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[fmpro]

Did' ent RE 5 open to 10 mill +?

[Fake]

It needs abut 25% weekly drops..... If it can manage 34% drop against RE5, I think it can get sub-30% drops rest of the way.....So.... keep believing until it's over.

Edited September 16, 2012 by Fake

[Fake]

Did' ent RE 5 open to 10 mill +?

Including 2m of previews.

[Corpse]

Did' ent RE 5 open to 10 mill +?

When Friday is included, but Friday isn't part of the weekend in Japan.

[fmpro]

Okey. But the last one had prewies also so its comparable

[Olive]

Monday is national holiday in Japan, actuals will be out tomorrow.

[Battousai]

I want to see a film about the Bakumatsu where Kenshin was an assassin but the boxoffice for the first movie doesn't look that great.

[Corpse]

Are you kidding? It's one of the breakouts of the summer and could reach 3 billion yen ($40 million). Reviews are great, and it's Warner Bros. highest grossing film of the year.

[Corpse]

Yesterday's Holiday has delayed the box office results as Olive mentioned.But in other news, the Doraemon franchise has achieved a great accomplishment. Not only did this year's film become the highest grossing, and most attended film in the franchise, but also....The Doraemon film franchise exceeded 95 million admissions this year with 97.49 million. That makes it the second most attended film franchise in Japan Box Office History, behind only Godzilla with 99.25 million admissions. Doraemon was first introduced in Japan in 1970 in the form of a manga, which spawned an anime in 1973. Since then, the anime is still on-going with nearly 2,000 episodes and 32 theatrical releases. http://zasshi.news.yahoo.co.jp/article?a=20120917-00000069-playboyz-sociNext year the film franchise will reach 100 million admissions.

[lab276]

Godzilla only has 99.25m with 28 films despite the first few being released at the height of cinema-going in Japan? I'm not sure I believe that TBH. Unless it's skewed heavily towards the earlier films.

[Corpse]

They did decrease in admissions as time went on. The most attended film was Godzilla Vs. King Kong (12.55 million), and the later Godzilla films from the 90's were only doing 3-4 million each.

[cremino]

Any prediction on how "Tiger & Bunny" will do?

Edited September 18, 2012 by cremino

[Corpse]

It'll do well. It has an independent distributor and is only be released in 70 theaters this weekend, but it's very likely to sell out many of it's showtimes. I expect a performance similar to Gintama or The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzymiya.

[Corpse]

'The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki' broke through the ¥4 billion ($51 million) milestone on Monday, 59 days after opening on July 21st.

http://mantan-web.jp/2012/09/18/20120918dog00m200006000c.html

It's a huge accomplishment being the first non-brand, original animated film to ever reach the milestone.

Director Mamoru Hosoda's previous film, 'Summer Wars', grossed ¥1.65 billion ($20 million) in 2009.

[Olive]

RE5 grossed 1.25B yen from Fri- Mon on 779 screens.Average ticket price was 1520 yen（$19.3）.

[Corpse]

Sept. 15-16

Weekend Ranking

1 (1) Bayside Shakedown THE FINAL (Toho) Week 2

2 (-) Resident Evil: Retribution (Sony) NEW

3 (2) Rurouni Kenshin (Warner Bros.) