers only made 6.04m HKD, The Martian is estimated to be around 5.8m HKD.

	Friday				October 2
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Martian	--	24,990	--	-53.0%
2	The Intern	13,465	16,573	+23.1%	-40.5%
3	Hotel Transylvania 2	--	4,929	--	-67.1%
4	Everest	9,538	4,036	-57.7%	-42.1%
5	Office	7,540	2,735	-63.7%	-42.3%
6	Dark Places	--	2,269	--	-52.0%
7	The Transporter Refueled	--	1,652	--	-26.4%
8	PK	1,317	1,434	+8.9%	-55.8%
9	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	5,954	1,417	-76.2%	-58.8%
10	Attack on Titan: End of the World	2,770	693	-75.0%	-41.5%

Very good for The Martian. 2-day estimate stands at 1.1m. Excellent for The Intern. Better than expected for Hotel Transylvania 2. Both Everest and Office are done. This is the beginning of the end for them. Weekend holds will be bigger to accommodate Martian/Intern/Hotel Transylvania 2 business + special screenings of The Walk/Our Times/Sicario/Southpaw, etc. Dark Places did not do great on Friday. Transporter Refueled had the best decline on Friday of the top 10 but it started at such a low level on Thursday that even being flat would not turn around what will happen to it next week. It's one and done. Marvelous for PK. Horrible for Maze Runner 2/Attack on Titan 2.

	Saturday adm.	(so far)			October 3
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	The Martian	--	16,566	--	+120.2%
2	The Intern	7,532	8,820	+17.1%	+63.6%
3	Hotel Transylvania 2	901	4,190	+365.0%	+148.1%
4	Everest	6,568	2,272	-65.4%	+9.6%
5	Our Times	1,164	2,008	+72.5%	--
6	PK	1,381	1,118	-19.0%	+116.2%
7	Office	3,576	970	-72.9%	+14.7%
8	Dark Places	--	932	--	+50.3%
9	The Walk	--	811	--	--
10	The Transporter Refueled	--	793	--	+67.7%

Superb increase for The Martian. Very good for The Intern. I anticipated more in pre-sales for Hotel Transylvania 2. Maybe it'll double its Saturday pre-sales on Sunday. Bad for Everest. Strong sneak previews for Our Times. Could this pull another Apple of My Eye on October 15? It has increased in admissions every weekend since previews began. Great for PK. Office is turning into a disaster. Not good for Dark Places. The Walk is taking things very slowly. It looks like there is not much interest. Transporter Refueled was the only film to increase from Thursday's pre-sales. Still a flop though.

By the way, 10 different films are having sneak peeks this weekend. Ridiculous.

A tropical storm is threatening HK this weekend. Admissions may be suppressed or inflated depending on the timing, proximity to HK and strength of the storm.

Stupid move to have scheduled two female-oriented films (The Intern and Office) on the same weekend.

October 9 (Friday)

Top 10 Admissions:
1. The Martian 15,757
2. The Intern 10,123
3. (NEW) The Walk 6,818
4. (NEW) Pan 6,252
5. (NEW) Saving Mr. Wu (China) 2,563
6. Hotel Transylvania 2 1,725
7. PK (India) 1,114
8. (NEW) Get Outta Here (HK) 978
9. Everest 333
10. Office (HK/China) 307

None of the openers managed a per-showing-average of 40. The Martian was down 37% week-to-week. The Intern had the best PSA of the top 10 at over 70.


A Jolly Roger model is on display in a commercial district on Hong Kong Island. (Photo: HKFilm Blog)

	Thursday adm.	(so far)		November 5
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Spectre	--	13,119	--
2	Our Times	--	1,773	--
3	She Remembers, He Forgets	--	931	--
4	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	--	710	--
5	Bridge of Spies	--	309	--
6	Mountains May Depart	--	233	--
7	Are You Here	--	153	--
8	Mr. Holmes	--	136	--
9	Wong Ka Yan	--	94	--
10	The Intern	--	91	--

Not a bad start for Spectre. It is slightly below Mission Impossible 5's opening day pre-sales and off 20% from Skyfall's opening day pre-sales. The running time is 5 minutes longer than Skyfall's which plays a big role when it comes to scheduling and of course pre-selling. Friday will be stronger than Skyfall's opening Friday. Our Times is doing well but those that were expecting round 2 of You Are the Apple of My Eye will be disappointed. You Are the Apple of My Eye's run was a once in a lifetime performance that will be extremely hard to replicate. Regardless, things are not looking up for Our Times this weekend as Spectre will take away screens from it on Saturday/Sunday.

		Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun)							Oct 26-Nov 1
LW	TW	Title	Last Week (HKD)	This Week (HKD)	Days in release	% chg	Total (HKD)	This Week (USD)	Total (USD)
1	1	Our Times	$12,441,392	$9,702,189	18	-22.0%	$30,412,856	$1,245,692	$3,904,796
2	2	Bridge of Spies	$3,304,540	$3,375,063	11	+2.1%	$6,679,603	$433,334	$857,613
--	3	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	--	$2,584,166	4	--	$2,584,166	$331,788	$331,788
6	4	Goosebumps	$2,576,883	$2,352,387	11	-8.7%	$4,929,270	$302,029	$632,883
4	5	The Last Witch Hunter	$2,968,526	$1,687,620	11	-43.1%	$5,009,864	$216,678	$643,231
5	6	The Intern	$2,578,885	$1,150,678	39	-55.4%	$28,833,375	$147,738	$3,702,002
3	7	The Martian	$3,121,342	$1,131,091	32	-63.8%	$41,846,647	$145,224	$5,372,814
--	8	Are You Here	--	$966,051	4	--	$1,032,427	$124,034	$132,556
--	9	Black Mass	--	$735,326	4	--	$735,326	$94,410	$94,410
10	10	Mr. Holmes	$733,306	$721,899	11	-1.6%	$1,563,581	$92,686	$200,752

Very good for Our Times. It obviously won't come close to You Are the Apple of My Eye but 5m will most likely happen. Bridge of Spies is doing well. HK had the best 2nd weekend hold of its current top 10 leaders last weekend. OK hold for Goosebumps. Poor for The Last Witch Hunter. Intern and Martian are both fading but both have amassed strong totals to date. HK is a top ten market with The Intern coming in at #9 ahead of France, Italy and Brazil and within 1m of UK, Russia and Germany. HK slides in at #11 with The Martian out of nearly 60 territories so it is pulling its worth here. Are You Here and Black Mass were both rejected and Mr. Holmes held nicely.

	Thursday			November 5
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Spectre	--	28,987	--
2	Our Times	--	6,500	--
3	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	--	4,627	--
4	She Remembers, He Forgets	--	3,453	--
5	Bridge of Spies	--	1,090	--
6	Are You Here	--	767	--
7	Goosebumps	--	468	--
8	Wong Ka Yan	--	466	--
9	Mr. Holmes	--	454	--
10	Mountains May Depart	--	429	--

Spectre opening day adm. % change from Skyfall's opening day adm.: -27.8%

While that drop is somewhat concerning, two factors have to be acknowledged before analyzing that number. First is the surcharge that has been added on in 3 years time and the longer running time. For Spectre, it is more expensive for a ticket than Skyfall's and the extra 5 minutes on Spectre decreases the number of showtimes from 6 to 5 without falling into unfavorable times (like before 9 AM) and less people will be willing to watch a longer movie on a weekday. With regard to OWs, Spectre will no doubt blow past Skyfall's 1.9m OW and secure 2m. 2.5m is very much possible as well. It could even defeat Mission Impossible 5's OW if its weekend showings sell out. Our Times seemed to hold up OK. Scouts Guide looks like it had a good hold. Not a good opening for She Remembers, He Forgets. Bridge of Spies was held back by Spectre. In my opinion, it should have gotten rid of the word 'Spies' in the title. Bad for Are You Here. #7-#11 are separated by less than 50 admissions.

