JAPAN BOX OFFICE | Demon Slayer breaks all time record for OW

[mfantin65]

0.95m Mon0.80m Tue1.95m Wed0.85m Thu1.00m Fri5.55m midweek3.55m Sat4.05m Sun7.60m weekend- possibly 100-200k higher. Currency bump and Movix could be stronger. OW mos def beat.13.15m week180.55m Total adding to 167.40 from sunday.Projected Range275m Great certainty- 12x this weekend is the floor315m Likely- 18x this weekend. My gut here- HP7.2 #4WW beat350m Possible- 24x this weekend401m Dom- 30x this weekend. Within the realm of "anything is f-ing possible", like IM3 going down once was and now is foregone. Can't put a ceiling on this rocket, back above OW means zero drop so far and that indicates infinity .

Edited May 18, 2014 by T E Lawrence

[Quigley]

Spirited Away is full of symbols and metaphors. IMO No-Face represents human emotions and desires, especially from the people around him. He assumes the attributes of others. Because he's around Chihiro so much, he acts as Chihiro's shadow. He was lonely at first, then affected by the people in the bath house, he became greedy and corrupted, hoping to be accepted and noticed. This shows what could have happened to Chihiro if she let greed get to her head. He changed again eventually, affected by what happened to Chihiro in the end. Or at least that's how I remember it. I haven't seen this in a long time.

 

I agree this is a sensible and impressive interpretation actually. But I think I just can't relate to something so surrealistic. That's why I like Pixar films more. But if other people can relate to it, then that's great cuz it means the movie achieves it's purpose. 

[Rsyu]

If Frozen grosses $400m in Japan that would be roughly 1/6 of the total box office for the whole year.

[KZ-boy]

0.95m Mon0.80m Tue1.95m Wed0.85m Thu1.00m Fri5.55m midweek3.55m Sat4.05m Sun7.60m weekend- possibly 100-200k higher. Currency bump and Movix could be stronger. OW mos def beat.13.15m week180.55m Total adding to 167.40 from sunday.Projected Range275m Great certainty- 12x this weekend is the floor315m Likely- 18x this weekend. My gut here- HP7.2 #4WW beat350m Possible- 24x this weekend401m Dom- 30x this weekend. Within the realm of "anything is f-ing possible", like IM3 going down once was and now is foregone. Can't put a ceiling on this rocket, back above OW means zero drop so far and that indicates infinity .

 

And as far as millions Frozen lags behind Spirited away if to consider at the time of the 10th week?

 

P.S. Hello everybody, excuse me for my question, but I really need answer for it. Please help me!

Edited May 18, 2014 by KZ-boy

[Quigley]

As discussed extremely intensely for the whole of last week, the $164.4M Japan total and the $790.3M total of last week were both underestimated. This is confirmed by this week's update for the OS total: $805,800,000

 

Iron Man 3 will be gone by next Sunday the latest.

Edited May 18, 2014 by Quigley

[edroger3]

BOM updates new total:

 

Total Lifetime GrossesDomestic: $400,479,972 33.2%+ Foreign: $805,800,000 66.8%= Worldwide: $1,206,279,972

 

adding 15,6M$  - 2,6M$ understimating last week = 13M$!

 

Now Frozen ranks #6 also overseas.

Edited May 18, 2014 by edroger

[Olive]

Japan still hasn't cooled on FROZEN--it was #1 for the 10th consecutive weekend, increasing +8%, $179.6M total.

[Quigley]

OK, I must admit that each new milestone Frozen apporached (and eventually achieved) was mind-bending, but if it surpasses Harry Potter 7 - Part 2 in worldwide gross, I might actually blow my head off.

[mfantin65]

And as far as millions Frozen lags behind Spirited away if to consider at the time of the 10th week? P.S. Hello everybody, excuse me for my question, but I really need answer for it. Please help me!

see table below. SA had summer for the first seven weeks and FR had just 3 busy weeks of it first 9. Lets compare week 8 SA and week 10 FR going forward and you can see they are neck and neck as they battle it out post summer SA/ post GW FR and now have a level playing field. Edited May 18, 2014 by T E Lawrence

[lab276]

And as far as millions Frozen lags behind Spirited away if to consider at the time of the 10th week?

 

P.S. Hello everybody, excuse me for my question, but I really need answer for it. Please help me!

Here's a comparison:

sure!

