Not a complete flop, sales were more than budget. It should break even with streaming and discs.
¶ Nope, China will not be saving Blade Runner 2049. The Sony/Alcon Entertainment production, which has earned just under $200 million worldwide ($77m of that in North America courtesy of Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc.), bombed in its first day of release in the second-biggest moviegoing market in the world. The $150m+ sci-fi sequel, which debuted to rave reviews but indifferent box office earlier this month, earned just $2.4m on Friday. That means, offhand, that we’re looking at a $7m-$8m weekend and $15m-$20m total in China.
Flop confirmed. Sad. We will never get anything Blade Runner anymore. Unless in 30years people complain about how great 2049 was and demand a sequel. Maybe it will be more successful then with an all black cast.
shareThis is the wake up call annoying BR fans have needed for 30 years. Most people don't like either BR movie because they are just not entertaining or enjoyable. There has to be more than just a mess of weird imagery for a sci fi movie to succeed.
shareI’m a huge sci-fi fan but could nearly get through watching the original Blade Runner. There seems to be a small group of vocal people who insist it’s the best sci-fi movie ever but to me it’s painfully slow and boring.
shareWhen I was a younger sci-fi fan, Blade Runner was boring, stupid, and wasted my time. "Did you get your precious photos?" Come on, what kind of lame dialog was that??
Now that I am older, with lots of life experiences, including death and facing mortality, the Blade Runner movie hits me a lot harder than it did before. I suspect it is not just me either. NOW I get why photos are precious, and all our memories of who we are, that will be lost like tears in rain. NOW I get it. Never even thought about anything like that when I was younger. No one does.
The original Blade Runner became SUPER deep for me. This new one feels like an empty shell... hoping, but failing. Not sure why they felt a sequel was needed, but maybe they should have researched it better and gotten some decent writers before green lighting it.
How much money a movie makes has nothing to do with its quality.
shareThe Chinese like crap! From BOMojo:
Warner's Geostorm finished in third place with an estimated $5.67 million as the film's domestic cume now stands at $23.5 million after ten days in release. The film's international performance, however, offers a little more to boast about. The disaster pic debuted in China this weekend with an estimated $34.1 million, which contributed to an overall $49.3 million weekend overseas, bringing the international cume to $113.4 million for a global tally over $136 million.
BR49 did well in Japan, but not a big market:
The film also opened in Japan with an estimated $2.7 million and a #1 finish as its international cume currently stands at $142 million based on weekend estimates.
it's called culture difference. People in general liked fast paced action movies when watching foreign films with subtitles in theater.
shareThat report was posted on the same day it was released in China. I call BS on their figures.
shareMC says 3 days ago. Time is 20h pdt now. 3x24h ago is Sat afternoon in China.
shareSo a full day and a half of screenings from which to draw conclusion. Not very conclusive, IMHO.
shareso far blade runner 2049 has made $7,593,414 in china, if you convert that into chinese yuan that is ￥50,380,024元
if you switch that back to dollars with no conversion, that is $50,380,024
all projections show that blade runner 2049 will be the highest grossing blade runner film in china to date
If you read the article you would not look stupid. He estimates the weekend based on Friday. This tweet was posted midnight Chinese time.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChinaBoxOffice/status/923930301545504768
BOMojo reports it pulled over 7 1/2 million on the opening weekend. Your link gave a third of that for *gasp* one day.
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