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

[riczhang]

In 1995?

 

Japan's undergone like literally no inflation in decades. 

[lab276]

Japan's undergone like literally no inflation in decades.

But the Yen is worth more now than it was in 1995, isn't it?

[riczhang]

But the Yen is worth more now than it was in 1995, isn't it?

 

oh, you guys were comparing USD, I thought you were talking about Yen. Yes. The Yen is worth more now. So you have a point as 86M USD would be about 20% more tickets I think. However, Japan's economy has been steadily getting more and more shit. So, 86M USD would've been considerably easier to get to then compared to now. 

[John Marston]

DH2 TS3 and Alice all made over 100M, so 86M is isn't that amazing for Japan.

Those were 15 years later and in 3D

[cremino]

Weekend Ranking

1 (1) Ted (Toho-Towa) Week 4
2 (-) Brain Man (Toho) NEW!
3 (3) Strawberry Night (Toho) Week 3
4 (2) Jack Reacher (Paramount) Week 2
5 (5) Les Miserables (Toho-Towa) Week 8
6 (4) Life of Pi (Fox) Week 3
7 (6) Tokyo Family (Shochiku) Week 4
8 (7) Yellow Elephant (Showgate) Week 2
9 (8) One Piece Film Z (Toei) Week 9
10 (9) Sentai Go-Busters vs. Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (Toei) Week 4

Few numbers are available right now, but Ted make it's 4/4 on top which brings it's total to an outstanding ¥2.4 billion ($27 million).

Brain Man debuted in a strong second taking in ¥300,577,800 ($3.4 million) with 227,345 admissions over 3-days on 302 screens. The weekend total itself hasn't been released yet.

Ghost Rider 2 misses debuting in the Top 10, ranking 11th overall.

[catlover]

Those were 15 years later and in 3D

Like what has been stated earlier, there's no inflation in Japan. In Yen, Die Hard 3 made around 8.2 billion, while HP8 made 9.6 billion, TS3 10.8 billion, Alice 11.8 billion. So we can compare and say that HP8, TS3 and Alice made a lot more than Die Hard 3.

 

But yes, there's 3D so they are on around the same level, attendance-wise, with Alice probably still higher than Die Hard. So the fact that Die Hard made that much IS amazing.

Edited February 13, 2013 by catlover

[Tower]

Those were 15 years later and in 3D

 

That was the point, your post said that Hollywood doesn't make those kinds of numbers anymore, so I specifically chose modern examples.

[druv10]

Weekend Ranking

1 (1) Ted (Toho-Towa) Week 4

2 (-) Brain Man (Toho) NEW!

3 (3) Strawberry Night (Toho) Week 3

4 (2) Jack Reacher (Paramount) Week 2

5 (5) Les Miserables (Toho-Towa) Week 8

6 (4) Life of Pi (Fox) Week 3

7 (6) Tokyo Family (Shochiku) Week 4

8 (7) Yellow Elephant (Showgate) Week 2

9 (8) One Piece Film Z (Toei) Week 9

10 (9) Sentai Go-Busters vs. Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (Toei) Week 4

Few numbers are available right now, but Ted make it's 4/4 on top which brings it's total to an outstanding ¥2.4 billion ($27 million).

Brain Man debuted in a strong second taking in ¥300,577,800 ($3.4 million) with 227,345 admissions over 3-days on 302 screens. The weekend total itself hasn't been released yet.

Ghost Rider 2 misses debuting in the Top 10, ranking 11th overall.

 

Damn, Pi will be lucky to hit 20M in Japan. Japan is officially dead to me.    

[iceroll]

DH2 TS3 and Alice all made over 100M, so 86M is isn't that amazing for Japan.

As a percentage of overall OS and WW gross, 86m from Japan was amazing for Die Hard 3. TS3, DH2 and Alice all made around 1B WW.

[Tower]

As a percentage of overall OS and WW gross, 86m from Japan was amazing for Die Hard 3. TS3, DH2 and Alice all made around 1B WW.

 

With expanding markets it would much harder to get such a high percentage of total OS gross now than at the time when markets like China and Russia were non-existant.

