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

[KushAboveAll]

God damn. As if summer in US wasnt bad enough, the curse is now here in japan. I just want to forget Summer 2014

[Corpse]

I wonder why TF3 did so well in comparison to the other film. 

 

Anyways still around 20-30 million I think? 

Because TF3 opened in the 3D era where 3D shares were 70/80%.  It didn't increase much in admissions.  

 

TF4 won't have this benefit when 3D shares are lucky to be over 20% in Japan nowadays, so it's gross will probably be closer to TF2.  

[Corpse]

Toho Cinemas Saturday/Weekend Admissions (Overall Weekend Admissions) [2013-]

 

Opening Day/Weekend (Overall), OD/OW multiplier (OW/Overall multiplier)

85,115/167,188 (747,451), x1.96 (x4.47) - The Wind Rises (07/20/13)

64,398/133,273 (649,865), x2.07 (x4.88) - Detective Conan: The Sniper from Another Dimension (04/19/14)

62,250/120,489 (500,837), x1.94 (x4.16) - Maleficent (07/05/14)

59,492/121,802 (614,969), x2.05 (x5.05) - Monsters University (07/06/13)

59,192/123,606 (602,347), x2.09 (x4.87) - Frozen (03/15/14)

51,800/108,724 (539,132), x2.10 (x4.96) - Lupin III vs. Detective Conan (12/07/13)

43,669*/75,635 (322,162), x1.73 (x4.26) - The After-Dinner Mysteries (08/03/13)

42,541/94,650 (530,544), x2.22 (x5.60) - Doraemon: Nobita's Great Demon - Peko and the Exploration Party (03/08/14)

42,537/91,182 (429,918), x2.14 (x4.71) - The Eternal Zero (12/21/13)

40,414*/74,131 (363,451), x1.83 (x4.90) - Midsummer Formula (06/29/13)

39,836/84,982 (365,356), x2.13 (x4.30) - Thermae Romae II (04/26/14)

38,885/85,462 (464,839), x2.20 (x5.44) - Pokemon Best Wishes: ExtremeSpeed Genesect - Mewtwo Awakens (07/13/13)

37,960/88,488* (393,522), x2.33 (x4.45) - SPEC: Close - Incarnation Part 2 (11/30/13)

36,995/79,454 (386,994), x2.15 (x4.87) - The Kiyosu Conference (11/09/13)

35,447/68,592 (330,385), x1.94 (x4.91) - Fast and Furious 6 (07/06/13)

33,778/??,??? (???,???), x?.?? (x?.??) - Pokemon XY: The Cocoon of Destruction & Diancie (07/19/14)

33,358/76,023 (345,921), x2.28 (x4.55) - SPEC: Close - Incarnation Part 1 (11/02/13)

30,000+/60,000+

 

*Stage Greeting/Discount Day boost.

 

Best comparisons for the new Pokemon film?  Last year's Pokemon film and Doraemon since it skews very young, too.  Children movies in general do worse on average than adult films at Toho Cinemas when we compared the multipliers.

 

So this tells us that that families/children frequent other cinema chains, like Aeon Cinemas, while teens/adults prefer Toho locations.  It's interesting to note that if this theory continues to hold true, that Maleficent is attracting a lot of teens/adults rather than children or families.  

Edited July 19, 2014 by Corpse

[Mojoguy]

Corpse

 

So Frozen just sold over 1 million copies on Blu-ray in 3 days.

All-Time Top Selling DVDs (Blu-ray included in totals):

01. 2,401,992 - Spirited Away
02. 1,565,000 - Finding Nemo
03. 1,514,000 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
04. 1,384,000 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
05. 1,370,000 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
06. 1,327,915 - Howl's Moving Castle
07. 1,265,000 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
08. 1,247,560 - My Neighbor Totoro
09. 1,197,000 - The Matrix Reloaded
10. 1,158,000 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
11. 1,125,000 - Michael Jackson's This is It
12. 1,122,000 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
13. 1,046,000 - Frozen [blu-Ray Copies Only After 3 Days...]
14. 1,032,000 - The Last Samurai
948,451 - Ponyo
943,000 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
937,000 - The Matrix Revolution
932,999 - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
794,696 - Castle in the Sky
743,000 - The Incredibles
732,000 - Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix
667,504 - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
640,000 - Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance
598,000 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
585,000 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
580,000 - Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
574,434 - Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo
570,000 - Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
570,000 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
536,110 - Kiki's Delivery Service
510,000 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Note: Many of these are estimates, especially those ending in 000.

