According to EBOT, mainland boxoffice gross in the third week (Jan.19-25, 2015) totaled $89million, increasing 24% from the previous week, also up 57% y-o-y. Moviegoers this week totaled 15.09million, a growth of 18% than the second week.
As final sequel of “The Hobbit” trilogy, “The Battle of the Five Armies” stormed in mainland Chinese market and gained $50million for the opening three days. In the second place was the former No. 1 winner, “Miss Granny”, which added another $12.28million into $52.02million total gross. Behind “Miss Granny” was “Seventh Son” in the third place, which became the mostly shown film las week for 179670 times, yet only took $9.69million, a 7% share from the market in its second week. “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb” was ranked No.4 with $6.28million weekly gross on 1226552 admissions.
With another $3.63million in the fifth place, Tsui Hark’s “The Taking of Tiger Mountain” totally grossed nearly $140million for 34 days’ screening in mainland China. Rising to the sixth place, “The Unbearable Lightness of Inspector Fan”, earned $1.44million in its second week. Seeing a slide of admissions, “Kung Fu Hustle” made $1.1million and cumed a modest $3.98million in its re-releasing. As a close follower, “Lotus Code”’s weekly gross also passed $1million for showing for 10 days. Rounding out the top 10 earners were "Boonie Bears: Mystical Winter” taking $700,000 in advanced screening and a newcomer, “Tale of Mystery”, gaining $640,000 in three days.
According to EBOT statistics, boxoffice of the first month of 2015 in mainland China has reached $344.53million by January 28. It has exceeded monthly gross in 2013 ($261million) and 2014 ($310millon). With eight new films to be released in the fourth week, the market will expect further growth from enlarging moviegoers under lunar new year season's effect.
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