[cremino]

As of Sunday:

 

¥4.52 billion ($51.26 million)  Les Miserables

¥2.82 billion ($32.35 million)  007: Skyfall

¥2.29 billion ($25.74 million) Ted

¥1.66 billion ($19.14 million) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

¥1.32 billion ($14.49 million)  Life of Pi

Edited February 15, 2013 by eva

[cremino]

Thanks to Corpse

 

February 14 (Thursday)
A Good Day to Die Hard (Fox)

February 15 (Friday)
Zero Dark Thirty (Gaga)
Red Lights (Presido)

February 16
Masquerade (CJ Entertainment)
Dredd 3D (Broad Media Studios)
Hindenburg (TOEI)

February 22 (Friday)
Bachelorette (Gaga)

February 23
A Certain Magical Index (Warner Bros.)
Chair on a Grassland (TOEI)

-Coming in February:
Martha Marcy May Marlene (SPO)

 

March 1
Django Unchained (Sony)
Flight (Paramount)

March 8
Oz: The Great and Powerful (Disney)*
Savages (Toho-Towa)

March 9
Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum (Toho)*
Pleasure of a Thousand Years (Wakamatsu Productions)
Amour (Long Ride)

March 15
Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros.)*
Shimajiro and Fufu's Great Adventure: Save the Seven-Colored Flower! (Toho Video Division)

March 16
Platinum Data (Toho)*
Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 2 (Toei)
7 Days of Himawari & Her Puppies (Shochiku)
Come Rain, Come Shine (Pony Canyon)

March 22
Jack the Giant Slayer (Warner Bros.)
The Master (Phantom Film)

March 23
Wreck-It-Ralph aka "Sugar Rush" (Disney)*
Nobody's Perfect (Toho)*
Aibou Series X-Day (Toei)
My Friendship Diary (Showgate)

March 29
Anna Karenina (Gaga)
ParaNorman (Toho-Towa)

March 30
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods (Toei)*
Uzumasa Movie Village Kansai! (Shochiku)

[National Holidays in March]
Vernal Equinox Day (3/20)
A Day of Admiration of Nature and All Living Things.

**********************************

April 5
Hitchcock (Fox)

April 6
Sakura, Futatabi no Kanako (Showgate)
Rust and Bone (Broad Media Studios)

April 13
We Knit Ship (Shochiku/Asmik Ace)*
Ultimate! Hentai Kamen (Joy Duty)
Cosmopolis (Showgate)
Chinese Zodiac (Kadokawa Pictures)

April 19
Lincoln (Fox)*
Quartet (Gaga)

April 20
Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea (Toho)*
Crayon Shin-chan: Gourmet Survival Class (Toho)
Petal Dance (Bitters End)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Phantom Film)
Steins; Gate Fuka Ryoiki no Deja vu (Kadokawa Pictures)

April 26
Iron Man 3 (Paramount)*
Straw Shield (Warner Bros.)
Killing Them Softly (Presido)

April 27
Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Taisen Z (Toei)*
Library Wars (Toho)*
The Last Stand (Shochiku)

[National Holidays in April]
Showa Day (4/29)
A
Day to Reflect on the Events of the Showa Period. Showa Day also marks
the beginning of Golden Week (4/29-05/05), one of the three busiest
weeks of the year.

Films marked with an asterisk are ones to keep an eye on (potential to do well above 1 billion yen).

[lab276]

With expanding markets it would much harder to get such a high percentage of total OS gross now than at the time when markets like China and Russia were non-existant.

Doesn't make it any less impressive.

[Fullbuster]

As of Sunday:

 

¥4.52 billion ($51.26 million)  Les Miserables

¥2.82 billion ($32.35 million)  007: Skyfall

¥2.29 billion ($25.74 million) Ted

¥1.66 billion ($19.14 million) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

¥1.32 billion ($14.49 million)  Life of Pi

 

Ted beat Pi and Hobbit, wonderful and unpredictable

[cremino]

02/16-17
Weekend Forecast

1 (-) A Good Day to Die Hard (Fox) ¥305 million ($3.4 million), NEW!
2 (1) Ted (Toho-Towa) ¥270 million ($3.0 million), Week 5
3 (2) Brain Man (Toho) ¥150 million ($1.7 million), Week 2
4 (3) Strawberry Night (Toho) ¥140 million ($1.6 million), Week 4
5 (6) Les Miserables (Toho-Towa) ¥120 million ($1.4 million), Week 9
6 (4) Life of Pi (Fox) ¥115 million ($1.3 million), Week 4
7 (5) Jack Reacher (Paramount) ¥105 million ($1.2 million), Week 3
8 (7) Tokyo Family (Shochiku) ¥55 million ($600,000), Week 5
9 (-) Zero Dark Thirty (Gaga) ¥50 million ($550,000), NEW!
10 (8) Yellow Elephant (Showgate) ¥35 million ($375,000), Week 3

Die Hard should finally bump Ted
out of first place, but it's so-so opening day on Thursday of "almost"
¥100 million ($1.1 million) doesn't lock it up with the way Ted has been
performing.

