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

[cannastop]

https://www.tokyometro.jp/news/2023/215996.html

 

Well here's real news about Elemental and Tokyo transit. Apparently there will be a scavenger hunt/stamp collection for the movie running for a month starting on the release date of August 4 and ending on September 3.

All revolving around stations in the Tokyo Metro system.

[Issac Newton]

Knight Of The Zodiac (Saint Seiya: The Beginning)

 

¥120M Japan | $1.1M North America 

 

Explanation regarding the loss -

「公開時期が重なった他社大型作品に想定以上に人気が集中した」

"Large-scale works by other companies that were released at the same time were more popular than expected."

[Issac Newton]

2 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

Knight Of The Zodiac (Saint Seiya: The Beginning)

 

¥120M Japan | $1.1M North America 

 

Explanation regarding the loss -

「公開時期が重なった他社大型作品に想定以上に人気が集中した」

"Large-scale works by other companies that were released at the same time were more popular than expected."

$60M Production Budget. Can't imagining the loss Toei has acquired from this deal (Net Income of Toei already Forecast to fall 43% on Year/Year Basis)

[cannastop]

15 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

$60M Production Budget. Can't imagining the loss Toei has acquired from this deal (Net Income of Toei already Forecast to fall 43% on Year/Year Basis)

Oh my... Did they really spend $60 million on a movie that didn't even make it past $1 million in the Japanese box office? Do I have that right?

[Issac Newton]

3 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Oh my... Did they really spend $60 million on a movie that didn't even make it past $1 million in the Japanese box office? Do I have that right?

It's a Co-production between Toei &Sony, where Toei invested vastly on Production &Sony kept Marketing &Distribution on their hands

[JustLurking]

that saint seiya film was just a piece of shit so not sure how anyone could've expected a different outcome, pretty much this decade's dragon ball evolution except with nowhere near the brand strength to fall back on

Edited July 30, 2023 by JustLurking

[Issac Newton]

I wonder how Netflix's "ONE PIECE" will perform given with $144M Budget for 8 episodes. (⁠゜⁠o⁠゜⁠;

[Issac Newton]

 

 

 

 

[Issac Newton]

 

 

 

[JustLurking]

none of these tweets you're posting is getting much traction tbh

 

in fact barbie's numbers on platforms like eiga and especially filmarks look quite good to me. we'll see if it can do something.

Edited July 30, 2023 by JustLurking

[Issac Newton]

3 minutes ago, JustLurking said:

none of these tweets you're posting is getting much traction tbh

Some are hours back. But, it started appearing today on my feed. Will see where these things goes - will likely be another scenario of Eternals last year ~

[upriser7]

any predictions on Elemental's OW ?

[JustLurking]

3 hours ago, Issac Newton said:

Some are hours back. But, it started appearing today on my feed. Will see where these things goes - will likely be another scenario of Eternals last year ~

yeah I see it now, it's trending pretty hard

Edited July 30, 2023 by JustLurking

[titanic2187]

17 hours ago, cannastop said:

Eh I'm not sure. I'll judge that after it premiers at Toronto. Then Western Critics will see it and maybe it will build up.

Sadly the Venice premiere didn't materialize if not that would provide some awareness boost to the local Japanese. At this rate I am just hoping for an nomination if GKIDS can play the game well.  

[Sophia Jane]

The Brand Popularity don’t have much help since Japan is not a “opening decided” market.We need strong WOM here.

Edited July 30, 2023 by Sophia Jane

[Sophia Jane]

I get some news that oppy won’t released in Japan because universal don’t want hurt their business in Japan

[keysersoze123]

15 minutes ago, Sophia Jane said:

I get some news that oppy won’t released in Japan because universal don’t want hurt their business in Japan

Its not a surprise. Its a thorny movie for Japan for sure. Anyway Oppeneheimer has done great even without Japan. So its fine. 

[Issac Newton]

#NoBarbenheimer

#バービー

#オッペンハイマー

 

All Twitter Tags are trending hard on Twitter Japan. 6.3M views to Barbie Officials Reponse (+4M views on Last 5 hours)

 

 

It's going to be a summer to remember 😘💕

— Barbie Movie (@barbiethemovie) July 21, 2023

[Issac Newton]

7 hours ago, upriser7 said:

any predictions on Elemental's OW ?

Hard to predict - coming on the same time as Shin Chan 3D and Transformers. I am wondering about the Seat Capacity too. Just Hoping that Elemental doesn't end like PiB2 in Japan.

[cannastop]

53 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

I am wondering about the Seat Capacity too.

Hmm I wonder...

 

The current ranking of seats on Mimorin for August 1st is this:

1. 451758
2. 251237
3. 246284
4. 112703
5. 69620
6. 51393
7. 40623
8. 33310
9. 31537
10. 29808
11. 26898
12. 20305
13. 18769
14. 17575
15. 14416
16. 14272
17. 13123
18. 12666
19. 11541
20. 9679
21. 9408
22. 8094
23. 6944
24. 6636
25. 4499

 

Total of 1,513,098 seats. This is about half the Japanese theaters so.... about 3 million theater seats in total in Japan?

 

I imagine the lineup could look like this on August 4th on mimorin:
 

1. 250,000 seats Kingdom III: Flame of Destiny: 
2. 200,000 seats: Crayon Shin-Chan
3. 195,000 seats: Elemental
4. 190,000 seats: Mission Impossible
5. 180,000 seats: How Do You Live
6. 120,000 seats: Transformers

 

On August 1st, there are 330,103 seats split between the 7th-25th place movies.

 

I think on August 4th, there could be 378,098 seats split between the 7th-25th place movies. That plus the top 6 here  is 1,513,098.

 

I gave some leeway for the potential for releases I did not know of.

 

But overall I think both Elemental and Crayon Shin-chan will have around 200,000 seats on mimorin and 400,000 seats in total. Probably enough to meet demand for both.