Those particular figures were from a Sony press release.

Anyway, unless you’re writing about this stuff for a living you shouldn’t care about things like per screen averages as a young filmmaker!

The Oricon numbers will be left to Tokyograph to do since they pretty much do what I do weekly, and they certainly wouldn’t skip it if their writers are too exhausted from shooting movies until 3am. I will link it, as always, every Wednesday I manage to write an entry.

I will continue to do Japanese drama numbers every Monday when I can get to it, and if you do have a specific drama you would like me to track, then name it and I will. I did it for Yama Onna Kabe Onna last season (to a certain extent.). And I don’t know where you got the idea that not doing those numbers mean I’m going “high class”……

glenn,

Yes, I am here for good now, but the old site will remain.

Actually, I’m quite surprised Hong Kong has more than 100 screens to begin with. Theaters are closing down, and it’s hard to believe that a 17-screen release in HK can be considered limited while it’s considered wide in Taiwan.

Glad you like my work, and I really hope I can even be more comprehensive with my box office figures, which leads to….

Jason,

I would really like to my hands on those figures, which I believe you mentioned can be found on the Screen Daily website for a price (that I can’t afford right now). And i also remembered that I even wrote an entry about the effect of pre-sale tickets in Japan, which I should’ve mentioned.

Nevertheless, the average ticket price in Japan seems to remain higher than most of the world, except for Great Britain, which has ticket prices up to 12 pounds, last time I checked. That would mean per-screen-averages that may be considered high in the US may not mean the same in Japan.

Thanks for the stats, and come back more often now, ya hear?

While it’s true the box office ticket price is very high in Japan, most people don’t pay the full amount. People here see less than 2 films per year, so when they choose something they often buy maeuriken (advance tickets) through Pia and whatnot, or go to a ticket shop. The average ticket price for the past 15 years has been between 1210-1262 yen. Take Sony’s recent #1 hit “Biohazard III” (”Resident Evil: Extinction”) for example. 598,182,850 yen on 450574 admissions=1327yen avg. ticket price. Movie company shareholders get free tix, which might have some effect, but you get the idea…

Congrats on making the move over here. So the old link is now dead? I will remove it from my blog since I already link here.

Anyway, great post and I think I should flag this one as this is one of the first succinct posts I’ve ever seen on the differences between HK/Japan/Korea in this regards.

Thanks again.

Hard to believe Spidey 3 took up 105 out of only 150 screens in Hong Kong. That is sad.

Coz if so, I’m sorry you decided to go so high class. *rolls eyes* I’ll just have my husband translate crap for my poor english only eyes.