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Peninsula (Train to Busan sequel) will be pushed back from its day-and-date release with South Korea for 1 week following the government's newly announced measures to curb the coronavirus including limiting public gatherings to 4 people only from 50.

The virus has seen a resurgence in the past week culminating with 52 new cases on Monday with 41 of them from local transmission. It is possible that this outbreak has been caused by an quarantine-exempted person traveling to HK, infecting others and spread through the July 1 protest for easy transmission.

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Bluebomb wrote:
Peninsula (Train to Busan sequel) will be pushed back from its day-and-date release with South Korea for 1 week following the government's newly announced measures to curb the coronavirus including limiting public gatherings to 4 people only from 50.

The virus has seen a resurgence in the past week culminating with 52 new cases on Monday with 41 of them from local transmission. It is possible that this outbreak has been caused by an quarantine-exempted person traveling to HK, infecting others and spread through the July 1 protest for easy transmission.


If you have read the news, clusters of cases have been linked to several restaurants, a nursing home, and the immigration and customs service near the Shenzhen border (all indoor places). You can blame it on Ocean Park and Disneyland too, if that's all you want. These amusement parks have had tens of thousands of visitors in recent weeks.


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Post Re: HK 7/13: Peninsula delayed following movie theater closu
Damn I want Peninsula now. Busan was so good.


Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:38 pm
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Since i.hope has requested I've made him author of this thread for now. If Blue wants it back then I'll do that. I'm trying to find if both of you can update this thread but right now it's not possible.

BTW Peninsula is releasing here in normal as well as imax screens tomorrow I.e. 15th July.


Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:49 pm
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Post Re: HK 7/13: Peninsula delayed following movie theater closu
Jack Sparrow wrote:
Since i.hope has requested I've made him author of this thread for now. If Blue wants it back then I'll do that. I'm trying to find if both of you can update this thread but right now it's not possible.

BTW Peninsula is releasing here in normal as well as imax screens tomorrow I.e. 15th July.

I would like to retain author rights for this thread.

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i.hope wrote:
Bluebomb wrote:
Peninsula (Train to Busan sequel) will be pushed back from its day-and-date release with South Korea for 1 week following the government's newly announced measures to curb the coronavirus including limiting public gatherings to 4 people only from 50.

The virus has seen a resurgence in the past week culminating with 52 new cases on Monday with 41 of them from local transmission. It is possible that this outbreak has been caused by an quarantine-exempted person traveling to HK, infecting others and spread through the July 1 protest for easy transmission.


If you have read the news, clusters of cases have been linked to several restaurants, a nursing home, and the immigration and customs service near the Shenzhen border (all indoor places). You can blame it on Ocean Park and Disneyland too, if that's all you want. These amusement parks have had tens of thousands of visitors in recent weeks.

And there are quite a number of cases that are unable to be traced. Turning a blind eye or downplaying the protests/riots, regardless of their political motivation, as a potential transmitter of COVID-19 is foolish and misguided.

We know that the average incubation period for the coronavirus is 5-9 days. All it takes is 1 case and a massive event with tons of people, whether indoors or outdoors, that can fuel the spread of the virus.

Train to Busan made $8.6m US ($68m HK) back in 2013, however, with the coronavirus surfacing, 2.5m might be a stretch for the sequel. Before theaters were shut down, Peninsula wasn't doing that well in pre-sales, perhaps affected by the growing number of COVID-19 cases, despite some theaters throwing over 30 showtimes to the action-horror film.

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We know that the average incubation period for the coronavirus is 5-9 days. All it takes is 1 case and a massive event with tons of people, whether indoors or outdoors, that can fuel the spread of the virus.


The risk of infection is much higher indoors than outdoors. Indoor gatherings like schools and bars are more at risk. And the descent of HK into a draconian state has made protests inevitable, regardless of your political motivation. Banned books, banned speech, banned voting, etc. When the unelected government cares more about banning things and arresting people for them than COVID response, HK is grasping for its last breath.


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I see that Peninsula is supposed to get an August release in America, with theaters showing Train to Busan in the weeks ahead to get people hyped (and because they have nothing else to show.)

So maybe it hits itunes in October in time for Halloween?


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I'm watching Peninsula today IN THEATERS. Woo!


Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:27 pm
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i.hope wrote:
Bluebomb wrote:
We know that the average incubation period for the coronavirus is 5-9 days. All it takes is 1 case and a massive event with tons of people, whether indoors or outdoors, that can fuel the spread of the virus.


The risk of infection is much higher indoors than outdoors. Indoor gatherings like schools and bars are more at risk.


Of course, the chances of being infected are higher indoors than out but there are multiple clusters of outbreaks with 30-40% of cases of unknown origin. Every avenue should be explored when it comes to contact tracing.

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Post Re: HK 7/19: Extended theater closures until 7/28
Movie theaters will remain closed for another week. The latest extension will be in effect until July 28.

Hong Kong is reporting 108 cases, 83 local today. A new record.

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Damn that's bad news after having coronavirus situation under control for last few weeks.


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Bluebomb wrote:
i.hope wrote:
Bluebomb wrote:
We know that the average incubation period for the coronavirus is 5-9 days. All it takes is 1 case and a massive event with tons of people, whether indoors or outdoors, that can fuel the spread of the virus.


The risk of infection is much higher indoors than outdoors. Indoor gatherings like schools and bars are more at risk.


Of course, the chances of being infected are higher indoors than out but there are multiple clusters of outbreaks with 30-40% of cases of unknown origin. Every avenue should be explored when it comes to contact tracing.


So you are saying the government is letting the virus spread by allowing outdoor avenues like Disneyland open? Mind you, the Chinese and Hong Kong governments are too busy taking away people's rights to fight the outbreak.


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Post Re: HK 7/19: Extended theater closures until 7/28
While new releases (especially homegrown films) dominated during the 68-day re-opening, some re-issues of popular modern classics also got good attendance.

Top 5 re-releases during this period (numbers capture first 3-day performance of 1-week screening):

1. Akira (4K) - 7,800 admissions over the Thu-Fri-Sat window
2. The Dark Knight - 6,400
3. The Dark Knight Rises - 4,500
4. Batman Begins - 4,100
5. Train to Busan (extended) - 1,000


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i.hope wrote:
Bluebomb wrote:
i.hope wrote:
Bluebomb wrote:
We know that the average incubation period for the coronavirus is 5-9 days. All it takes is 1 case and a massive event with tons of people, whether indoors or outdoors, that can fuel the spread of the virus.


The risk of infection is much higher indoors than outdoors. Indoor gatherings like schools and bars are more at risk.


Of course, the chances of being infected are higher indoors than out but there are multiple clusters of outbreaks with 30-40% of cases of unknown origin. Every avenue should be explored when it comes to contact tracing.


So you are saying the government is letting the virus spread by allowing outdoor avenues like Disneyland open? Mind you, the Chinese and Hong Kong governments are too busy taking away people's rights to fight the outbreak.

Where did you come to the conclusion that I said anything about the government letting the virus spread?

My point is very clear. COVID-19 does not care about politics. Every incident including political rallies like 7/1 or the 2 day primaries or the Yuen Long remembrance gatherings need to be investigated as potential super spreader events. 30-40% of cases are unknown right now. This needs to be investigated quickly to clamp down on the transmission of the virus. I don't know why you are shifting attention elsewhere. Do you really think that transmission cannot happen even with widespread mask wearing and it being outdoors?

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Where did you come to the conclusion that I said anything about the government letting the virus spread?

My point is very clear. COVID-19 does not care about politics. Every incident including political rallies like 7/1 or the 2 day primaries or the Yuen Long remembrance gatherings need to be investigated as potential super spreader events. 30-40% of cases are unknown right now. This needs to be investigated quickly to clamp down on the transmission of the virus. I don't know why you are shifting attention elsewhere. Do you really think that transmission cannot happen even with widespread mask wearing and it being outdoors?


My point is the HK government has been letting all sorts of large crowd activities go un-investigated (using your own word). Various celebratory events of the 7/1 anniversary of China's takeover of Hong Kong were going on in the last few weeks. HK and mainland officials/agents were traveling across the border to congregate to rubber stamp and do propaganda tour on the Orwellian security law. These people were exempted from mandatory testing and quarantine by the HK government. These are the high-risk/super spreader activities we should be focusing on if you care about stopping COVID-19. Politics gave the HK and Chinese governments permission to spread the disease.

The Hong Kong Medical Association, representing medical practitioners, has said today the main source of the latest outbreak was likely the 200,000 cross-border travels that were exempted from testing and quarantine. The organization had warned about the loophole before.



