Daily Box Office (April 15th 2026)

The market hits ¥15.7M/$2.30M. Up +8% from yesterday and down -20% from last week.

Light Chaser Animation's new animated movie Three Kingdoms: The Beginning has officialy been announced for a July 10th release.

The Decisive Moment got its first trailer ahead of its summer release.

May/Labor Day Holiday release Vanishing Point got a new trailer.

The movie Crossing covering the brutal Long March retreat of the Chinese Red Army will get its release date tomorrow. Rumored to be June 26th. The Long March is an event that put Mao at the forefront of the party and basicaly established his leadership role.

On the Holywood front there's a bunch of movies set to get their official confirmation in the near future including Toy Story 5, Disclosure Day, Supergirl and Masters of the Universe

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Province map of the day:

https://i.imgur.com/1nSLER7.png

It's OK dominates in most places.

In Metropolitan cities:

It's OK wins Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Beijing, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Suzhou and Nanjing

Project Hail Mary wins Shanghai

City tiers:

Now I Met Her climbs to 3rd in T3.

Tier 1: Project Hail Mary>It's OK>Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Tier 2: It's OK>Project Hail Mary>The Caged Butterfly

Tier 3: It's OK>The Caged Butterfly>Now I Met Her

Tier 4: It's OK>The Caged Butterfly>Now I Met Her

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#	Movie	Gross	%YD	%LW	Screenings	Admisions(Today)	Total Gross	Projected Total Gross
1	It's OK	$0.50M	-3%	-34%	69490	0.10M	$20.16M	$26M-$31M
2	Project Hail Mary	$0.33M	-3%	-6%	28398	0.05M	$34.33M	$39M-$40M
3	The Caged Butterfly	$0.26M	+4%	-30%	43823	0.05M	$8.46M	$11M-$13M
4	Now I Met Her	$0.21M	+1%	-30%	41574	0.04M	$8.51M	$10M-$12M
5	Blades of The Guardians	$0.17M	+184%	+143%	11686	0.02M	$209.09M	$209M-$210M
6	Pegasus 3	$0.16M	+6%	-11%	25091	0.03M	$637.15M	$639M-$640M
7	A Game of Identity	$0.13M	+1%	-58%	37403	0.03M	$7.06M	$8M-$9M
8	Super Mario Galaxy Movie	$0.11M	+2%	-48%	37342	0.02M	$15.05M	$19M-$21M
9	Hoppers	$0.06M	-30%	-17%	12215	0.01M	$22.72M	$24M-$25M
10	Sunshine Women's Choir	$0.05M	+1%	-36%	8115	0.01M	$2.32M	$2M-$3M

New releases marked in bold

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Pre-Sales map for tomorrow

https://i.imgur.com/yuIhw9M.png

It's OK mostly dominates pre-sales for Thursday.

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IMAX Screenings distribution

Project Hail Mary will continue to dominate IMAX through the week.

	Movie	IMAX Screeninsgs Today	IMAX Screeninsgs Tomorrow	Change
1	Project Hail Mary	2254	2297	+43
2	Super Mario Galaxy	221	202	-19
3	Hoppers	5	5	-0

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Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Mario Galaxy drops to 8th but actually increases a tiny bit from yeseterday after grossing ¥0.71M/$0.11M on its 2nd Wednesday. Way below the 2nd Tuesdays of Hoppers(¥3.07M/$0.45M) and Super Mario Bros(¥1.11M/$0.16M)

Crosses $15M with 2.55M admissions sold.

Early 3rd weekend projections at $1.5-1.6M(-52%).

Super Mario Galaxy vs Super Mario Bros:

Mario Galaxy continues to flatline.

https://i.imgur.com/6bu3lQ4.png

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $14.00M , IMAX: $0.67M , Rest: $0.45M

WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.3 , Taopiaopiao: 9.3 , Douban: 7.1

#	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	Total
First Week	$1.59M	$3.44M	$3.28M	$2.48M	$0.28M	$0.21M	$0.17M	$11.45M
Second Week	$0.37M	$1.58M	$1.32M	$0.12M	$0.10M	$0.11M		$15.05M
%± LW	-77%	-54%	-60%	-95%	-64%	-48%

Scheduled showings update for Super Mario Galaxy Movie for the next few days:

Day	Number of Showings	Presales	Projection
Today	37744	$14k	$0.09M-$0.10M
Thursday	37112	$12k	$0.09M-$0.10M
Friday	26538	$10k	$0.15M-$0.19M

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Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary grossed ¥2.26M/$0.33M on Wednesday.

Early 5th weekend projections at $1.8-2.1M(-35%)

Project Hail Mary vs F1:

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

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $22.10M , IMAX: $10.03M , Rest: $2.16M

WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.3 , Taopiaopiao: 9.2 , Douban: 8.6

#	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	Total
Third Week	$1.04M	$2.14M	$2.49M	$1.54M	$0.38M	$0.35M	$0.33M	$30.38M
Fourth Week	$0.55M	$1.38M	$1.07M	$0.28M	$0.34M	$0.33M		$34.33M
%± LW	-47%	-36%	-57%	-82%	-11%	-6%

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

Day	Number of Showings	Presales	Projection
Today	28738	$87k	$0.38M-$0.41M
Thursday	28648	$47k	$0.27M-$0.30M
Friday	21937	$21k	$0.39M-$0.41M

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Other stuff:

The next Holywood release Michael on April 24th followed by Devil Wears Prada 2 on the 30th.

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Michael Opening Day pre-sales

Michael pre-sales have kicked off with a good $40k in pre-sales for its opening day. $57k including previews and the rare midnight screenings which are not really common these days.

Full weekend pre-sales hit $95k

Days till release	Michael	Project Hail Mary	F1
8	$40k/12877	/	$31k/14328
7		/	$48k/15335
6		$19k/4747	$69k/16308
5		$38k/6270	$87k/17506
4		$62k/7441	$107k/19421
3		$104k/9268	$156k/21808
2		$154k/12234	$230k/29788
1		$266k/18902	$319k/43313
0		$473k/23759	$543k/51748

*Gross/Screenings

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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.

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April:

Movie	Maoyan WTS	Daily Increase	Taopiaopiao WTS	Daily Increase	M/W %	Genre	Release Date	3rd party media projections
Michael	96k	+2k	81k	+1k	59/41	Biograpy/Drama	24.04	$8M

May/Labor Day Holidays(30.4-5.5)

Movie	Maoyan WTS	Daily Increase	Taopiaopiao WTS	Daily Increase	M/W %	Genre	Release Date	3rd party media projections
Devil Wears Prada 2	119k	+6k	201k	+10k	26/74	Drama/Comedy	30.04	$9-41M
Cold War 1944	47k	+3k	63k	+4k	75/25	Drama/Action/Crime	01.05	$60-88M
Vanishing Point	41k	+6k	17k	+2k	33/67	Thriller/Crime	01.05	$21-36M
All The Good Eyes	13k	+1k	8k	+1k	34/66	Drama/Romance/Crime	01.05
Being Toward Death	11k	+1k	4k	+1k	38/62	Drama	01.05