Weekend Box Office (March 27th-29th)

    Project Hail Mary flies to the top with a fantastic 2nd weekend thats up +8% versus its opening weekend last week.

    Hoppers drops to 2nd with $5.10M. A solid enough 2nd weekend hold.

    Pegasus 3 leads the local holdovers with $3.48M ahead of Blades Of The Guardians with $1.91M

    Of the new openers none even make it to $1M with No Other Love opening with just $0.97M. Beaten by the previews of Its Ok which releases next weekend.

    # Movie Gross %LW Total Gross Total Admissions Weekends
    1 Project Hail Mary $7.73M +8% $19.04M 2.90M 2
    2 Hoppers $5.09M -47% $16.84M 2.94M 2
    3 Pegasus 3 $3.48M -40% $629.69M 92.75M 6
    4 Blades Of The Guardians $1.91M -35% $206.16M 30.79M 6
    5 It's Ok(Previews) $1.78M $2.40M 0.49M 0
    6 Silent Awakenings $1.22M -46% $194.45M 29.26M 6
    7 No Other Love $0.97M $0.97M 0.19M 1
    8 Boonie Bears: THP $0.70M -40% $152.70M 23.49M 6
    9 Wuthering Heights $0.56M -48% $4.77M 0.80M 3
    10 Night King $0.39M -45% $31.84M 5.37M 6
    11 Where The River Flows $0.37M $0.37M 0.07M 1
    12 Sunshine Women's Choir(Previews) $0.30M $0.30M 0.06M 0
    13 Cold Storage $0.19M $0.19M 0.04M 1

    Daily Box Office(March 29th 2026)

    The market hits ¥63.3M/$9.01M. Down -22% from yesterday and down -20% from last week.


    Province map of the day:

    https://i.imgur.com/0UlTxJy.png

    Hoppers and PHM dominate on Sunday.

    In Metropolitan cities:

    Project Hail Mary wins Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Suzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Nanjing and Hangzhou,

    City tiers:

    Hoppers climbs to 1st in T3.

    Tier 1: Project Hail Mary>Hoppers>Pegasus 3

    Tier 2: Project Hail Mary>Hoppers>Pegasus 3

    Tier 3: Hoppers>Project Hail Mary>Pegasus 3

    Tier 4: Hoppers>Pegasus 3>Project Hail Mary


    # Movie Gross %YD %LW Screenings Admisions(Today) Total Gross Projected Total Gross
    1 Project Hail Mary $2.72M -21% -0% 53572 0.39M $19.04M $26M-$30M
    2 Hoppers $1.89M -20% -41% 70576 0.33M $16.84M $19M-$24M
    3 Pegasus 3 $1.20M -23% -35% 62602 0.18M $629.69M $634M-$637M
    4 It's OK(Previews) $0.74M +4% 23234 0.15M $2.40M
    5 Blades of The Guardians $0.66M -18% -31% 36993 0.10M $206.13M $208M-$209M
    6 Sillent Awakenings $0.37M -20% -45% 29063 0.06M $194.45M $195M-$197M
    7 No Other Love $0.32M -40% 35535 0.05M $0.97M $2M-$4M
    8 Boonie Bears: THP $0.30M -14% -38% 19123 0.06M $152.70M $152M-$154M
    9 Wuthering Heights $0.17M -20% -48% 7975 0.03M $4.77M $5M-$6M
    11 Night King $0.13M -14% -44% 5672 0.02M $31.84M $32M-$33M
    10 Where the River Flows $0.12M -52% 19501 0.02M $0.37M $1M
    12 Sunshine Women's Choir(Previews) $0.10M -8% 8763 0.02M $0.30M
    13 Cold Storage $0.06M -54% 12627 0.01M $0.19M $0.3-0.4M

    New releases marked in bold


    Pre-Sales map for tomorrow

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

    Project Hail Mary dominates pre-sales for Monday.


    IMAX Screenings distribution

    Project Hail Mary dominates IMAX today will continue to dominate them through the weekend.

    Movie IMAX Screeninsgs Today IMAX Screeninsgs Tomorrow Change
    1 Project Hail Mary 3366 2781 -585
    2 Hoppers 204 116 -88
    3 Pegasus 3 24 25 +1

    Hoppers

    Hoppers a solid ¥13.08M/$1.89M on Sunday for a solid $5.09M(-47%) 2nd weekend.

    Hoppers vs some other animated movies of recent years

    Hoppers has now passed ¥116M surpassing the total gross of Elemental(¥114M)

    https://i.imgur.com/2MyVDWn.png

    Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $15.75M , IMAX: $0.51M , Rest: $0.38M

    WoM figures:

    Maoyan: 9.4 , Taopiaopiao: 9.4 , Douban: 7.6

    # FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU Total
    First Week $2.06M $4.36M $3.20M $0.67M $0.53M $0.50M $0.42M $11.75M
    Second Week $0.83M $2.37M $1.89M $16.84M
    %± LW -59% -46% -41%

    Scheduled showings update for Hoppers for the next few days:

    Day Number of Showings Presales Projection
    Today 70196 $330k $1.89M-$1.90M
    Monday 51619 $28k $0.34M-$0.38M
    Tuesday 35785 $6k $0.33M-$0.35M

    Project Hail Mary

    Project Hail Mary meanwhile continues its fantastic run with a $2.72M Sunday. Basicaly flat from last week which is enough for a $7.73M 2nd weekend. An 8% increase from the opening weekend.

