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

[CelestialFairyIX]

SAT

 

                 Big Hero 6      Yokai      Annie      Exodus

Toho Today           15.998      6.595     12.057      11.823

LW %                -20,29%    -30,44%    -34,34% 

Toho Cume         1.059.794  1.156.047     73.873      17.422

Total Adm         5.733.486  6.369.819    338.338      87.110

Total Gross M$        61,88      60,54       3,92        1,05

Total Gross Byen     7,2890     7,1306     0,4612      0,1231

 

Joker Game is #1 with 16.522 adm on Toho but is behind BH6 for the five chains combined.

YES!  I'm hoping this lack of competition will allow BH6 to continue reigning the weekly Box Office charts and pass $80 million USD! 

[Melvin Frohike]

YES!  I'm hoping this lack of competition will allow BH6 to continue reigning the weekly Box Office charts and pass $80 million USD!

Looking back, we weren't exactly talking about a lack of competition during OW, that's for sure!

Rather than compare Big Hero 6's run to those of Yōkai Watch (massively front-loaded OW phenomenon [for Japan, anyway]) or Frozen (leggiest run of a major release in history, at least that I know of), let's compare it to that of another western animated feature involving superheroes, Pixar's The Incredibles, which opened with ¥751.8M/$7.3M (bigger than Princess Mononoke and pretty close to Frozen) and finished with ¥5.26B/$51.1M for an OW multiplier of almost exactly 7, while BH6 opened with ¥600.4M/$5M and has so far, with the movie still at #1, grossed ¥7.29B/$62M (using today's exchange rate) for an OW multiplier of over 12 and still climbing. I guess Japanese people like the movie after all.

If its legs hold up, with any luck, BH6 should have a shot at coming within striking distance (in yen) of Monsters University (¥8.96B per Corpse), which is pretty rarefied air for animated features even in Japan (BH6 is currently #15 all-time--not bad). $80M with current exchange rates, if it were to happen, would mean that BH6 will have passed MU and The Secret World of Arrietty, and would threaten Monsters, Inc. for #9 all-time among animated features.

Edited January 31, 2015 by Melvin Frohike

[edroger3]

Sun

 

Admissions inflated by discount day (first day of month)

 

                     Big Hero 6      Yokai      Annie      Exodus

Toho Today               34.148     14.878     23.513      15.998
LW %                     35,85%     13,67%     34,23%
Toho Cume             1.144.088  1.192.398    132.956      61.241
Total Adm             6.189.516  6.570.113    608.938     306.205
Total Gross M$            66,36      62,00       6,98        3,55
Total Gross Byen         7,8162     7,3035     0,8222      0,4184

 

Weekend est

 

Bh6 2,5 - Joker 2,2 - Annie 1,9 - Exodus 1,5

[edroger3]

Toho shows "Frozen Fever" japanese logo in Cinderella's information page. It seems that the local title will be "Anna and the Snow Queen - Elsa Surprise"

 

https://hlo.tohotheater.jp/net/movie/TNPI3060J01.do?sakuhin_cd=011817

 

Edited February 1, 2015 by edroger

[cremino]

Corpse

 

Weekend Estimates (01/31-02/01)



01 (01) ¥326 million ($3.0 million), -07%, ¥7.56 billion ($64.6 million), Big Hero 6 (Disney) Week 7
02 (--) ¥189 million ($1.6 million), 0, ¥189 million ($1.6 million), Joker Game (Toho) NEW
03 (02) ¥176 million ($1.5 million), -19%, ¥590 million ($5.1 million), Annie (Sony) Week 2
04 (--) ¥156 million ($1.3 million), 0, ¥190 million ($1.6 million), Exodus: Gods and Kings (Fox) NEW
05 (03) ¥152 million ($1.3 million), -17%, ¥7.27 billion ($62.1 million), Yo-Kai Watch: It's the Secret of Birth, Nyan! (Toho) Week 7
06 (--) ¥121 million ($1.0 million), 0, ¥121 million ($1.0 million), Maestro! (Shochiku/Asmik Ace) NEW
07 (04) ¥55 million ($475,000), -30%, ¥860 million ($7.4 million), ST: Scientific Investigation Squad (Toho) Week 4
08 (05) ¥53 million ($455,000), -13%, ¥670 million ($5.7 million), Psycho-Pass: The Movie (Toho Video Division) Week 4
09 (--) ¥40 million ($345,000), 0, ¥40 million ($345,000), Arpeggio of Blue Steel - Ars Nova DC (Showgate) NEW
10 (--) ¥35 million ($300,000), 0, ¥35 million ($300,000), Midnight Restaurant (Toei) NEW
11 (--) ¥30 million ($260,000), 0, ¥30 million ($260,000), μ's GO→GO! LoveLive! 2015 ~Dream Sensation!~ (T-Joy) NEW
12 (06) ¥29 million ($250,000), -41%, ¥270 million ($2.3 million), Ressha Sentai ToQger vs. Kyoryuger: The Movie (Toei) Week 3
13 (10) ¥23 million ($200,000), -35%, ¥200 million ($1.7 million), Bali Big Brother (Phantom Film) Week 3
14 (07) ¥18 million ($155,000), -42%, ¥1.83 billion ($15.6 million), Ao Haru Ride (Toho) Week 8
15 (08) ¥16 million ($140,000), -59%, ¥190 million ($1.6 million), Again (Toei) Week 3
16 (--) ¥13 million ($110,000), 0, ¥13 million ($110,000), Wild Card (Clock Works) NEW

>Big Hero 6 enjoys a very strong 5th-consecutive week atop the box-office. It's looking good for ¥8.5 billion ($72/73 million), but maybe it can inch closer to ¥9 billion ($76/77 million).