	Friday adm.	(so far)			November 6
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Spectre	--	18,332	--	+39.7%
2	Our Times	--	3,704	--	+108.9%
3	She Remembers, He Forgets	--	1,750	--	+88.0%
4	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	--	994	--	+40.0%
5	Bridge of Spies	--	720	--	+133.0%
6	Mountains May Depart	--	215	--	-7.7%
7	Are You Here	--	211	--	+37.9%
8	Wong Ka Yan	--	123	--	+30.9%
9	The Intern	--	113	--	+24.2%
10	Mr. Holmes	--	107	--	-21.3%
10	Goosebumps	--	107	--	--

I anticipated a much stronger increase for Spectre than that. Solid increases for Our Times, She Remembers and Bridge of Spies. Decent for Scouts.

Thursday estimate

Spectre opening day - $410,857 +19.4% Skyfall's OD

This number guarantees a 2m opening and a OW above Skyfall's. It is tracking slightly behind MI5's OW and is on pace for 2.4-2.5m this weekend.

	Friday				November 6
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Spectre	--	36,596	--	+26.2%
2	Our Times	--	10,135	--	+55.9%
3	She Remembers, He Forgets	--	5,664	--	+64.0%
4	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	--	5,233	--	+13.1%
5	Bridge of Spies	--	1,807	--	+65.8%
6	Are You Here	--	809	--	+5.5%
7	Goosebumps	--	644	--	+37.6%
8	Mountains May Depart	--	517	--	+20.5%
9	Mr. Holmes	--	454	--	+0.0%
10	The Intern	--	442	--	+4.7%

Alright increase for Spectre. Good increases for Our Times and She Remembers.

	Daily admissions (OW)
	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Total
Mission Impossible 5	37,112	42,153	67,950	69,364	216,579
Spectre	28,987	36,596			65,583
Gap	-8,125	-13,682	-81,632	-150,996

Spectre is trailing MI5 but it bridged the gap on Friday losing by 6,000 adm. from 9,000 on Thursday. Spectre will lose by quite a margin on Saturday and Sunday.

	Saturday adm.	(so far)			November 7
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Spectre	--	29,965	--	+63.5%
2	Our Times	--	4,925	--	+33.0%
3	She Remembers, He Forgets	--	2,815	--	+60.9%
4	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	--	1,365	--	+37.3%
5	Bridge of Spies	--	1,069	--	+48.5%
6	Mr. Holmes	--	453	--	+323.4%
7	Goosebumps	--	409	--	+282.2%
8	Are You Here	--	359	--	+70.1%
9	The Intern	--	301	--	+166.4%
10	Flying Colors	--	208	--	--

Strong increase for Spectre. I see it possibly taking in 56,000-57,000 admissions today. Weaker increase for Our Times due to Spectre's dominance. Good increase for She Remembers.

		Thursday Actuals						November 5
LW	TW	Movie	Last Thu. (USD)	Thursday (USD)	% chg	Theaters	Days	Total
--	1	Spectre	--	$442,630	--	44	1	$442,630
--	2	Our Times	--	$73,536	--	38	22	$4,293,523
--	3	She Remembers, He Forgets	--	$45,154	--	40	1	$49,024
--	4	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	--	$43,864	--	26	8	$557,332
--	5	Bridge of Spies	--	$10,191	--	26	15	$958,560
--	6	Are You Here	--	$10,062	--	14	8	$194,808
--	7	Wong Ka Yan	--	$4,515	--	6	15	$184,487
--	8	Goosebumps	--	$4,128	--	14	15	$687,634
--	9	Mr. Holmes	--	$3,870	--	9	15	$228,351
--	10	The Intern	--	$2,580	--	11	43	$3,752,962

Fantastic for Spectre. It is the biggest opening day of the James Bond franchise. Our Times is doing quite well. She Remembers, He Forgets won in gross over Scouts Guide which had a 1,200 victory in admissions. Bridge of Spies will pass 1m this weekend.

