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  1. Corpse : Admissions 01. Evergreen Love (reclaiming the #1 spot in its third week) 02. 64: Part 2 03. Zootopia 04. Sadako vs. Kayako Gross 01. Zootopia (reclaiming the #1 spot in its ninth week) 02. Sadako vs. Kayako 03. Evergreen Love 04. 64: Part 2 An entire top 4 ranking different in admissions and gross, that's got to be very very rare.
  2. May (Golden Week excepted) and June are usually dead months. They actually haven't been too bad this year.
  3. Because it only has the RT scores on its main page under the 'movies opening this week list'. I find the average rating much more telling, afterall a movie can have a 90% RT score with many reviews just past the fresh threshold or the same score with much more dithyrambic reviews. Yes, that's why I went back on what I said when I mentioned that I misunderstood. It's RT's system which is awful with its black and white way of rating things, not the critics.
  4. Precisely. And despite a 90% positive the legs have been pretty awful, even for Marvel standards, so it seems that the average rating and not the RT score ended up being a better reflection of moviegoers' behaviour and overall WOM.
  5. Corpse : Weekend Forecast (06/18-19)/2016年06月18日-2016年06月19日 01 (01) ¥216,000,000 ($2.1 million), -39%, ¥875,000,000 ($8.3 million), 64: Part 2 (Toho) WK2 02 (02) ¥213,000,000 ($2.0 million), -25%, ¥6,900,000,000 ($64.0 million), Zootopia (Disney) WK9 03 (03) ¥210,000,000 ($2.0 million), -20%, ¥1,275,000,000 ($11.9 million), Evergreen Love (Shochiku) WK3 04 (04) ¥159,000,000 ($1.5 million), -37%, ¥1,575,000,000 ($14.7 million), Deadpool (Fox) WK3 05 (---) ¥150,000,000 ($1.4 million), 0, ¥150,000,090 ($1.4 million), Sadako vs Kayako (Kadokawa) NEW 06 (---) ¥125,000,000 ($1.2 million), 0, ¥125,000,000 ($1.2 million), Mars (Showgate) NEW 07 (---) ¥100,000,000 ($960,000), 0, ¥100,000,000 ($960,000), Creepy (Shochiku) NEW 08 (05) ¥93,000,000 ($895,000), -24%, ¥975,000,000 ($9.0 million), Wolf Girl and Black Prince (Warner Bros.) WK4 09 (---) ¥50,000,000 ($480,000), 0, ¥65,000,000 ($625,000), 10 Cloverfield Lane (Toho-Towa) NEW 10 (06) ¥49,000,000 ($470,000), -31%, ¥1,725,000,000 ($16.1 million), 64: Part 1 (Toho) WK7 This weekend is the definition of a dump weekend in a traditional dumping month. We will have a very close race to see which holdover will come out on top this weekend. 64: Part 2 is probably the slight favorite, but Zootopia could certainly reclaim the #1 position (in its ninth weekend!). Also, in what would be a huge surprise, Evergreen Love has a shot at rising to the #1 position (it's looking at the best hold this weekend), capturing the top spot for the first time since settling for third place the past two weeks. All three look likely to earn between ¥200-225 million this weekend. Now onto the openers... Sadako vs Kayako, I think, will end up being the top opener over the weekend, but it's only going to achieve a fourth place debut at best. The film puts the iconic horror characters from The Ring and Grudge franchises against one another as they, probably, frighten the cast. Mars has some nice pre-sales, but it's only playing on 197 screens and should have poor walk-up business since the majority of its pre-sales are coming from stage greetings. It could end up as the weekend's top opener, though. Creepy has the most potential based on the cast & crew credits, starring a popular lead in Hidetoshi Nishijima, but its pre-sales are the weakest and its screen count of 256 is unimpressive. It's the most unlikely to become the weekend's top opener, but it can't be ruled out completely since its walk-up business should be the strongest. 10 Cloverfield Lane is being dumped without any effort at trying to give it a respectable opening. It's only playing on 143 screens, and only earned around ¥15 million ($150,000) yesterday (Friday). A weekend around ¥50 million is probably the best it can manage to bring do.
  6. Yes, yes. In fact I think Zootopia's score is quite fair. I just think some scores are laughably high. CW comes to mind. edit : Nevermind, I misunderstood. It's actually the way RT functions that's an issue. It artificially increases or decreases the percentages by having reviews being either fresh or rotten. For example Dory has 95% with an average score of 7.74 so the percentage makes it look way better than what critics really think.
