I didn’t quite understand what you mean by ticket price in Japan. Isn’t that much higher?

There’s nothing wrong with keeping foreign films down to baby the local industry (South Korea is one successful example), but to limit it based on content is something that’s never cool.

As for Japan, blockbusters actually make sometimes double that in their first weekend, although the same can be said for China. However, if you look at the dates covered on the Box Office Mojo stats, they actually cover an entire week of grosses. Their stats for Japan, on the other hand, only cover two days, since Saturday is the traditional opening day there. So it’s not that shocking that the numbers might be similar, considering the number of screens in China and the ticket price in Japan.

I know that Fit Lover is probably a monster hit in China, and that this was a lackluster weekend in Japan but still! That’s crazy…

Hopefully China can loosen up film restrictions really fast so that the film quality can catch up to its potential. I don’t like SARFT but I’m kind of glad that they restrict foreign movies to only twenty a year. The Chinese film industry is so young, and needs some babying before it can compete with too much.

It’s too bad about Cape No 7…the later it gets pushed back the harder it’ll be for it to make money in China bc everyone will be going to see Mei Lan Fang, or If You Are the One.

Those numbers look different from what I read though for the Chinese market.

The gross was 3.6 million USD for Fit Lover. Desires of the Heart seems right however, as it was said to have made five million more yuan than Fit Lover in its total ten day gross. I forget which day fit lover opened though, so maybe it made more than what’s stated because it opened before the weekend started.