Typhoon in Japan – Less People in the Theaters

Just WOW ati

Just made for you joylitt

even the storm against AC : (

Another example of how poorly Fox planned the release of Alien Covenant: during typhoon season in Japan. Then the 2.6 million is quite something.

daliens

On what do you base your opinion. 2.6 corresponds roughly to 200k viewers (judging from the japanese average ticket price of 12.77 dollars) on 3 days of a country of 127 millions. Does not seem so good to me.

red0guy@gmail.com

Alien Covenant is number one in Japan in spite of threats like typhoon and North Korean rocket launching, so I think is pretty good. I hope the Japanese don't read the imdb reviews and don't watch the youtube media that's full of hatred against Covenant.

http://deadline.com/2017/09/war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes-china-opening-it-movie-spider-man-homecoming-mother-international-box-office-1202171328/

daliens

We all know that there is a Grand Conspiracy against the greatest movie of the year.

Without doubt, if your house disappears in a hurricane, and you have to save your children and your life during/after a disaster caused by flood, you usually do not visit the nearest theater to watch a movie. That is our apparent Grand Conspiracy…

Yes, but it's also a very prominent holiday weekend in Japan. Box office numbers are often up during what they call Silver Week--So it evens out.

G. H. (Gman) - Thank you for the info.

Ati See what you did? You prompted Chris to clarify in a news thread what those numbers mean. Well played, Ati

joylitt - See what you did? Chris has just read your impossible comment above and can't stop laughing. Not well played, joylitt

I also wrote this in the other Japan box office thread. It doesn't look like the typhoon affected things too much at the box office, especially since most of the prominent theaters are closer to Fukuoka, but I'm sure some numbers were lost:

The thing is the odds were stacked against it since Japan isn't a very bankable market for Hollywood anymore. They were popular in the country back in the 1990s, but now Japan's film industry is much stronger, with triple the number of screens from the 1990s. As a result, most (not all, but most) Hollywood films are just less attractive to them.

Even Marvel/DC films don't do very well. Wonder Woman will be lucky if it earns more than $12 million by the end of its run.

It's also important to remember that Japan's preferred measurement for box office ranking is theater attendance. This is because movie tickets are often sold depending on the genre, what country it's from, what studio made it, what gender is buying the ticket and what sort of discount day it is. (There are many.)

Alien: Covenant opened on a Holiday weekend and was practically the only major release, but it looks like it's only #1 via more expensive tickets. Attendance-wise it looks like it may have opened as low as #3. I don't know yet, I'm still waiting for more official numbers from Kogyotsushin to be translated.

Attendance is important because it gives us an indicator of how well it will do in the coming weeks. Strong legs is more important to the Japanese box office than opening weekends, but comparing Saturday's number to Sunday's might give an indication of its future.

If it made $2.6M then it likely opened to an estimated audience of 195,000 for the weekend. For comparison that number is a slightly better opening than Wonder Woman (182,092), Ghost in a Shell (171,203), Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (163,143) and Logan (113,600).

More when I have it.

red0guy@gmail.com

Can you explain how come a movie with a 6.5 rating on Imdb has so many 1 star rating negative reviews? For me it looks like a trolling campaign, I can't believe those movie goers found nothing worthy of a film and still waste their precious time to write down their negative feelings. I believe, forgive me if I'm wrong, you are one of them, so maybe you can clarify what drives you into this. Are you an Alien fan who cares about the future of the franchise? 

daliens

Well, I am one of them but I don't know anybody else you commented on the movie. I truly despise it because I like Prometheus and the directions it was taken. I recognize that writing here is note completely healthy.

Judging the distribution of the Imdb grades as a Gaussian sample distribution (which it is for 150k+ reviewers) the number of 1s (2.9%) should be somewhere below 1.7% the number of 2s.  The difference of 1% to 1.5% (1500-200) more 1s for me is not very conclusive. This phenomenon appears also with Prometheus with 1.4% 2s and 2.2% 1s, the difference between real and expected is say 1% or 5000 reviews. Saying this, against Prometehus could be argued that there was a bigger hate campaign.

If you want a true hate campaign, look at death note, there 21.6 % of the 41k ratings are 1s, as opposed to the 8% of 2s. 

Ps. Everyone was the right to enjoy whatever movie they want as long as the movies obeys the laws (so no Nazi propaganda or child pedophilia ).

red0guy@gmail.com

I am not sure we saw the same movie.

Apart from tragedies, and misfortunes, (and I'm really sorry to hear those) let's go numbers... No! Let's go release schedules.

May - most of the so called European and American countries.

Any given month - the rest of the world.

I ask, and I mean it: why was that?

ScorpioStar - 'I ask, and I mean it: why was that?'

That is the question. :D

@Ati

:D

The lessons are learnt by them, we hope. :)