	Saturday				November 7
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Spectre	--	59,120	--	+61.5%
2	Our Times	--	15,216	--	+50.1%
3	She Remembers, He Forgets	--	9,328	--	+64.7%
4	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	--	7,452	--	+42.4%
5	Bridge of Spies	--	2,922	--	+61.7%
6	Are You Here	--	1,487	--	+83.8%
7	Goosebumps	--	1,431	--	+122.2%
8	Mr. Holmes	--	1,228	--	+170.5%
9	The Intern	--	759	--	+71.7%
10	Wong Ka Yan	--	579	--	+50.8%

Very good Saturday for Spectre despite mixed reviews coming in. There were a ton of sellouts in the business district and tourist areas. Decent for Our Times. Good for She Remembers.

	Sunday adm.	(so far)			November 8
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Spectre	--	31,160	--	+4.0%
2	Our Times	--	4,936	--	+0.2%
3	She Remembers, He Forgets	--	3,325	--	+18.1%
4	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	--	1,728	--	+26.6%
5	Bridge of Spies	--	1,231	--	+15.2%
6	Goosebumps	--	588	--	+43.8%
7	Mr. Holmes	--	510	--	+12.6%
8	Flying Colors	--	334	--	+60.6%
9	The Intern	--	329	--	+9.3%
10	The Last Witch Hunter	--	233	--	--

Really good for Spectre. Our Times is slowing down a little. Solid for She Remembers.

Including Saturday's admissions, Spectre is heading toward a 2.7m OW, beating MI5's OW and +42% above Skyfall's OW.
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In less than 2 weeks time, the final chapter of The Hunger Games hones in on HK with a twist. This time, HK will show the film in 3D which will most likely be a huge blessing for the series. It will take down the OW in the franchise for sure. That much is certain.

	Sunday				November 8
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Spectre	--	55,748	--	-5.7%
2	Our Times	--	13,869	--	-8.9%
3	She Remembers, He Forgets	--	8,560	--	-8.2%
4	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	--	7,355	--	-1.3%
5	Bridge of Spies	--	2,866	--	-1.9%
6	Goosebumps	--	1,786	--	+24.8%
7	Mr. Holmes	--	1,140	--	-7.2%
8	Are You Here	--	1,091	--	-26.6%
9	The Intern	--	897	--	+18.2%
10	Flying Colors	--	649	--	--

Decent daily hold for Spectre. Our Times was hit harder than usual by Spectre's influence this weekend.

	Weekend adm.			Nov 5-8
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Spectre	--	180,451	--
2	Our Times	--	45,720	--
3	She Remembers, He Forgets	--	27,005	--
4	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	--	24,667	--
5	Bridge of Spies	--	8,685	--
6	Goosebumps	--	4,329	--
7	Are You Here	--	4,154	--
8	Mr. Holmes	--	3,276	--
9	The Intern	--	2,520	--
10	Mountains May Depart	--	2,087	--

Nothing worthy of noting except that Goosebump's Sunday admissions boosted its weekend admissions so much that it wiped out the deficit from Are You Here's admissions to claim 6th place this week in admissions.

	Daily admissions (OW)
	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Total
Mission Impossible 5	37,112	42,153	67,950	69,364	216,579
Spectre	28,987	36,596	59,120	55,748	180,451
Gap	-8,125	-13,682	-22,512	-36,128

Saturday held up a little better than I expected but Sunday's was always going to be weaker with the long running time.

	Weekend Estimates			November 5
Rank	Movie	TW	% chg	Total
1	Spectre	$2,675,000		$2,675,000
2	Our Times	$515,000	-41.8%	$4,735,000
3	She Remembers, He Forgets	$350,000		$354,000
4	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	$230,000	-30.7%	$743,000
5	Bridge of Spies	$81,000	-73.6%	$1,029,000

Excellent start for Bond. We'll need actuals to see if it is victorious over MI5 but it is current up 42% from Skyfall's actual. Our Times had a solid hold despite mammoth competition. Word of mouth has carried it so far and it will surpass 5m next week. Not a bad weekend for She Remembers but nothing particularly memorable about it either. Great hold for Scouts Guide. Bridge of Spies was knocked down for obvious reasons. It did pass 1m this weekend though.

