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[edroger3]

I have no idea what it means. Please translate how much US$ millions for Malf it could be

These are the places available. We have to see if Saturday will be empty or full.

[Dingdong123]

Are those Malef numbers any good??

[HesAPooka]

I'm surprised they'd wouldn't give up more seats to the movie based on the Japanese novel.

[Ajbg]

I think this means that they are expecting that Maleficent will be a big hit in Japan (3 times more seats than EOT).Probably Maleficent's tracking is a lot bigger than EOT.But the weird thing is that, if your numbers are correct, Maleficent has less seats in Toho than Frozen last week.

Edited July 3, 2014 by Ajbg

[LABAS]

TOHO saturday seats

  Maleficent 69170   Edge of Tomorrow 22309   Frozen 14113 (-80%) ???

 

KINEZO saturday seats

  Maleficent 61138   Edge of Tomorrow 22262   Frozen 17623 (-25%)

 

I think there is something of wrong in TOHO saturday seats report.

Of course this is wrong....the website's problem

Let us see another report:

TOHO席数　　6/28（土）→7/5（土）　※東北・関東・近畿・中四国（有楽町・梅田・台場は除外）※35館での集計out：ポンペイ、Need for speed、ポリスレジェンドin：マレフィセント、オール・ユー・ニード・イズ・キル、アンパンマン、AKB48

Last weekend   This weekend　　　　　　Seats runs　 　席数　上映回数 上映累計週Frozen　 49,184　152回　→　29,570　125回　17週目

 Maleficent 122,065　336回Eot　         44,319　179回　→　41,017　194回

 

Even though this report only covers around 2/3 of total seats in Toho, every movie has many more seats than that report.

[LABAS]

Current Saturday presale in Movix miyoshi :

 

Maleficent : 342

Eot :  75

Frozen : 91

[Tau Ceti]

Three times as many seats for Maleficent over EoT? Wow. That's extremely disappointing. It appears WB marketing push has come to naught.

[Mojoguy]

Haha...how about my new photo ?

What did your sexy avatar look like? I missed it. POST IT!

[Mojoguy]

So-so box-office in the US and elsewhere might be a hinderance.  Also, I wouldn't include a strong female lead (Emily Blunt) as a positive.  I doubt many are familiar with her at all.

 

Japan doesn't give a crap about Emily Blunt doing pushups!

[edroger3]

According to Screendaily Frozen has added 1,7M$ in weekdays (864,7M$ new OS total). It will pass 240M$ on saturday or sunday.

[Robertron]

According to Screendaily Frozen has added 1,7M$ in weekdays (864,7M$ new OS total). It will pass 240M$ on saturday or sunday.

$250m from Japan still possible?

[edroger3]

Tomorrow presales: Angelina defeats Tom 4-0 (for now)

[jj99]

Tomorrow presales: Angelina defeats Tom 4-0 (for now)

Great News. Hope The dame is given the opportunity to Show off her legs.

[KATCH-2D2]

Current Saturday presale in Movix miyoshi :

 

Maleficent : 342

Eot :  75

Frozen : 91

That's just... sad..

So in Japan only girls are still watching Hollywood movies nowadays? It seems unless the movies can appeal to girls they're dead.

[Corpse]

Females make up over half of the movie-going audience, so having some appeal to them is certainly important. 

 

Maleficent was always the strong favorite to beat Edge of Tomorrow though.  It's a known Disney fairy tale featuring Angeline Jolie in his first big role in 3 years.  And Maleficent appears to be the widest release since Monsters University and The Wind Rises last July (it has the most showtimes/seats than anything since them), so there's potential here for a big opening.  

 

Edge of Tomorrow should still beat Oblivion though.  Its opening may not match Oblivion's (opened on a discount day weekend, inflating it a bit), but its legs have to be better considering Oblivion had some pretty poor legs (sub-4 multiplier). 

 

July legs are some of the strongest of the year, so expect multiplier of at least 6 or 7 for each of them.  Edge of Tomorrow may have the better legs considering there's not much in the way of pure adult films this upcoming summer.

 

I'll post the weekend forecast tonight.

Edited July 4, 2014 by Corpse

[LABAS]

$250m from Japan still possible?

very likely.....especially when Frozen will keep screening in theaters after the release of BD.

[LABAS]

Tonight TOHO number of EOT : 7107...

not that ideal ....actually

[Dingdong123]

Maleficent was always the strong favorite to beat Edge of Tomorrow though.  It's a known Disney fairy tale featuring Angeline Jolie in his first big role in 3 years.  And Maleficent appears to be the widest release since Monsters University and The Wind Rises last July (it has the most showtimes/seats than anything since them), so there's potential here for a big opening.  

How "big" is the big opening? Is $8M possible? I don't really know how live action films work in japan.

[keysersoze123]

Tonight TOHO number of EOT : 7107...

not that ideal ....actually

 

How about Frozen?

[LABAS]

Frozen tonight is 2901, 10% drop from last Friday