China Box Office for I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)
Theatrical Performance (US$) | ||
China Box Office | $70,174,368 | Details |
Worldwide Box Office | $70,840,654 | Details |
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Synopsis
Li Xuelian and her husband Qin Yuhe stage a fake divorce to secure a second apartment in the city reserved by the government for single people. Qin remarries six months later — as agreed — but to a different woman. Furious, Li files a lawsuit with the county court but loses the case. Refusing to accept the court's findings, Li appeals to the chief justice, the county chief, and even the mayor, but fails at every turn. After Qin publicly accuses Li of being a “promiscuous woman” because she was not a virgin on their wedding night, Li is driven back to the courts to redeem her reputation. Li makes her way from county to city, enduring one trial after another, until she decides to make her appeal in far-off Beijing. Ten years go by, and the cases of Li’s divorce and her ruined reputation have not been resolved, but Li refuses to quit, much to the consternation of the government officials she antagonizes.
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Movie Details
China Releases: | November 17th, 2016 (Wide), released as I Am Not Madame Bovary |
MPAA Rating: | Not Rated |
Running Time: | 139 minutes |
Keywords: | Lawyers, Set in China, Messy Divorce, Government Bureaucracy |
Source: | Based on Fiction Book/Short Story |
Genre: | Drama |
Production Method: | Live Action |
Creative Type: | Contemporary Fiction |
Production/Financing Companies: | Beijing Sparkle Roll Media Corporation, Huayi Brothers Corp., Beijing Skywheel Entertainment Co Ltd, Huayi Brothers Pictures Ltd, Zhejiang Dongyang Mayla Media Co Ltd |
Production Countries: | China |
Languages: | Mandarin |
International Box Office: Fantastic has a Beast of an Opening with $143.3 million
November 24th, 2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opened in first place on the international chart with $143.3 million in 63 markets. The film had the biggest opening of the Harry Potter franchise in 16 of those 63 markets, but ironically not in the U.K., where it had its biggest opening. The film debuted in first place there with $18.90 million in 666 theaters. This is the third best in the franchise behind the two Deathly Hallows films. Some of the markets where Fantastic Beasts set the franchise record include South Korea, where it made $10.64 million on 1,431 screens over the weekend for a total opening of $14.15 million. It did the same in Russia with $10.29 million on 1,173 screens and in Brazil with $6.4 million.
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Theater Averages: Manchester is Something to Sea, Earns $64,125
November 23rd, 2016
Manchester by the Sea led the way on the theater average chart with an average of $64,125 in four theaters. That isn’t the best average we’ve seen this year, but it is fourth place for a 2016 release. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them earned first place on the overall chart and second place with $17,954 on this chart. Nocturnal Animals earned an average of $13,315 in 37 theaters. That’s an impressive average considering how wide it was playing. Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened earned an average of $11,745 in two theaters. Meanwhile, the re-release of Daughters of the Dust was the final film in the $10,000 club earning $10,842 in its lone theater.
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Limited and VOD Releases: Limited Releases Need Some Animal Magnetism
November 18th, 2016
There are few films on this week’s list, but most of them are earning good reviews. Two of them, Manchester by the Sea and Nocturnal Animals, are also earning Oscar buzz and I wouldn’t be surprised of both did very well on the per theater average chart. On the other hand, I’m interested in seeing Girls und Panzer The FILM.
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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
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2016/11/18 | 1 | $29,440,000 | 81,851 | $360 | $29,710,000 | 1 | |
2016/11/25 | 3 | $6,350,000 | -78% | 21,736 | $292 | $47,710,000 | 2 |
2016/12/02 | 7 | $2,430,000 | -62% | 4,280 | $568 | $55,650,000 | 3 |
2016/12/09 | 7 | $2,710,000 | +12% | 1,994 | $1,359 | $61,160,000 | 4 |
2016/12/16 | 5 | $2,340,000 | -14% | 1,287 | $1,818 | $65,850,000 | 5 |
Box Office Summary Per Territory
Territory | Release Date |
Opening Weekend |
Opening Weekend Screens |
Maximum Screens |
Theatrical Engagements |
Total Box Office |
Report Date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Australia | 11/11/2016 | $0 | 0 | 15 | 36 | $127,992 | 12/5/2016 |
China | 11/17/2016 | $32,237 | 0 | 81851 | 111148 | $70,174,368 | 8/27/2018 |
France | 7/7/2017 | $36,490 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $36,490 | 6/27/2018 |
New Zealand | 11/18/2016 | $13,504 | 3 | 3 | 6 | $22,074 | 11/28/2016 |
North America | 11/18/2016 | $181,552 | 38 | 38 | 82 | $436,798 | |
Spain | 3/10/2017 | $19,236 | 36 | 36 | 57 | $36,424 | 3/23/2017 |
United Kingdom | 5/26/2017 | $6,508 | 21 | 21 | 21 | $6,508 | 5/31/2017 |
Worldwide Total | $70,840,654 | 8/27/2018 |
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Leading Cast
Fan Bingbing | Li Xuelian |
Supporting Cast
Guo Tao | Zhao Datou |
Chengpeng Dong (董成鹏) | Wang Gongdao |
Zhang Jiayi | Mayor Ma |
Yu Hewei | Zheng Zhong |
For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.
Production and Technical Credits
Xiaogang Feng | Director |
Liu Zhenyun | Screenwriter |
Liu Zhenyun | Story based on the Novel by |
Hu Xiaofeng | Producer |
Wang Zhonglei | Executive Producer |
Jerry Ye | Executive Producer |
Luo Pan | Director of Photography |
Han Zhong | Production Designer |
Wu Jiang | Sound Supervisor |
Du Wei | Composer |
William Chang Suk-Ping | Editor |