Spectre outlook: 5m is a lock and 6m should happen even with average word of mouth here. If it can achieve Skyfall's multiplier, then it will bank 7.25m.

	Thursday adm.	(so far)		November 12
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Spectre	13,119	3,998	-69.5%
2	Our Times	1,773	964	-45.6%
3	She Remembers, He Forgets	931	730	-21.6%
4	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	710	347	-51.1%
5	Knock Knock	--	297	--
6	Suffragette	--	187	--
7	Go Away Mr. Tumor	--	177	--
8	Bridge of Spies	309	141	-54.4%
9	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl	--	119	--
10	The Green Inferno	--	86	--

Return of the Cuckoo's admissions are missing.

	Thursday			November 12
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Spectre	28,987	11,568	-60.1%
2	Return of the Cuckoo	--	10,179	--
3	Our Times	6,500	4,002	-38.4%
4	She Remembers, He Forgets	3,453	3,290	-4.7%
5	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	4,627	2,590	-44.0%
6	Knock Knock	--	1,640	--
7	Bridge of Spies	1,090	647	-40.6%
8	Suffragette	--	550	--
9	Go Away Mr. Tumor	--	407	--
10	The Green Inferno	--	362	--

Ouch for Spectre. Strong opening for Return of the Cuckoo. It had half the showtimes of Spectre and was less than 1,500 away from its admissions. Decent for Our Times. Magnificent hold for She Remembers in spite of another local film opening this week. Scouts Guide held up alright. All new entries except for The Green Inferno did little damage. The Green Inferno did great with only 5 showtimes on Thursday. Bridge of Spies had a much better hold after last week's freefall.

	Daily admissions (OW)
	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Total
Skyfall	13,588	20,881	34,673	34,057	103,199
Spectre	11,568				11,568
Gap	-2,020	-22,901	-57,574	-91,631

Dismal 2nd Thursday admissions for Spectre. The movie is getting hammered by WOM now with only a rating of 3.3/5. 6m is out of reach now.

Dismal, really?? It's only 2,020 admissions down. It's still doing very I'd say CONSIDERING its bad WOM, lesser reviews, and general lack of buzz for a Bond film. To call it dismal, it would have to be doing worse than Quantum of Solace. Do you have this data?

		Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun)							Nov 2-8
LW	TW	Title	Last Week (HKD)	This Week (HKD)	Days in release	% chg	Total (HKD)	This Week (USD)	Total (USD)
--	1	Spectre	--	$17,596,657	4	--	$17,596,657	$2,270,481	$2,270,481
1	2	Our Times	$9,702,189	$6,057,828	25	-37.6%	$36,470,684	$781,636	$4,705,781
3	3	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	$2,584,166	$3,234,185	11	+25.2%	$5,818,351	$417,304	$750,736
--	4	She Remembers, He Forgets	--	$2,657,900	4	--	$2,657,900	$342,946	$342,946
2	5	Bridge of Spies	$3,375,063	$1,340,790	18	-60.3%	$8,020,393	$173,000	$1,034,864
8	6	Are You Here	$966,051	$782,275	11	-19.0%	$1,814,702	$100,936	$234,149
4	7	Goosebumps	$2,352,387	$667,082	18	-71.6%	$5,596,352	$86,073	$722,092
5	8	The Last Witch Hunter	$1,687,620	$481,401	18	-71.5%	$5,491,265	$62,114	$708,533
6	9	The Intern	$1,150,678	$420,854	46	-63.4%	$29,254,229	$54,302	$3,774,648
10	10	Mr. Holmes	$721,899	$405,719	18	-43.8%	$1,969,300	$52,349	$254,097

Wow. That Thursday actual must have been way off base. Weird because that actual came from Sony themselves. Either that or Spectre was really inflated on Thursday. Anyway, it beat its predecessor by almost $400,000 on OW. The rest of the top 5 were pretty close to estimates. Our Times is doing well still. 5m will happen by this weekend. Scouts Guide is inching along to 1m. It will happen by next week. This might be the most random hit of the year. Zombie films and even horror films in general do not do well here. Even quasi horror films don't do all that well. In all of Scouts international territories that are playing this now, HK is outpacing Russia (WTF?) and opened higher than Australia. Decent opening for She Remembers.