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A top health expert and government advisor shared the same view that the current wave of infections was brought in by people who were exempt from mandatory testing and quarantine.

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https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1539483-20200723.htm

A top health expert says new analysis of recent coronavirus samples suggests that the current wave of Covid-19 infections was brought in from outside of Hong Kong, most likely by people exempted from mandatory quarantine.

The comments by Gabriel Leung, dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Hong Kong, go against the government's position that the exemptions did not trigger the recent surge in infections.

Leung says samples taken from recent Covid-19 patients bear little resemblance to earlier strains of coronavirus that affected Hong Kong earlier in the year.

"The current third wave seemed to have had multiple, new introductions that are unlinked to the previous local clusters," he said.

He says that means the current wave of infections was most likely brought in from imported cases by someone who was exempt from having to go into quarantine for two weeks.


Exemptions were put in place for those whose activities are considered essential to the SAR, such as aircrew and seamen, cross-border drivers and certain business people.


Guess who traveled across border in groups and were exempt from quarantine? The HK and Chinese officials touting the national security bill, a piece of secret legislation passed without deliberation and knowledge of the content which was later revealed as featuring secret police and search without warrant.


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i.hope wrote:
A top health expert and government advisor shared the same view that the current wave of infections was brought in by people who were exempt from mandatory testing and quarantine.

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https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1539483-20200723.htm

A top health expert says new analysis of recent coronavirus samples suggests that the current wave of Covid-19 infections was brought in from outside of Hong Kong, most likely by people exempted from mandatory quarantine.

The comments by Gabriel Leung, dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Hong Kong, go against the government's position that the exemptions did not trigger the recent surge in infections.

Leung says samples taken from recent Covid-19 patients bear little resemblance to earlier strains of coronavirus that affected Hong Kong earlier in the year.

"The current third wave seemed to have had multiple, new introductions that are unlinked to the previous local clusters," he said.

He says that means the current wave of infections was most likely brought in from imported cases by someone who was exempt from having to go into quarantine for two weeks.


Exemptions were put in place for those whose activities are considered essential to the SAR, such as aircrew and seamen, cross-border drivers and certain business people.


Guess who traveled across border in groups and were exempt from quarantine? The HK and Chinese officials touting the national security bill, a piece of secret legislation passed without deliberation and knowledge of the content which was later revealed as featuring secret police and search without warrant.

Which other groups were also exempt from quarantine? It says right there in the article. Airline personnel, seamen and cross-border truckers.

We already know that several airline personnel, seamen and cross-border truckers have tested positive for this virus.

Also, all outdoor gatherings need to stop and also be investigated as the source of the first cluster. The first cluster is still unknown at this point and they should do contact tracing in all places to find out where it originated.

Movie theater closures extended for another week.

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Movie theater closures extended until August 11.

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Post Re: HK 8/25: Theaters to reopen on 8/28
Theaters have been given the green light to reopen on Friday which means that Peninsula, the Train to Busan sequel, will finally make its debut in Hong Kong.

Looking at screen counts so far from the big theater chains, Broadway has Peninsula on 3 screens average on Friday and then 4 screens on Saturday.

Emperor has Peninsula on 1-2 screens Friday.

Golden Harvest is putting Peninsula on 1-3 screens Friday and on the weekend.

MCL, UA, Cinema City have not released any schedules yet.

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With 6 hours to go, Peninsula currently has sold 55,318 tickets for opening day, however, that includes blocked off seats. In general, capacity seems to be about 30% filled per screen for Friday 7 PM showings.

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Just after 7 PM and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba has already logged 30,000 admissions on its 2nd Thursday, however, these include blocked off/restricted seats due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is heading for another 1m weekend and is flirting with beating Stand By Me Doraemon's $46.89m HK gross.

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Welcome back Blue :thumbsup:


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Thanks.

Thursday actuals

1. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - $122,533 (-69.6%)/$2,371,998

So those blocked off seats got me. It seems like the ratio is about 3.5-4 multiplier from admissions:gross. I still think 1m 2nd weekend is possible with a very good Friday and an exceptional Saturday/Sunday. Right now it is looking at a -50% drop from opening weekend.

Its Friday admissions is close to beating Thursday's with more than 8 hours to go.

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