>Joker Game looks like it missed ¥200 million by a small margin, but maybe it'll come in just above the mark like ST did a four weeks ago. Overall, an alright debut, but films that open on a discount weekend tend to be frontloaded. ¥1 billion would be tough to reach if the estimate doesn't go up.

>Exodus: Gods and Kings doesn't come close to matching Noah's debut last year, being off about 40% according to estimates. It's probably headed for ¥800/900 million ($7/8 million).

>Maestro! has a mediocre debut, but legs should be decent even with it opening on a discount weekend. If the estimate holds up, maybe it'll reach ¥700 million ($6 million) or so.

>The estimates for the other openers are very rough since they're limited, especially Arpeggio of Blue Steel and μ's GO→GO!. The former should be in the Top 10, but the latter is harder to gauge.

[edroger3]

Actuals for Big Hero 6: 7.565.771.600 Yen (64,3M$) and 5.955.599 admissions. I'm sorry for a keyboard malfunction in BH6's Sunday numbers. (Sunday admissions was added twice)

[Olive]

BH6  weekend only down 12% from last weekend with 307M yen and 265k admissions.

 

Yokai's total to date reached 7.26 billion yuan.

[edroger3]

MON

 

                  Big Hero 6     Yokai     Annie    Exodus

Toho Today           4.251         651     3.469     3.792

LW %                -3,01%     -36,80%   -28,47%

Toho Cume        1.098.193   1.171.576   100.855    37.212

Total Adm        5.974.170   6.455.384   461.916   186.060

Total Gross M$       64,61       61,82      5,29      2,16

Total Gross Byen    7,5984      7,2696    0,6237    0,2542

 

 

Five Chains

1  8661 Exodus
2  8432 Joker
3  8204 Big Hero 6
4  6936 Annie

Edited February 2, 2015 by edroger

[Asyulus]

Good for BH6

[CrimsonAzure]

Top Grossing Films - 2015 

Gross ¥ ($) / Admissions [Days in Release] - Film (Distributor)

¥10 billion ↨

¥7.07 billion ($60.3 million) / 6.38 million [37] - Yo-Kai Watch: It's the Secret of Birth, Nyan! (Toho) #71 All-Time

¥7.03 billion ($59.9 million) / 5.51 million [37] - Big Hero 6 (Disney) #72 All-Time

¥5 billion ↨

¥3 billion ↨

¥2 billion ↨

¥1.94 billion ($16.4 million) / 1.52 million [58] - Parasyte Part 1 (Toho)

¥1.93 billion ($16.3 million) / 1.50 million [51] - The Last: Naruto the Movie (Toho)

¥1.73 billion ($14.9 million) / 1.47 million [44] - Ao Haru Ride (Toho)

¥1.50 billion ($12.9 million) / 1.06 million [44] - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Warner Bros.)

¥1.13 billion ($9.6 million) / 0.91 million [37] - The Vancouver Asahi (Toho)

¥1 billion ↑

Awasome!

 

Can't wait till the newest! Thanks!

[edroger3]

TUE

 

                            Big Hero 6       Yokai     Annie    Exodus

Toho Today           3.406         240     3.131     3.240
LW %               -16,54%     -49,58%   -31,02%
Toho Cume        1.101.599   1.171.816   103.986    40.452
Total Adm        5.992.699   6.456.706   476.256   202.260
Total Gross M$       64,81       61,83      5,46      2,35
Total Gross Byen    7,6220      7,2711    0,6430    0,2764

 

Five Chains

1  7443 Exodus
2  6912 BH6
3  6899 Joker
4  6433 Annie

Edited February 3, 2015 by edroger

[Asyulus]

Are the numbers good?

[tupek]

Bh6 has sold more tickets than Pirates of the Caribbean: on Stranger Tides?

[edroger3]

WED

 

                  Big Hero 6       Yokai     Annie    Exodus
Toho Today             7.625         872     7.668     4.391
LW %                 -16,04%     -42,33%   -16,91%
Toho Cume          1.109.224   1.172.688   111.654    44.843
Total Adm          6.034.179   6.461.511   511.375   224.215
Total Gross M$         65,26       61,88      5,86      2,60
Total Gross Byen      7,6747      7,2765    0,6905    0,3064

 

FIVE CHAINS

 

1  14980 Annie
2  14333 BH6
3  13885 Joker
4    9625 Exodus

 

Big Hero 6 reach 6M admissions in the same day of release in which Frozen reached the 10M milestone.

 

Bh6 has sold more tickets than Pirates of the Caribbean: on Stranger Tides?

 

Pirates of the Caribbean: on Stranger Tides total gross was 8,77 BYen, so I think no.

Edited February 4, 2015 by edroger

[tupek]

Are you suuure?

[Omni]

Pirates 4 had, from what I remember, the benefit of ticket prices hugely boosted by the 3D craze. So I'm pretty sure BH6 has passed it in admissions.

[Olive]

PoTC4 admissions 5.86 mil

[tupek]

So less admissions, but over $50m ahead....

[druv10]

So less admissions, but over $50m ahead....

 

 

Exchange rates can be a bitch sometimes, look at Russia currently. It's better to look at movies in local currency anyway.   

 

In Yen much closer, 8.77B vs. 7.67B. 

Edited February 5, 2015 by druv10

[edroger3]

THR

 

FIVE CHAINS

 

1 6201 BH6

2 5855 Exodus
3 5635 Joker
4 5038 Annie

 

BH6 TOTAL 7,695 BYen