Again, the above totals are NOT first week sales, but overall sales. And Frozen is already that high after 3-days with just Blu-ray sales reported.

Frozen is already the ~13th best-selling DVD/Blu-Ray ever after 3-days on the market, and that doesn't include the DVD sales. They'll be lower than the Blu-Ray sales, but its first week on the market might be enough to make it the 2nd best-selling DVD/Blu-Ray ever!

It's also the first Blu-ray release to sell over 1 million copies in the market, and the first DVD/Blu-Ray release sinceSpirited Away to sell over 1 million copies in a week, though Frozen needed 3 days and that's only counting the Blu-ray disc sales..

Since Spirited Away came out on DVD when VHS was still a thing, its lifetime sales including the VHS release is 4.1 million.

[Murgatroyd]

So is it mostly just clips from the anime then? That's lame.

 

If it's anything like the other anime seasons-converted-to-movies I've encountered, it'll be reanimated from scratch with much higher production values than the TV version.  They'll tighten the whole thing up into a single two-hour story arc, probably cutting several minor subplots entirely, and possibly making a few major changes.

 

 

Ash Ketchum has gotten annoying, at least in the English dub, but I would imagine some of that stems from the source as well. And it's not a charming annoying like usual, it's a real annoying. It wouldn't surprise me if the new film bucks the trend of surpassing the previous.That said, new games come out this fall: OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire. Oh wait, those are remakes of the games that yielded the weak-performing Advance series movies. Sigh.This is why they should bring back Misty and Brock.

 

 

Or let him actually make some progress toward his long term goal, rather than sending him to a new region again, starting with a whole new bunch of pokemon again, meeting new traveling companions again, and being a seemingly inexperienced newbie with no clue about the basics again.

[Corpse]

Some release date changes and new dates announced for the fall/winter season:

 

October:

10/04 - Under the Skin (Fanfirumuzu)

10/11 - Grace of Monaco (Gaga)

10/11 - Close Range Love (Toho)

10/25 - The Equalizer (Sony) [Old Date: TBD September 2014]

 

November:

11/01 - Clover (Toho)

11/15 - As the Gods Will (Toho)

11/22 - Mindset (Toei)

11/22 - Interstellar (Warner Bros.) [Old Date: TBD December 2014] 

11/22 - Attack on Titan Part I: Crimsom Bow and Arrow (n/a)

11/29 - Parasyte Part I (Toho) [Old Date: TBD December 2014]

 

December:

12/13 - Aikatsu! The Movie (Toei)

12/13 - Ao Haru Ride (Toho)

12/13 - The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (Warner Bros.) [Old Date: 02/28/15]

12/19 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Paramount) [Old Date: TBA December 2014]

12/20 - Youkai Watch: The Secret of Nyan's Birth! (Toho)  

12/20 - Big Hero 6 (Disney)

 

Advance tickets for the Youkai movie in December also went on sale yesterday, and is reportedly close to selling 500,000 tickets in a day (the amount that's available to purchase right now).  It's pretty obvious that it's having an impact on the Pokemon series now.  Nothing has been able to compete against Pokemon all these years, but maybe it finally does have a rival.

Edited July 20, 2014 by Corpse

[Mojoguy]

 

Some release date changes and new dates announced for the fall/winter season:

Still no How to Train Your Dragon 2 release date in Japan?

[Corpse]

No, but Fox is still listed as the distributor, so it seems planned for later this year or early 2015.

 

Release dates come pretty late in Japan.  A lot of those October/November films just got a date and there are several films still TBD for August-December.  

[Cynosure]

So they're going back to december for 'The Hobbit' ? The second one did even worse than the first in that late february-early march slot so it isn't that surprising. And this time it won't be facing 'One Piece Z' so perhaps will it at least manage to save face and be the highest grossing of the three.

[Annayya]

Corpse

 

So Frozen just sold over 1 million copies on Blu-ray in 3 days.

All-Time Top Selling DVDs (Blu-ray included in totals):

01. 2,401,992 - Spirited Away

02. 1,565,000 - Finding Nemo

03. 1,514,000 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

04. 1,384,000 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

05. 1,370,000 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

06. 1,327,915 - Howl's Moving Castle

07. 1,265,000 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

08. 1,247,560 - My Neighbor Totoro

09. 1,197,000 - The Matrix Reloaded

10. 1,158,000 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

11. 1,125,000 - Michael Jackson's This is It

12. 1,122,000 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

13. 1,046,000 - Frozen [blu-Ray Copies Only After 3 Days...]

14. 1,032,000 - The Last Samurai

948,451 - Ponyo

943,000 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

937,000 - The Matrix Revolution

932,999 - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

794,696 - Castle in the Sky

743,000 - The Incredibles

732,000 - Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix

667,504 - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

640,000 - Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance

598,000 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

585,000 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

580,000 - Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

574,434 - Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo

570,000 - Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

570,000 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

536,110 - Kiki's Delivery Service

510,000 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

Note: Many of these are estimates, especially those ending in 000.

Again, the above totals are NOT first week sales, but overall sales. And Frozen is already that high after 3-days with just Blu-ray sales reported.

Frozen is already the ~13th best-selling DVD/Blu-Ray ever after 3-days on the market, and that doesn't include the DVD sales. They'll be lower than the Blu-Ray sales, but its first week on the market might be enough to make it the 2nd best-selling DVD/Blu-Ray ever!

It's also the first Blu-ray release to sell over 1 million copies in the market, and the first DVD/Blu-Ray release sinceSpirited Away to sell over 1 million copies in a week, though Frozen needed 3 days and that's only counting the Blu-ray disc sales..

Since Spirited Away came out on DVD when VHS was still a thing, its lifetime sales including the VHS release is 4.1 million.

 

Just when we thought we are done with Frozen, it continues to break more records and surprise everyone. Please keep us updated when you find out the DVD Sales. 

I want Frozen to completely obliterate the Spirited Away records in Home Video. I know it already did it in the number of Blu-rays sold but it should beat the overall (DVD+Blu-ray) number too soon.

 

VHS can be excluded from this number as it doesn't exist now but if you have to include VHS number in the total, then lets just say the digital sales can account for the VHS count. This way the total DVD+Blu-ray+Digital will exceed 4.1 million at some point.

 

Spirited Away - DVD+Blu-ray+VHS sales = 4.1 million

Frozen - Blu-ray Sales = 1.046 million

Frozen DVD and Digital sales are unknown currently. Digital sales were in the millions but we do not have an actual number as the data has to be obtained from various sources offering the movie digitally.

Edited July 20, 2014 by Annayya

[Corpse]

Toho Cinemas Sunday Admissions [As of 02:30PM]:

27,666 (+0.1%) - Pokemon XY: The Cocoon of Destruction & Diancie (NEW)

20,405 (+66%) - Maleficent (Week 3)

17,065 (+32%) - Memories of Marnie (NEW)

9,208 (+08%) - Kamen Rider Gaim the Movie: The Great Soccer Match! (NEW)

5,646 (+22%) - Planes: Fire & Rescue (NEW)

5,224 (+63%) - Say, "I Love You" (Week 2)

3,869 (+58%) - Frozen (Week 19)

3,277 (+52%) - Edge of Tomorrow (Week 3)

3,095 (+88%) - Mission Impossible: Samurai (Week 5)

