Inception had similar delay (July/August has historically been the local films protection months), and that didn't prevent it from grossing over 400m yuan, exceeding many of the original expectations.

Inception wasn't a sequel or franchise movie. Wouldn't that be an advantage when it comes to bootlegging? TDK was hugely bootlegged in China, supposedly one of the biggest ever. Everyone over there is waiting on the sequel and it comes out at least 2 months earlier overseas than it does in China. They will all see it long before it shows up in theaters.

Do you have any info on the box office for The Hunger Games, Xia?

I'm thinking the China BO for THG is about 12M so far. The OS gross for THG has increase by 12m in BOM.
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=m ... rgames.htm from 247M to 259M.

EDIT: 'The Hunger Games' opened to $9.8 million in China this weekend, which brings its overseas total to $258.9 million'

RFB, you are too negative about TDKR. I am sure it will do great in china. I was talking to my company folks in shanghai and I heard there is great excitement about TDKR. Plus the movie wiil be great to see in iMax. China is seeing explosion of iMax screens. No bootleg can replace seeing this one in big screen.

The films will both do okay but not the big crazy numbers as expected...

Considering TA got 90 million, we expected the same for TDKR and more for ASM.

The actual for the weekend is 65m yuan, or $10.2m.

From TASM official website: August 10

I think it was recently updated so that seems to be the official word for now.

Xia,
I keep hearing that TDKR and Spidey are opening on the same day. If that happens how big the weekend will be? I remember couple of local movies opened last year and both made around $100M.

Yeah, that was December of 2010 with Let the Bullets Fly and You Are Not the One 2, but they were actually released a week apart. I still don't think TDKR and TASM are opening on the same day, but will try to get the latest info.

Painted Skin 2 is off to a record-breaking start for domestic films, probably looking at a $50m opening 4 days.

Will Prometheus come out in China?

Doubt it will get approved.

Interesting. Because of the content? Or just because of the limited number of Western films allowed to be released every year?

More because of the content I'd say, but who knows, The Hunger Games did eventually get approved and released, and that was certainly a surprise.

Painted Skin 2 setting records in China can only mean 1 thing; major dud in HK.

So if a film does well in China it flops in HK..

If a film does well in HK it does well in China?

Most of the time. Nowadays I think the studio makes the decision to dub it into Putonghua for the Mainland audience whereas in HK they don't give a shit about a population of 7m people so HK'ers are stuck with the language it was made in.

lol the Chinese Professor ad is very uncomfortable but has some harsh truths for America.

The parts about scaring about the Chinese is silly, but frankly if one looks at America it does remind us of the Roman Empire. That empire stayed around for a while but never reached its peak after it started to face crisis in the third century.

I'm learning Mandarin so I can better serve my future masters.

Lets hope not.

I suspect The Expendables 2 will get a release, though

I'm also learning Mandarin, but because I live in China.

Top 12 Hollywood releases of the first half:

1. Titanic - 975m yuan ($154.6m)
2. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - 648m yuan ($102.7m)
3. The Avengers - 572m yuan ($90.5m)
4. MIB 3 - 506m yuan ($79.5m)
5. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - 364m yuan ($57.8m)
6. Battleship - 316m yuan ($50.1m)
7. John Carter - 261m yuan ($41.3m)
8. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - 184m yuan ($29.2m)
9. Wrath of the Titans - 165m yuan ($26.2m)
10. The Hunger Games - 164m yuan ($25.8m)
11. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - 161m yuan ($25.3m)
12. War Horse - 117m yuan ($18.5m)

http://www.boxofficefollower.net/2012/0 ... -half.html

Xiayun, how do you expect TDKR and TAS runs and total grosses