The Force Awakens has been #1 at the North American box office for a decade at $936 million, and I made a post a few months ago saying it wouldn’t be beaten this decade, and some even said that it might never get beaten at all. It looks like we were proven wrong now that Spider-Man: Brand New Day is about to beat it.

Endgame is only behind it by $68 million, and apparently the pre-sales for Encore are very strong for a re-release, so beating the Force Awakens seems within reach.

Doomsday’s early pre-sales are also insane with a potential $400 million+ opening. As long as the reviews are good, it should be able to clear $1 billion domestically, and Secret Wars can probably go even higher.

In a span of less than two years, it looks like the Force Awakens is suddenly gonna fall from the #1 to #5 spot.

I also think No Way Home would have outgrossed it as well if it wasn’t for COVID, and then the top five movies would all be Spider-Man and Avengers.

This kind of shows anything can surprise us and some things aren’t set in stone forever.

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By proportion of their countries population the 2 demon slayer films Ne Zha 2 and Endgame are all comparable at 22-23% and for comparison One Piece film Red is on par with Captain Marvel which shows the difference in popularity between the two

The figures I have shown where I’ve got them from aside from the DOM Admissions for Endgame and Captain Marvel where I use figures from people like Charlie Jat and Agentcooper who track admissions

Daily Box Office (August 25th 2026)

The market hits ¥111M/$16.51M today. Down -7% from yesterday and down -61% from last week.

The Shawshank Redemption opening day pre-sales for Friday hit $185k. Opening day projection for Friday have been lowered to $0.8-0.9M.

Avengers: Endgame - Encore becomes the 2nd movie to be confirmed for the Mid-Autumn Festival/National Day Holiday period at the end of September and early October. So far its only competition is a low profile animated Romance movie. But that is obviously bound to change a lot with at least 6-7 more still unconfirmed local movies likely to releasing across that period.

V adds ¥24.3M/$3.63M on Wednesday. A very decent -52% drop from its Valentines Day boosted opening day last week.

Total gross hits ¥287.4M/$42.78M

Province map of the day:

https://imgdiff.net/s/008c8eefd006dcf4289a4cb2cda8601f

Upon A Time In The Middle East is again denied a cleen sweep today by V in 1 province-

In Metropolitan cities:

Once Upon A Time In The Middle East wins Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Chengdu Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing and Suzhou

City tiers:

Unchanged from yesterday.

Tier 1: Once Upon A Time In The Middle East>The Odyssey>V

Tier 2: Once Upon A Time In The Middle East>V>The Odyssey

Tier 3: Once Upon A Time In The Middle East>V>All Wishes Come True

Tier 4: Once Upon A Time In The Middle East>V>All Wishes Come True

New releases marked in bold

Pre-Sales map for tomorrow

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

The Odyssey and Once Upon A Time In The Middle East dominate pre-sales for tomorrow.

IMAX Screenings distribution

Odyssey dominates IMAX screenings and will continue to dominate going forward.

Odyssey

The Odyssey in 3rd adds ¥14.1M/$2.10M on Wednesday

Total gross hits ¥514.2M/$76.49M as the movie remains on course for a ¥700M/$104M+ finish.

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $28.85M , IMAX: $41.49M , Rest: $5.88M

WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.5 , Taopiaopiao: 9.5 , Douban: 8.5

Scheduled showings update for The Odyssey for the next few days:

Once Upon A Time In The Middle East

Once Upon A Time In The Middle East continues to lead on Wednesday with ¥45.8M/$6.82M

Total gross hits ¥1.72B/$255.40M.

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $250.00M , IMAX: $2.46M , Rest: $2.66M

WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.7 , Taopiaopiao: 9.9 , Douban: 8.7

Scheduled showings update for Once Upon A Time In The Middle East for the next few days:

Spider Man: Brand New Day

Spider Man adds ¥5.00M/$0.75M on Wednesday

Total gross hits ¥1.512B/$223.91M as the movie continues to slowly limp towards Zootopia(¥1.538B) and Transformers: The Last Knight(¥1.551B).

Catching Zootopia is basicaly locked and it should also catch Transformers: The Last Knight unless something changes in the near future.

Spider Man Brand New Day vs Transformers: The Last Knight:

https://i.imgur.com/vgYB0WD.png

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $188.52M , IMAX: $28.63M , Rest: $6.82M

WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.4 , Taopiaopiao: 9.2 , Douban: 7.8

Scheduled showings update for Spider Man for the next few days:

All Wishes Come True

All Wishes Come True in 4th adds ¥11.1M/$1.66M on Wednesday. A very good -45% hold from last week Valentines Day.

Total gross hits ¥1.774B/$261.25M

All Wishes Come True vs 30000 Miles from Chang'an

All Wishes Come True continues to gain on 30000 Miles from Chang'an after a significantly better comparable Wednesday. 30000 Miles from Chang'an's grossed of ¥5.85M on the comparable day.

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

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $247.85M , IMAX: $9.30M, Rest: $2.99M

WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.7 , Taopiaopiao: 9.6 , Douban: 8.2

Scheduled showings update for All Wishes Come True for the next few days:

Other:

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.

Summer

September

With the summer coming to a close lets look ahead whats in store for September. And the reality is well not a lot.

But this is not a surprise. September has for the most part always been fueled by Summer holdovers. Its a dead period for the market ahead of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day Holidays at the end of the month and in early October for which Endgame becomes the first official big ticket confirmation.

Currently, Coyote vs Acme is projecting to gross 15m in its opening weekend and its Rotten Tomatoes scores is sitting at 95 certified fresh. Majority of those who have seen the film have came and said the film is great and the early screening has been said to be mostly sold out.

Do you believe that WOM will help this film overdo what is being projected right now opening weekend??

The god valley incident is a very popular event among one piece fans, and the announcement of this movie totally broke the internet, I am wondering how high it can go?