 

Spirited away

¥1.001 billion ($8.9 million)

¥975 million ($8.7 million), -02%, ¥4.240 billion ($34.6 million)

¥890 million ($7.9 million), -09%, ¥7.220 billion ($59.0 million)

¥940 million ($8.4 million), +06%, ¥10.75 billion ($87.8 million)

¥890 million ($7.9 million), -06%, ¥13.26 billion ($109.3 million)

¥900 million ($8.0 million), +02%, ¥14.90 billion ($123.3 million)

¥785 million ($6.2 million), -13%, ¥17.13 billion ($148.5 million)

¥695 million ($6.3 million), -11%, ¥18.65 billion ($160.8 million)

¥650 million ($5.8 million), -07%, ¥19.98 billion ($171.7 million)

¥510 million ($4.6 million), -21%, ¥22.40 billion ($183.7 million)

¥435 million ($4.0 million), -15%, ¥23.60 billion ($193.6 million)

¥395 million ($3.6 million), -09%, ¥24.40 billion ($200.2 million)

¥265 million ($2.4 million), -32%, ¥24.89 billion ($204.2 million)

¥270 million ($2.5 million), +02%, ¥25.37 billion ($208.1 million)

¥330 million ($3.0 million), +22%, ¥25.97 billion ($213.0 million)

¥305 million ($2.7 million), -08%, ¥26.56 billion ($218.8 million) *Becomes #1 Film of All-Time, and achieves 16-consecutive weeks at #1*

¥195 million ($1.7 million), -36%, ¥27.04 billion ($222.7 million)

¥185 million ($1.6 million), -04%, ¥27.40 billion ($225.6 million)

¥255 million ($2.2 million), +31%, ¥27.84 billion ($229.1 million)

¥150 million ($1.3 million), -40%, ¥28.18 billion ($231.8 million)

¥115 million ($1.0 million), -26%, ¥28.40 billion ($233.5 million)

Final Total: ¥30.40 billion ($244 million), 23.5 million admissions.

[druv10]

OK, I must admit that each new milestone Frozen apporached (and eventually achieved) was mind-bending, but if it surpasses Harry Potter 7 - Part 2 in worldwide gross, I might actually blow my head off.

 

Potter fanbase should be very afraid as a Winter storm is approaching for the 5th biggest movie ever. At this rate 300M isn't a stretch or maybe even...350M.   

[mfantin65]

  Path to 300+

 

This projection is with 10% average drops which has yet to materialize in the run. 

Spirited Away start comparing to Fozen at week three due to summer advantage.  This comprison is for the long leg battle. SA numbers have been converted to current exchange rate.

 

With the way Frozen has performed I see it keeping pace with SA and I'm calling it a lock, I just don't see it fading hard with the post GW hold.

 

#   Howl's MC  Spirited Away Frozen

WE Week TOT   WE   Week TOT   MW WE   Week   TOT

1 13.988  13.998 13.998 7.531 9.731   9.731

2 11.680  20.400 44.430  11.300  8.550  19.800 29.535

3 9.832  21.400 65.878   10.000  10.000 10.000   13.400  8.569  22.000 51.579

4  9.165  15.400 81.210 9.500 32.000 42.000   15.300  8.238 23.500 75.100

5 8.100  15.800 97.000 8.700 29.500 71.500    7.800  8.286 16.000 90.600

6  7.400  15.000  112.000 9.200  34.500  106.000    5.900 8.046  14.000  104.800

7 6.866  13.700  125.703 8.700  24.500  130.500 6.500  7.558 13.400  118.400

8 6.171  20.100  145.795 8.800  16.200  146.700   14.100 11.100 24.900 144.400 GW Bump

9  3.367 8.800  154.556 6.700  22.200  167.100 15.800  7.200  23.000  167.400 Smmr/GW-Over(OFF#)

10 2.323 5.300  159.840 6.800  15.100  181.200  5.500  7.600  13.100  180.500 FR/est Leg battle!

11 2.464 3.500  163.425 6.400  13.100  194.300     4.900  6.900 11.800  192.300

12 1.817 2.800  166.170 5.000 12.500  205.800  4.400  6.200  10.600  202.900

13 1.812 4.000  170.218 4.300  11.000  216.800 3.900  5.600   9.500  212.400 Oct/June

14 1.219 2.300  172.561 3.900 6.500  223.300 3.400  5.100   8.500  220.900

15 1.090 1.500  174.104 2.600 4.400  227.700     3.100  4.600   7.700  228.600

16   2.600 4.700  232.400 2.800  4.200   7.000  235.600

17   3.200 5.900  238.300  2.500  3.800   6.300  241.900 Nov/July

18   2.900  5.900  244.200     2.300  3.400   5.700  247.600

19   1.900  3.900  248.100 4.500  3.100   7.600  254.800 Summer Bump FR

20   1.800  3.200  251.300     4.100  2.800   6.900  261.700 

21   2.500 3.800  255.100 3.700  2.500   6.200  267.900 December SA

22   1.500 3.200 258.200     3.400  2.200   5.600  273.500

23 1.100 2.100 260.300     4.500  3.000   7.500  281.000 Obon Bump FR

Extended Run   190.000 Extended Run  294.000 Extended Run   315.000  

Edited May 18, 2014 by T E Lawrence

[edroger3]

Gitesh Pandya begins to think 200M:

@Gitesh Pandya ‏@giteshpandya 5 min#Frozen spends 10th wknd at #1 in Japan. Local cume a staggering $179.6M & set to crush $200M. $1.2B global, #6 all-time.