2,185 (+32%) - Anpanman: The Apple Boy and Everyone's Wishes (Week 3)

 

 

Toho, Movix, 109, Kinezo Combined Sunday Admissions [As of 02:40PM]:

50,577 (+05%) - Pokemon XY: The Cocoon of Destruction & Diancie (NEW)

39,708 (+64%) - Maleficent (Week 3)

33,543 (+33%) - Memories of Marnie (NEW)

19,584 (+09%) - Kamen Rider Gaim the Movie: The Great Soccer Match! (NEW)

11,672 (+51%) - Say, "I Love You" (Week 2)

10,366 (+29%) - Planes: Fire & Rescue (NEW)

8,392 (+54%) - Edge of Tomorrow (Week 3)

7,753 (+65%) - Mission Impossible: Samurai (Week 5)

7,725 (+76%) - Frozen (Week 19)

5,110 (+73%) - Anpanman: The Apple Boy and Everyone's Wishes (Week 3)

 

Very big Sunday helps make up for yesterday's disappointing numbers, but let's see how the evening goes.  

 

Percentage increases are over yesterday (below) at the same point in time.

 

Toho Cinemas Saturday Admissions [As of 02:30PM]:

27,625 - Pokemon XY: The Cocoon of Destruction & Diancie (NEW)

12,902 - Memories of Marnie (NEW)

12,300 (-36%) - Maleficent (Week 3)

8,504 - Kamen Rider Gaim the Movie: The Great Soccer Match! (NEW)

4,628 - Planes: Fire & Rescue (NEW)

3,205 (-40%) - Say, "I Love You" (Week 2)

2,445 (-41%) - Frozen (Week 19)

2,155 (-46%) - Edge of Tomorrow (Week 3)

1,643 (-31%) - Mission Impossible: Samurai (Week 5)

1,643 (-28%) - Anpanman: The Apple Boy and Everyone's Wishes (Week 3)

 

Toho, Movix, 109, Kinezo Combined Saturday Admissions [As of 02:40PM]:

48,106 - Pokemon XY: The Cocoon of Destruction & Diancie (NEW)

25,184 - Memories of Marnie (NEW)

24,195 - Maleficent (Week 3)

17,940 - Kamen Rider Gaim the Movie: The Great Soccer Match! (NEW)

8,012 - Planes: Fire & Rescue (NEW)

7,722 - Say, "I Love You" (Week 2)

5,434 - Edge of Tomorrow (Week 3)

4,690 - Mission Impossible: Samurai (Week 5)

4,385 - Frozen (Week 19)

2,949 - Anpanman: The Apple Boy and Everyone's Wishes (Week 3)

[Corpse]

 

 

Spirited Away - DVD+Blu-ray+VHS sales = 4.1 million

Frozen - Blu-ray Sales = 1.046 million

Frozen DVD and Digital sales are unknown currently. Digital sales were in the millions but we do not have an actual number as the data has to be obtained from various sources offering the movie digitally.

Spirited Away actually hasn't been released on Blu Ray yet.  It just so happens to finally be released on the format TOMORROW though.

[Tau Ceti]

Corpse, what is Edge looking at for total gross once this weekend is over? About 11 mil?

[Corpse]

Corpse, what is Edge looking at for total gross once this weekend is over? About 11 mil?

After Monday, it should be closer to $13 million.  

[BadAtGender]

Spirited Away actually hasn't been released on Blu Ray yet.  It just so happens to finally be released on the format TOMORROW though.

Is it likely to also sell well?

[pepsa]

What is the drop of Mal looking like?

[Omni]

Possibly mid-20% if Sunday can keep its strength.

[pepsa]

Possibly mid-20% if Sunday can keep its strength.

 

Is that good or meh ?

[Olive]

Bad news, Studio Ghibli decides to stop making animated movies in the future after 2 box office failures. 

[Fullbuster]

Bad news, Studio Ghibli decides to stop making animated movies in the future after 2 box office failures. 

 

Huh? You're joking right?