Yes. It had a much bigger opening weekend than Skyfall and yet it's down 2,020 admissions from Skyfall which had to face Cold War on its 2nd weekend. Skyfall wasn't all that well received either but still managed to pull off a drop below 60% with more competition. Return of the Cuckoo will be lucky to even get half of Cold War's OW and Spectre might drop harder than Skyfall with less competition.

Lack of buzz? Really? If Bond had zero buzz, it would not have made 2m OW or beaten its predecessors OW for that matter.

Thursday estimates

1. Spectre - $141,932 (-67.9%/$2,967,670
2. Return of the Cuckoo - $116,126/$116,126
3. Our Times - $49,031 (-33.3%)/$4,903,107
4. She Remembers, He Forgets - $41,289 (-8.6%)/$516,116
5. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse - $864,495

Spectre is up 22% from Skyfall's 2nd Thursday actual and up less than $400,000 from Skyfall at this point in time. Its weekdays have been very poor and it managed to lose to Skyfall on Monday-Wednesday off of a stronger OW. Good opening for Return of the Cuckoo. Not bad for Our Times. It will break 5m by Saturday. She Remembers had an outstanding hold. Scouts Guide's road to 1m should occur by next week.

	Friday adm.	(so far)			November 13
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Spectre	18,332	7,854	-57.2%	+96.4%
2	Return of the Cuckoo	--	4,861	--	--
3	She Remembers, He Forgets	1,750	1,890	+8.0%	+158.9%
4	Our Times	3,704	1,777	-52.0%	+84.3%
5	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	994	496	-50.1%	+42.9%
6	Knock Knock	--	426	--	+43.4%
7	Suffragette	--	332	--	+77.5%
8	Bridge of Spies	720	317	-56.0%	+124.8%
9	Go Away Mr. Tumor	--	176	--	-0.6%
10	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl	--	142	--	+19.3%

Better for Spectre. Very nice for Return of the Cuckoo. Superb for She Remembers.

	Friday				November 13
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Spectre	36,596	18,747	-48.8%	+62.1%
2	Return of the Cuckoo	--	11,791	--	+15.8%
3	Our Times	10,135	5,885	-41.9%	+47.1%
4	She Remembers, He Forgets	5,664	5,510	-2.7%	+67.5%
5	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	5,233	3,320	-36.6%	+28.2%
6	Knock Knock	--	1,670	--	+1.8%
7	Bridge of Spies	1,807	967	-46.5%	+49.5%
8	Suffragette	--	867	--	+57.6%
9	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl	--	473	--	--
10	Go Away Mr. Tumor	--	459	--	+12.8%

Average for Spectre. 100,000 admissions this weekend is not happening. Opening day effect occurred for Return of the Cuckoo. User rating sits at a 3.9/5. Ok for Our Times. Excellent for She Remembers. Good hold for Scouts Guide. Disaster strikes for Knock Knock. It is getting slammed by users with only a 1.9/5 rating.
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 has been doing some early pre-selling at a handful of theaters. Admissions are slow due to the change to 3D with this movie. It'll be interesting to see how audiences react to this development. The franchise has never been strong on OW with Catching Fire delivering the biggest OW in the franchise with 1.38m. Perhaps this could be the one to push past 1.5m.

Good to see III-rated (or NC-17) Scouts Guide besting Black Mass, The Last Witch Hunt, and Goosebumps. It deserves the "Halloween movie of the year" title.

People really crave Taiwanese nostalgic coming-of-age romance Our Times . It has a 50/50 shot at taking over The Martian total gross of $5.8m. Not surprising as the film was made with Hong Kong audience in mind with its many Hong Kong cultural references.