[BadAtGender]

Well, first of all, in SA, No-Face does the most random unexlplained things in the movie. I don't even understand what purpose they serve and I find his whole character quite unnecessary.

 

Also, in the Wind Rises, maybe this is just because of the subtitles (I'm not sure whether they were accurate or not), sometimes I couldn't understand whether he was in Germany or Japan. The film jumped from one scene to another without always explaining what happened during the time in between. Again this might have been due to the subtitles.

 

I agree that they are good films but I guess I'm so used to the American way of storytelling that I find them very strange at times.

 

I didn't really think No Face was random, but he did act with impulses that weren't human. It can be a bit confusing, but one thing that Miyazaki doesn't do is dumb down the characters to explain things. In their world No Face is a known: they have some implicit understanding of him so other than providing some really basic information to Chihiro, they don't go into a whole lot of detail. Like her, we're left to infer a lot about him.

 

For another example, look at Totoro. As the film is presented, Totoro is this old, known nature spirit creature and you get a real sense that everyone knows and has heard about it. It turns out that, nope, Miyazaki created Totoro completely for the film. He just has a way of making that seem natural.

 

Regarding TWR, I never felt lost for where things were, but would agree that it's a bit more episodic than his previous films so doesn't quite have the same flow.

 

why did do only 10m in US. It doesnt even look dubbed.

 

Timing and content. For the first, it hit right after computer animation took off in a big way, after Monster's Inc and Shrek and Ice Age. Even if it was something "new" it wasn't the hot new thing. Content wise, it is very Japanese, and that's not an easy sell with the general pubic.

 

Even so, it did quite a bit better than Princess Mononoke did a few years before.

[Rsyu]

Gitesh Pandya begins to think 200M:

@Gitesh Pandya ‏@giteshpandya 5 min#Frozen spends 10th wknd at #1 in Japan. Local cume a staggering $179.6M & set to crush $200M. $1.2B global, #6 all-time.

A bit late to the party....

[edroger3]

Gitesh Pandya begins to think 200M:

@Gitesh Pandya ‏@giteshpandya 5 min#Frozen spends 10th wknd at #1 in Japan. Local cume a staggering $179.6M & set to crush $200M. $1.2B global, #6 all-time.

And Ray "Nostradamus" Subers:

 

@Box Office Mojo ‏@boxofficemojo 22 min'Frozen' will likely move ahead of 'Iron Man 3' on all-time worldwide chart by next weekend: http://bit.ly/RMIPBY

[druv10]

'Frozen' will likely move ahead of 'Iron Man 3' on all-time worldwide chart by next weekend: http://t.co/Q6s2Su9Ti5

— Box Office Mojo (@boxofficemojo) May 18, 2014

 

lol at Ray finally joining the party. Man, he really is a moron. 

[edroger3]

Toho+109+Kinezo+Movix sunday 11 vs sunday 18

 

*1　112529　271267　773　107.6% Frozen*2　*28482　147832　695　*82.0%  Thermae Romae-Ⅱ*3　*18899　*85073　416  　******  　Ushijima-kun 2*4　*18089　*44220　132　  ******  　Gundam*5　*17524　*73839　421　*71.8%　Conan*6　*14580　*82698　468　*70.4%　Amazing Spiderman

[tong kosong]

 

'Frozen' will likely move ahead of 'Iron Man 3' on all-time worldwide chart by next weekend: http://t.co/Q6s2Su9Ti5

— Box Office Mojo (@boxofficemojo) May 18, 2014

 

lol at Ray finally joining the party. Man, he really is a moron. 

 

 

Better late than never.

[mfantin65]

Admissions for the four chains. 36% market share. Last saturday 109 had an extra 6000 with discount which did not increase revenue because of discount......Last wk....this wkSat.....95930.......94012Sun..104580.....112529Tot....200511.....206541 +3% increase in admissionsWhen removing 6000 for discount that does not factor into TMK1x194511 x 37.1 = 7.22m206541 x 37.1 = 7.66m

Edited May 18, 2014 by T E Lawrence