Daily Box Office (May 15th 2026)

    The market hits ¥70.9M/$10.41M today. Up +68% from yesterday and up +103% from last week.

    Jaws opens with $0.15M. Its projected a $0.5-0.6M opening weekend.

    The Sheep Detective opens tomorrow and is projected a $1.2M opening day into a $2M+ 2 day opening weekend.

    Supergirl confirmed for a June 26th release simultaneously with its North American release.


    Province map of the day:

    https://imgdiff.net/s/8a369f58ae454aaa081ac062eceb8e08

    Dear You cleen sweeps for the 3rd time.

    In Metropolitan cities:

    Dear You wins Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chongqing, Chengdu, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Beijing, Shenzhen, Wuhan and Nanjing

    City tiers:

    Unchanged from yesterday.

    Tier 1: Dear You>Vanishing Point>Cold War 1994

    Tier 2: Dear You>Vanishing Point>Cold War 1994

    Tier 3: Dear You>Vanishing Point>Cold War 1994

    Tier 4: Dear You>Vanishing Point>Cold War 1994


    # Movie Gross %YD %LW Screenings Admisions(Today) Total Gross Projected Total Gross
    1 Dear You $7.71M +79% +548% 133225 1.50M $41.41M $151M-$153M
    2 Vanishing Point $1.17M +41% -33% 79799 0.23M $56.51M $73M-$75M
    3 Cold War 1994 $0.56M +30% -43% 51415 0.10M $38.88M $45M-$48M
    4 The Devil Wears Prada 2 $0.18M +29% -42% 15039 0.03M $13.84M $14M-$16M
    5 Jaws $0.15M 9874 0.02M $0.15M $1M-$2M
    6 Mortal Kombat II $0.10M +12% -71% 13350 0.02M $1.98M $3M-$4M
    7 Being Towards Death $0.07M +24% -50% 17548 0.01M $10.31M $11M-$12M
    8 Michael $0.05M +30% -30% 3676 0.01M $9.80M $10M-$11M
    9 The Caged Butterfly $0.04M +44% -20% 9697 0.01M $16.15M $16M-$17M
    10 Once a Thief $0.03M -7% -57% 4910 0.01M $1.77M $2M-$3M

    New releases marked in bold


    Pre-Sales map for tomorrow

    https://i.imgur.com/652brmC.png

    Dear You dominates pre-sales for Saturday


    IMAX Screenings distribution

    Cold War 1994 edges out Jaws for the IMAX screenings count today. Tomorrow it will increase its lead again as Mortal Kombat II will also overtake Jaws.

    Movie IMAX Screeninsgs Today IMAX Screeninsgs Tomorrow Change
    1 Cold War 1994 1155 1535 +380
    2 Jaws 1011 974 -37
    3 Mortal Kombat II 637 1194 +557
    4 Michael 217 216 -1
    5 The Devil Wears Prada 2 117 109 -8

    Dear You

    Dear You shows no sights of stoping after grossing ¥52.5M/$7.71M on Friday. Up +79% from yesterday. By far the most in the top 10. Also up an insane +548% from last week.

    Barrels past $40M and will pass $50M tomorrow and then $60M on Sunday. Not bad for a movie with a $2M budget.

    3rd weekend projected at ¥232-246M/$34-36M(+285%)

    Total projections remain above ¥1B/$150M+

    Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $41.41M

    WoM figures:

    The fantastic scores hold.

    Maoyan: 9.7 , Taopiaopiao: 9.7 , Douban: 9.1

    # THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED Total
    Second Week $1.04M $1.19M $2.72M $5.32M $2.17M $3.09M $3.95M $29.38M
    Third Week $4.32M $7.71M $41.41M
    %± LW +315% +548% /

    Scheduled showings update for Dear You for the next few days:

    Day Number of Showings Presales Projection
    Today 125479 $1.16M $6.31M-$8.20M
    Saturday 147702 $2.92M $14.68M-$16.00M
    Sunday 135504 $563k $11.79M-$12.43M

    Vanishing Point

    Vanishing Point in 2nd adds ¥7.95M/$1.17M on Friday as it returns to $1M+

    3rd weekend projections increase to $5.5-5.9M(-30%)

    Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $55.63M, Rest: $0.70M

    WoM figures:

    Maoyan: 9.5 , Taopiaopiao: 8.9 , Douban: 7.4

    # FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU Total
    Second Week $1.75M $2.80M $3.70M $1.16M $1.03M $0.94M $0.83M $55.24M
    Third Week $1.17M $56.51M
    %± LW -33% /

    Scheduled showings update for Vanishing Point for the next few days:

    Day Number of Showings Presales Projection
    Today 80365 $114k $1.15M-$1.33M
    Saturday 63443 $375k $2.46M-$2.65M
    Sunday 54582 $49k $1.96M-$2.12M

    The Devil Wears Prada 2

    The Devil Wears Prada 2 continues its limp towards ¥100M/$14.7M after grossing ¥1.21M/$0.18M today.

    3rd weekend projections downgraded to $0.53-0.57M(-59%)

    The Devil Wears Prada 2 vs Thunderbolts:

    https://i.imgur.com/wPWf5NU.png

    Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $12.49M , IMAX: $0.71M , Rest: $0.35M

    WoM figures:

    Maoyan: 9.4 , Taopiaopiao: 9.5 , Douban: 6.6

    # THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED Total
    Second Week $0.33M $0.31M $0.47M $0.59M $0.19M $0.18M $0.16M $13.52M
    Third Week $0.14M $0.18M $13.84M
    %± LW -57% -42% /

    Scheduled showings update for The Devil Wears Prada 2 for the next few days:

    Day Number of Showings Presales Projection
    Today 15524 $31k $0.19M-$0.21M
    Saturday 15524 $31k $0.20M-$0.21M
    Sunday 5556 $51k $0.15M-$0.18M

    Release Schedule:

    A table including upcoming movies in the next month alongside trailers linked in the name of the movie, Want To See data from both Maoyan and Taopiaopiao alongside the Gender split and genre.

    Remember Want To See is not pre-sales. Its just an anticipation metric. A checkbox of sorts saying your interested in an upcoming movie.

    Not all movies are included since a lot are just too small to be worth covering.


    May

    Movie Maoyan WTS Daily Increase Taopiaopiao WTS Daily Increase M/W % Genre Release Date 3rd party media projections
    Be Yourself 59k +7k 33k +3k 31/69 Romance/Comedy 20.05 $6-7M
    Star Wars: Mandalorian & Grogu 36k +2k 89k +1k 63/37 Actiiom/Sci-Fi 22.05 $5-9M
    Crossing A Dawn 22k +1k 37k +1k 29/71 Drama/Comedy/Romance 22.05 $3-6M
    All The Good Eyes 35k +1k 16k +1k 34/66 Drama/Romance/Crime 23.05 $6M
    Memento 16k +1k 32k +2k 57/43 Crime/Drama 29.05 $5M
    The Housemaid 3k +1k 1k +1k 28/72 Thriller/Drama 29.05
    Master Zhong 4k +1k 5k +2k 37/63 Fantasy/Animation 30.05 $1-2M

    by Firefox72

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    1. Fit_Classroom9045 on

      Utter dominance, making more than all the other movies in the top 10 combined 3x, the sky is the limit

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