    IMAX gross reaches $6M

    Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $12.14M , IMAX: $5.92M , Rest: $0.80M

    WoM figures:

    Maoyan: 9.4 , Taopiaopiao: 9.3 , Douban: 8.5

    # FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU Total
    First Week $1.29M $3.15M $2.74M $1.10M $1.08M $1.03M $0.92M $11.31M
    Second Week $1.53M $3.48M $2.72M $19.04M
    %± LW +19% +10% -0%

    Scheduled showings update for Project Hail Mary for the next few days:

    Day Number of Showings Presales Projection
    Today 53526 $651k $2.76M-$2.87M
    Monday 49071 $92k $0.81M-$0.98M
    Tuesday 35305 $23k $0.77M-$0.90M

    Pegasus 3

    Pegasus 3 grossed ¥8.3M/$1.20M on Sunday for a $3.48M(-40%) 6th weekend.

    Admissions wise Pegasus 3 hits 92.75M tickets sold.

    Over the next week it will surpass No More Bets at 92.95M and finaly Operation Red Sea at 92.99M before it crosses 93M admissions sold to become the 9th attended movie of all time.

    Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $580.15M , IMAX: $31.93M , Rest: $12.18M

    WoM figures:

    Maoyan: 9.7 , Taopiaopiao: 9.5 , Douban: 7.2

    # TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON Total
    Fifth Week $1.13M $1.03M $0.93M $1.22M $2.75M $1.87M $0.64M $624.55M
    Sixth Week $0.60M $0.55M $0.51M $0.71M $1.57M $1.20M $629.69M
    %± LW -47% -47% -45% -42% -43% -35%

    Scheduled showings update for Pegasus 3 for the next few days:

    Day Number of Showings Presales Projection
    Today 62507 $107k $1.16M-$1.20M
    Monday 57752 $28k $0.45M-$0.48M
    Tuesday 36948 $5k $0.44M-$0.45M

    Blades of the Guardians

    Blades of the Guardians grossed ¥4.51M/$0.66M on Sunday for a $1.91M(-35%) 6th weekend.

    Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $197.65M , IMAX: $6.43M , Rest: $1.59M

    WoM figures:

    Maoyan: 9.4 , Taopiaopiao: 9.5 , Douban: 7.5

    # TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON Total
    Fifth Week $0.68M $0.64M $0.57M $0.66M $1.33M $0.96M $0.44M $201.98M
    Sixth Week $0.85M $0.78M $0.61M $0.44M $0.81M $0.66M $206.16M
    %± LW +25% +22% +7% -33% -39% -31%

    Scheduled showings update for Blades of the Guardians for the next few days:

    Day Number of Showings Presales Projection
    Today 37062 $143k $0.65M-$0.67M
    Monday 36247 $16k $0.27M-$0.29M
    Tuesday 23414 $3k $0.25M-$0.27M

    Other stuff:

    The next Holywood release is Mario on April 3rd followed by Devil Wears Prada 2 on the 30th.


    Super Mario Opening Day Pre-Sales

    I do have to continue to note that against Mario and Minecraft the comparison is skewed because the opening day was the Holiday itself while for Galaxy the Holiday is the Monday at tail end of the weekend.

    The fact that it slipped behind Hoppers is a bit concerning though but were far enough away that there should be no reason to panic yet.

    Full 4 day weekend pre-sales hit $174k

    Days till release Super Mario Galaxy Super Mario Minecraft Inside Out 2 Hoppers
    7 $7.5k/20317 $46k/9022 $118k/18286 $13k/10139 /
    6 $31k/28640 $70k/11223 $187k/20616 $25k/12948 $25k/15417
    5 $57k/32135 $101k/13146 $288k/22169 $42k/15205 $55k/21433
    4 $86k/35561 $153k/16547 $409k/23989 $65k/17987 $90k/25767
    3 $234k/20670 $571k/32741 $104k/24579 $149k/32701
    2 $347k/23740 $795k/48382 $167k/34281 $231k/45576
    1 $624k/39769 $1.15M/71398 $282k/59326 $363k/70176
    0 $1.75M/61559 $2.41M/83945 $678k/80153 $674k/91319

    *Gross/Screenings


    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.


    April:

    Movie Maoyan WTS Daily Increase Taopiaopiao WTS Daily Increase M/W % Genre Release Date 3rd party media projections
    The Super Mario Galaxy Movie 129k +1k 72k +1k 38/62 Fantasy/Animation 03.04 $23-38M
    Now I Meet Her 44k +1k 71k +1k 38/62 Drama/Comedy 03.04 $5-8M
    Its Ok 38k +4k 33k +2k 19/81 Drama 03.04 $7-11M
    Game of Identity 213k +1k 70k +1k 23/77 Suspense/Crime 04.04 $7-15M
    Sunshine Women's Choir 12k +1k 12k +2k 22/77 Drama 04.04
    Michael 55k +1k 40k +2k 59/41 Biograpy/Drama 24.04
    Devil Wears Prada 2 40k +2k 56k +6k 26/74 Drama/Comedy 30.04

    by Firefox72

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    1. terrence1972 on

      If they add another month to Peg3’s run say to mid may or june it will go past Z2’s china gross..

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