When we thought the world No.1 Box-Office is also Malaysia No.1 Box-Office, we assumed it wrong. This year, TRANSFORMERS latest movie franchise has surpassed the total gross ticket sold made by 'IRON MAN 3' ($13,909,003/as of 4th August 2013) last year. Even the total gross of above $13 million in Malaysia has beat up the world success of three top all-time Box-Office movies; MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS ($10,965,615/as of 5th August 2012), AVATAR ($7,706,512/as of 4th July 2010) and being the out of league, TITANIC ($2,764,733/as of final). Even movies in my #BoycottIsrael lists like 'Lucy' ($1,747,630/as of 24th August 2014) and 'The Expendables 3' ($1,424,208/as of 24th August 2014) made it above $1 million, as I believed the local consumers are wise enough not to boycott as it involved not more than a few pro-Israel players in the production team. While movies that almost or a flop in the world box-office like 'Pompeii' ($1,130,375/as of 23rd March 2014) and 'The Legend of Hercules' ($1,303,892/as of 2nd February 2014) also reached above $1 million in Malaysia. Meanwhile an international box-office like 'Muppets Most Wanted' ($43,028/as of 11th March 2014) did not even surpass the $100,000 collection in Malaysia but gain 56.37% gross return worldwide.
[Source: www.boxofficemojo.com]
[Source: www.boxofficemojo.com]
1
Premiered: 26th June 2014
Distributor: UIP
Total Gross (as of 24th August 2014): $13,511,790/±RM42,649,961.04
2
Premiered: 1st May 2014
Distributor: Sony
Total Gross (as of 20th July 2014): $9,394,162/±RM29,652,669.51
3
Premiered: 27th March 2014
Distributor: Disney
Total Gross (as of 22nd June 2014): $8,404,017/±RM26,527,277.11
4
Premiered: 22nd May 2014
Distributor: Fox
Total Gross (as of 27th July 2014): $6,651,878/±RM20,996,650.89
5
Premiered: 29th May 2014
Distributor: Disney
Total Gross (as of 3rd August 2014): $6,393,211/±RM20,180,168.58
6
Premiered: 15th May 2014
Distributor: Fox
Total Gross (as of 27th July 2014): $6,077,147/±RM19,182,512.66
7
Premiered: 30th January 2014
Distributor: Sony
Total Gross (as of 23rd March 2014): $5,833,356/±RM18,412,986.45
8
Premiered: 31st July 2014
Distributor: Disney
Total Gross (as of 24th August 2014): $5,354,00/±RM16,899,899.38
9
Premiered: 10th July 2014
Distributor: Fox
Total Gross (as of 24th August 2014): $4,756,778/±RM15,014,768.32
10
Premiered: 7th August 2014
Distributor: UIP
Total Gross (as of 24th August 2014): $4,346,048/±RM13,718,299.19
So I may concluded that as of until now, the maximum local audiences would spend to watch movies in Malaysia could reach almost 3 million people approximately with box-office target could reach almost RM50 million. It will not be impossible for our local film makers to reach the box-office hit like the 'TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION'. But only if we could only make a movie that have the quality of acting, directing and editing as good as those who really value of making amazing art from conventional up to the detail of technology.
As compared to:
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| 'The Journey' (一路有你) is the highest grossing local film with box-office hit of RM17,170,341.75 (reported by Finas.gov.my) so far in 2014. Nothing much I would say about the detail of technology used in this movie, but its conventional issue portrayed in its storyline and acting casually, convinced an audience like me to enjoy watching it. I have no problem with the acting methods (not award-winning but not awkward either), the directing is simple yet promising (seemed the director has no reason to limit himself in expressing his skill), and the balloon concept used as the gimmick of the story's concept is adhering enough. Watching the tradition conflict between the young generation to the old in Chinese community from the storyline has no different to my own Malay community. Just change the custom and voila... I can relate to it at every single point. If some would say this movie got wide promotional coverage (so did the 'CEO' movie yet still failed at box-office!). Let us just accept the fact that our local audience are not that stupid to define the quality of a movie, which they (that's include me) could relate by the awesome performance of acting or the hypocrisy way of directing. Nuff said! |
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