  7. I do agree that American and to a lesser extent British critics seem to get enthusiastic quite easily with a 'best movie ever' coming out about each month. I find my country's (France) critics better in that regard and less prone to release hype : The Avengers has 4.1/5 so 82, Zootopia 80, Captain America 66, Age of Ultron 58 etc.
  8. One Piece Gold is getting the widest release ever for a Japanese movie : http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-05-27/one-piece-film-gold-gets-biggest-opening-for-japanese-films/.102583 So between that and all the other movies, I don't think there will be many seats left.
  9. He's the executive producer. http://www.jobsnhire.com/articles/36821/20160304/one-piece-film-gold-trailer-manga.htm So he doesn't write the screenplay but he's definitely involved quite heavily.
  10. What's impressive about Doraemon and Conan is that they are consistently among the highest grossing movies of the year without the original authors being involved. Crayon Shin-chan and Naruto movies gross around 2 billion yen. Pokemon has been declining for a few years grossing only 2.5 billion yen last year. One Piece and Dragon Ball need their authors to be involved in the screenplay for the fans to show up and the movies to be successful which is why they only get a movie release every other year instead of annually. Doraemon's authors are dead and Conan's author doesn't write the screenplay for the movies. And yet...
  11. Corpse : Weekend Forecast (05/28-29)/2016年05月28日-2016年05月29日 01 (01) ¥428,000,000 ($3.9 million), -15%, ¥5,275,000,000 ($49.0 million), Zootopia (Disney) WK6 02 (---) ¥250,000,000 ($2.3 million), 0, ¥250,000,000 ($2.3 million), Wolf Girl and Black Prince (Warner Bros.) NEW 03 (02) ¥131,000,000 ($1.1 million), -07%, ¥775,000,000 ($7.1 million), If Cats Disappeared from the World (Toho) WK3 04 (---) ¥110,000,000 ($1.0 million), 0, ¥145,000,000 ($1.3 million), The Huntsman: Winter's War (Toho-Towa) NEW 05 (03) ¥91,000,000 ($825,000), -33%, ¥830,000,000 ($7.6 million), The Magnificent Nine (Shochiku) WK3 06 (04) ¥90,000,000 ($815,000), -30%, ¥5,875,000,000 ($54.1 million), Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare (Toho) WK7 07 (05) ¥85,000,000 ($770,000), -25%, ¥1,200,000,000 ($11.3 million), 64: Part 1 (Toho) WK4 08 (07) ¥70,000,000 ($635,000), -24%, ¥2,525,000,000 ($23.4 million), Captain America: Civil War (Disney) WK5 09 (06) ¥67,000,000 ($610,000), -39%, ¥300,000,000 ($2.8 million), After the Storm (Gaga) WK2 10 (08) ¥41,000,000 ($370,000), -50%, ¥2,125,000,000 ($18.3 million), Girls und Panzer: The Movie (Showgate) WK28 Zootopia is going to repeat atop the box office once again this weekend; achieving its fourth-consecutive weekend in the #1 position. If its past weekdays, and weekend pre-sales serve as an accurate indicator this week, it does appear the film has begun to cool down just a bit... but only just a bit. Its weekday-to-weekday business was down less than 10%, and its pre-sales for Saturday suggest a sub-20% hold, or possibly a single digit decline as well. It's going to cruise over the blockbuster milestone of ¥5 billion over the weekend, as it will then begin its journey to see how close it can get to the uber-blockbuster mark of ¥10 billion ($90 million). Wolf Girl and Black Prince will provide the weekend with a decent opener, which may perhaps be the biggest opener of this year's May (if it beats 64: Part 1's ¥257.2 million from earlier this month). Its pre-sales are almost on par with last year's No Longer Heroine, which opened to ¥262.5 million in September. The film is the latest live-action shojo adaptation, based on the popular manga of the same name 'Wolf Girl and Black Prince', directed by Hiroki Ryuichi and starring Fumi Nikaido and Kento Yamazaki in the lead roles. The Huntsman: Winter's War is going to disappoint. The first film was a modest success (grossing ¥1.71 billion), but the sequel appears to be in poor shape. Based on its Friday opening (~¥35 million), it's only going to gross around ¥100 million or so over the weekend frame compared to the original's debut of ¥302 million.
  12. The japanese people don't go to the movies that much compared to the americans, the koreans or the french. That's why admissions always look a bit low for such a big market.
  13. It's a copy of an italian ad (even the music is kept) : China : copying even your ads.
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