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28 minutes ago, Jedi Jat said:
not a Blockbuster, the biggest blockbuster in modern history.
True. But the biggest blockbuster is still a blockbuster. We have no precedent to know how a sequel of a movie that big would perform. Even HP2 didn't open that much bigger (without previews) than the first. And HP1 was the 2nd biggest movie ever at the time. Although this is not a good comparison, since HP1 was already big from the get-go. Other biggest blockbusters don't have sequels, only follow ups from the same director (Howl's Moving Castle and Weathering with You). That's why I assumed Frozen 2 would be like any other blockbusters sequels.
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8 hours ago, Jedi Jat said:
this is Sunny's source
I see. I hope it's accurate. Still seems too high, but we'll know soon enough.
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2 hours ago, Jedi Jat said:
At this time, I am not surprised at all. I mean sequel to biggest modern blockbuster will of course break opening weekend record.
That said, I was sorta expecting $20mn 3 days, so ehh.
To be honest, I didn't expect this. I mean, I knew OW's gonna be much bigger than Frozen. But not record-breaking big. In Japan, a sequel to a blockbuster is not always guaranteed to open bigger. Even if it does, it won't be that much bigger. Let alone breaking OW record. Then again, maybe I shouldn't have applied normal rules to Frozen in Japan.
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28 minutes ago, Thanos Legion said:
It better. Otherwise false advertising
Yeah 😅. I'm just worried that with these seemingly-too-high numbers, people will be disappointed when the actuals come out.
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11 hours ago, Sunny Max said:
My numbers are comes directly from Japanese magazine through my friend .. Even Corpse said Sat will be 3X of Fri
No, Corpse said ~3x, which means as high as 3x. It could be 2.7 or 2.8. You also had Friday higher than the reported number ($3m). $8.96m Sat means ¥973m. With estimated 650K on Sat, the ATP would be around ¥1500. That seems waaay too high. TS4 was around ¥1300.
Or did you mean ¥896m? Because that makes more sense. I don't know, maybe you're right. But it feels like I'm missing something here.
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14 hours ago, Steven said:
1400
That high? TS4 was 1300 if I'm not mistaken. Does the higher price of "Magical Version" have that much impact?
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1 hour ago, Sunny Max said:
$8.96 M on Saturday for Frozen II
Fri - $3.29 M
Sat - $8.96 M
Total - $12.25 M
Friday was more like $3m and Saturday looks too high.
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My guess is, 470K from usual locations, 671K overall admission, 872M yen Saturday gross.
Mind you, like I said, this is only a guess.
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So Yo-Kai Watch's non-previews/animated film OW record is in play afterall. Wow.
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"Frozen 2 opened at #1 in all markets and posted the highest animated opening day of all-time in Korea, Indonesia, Turkey, Philippines, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and UAE."
Nice! Also, it could break Saturday/single day record in Japan.
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14 minutes ago, Fullbuster said:
I personally don't understand the success of Minions, they're ugly and their humor is really, really too dumb even for kids.
Scrat from Ice Age on the other hand is just adorable and can be loved by people of all ages.
That's your opinion and it's fine. I was just seeing it more objectively. Minions are waaay more popular, so it's understandable when the movie about them was huge. Meanwhile, Scrat (I even barely remember his name) doesn't have the same impact or popularity. Or maybe he did back then? I can't remember.
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4 hours ago, captainwondyful said:
So, um...
Spoiler-
Elsa is so pretty
and pretty much as gay as they make her knowing that China and Alabama exist - The animation is GORGEOUS. My GAWD.
- < SPOILER > and < MANDALORIAN SPOILER > need to have have Cute Off or a Disney+ Series
- Anna, Olaf and Kristoff got MAJOR upgrades
- It's a very different story than the first one; for better and for worse.
- I love that it's a more complex and mature story. It reminds me a bit of how Toy Story 3 is a children's Pixar film, but it was also made for all the 20-somethings that were Andy's age at Toy Story 1 and are now Andy's age in Toy Story 3. It feels like it was made to grow with its audience.
- For all this talk about "kid's movies" and "kids stuff" this film doesn't shy away from mature themes or complicated issues.
- Lost In the Woods is a STAND OUT. Show Yourself probably's taking home the Oscar. It is also going to be sung at every High School musical audition from here to eternity.
- It somehow feels both like ten minutes too long and fifteen minutes too short.
- I can't wait to watch it again
- ELSA IS SO PRETTY. A+ Character Design.
Show Yourself or Into the Unknown? Show Yourself is amazing, but has a more complex composition, while Into the Unknown has multiple belting parts that are perfect for audition song. Also, I think Disney is pushing Into the Unknown instead.
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2 hours ago, Thanos Legion said:
Charlie’s Angels almost 5x FvF. Now that is a rare sight with both in OW.
Yeah, an unfortunate rare sight. Wish FvF made much more than that. The score is very high though. Few movies got a 9 on that apps. Which means people who saw it, loved it. Just not many people to begin with.
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Last weekend's top 10 admission:
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6 hours ago, Taruseth said:
They were absolutely gigantic in like France and Germany (in Germany the first four movies are #2, #3, #4 and #7 in the CGI-Animation list (only movie to top Ice Age 2 (#2) was Finding Nemo through a rerun (before that was #3 I think))
Yeah I've been wondering why they were so huge especially in those countries. Never understand that. I get why the Minions movie was huge for example, or Shrek. They've become iconic characters. But Ice Age?