Projected Totals (¥1 billion+) after Sunday:
-Les Miserables: ¥4.8 billion ($54 million) after nine weeks.
-Ted: ¥2.8 billion ($32 million) after five weeks.
-Strawberry Night: ¥1.7 billion ($19 million) after four weeks.
-Life of Pi: ¥1.6 billion ($18 million) after four weeks.
-Tokyo Family: ¥1.4 billion ($16 million) after five weeks.

Outside the Top 10:
-One Piece Film Z: ¥6.8 billion ($76 million) after ten weeks.
-Hunter X Hunter: The Phantom Rouge: ¥1.2 billion ($13 million) after six weeks.

[druv10]

Stunning holds for Ted while LOP will struggle to hit 25M.

[cremino]

2/16
Saturday Estimates

1 A Good Day to Die Hard (Fox) ¥181 million ($2 million) Day 3
2 Ted (Toho-Towa) ¥105 million ($1.2 million) Day 30
3 Zero Dark Thirty (Gaga) ¥66 million ($720,000) Day 2
4 Strawberry Night (Toho) ¥59 million ($645,000) Day 22
5 Brain Man (Toho) ¥56 million ($610,000) Day 8
6 Les Miserables (Toho-Towa) ¥46 million ($500,000) Day 58
7 Life of Pi (Fox) ¥41 million ($450,000) Day 23
8 Jack Reacher (Paramount) ¥31 million ($340,000) Day 16
9 Tokyo Family (Shochiku) ¥21 million ($230,000) Day 29
10 Yellow Elephant (Showgate) ¥15 million ($165,000) Day 15

Good numbers for Die Hard.
I see a 4-day total close to ¥500 million ($5.5 million). That's less
than it's predecessor, but is a respectable gross. The film is playing
in 342 theaters.

Impressive for Zero Dark Thirty.
It's ranking is largely helped by the average drops for the holdovers
due to last week's inflated weekend (it will probably fall in rank for
the weekend frame), but it's performing very nicely. Maybe a 3-day
total of ¥150 million ($1.7 million). The film is playing in 164
theaters.

Jack Reacher was really hit hard with
Die Hard opening, dropping over 60% compared to last Saturday. Both
films are skewing very old, 40/50+, so it makes sense.

[cremino]

From Corpse

 

02/16-17
Weekend Ranking

1 (-) A Good Day to Die Hard (Fox) NEW
2 (1) Ted (Toho-Towa) Week 5
3 (2) Brain Man (Toho) Week 2
4 (3) Strawberry Night (Toho) Week 4
5 (5) Les Miserables (Toho-Towa) Week 9
6 (-) Zero Dark Thirty (Gaga) NEW
7 (6) Life of Pi (Fox) Week 4
8 (4) Jack Reacher (Paramount) Week 3
9 (7) Tokyo Family (Shochiku) Week 5
10 (-) Masquerade (CJ Entertainment) NEW

Die Hard 5 ended Ted's reign at the top of the box office bringing in 318,154 admissions and ¥402,436,350 ($4.4 million) over the weekend across 643 screens. Since opening on Thursday, it's 4-day total exceeded ¥600 million ($6.5 million+).

Zero Dark Thirty did alright for itself earning 60,657 admissions and ¥76,409,500 ($825,000 ) on 164 screens
over the weekend. The top two demographics were males in their 40s and
and women in their 30s. Its also reported that WOM is very strong
among those on twitter, so some great legs could be expected.

Masquerade,
the third most attended film of all time in South Korea, surprised a
bit and managed a Top 10 debut. Playing on just 91 screens, the film did 41,290 admissions and ¥49,109,300 ($525,000) for the weekend.

And as I reported last night, Les Miserables
has indeed become the highest grossing film of all-time to never rank
#1 at the box office. In addition to this, by ranking 5th in it's ninth
week in release it has joined the list I posted above in this
accomplishment and is the only film to ever stay in the Top 5 for
9-consecutive weeks without ever ranking #1 as well.

[iceroll]

Awesome for Les Mis!

[PatrickvD]

Impressive for Les Mis and Ted. Good to see two Hollywood films that were both good perform well.

 

I'm curious as to how Wreck-It Ralph will perform. I'm hoping it does well, but I've been burnt by Brave. That film looked perfect for the Japanese market, but pretty much failed completely. Anyone with more knowledge on this?