Two similarly nostalgic local films Return of the Cuckoo and She Remembers, He Forgets also do well. Return of the Cuckoo is the film sequel to the highest rated tv drama in year 2000. The tv series was a sobbing love story set in Macau between a girl and her adopted brother (who is deaf). Reviews for the film so far have been poor. She Remembers, He Forgets is the sophomore effort by the director of 2013 surprise hit The Way We Dance. It is about the reunion of three schoolmates at an elite high school. The story of their youth is told in parallel with their reunion twenty years later. Lots of 90's nostalgia in play here.

	Saturday adm.	(so far)			November 14
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Spectre	29,965	12,837	-57.2%	+63.4%
2	Return of the Cuckoo	--	7,296	--	+50.1%
3	She Remembers, He Forgets	2,815	2,817	+0.1%	+49.0%
4	Our Times	4,925	2,503	-49.2%	+40.9%
5	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	1,365	779	-42.9%	+57.1%
6	Bridge of Spies	1,069	645	-39.7%	+103.5%
7	Knock Knock	--	529	--	+24.2%
8	Suffragette	--	466	--	+40.4%
9	Mr. Holmes	453	239	-47.2%	--
10	The Green Inferno	--	206	--	--

Bad for Spectre. Ok increase for Return of the Cuckoo. Great for She Remembers, He Forgets. Our Times should be holding a bit better than that.

	Saturday				November 14
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Spectre	59,120	31,863	-46.1%	+70.0%
2	Return of the Cuckoo	--	18,567	--	+57.5%
3	Our Times	15,216	9,680	-36.4%	+64.5%
4	She Remembers, He Forgets	9,328	9,590	+2.8%	+74.0%
5	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	7,452	4,876	-34.6%	+46.9%
6	Knock Knock	--	2,048	--	+22.6%
7	Bridge of Spies	2,922	1,715	-41.3%	+77.4%
8	Suffragette	--	1,267	--	+167.9%
9	The Green Inferno	--	811	--	+76.7%
10	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl	--	732	--	+90.6%

	Sunday adm.	(so far)			November 15
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Spectre	31,160	14,320	-54.0%	+11.6%
2	Return of the Cuckoo	--	8,129	--	+11.4%
3	She Remembers, He Forgets	3,325	2,827	-15.0%	+0.4%
4	Our Times	4,936	2,734	-44.6%	+9.2%
5	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	1,728	822	-52.4%	+5.5%
6	Bridge of Spies	1,231	733	-40.5%	+13.6%
7	Knock Knock	--	535	--	+1.1%
8	Suffragette	--	480	--	+3.0%
9	Mr. Holmes	510	294	-42.4%	+23.0%
10	Goosebumps	588	264	-55.1%	--

	Sunday				November 15
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Spectre	55,748	30,483	-45.3%	-4.3%
2	Return of the Cuckoo	--	19,098	--	+2.9%
3	Our Times	13,869	8,908	-35.8%	-8.0%
4	She Remembers, He Forgets	8,560	8,333	-2.7%	-13.1%
5	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	7,355	4,793	-34.8%	-1.7%
6	Knock Knock	--	1,810	--	-11.6%
7	Bridge of Spies	2,866	1,616	-43.6%	-5.8%
8	Suffragette	--	1,187	--	-6.3%
9	Goosebumps	1,786	806	-54.9%	--
10	The Green Inferno	--	802	--	-1.1%

	Weekend adm.			Nov 12-15
Rank	Movie	LW	TW	% chg
1	Spectre	180,451	92,661	-48.7%
2	Return of the Cuckoo	--	59,635	--
3	Our Times	45,720	28,475	-37.7%
4	She Remembers, He Forgets	27,005	26,723	-1.0%
5	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse	24,667	15,579	-36.8%
6	Knock Knock	--	7,168	--
7	Bridge of Spies	8,685	4,945	-43.1%
8	Suffragette	--	3,871	--

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The Hunger Games gets 2 screens. Spectre is left on 1 screen. Return of the Cuckoo gets 1 screen. She Remembers, He Forgets remains on 1 screen. Our Times is down to half a screen.