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Mulan reaches $6 million in its opening weekend. It's scored 4.8/10 in China's iMDB.

posted 4 years ago by kukuxu (5409)
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The $300 million dollar big Disney movie in 2020 has made $5.9 million in its opening weekend. In the positive side, the movie would only need 150 more weekends to break even.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2020/09/06/movies-box-office-weekend-mulan-disney-bill-and-ted-keanu-reeves-x-men-new-mutants-unhinged-russell-crowe/

EDIT
It hasn't opened in China yet, but since it's available in internet, Chinese are already scoring it. Right now, it has a 4.8/10 in douban, kind of entertainment social network, with almost 50,000 votes.

https://movie.douban.com/subject/26357307/

To compare, the original Disney's Mulan (1998) is scored 7.8, with about 200,000 votes

https://movie.douban.com/subject/1294833/

[–] bozo_500 (13275) 4 years ago

OMG. Disney will be fuckin furious

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

I hasn't opened in China yet.

The problem is that the movie is already in 1080p quality in internet. That means that many Chinese have seen it, and right they have scored it with 4.8/10 in the Chinese iMDB equivalent, with almost 50,000 votes.

https://movie.douban.com/subject/26357307/

To compare, the original Disney's Mulan is scored 7.8, with 200,000 votes

https://movie.douban.com/subject/1294833/

[–] Satan2016 (25886) 4 years ago

Imdb has almost 25K votes. China is 2X! What streaming service?
BO Mojo shows $5.9M OW, but doesn't break that into countries anymore.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

What are you asking exactly with 'what streaming service'? I don't get it. Do you mean what streaming service they use in China?

[–] Satan2016 (25886) 4 years ago

Yes, streaming in China. I didn't see Chinese audio/subs in pirate versions.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

https://subscene.com/subtitles/mulan-2020

Here you have subtitles in chinese
https://subscene.com/subtitles/mulan-2020/chinese-bg-code/2284857

[–] darkpast (8884) 4 years ago

GARBAGE

[–] Satan2016 (25886) 4 years ago

That's 8 markets plus "middle east". None in west Europe or Americas.

https://www.cbr.com/mulan-opens-to-strong-theatrical-box-office-numbers-overseas/

While Disney has yet to report its Disney+ earnings -- or losses -- on their exclusive streaming sales of Mulan, the film's international box office sales brought in a strong $5.9M in revenue this weekend from Croatia, Czech Republic, the Middle East, Slovakia, Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. Mulan also debuted #1 at the box office in Malaysia, Singapore, UAE and Thailand.

According to Deadline, Niko Caro's Mulan received "the largest opening weekend to date in Singapore and Thailand" and also premiered second at the box office in Taiwan and Saudi Arabia. It's worth adding that in the markets that Mulan performed well, all of them but Taiwan are currently observing seating capacity restrictions. Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, theaters overseas reduced seating capacity by a "30%-50% range" this weekend, which has likely impacted Mulan's ability to gain revenue internationally and as quickly as other film releases have done in prior summers.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

According to Deadline, Niko Caro's Mulan received "the largest opening weekend to date in Singapore and Thailand"

Well, that can be checked in Boxoffice Mojo

In Singapore, it wasn't the largest opening weekend to date, not even the largest this year. The largest opening weekend this year was Bad Boys for Life
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/openings/?area=SG

In Thailand, it wasn't the largest opening weekend to date neither, nor the largest this year. The largest opening weekend this year was Doolittle
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/openings/?area=TH

[–] Rorikon (18116) 4 years ago

While the $200 million film is being released in theaters in some countries—most notably, second largest box office in the world China—it has and will be released solely as a VOD title via Disney+ in many markets, including the United States, which, pre-pandemic, was the largest box office in the world. The theatrical-VOD hybrid release doesn’t mean that Mulan won’t make a lot of money for Disney via Disney+, just that Disney doesn’t actually have to tell us exactly how many people paid $30 (plus the Disney+ subscription fee) to watch Mulan at home.

That being said, we are starting to get box office numbers back from the few international markets where Mulan did open in over the weekend. According to Deadline, Mulan has made just under $6 million theatrically in the few global markets it has been released in, which represented only 6% of the normal international market. The movie came in first at the box office in the UAE, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, and had the best opening weekend of 2020 (not a super competitive category in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, but still worth noting) in both Singapore and Thailand, despite the #BoycottMulan campaign that gained some support online. It earned $5.9 million in total.

Mulan is set to open in China on Friday (September 11th), which will be a big factor in how the film does overall. China has the second largest global box office and many predict it would surpass the United States to become the first in 2020. With China having contained COVID-19 much more effectively than the United States, this seems even more likely to happen. Chinese blockbuster The Eight Hundred has already earned more than $300 million since it opened in mid-August, with most of that coming from the Chinese market. If Mulan is going to make a lot of money at the box office, it’s probably going to have to do well in China.

[–] Rorikon (18116) 4 years ago

Will Mulan do well in China? It’s unclear if this will happen, given that the 1998 animated version flopped there, as it was deemed too westernized by Chinese audiences. (Fair enough.) The 2020 version has made more of an effort to ingratiate itself to Chinese audiences, hiring an all Asian cast, hewing much closer to the Chinese legend “Ballad of Mulan,” and leaning into wuxia elements. It’s also very much a cinematic spectacle, made to be seen on big screens (which is why the VOD release in the U.S. is such a bummer), so that could work in Disney’s favor when it comes to the Chinese box offcie. We’ll have to wait to see if the film will be a hit with Chinese audiences, especially after receiving middling reviews here in the States.

Past China, Mulan is set to open in the following markets this week: Russia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Slovenia, Kuwait, Ukraine, and Poland. On the VOD front, Mulan has already been released in the United States and in other territories that have Disney+, including: the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. More news on Mulan‘s box office and VOD totals if and when they become available.

In summary: They said screw westerners we're making it only for the CCP Chinese audience. It will conform to the communist ways and show the greatness of China with little flair due to censorship constraints laid out by the Chinese Film Board. It'll probably do decent in China but only if it's dubbed in Chinese which I think they'll use else whose going to watch a Disney movie of China with them speaking English?

This is what happens when you let the commies decide the movie of what Mulan should be. I hope it does bad all around. If Disney does more of this in the future, the pandering to the Chinese to get into the lucrative market there, they deserve to fail at everything they do. The only thing keeping them afloat is the Marvel shtick but everything else they've been releasing as of late has been more or less trash + nostalgia effect.

PS: $200m NOT $300m

[–] DarkKnight (262) 4 years ago

What are the Disney+ buy rates? Have they been released yet? That's what's really going to matter.

It needs at least $400 million in buy rates to break even which would be a world record for any kind of VOD product.