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One of the theater chains here in Indonesia has screenings for Frozen 2 as early as 8AM. I've never seen that since Endgame. Maybe for the little kids? I mean, they wouldn't waste electricity and man power if there weren't enough demands. The point is, there are signs that Frozen 2 will get huge OW in Indonesia. Not sure how huge though. But definitely the biggest for animated film.
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1 hour ago, Sunny Max said:
as per insidekino
The best starts of all time No. visitors Movie 1 1486743 Matrix reloaded 
1484916 Yo-Ki Watch 3 1469755 Harry Potter 3 4 1467945 Harry Potter 5 5 1421738 Pirates of the Caribbean 2 6 1390446 Harry Potter 2 7 1359454 Harry Potter 4 8th 1357977 The revenge of the Sith 9 1279120 Harry Potter 1 10 1198210 The Lord of the Rings 2 I checked the box office report on eiga.com for the week each movie was released, and I found that only Yo-Kai Watch, HP2 and HP1's are without previews. Also HP1's number is supposed to be 1,379,120. So I think it's:
1. Yo-Kai Watch
2. HP2
3. HP1
It's really hard to do comparison with this "previews are included in OW" thing, because back in the day, "previews" were held in Japan, not only for several hours, but for a whole day or a whole weekend, or even multiple weekends. Thank god, they don't do that anymore.
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55 minutes ago, KP1025 said:
According to Corpse, here are the biggest opening weekends without previews included.
Yeah I was thinking Yo-Kai Watch but wasn't sure how big. So it's ¥1.6B. With all that seats, Frozen 2 can challenge this I guess. But the question is how many of that seats will be filled on OW. I feel that it won't break it, because it will be more backloaded compared to those animes on the top of the list.
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1 hour ago, Xftg123 said:
Could Frozen 2 beat out the biggest Opening Weekend in Japan: Revenge Of The Sith (18.9M)?
That would need ¥2B. For 3 days, maybe, but unlikely. And for traditional 2-day OW, I don't think theaters in Japan have that kind of capacity. That number for ROTS is recorded as its "2-day" OW. But if I remember correctly, it actually includes previews on the previous weeks. The same with other biggest openers like Matrix Reloaded. It makes me wondering, what movie has the biggest OW without previews?
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Just saw it! And I LOVED it!! It's more epic than the first, and more action-packed. And yeah, it's a little bit darker, but somehow a little bit funnier to me. I felt like It's this close to breaking the 4th wall. I will say that I still like the 1st one better, because the story is more focused and it has more surprising twist.
IMO, the musical numbers were more powerful than those in the first movie. I cried hard during "The Next Best Thing" and the scene before that. "Show Yourself" was sooo epic! It's definitely the "Let It Go" of this movie. "Into the Unkown" was visually dazzling. And I get why it's the main song. It's simply very catchy and fun to sing along.
Can't wait to see it again on Saturday! Already have the tickets for IMAX.
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3 hours ago, Steven said:
yeah,Ben hur did really good in Japan
Ben-Hur gross over JPY 590m in 1960,and hit another JPY 900m in 1961,total gross JPY 1490m（ Tokyo Olimpiad box office:1220m ,）,and it become highest grossing film in Japan at that time, holding record for 14 years.(beaten by Bruce Lee's movie"Enter the Dragon")
top grossing film by year in Japan（1960-1969）
1960:Ben Hur-590m
1961:Ben Hur-900m
1962:West side story-690m
1963:Lawrence of Arabia-590m
1964: Tokyo Olimpiad-1220m
1965:James Bond-Goldfinger-706m
1966:James Bond-Thunder ball-1018m
1967:くろべのたいよう-796m
1968:ふうりんかざん-720m
1969:栄光への5000キロ-650m
Again, what is the source? This is very useful and interesting. Also, I looked for the admission price in 1960s, and according to this: http://www.eiren.org/statistics_e/
the average ticket prices in 1960 and 1961 were 72 and 85 yen. Let's take the lower one for Ben Hur. Then we get 20.69m admissions, still lower that Spirited Away's 23.5m. Since you said 30m for Ben Hur, does that mean it had much lower ticket price than the average?
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On 10/25/2019 at 5:00 AM, salvador-232 said:
That's why Showman wasn't a thing outside the Anglo world and Japan
Excuse me. The Greatest Showman had one of the leggiest runs ever in Indonesia. And the songs were big hits. It's definitely "a thing".
That being said, nobody cares about Cats here. And people will see it as "too weird".
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On 11/16/2019 at 9:42 PM, Steven said:
most attend movie in Japan is Ben-Hur(1960s, 30m admission),not Spirit Away
Really? Higher than Tokyo Olimpiad and Emperor Meiji? Where did you get that? Any sources? Because it's the first time I'm hearing this and it's hard to imagine that in the 60s a western film had more admission than those two Japanese films. It is interesting if that's true.
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15 hours ago, HeadShot said:
Taylor Swifts line of work is being a singer - which she fails at.
It's okay if you don't enjoy Taylor's music. People have different tastes. But considering she sells a lot of songs and album, touches people with her songs, and is still one of the most popular artists right now, I would say she's far from being a failure as a singer/artist. Yeah she's not Celine Dion, voice-wise, but the fact that a LOT of people are buying her work, means that they enjoy her voice.
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Frozen II 971m OS 1.44B WW
in International Box Office
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Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah Frozen should have a lower multiplier. I'm guessing 18.5 maybe? Or a bit higher since it had events with higher ticket price.