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[Mojoguy]

Corpse

 

The Yen has hit a 7/8 year low vs the Dollar since this past fall, too.

Hollywood films don't make as much in Japan as they did in the past, but it's going to make the hit films from this upcoming year look worse than they really are in USD. Just last year, a lot of films beat matched/beat their previous installments or comparable films in Yen and admissions, but were well below in USD.

Using Big Hero 6 as a recent example, which was sitting at ¥6.41 billion as of last Sunday, it'd have earned:

2010 in $75/76 million
2011 in $81/82 million
2012 in $79/80 million
2013 in $65/66 million

And it'd be on track for $100 million+, but currently, it's at $54/55 million with the current exchange rate and will make around $70/75 million.

2014 is going to be up over 2013 in Yen and admissions, and should be above most years since 2000, but it'll be near the bottom of the list in USD.

Frozen got lucky and made all its earnings before the fall last year, otherwise its $250 million total would be looking more like $210/215 million right now. Still huge, of course, but that's only a difference a couple months could have made.

[Dingdong123]

They're the "snowgies" which are

living boogers that Elsa sneezed out because she caught a cold.

They sometimes act as though they were a sentient form of microbots (from Big Hero 6), so I tend to think of them as microsnots.

Wait, what?!

Lol.

[Melvin Frohike]

Wait, what?!

Lol.

You may think it's a joke, but it' snot:

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/418491-meet-the-snowgies-in-the-new-poster-for-frozen-fever#/slide/1

Well, it's snow, but these are still her little boogers. I guess this makes Elsa the first Disney princess (queen) who shoots snow with her nose, so to speak.

[edroger3]

Saturday Estimates

 

1-Into the Woods   adm 224.754   ¥280.943.063   $2.323.399  
2-Doraemon         adm 173.972   ¥201.285.133   $1.664.628  tot ¥  931.184.075  $ 7.918.232
3-Strobe Edge      adm 164.606   ¥205.758.000   $1.701.619  
5-American Sniper  adm  53.636   ¥ 67.795.272   $  560.667  tot ¥1.642.712.930  $13.968.647

[catlover]

Saturday Estimates

 

1-Into the Woods   adm 224.754   ¥280.943.063   $2.323.399  

2-Doraemon         adm 173.972   ¥201.285.133   $1.664.628  tot ¥  931.184.075  $ 7.918.232

3-Strobe Edge      adm 164.606   ¥205.758.000   $1.701.619  

5-American Sniper  adm  53.636   ¥ 67.795.272   $  560.667  tot ¥1.642.712.930  $13.968.647

 

Great opening for Into the Woods! Japan does love musical.

[edroger3]

Weekend estimates

 

Into the Woods   393.239   ¥491.548.500   $4.065.106  
Doraemon         403.310   ¥466.629.349   $3.859.025  tot ¥1.196.528.291  $10.174.560
Strobe Edge      309.454   ¥386.817.000   $3.198.977  
American Sniper   96.992   ¥122.598.014   $1.013.886  tot ¥1.642.712.930  $13.968.647

[picores]

Into the Woods doing great. What's the final likely total with this opening?

[Olive]

Into the Woods doing great. What's the final likely total with this opening?

With spring break, it may hit $30M.

[Olive]

BH6 total 9.04 biliion yen

Yokai Watch 7.66 billion yen

Into the Woods 420m yen Ow

[edroger3]

Weekend actuals (a Ms Excel malfunction caused a problem for sunday numbers between Into the Wood and Doraemon. I apologize)

 

Doraemon        418.700   Yen473.847.384   $3.918.718
Into the Woods  338.722   Yen426.037.675   $3.523.332
Strobe Edge     286.530   Yen332.472.610   $2.749.548

 

Big Hero 6 Total 7.113.086 adm - 9.041.560.000 Byen - #43 all-time

[edroger3]

Total as today

 

Doraemon         adm 1.527.528     ¥1.728.718.497  $14.750.158
Into the Woods   adm   561.764     ¥  706.575.996  $ 6.028.805 (about 100k admissions today)

American Sniper  adm 1.290.912     ¥1.631.712.894  $13.922.465

[edroger3]

Total for Ninja Turtles: 808.248 admissions -  1.200.820,300 Yen (10,21M$)

[Spidey Freak]

Great opening for Into the Woods! Japan does love musical.

 

They don't exactly hate fairytales either. Wondering how huge a Disney princess musical set in Japan would be.

 

China OTOH would go crazy for some Hollywood studio produced action/superhero movie based in China with a Chinese protagonist.

[edroger3]

Sat estimates

 

Ass. Classroom adm 204.170  ¥236.906.469  $1.959.217  
Museum 3       adm 124.913  ¥157.889.779  $1.305.748 

Doraemon       adm 120.311  ¥136.157.592  $1.126.023 Tot 1,95BY
Into the Woods adm 102.718  ¥129.196.973  $1.068.459 Tot 0,87BY
Strobe Edge    adm  74.878  ¥ 86.883.512  $  718.527  

[edroger3]

Weekend estimates

 

Ass. Classroom   354.595  ¥411.450.252  $3.402.694  
Museum 3         249.272  ¥299.126.520  $2.473.776  
Doraemon         256.938  ¥290.778.919  $2.404.742  tot ¥2.101.761.371  $17.933.118
Into the Woods   204.180  ¥256.813.585  $2.123.848  tot ¥1.100.098.903  $ 9.386.509
Strobe Edge      166.698  ¥193.426.005  $1.599.633

[sfran43]

How come Kingsman is not being released in Japan?

[edroger3]

Estimates

 

Weekend

 

Doraemon          223.795 adm   ¥256.693.346  $   2.122.854

Ass. Classroom    215.201 adm   ¥251.929.767  $   2.083.459  

Into the Woods    107.084 adm   ¥134.604.480  $   1.113.179

Strobe Edge       119.963 adm   ¥139.156.570  $   1.150.825

Museum 3          118.954 adm   ¥153.104.715  $   1.266.176                    

 

Full week (spring break)

 

Ass. Classroom    607.737 adm   ¥711.459.019  $   5.883.766

Doraemon          560.875 adm   ¥643.323.292  $   5.320.284  

Into the Woods     360.878 adm   ¥453.623.466  $   3.751.466

Strobe Edge       392.694 adm   ¥455.524.929  $   3.767.191

Museum 3          331.204 adm   ¥426.289.511  $   3.525.414

 

Last year Frozen alone did 2,4Byen and near 2M admissions in first SB week. 

Edited March 29, 2015 by edroger

[Bishop54]

So Jupiter Ascending is bombing? Didn't it open in Japan this weekend?

[edroger3]

So Jupiter Ascending is bombing? Didn't it open in Japan this weekend?

Under 100k adm, near 1M$ estmate

[Bishop54]

Under 100k adm, near 1M$ estmate

Well that's a disaster.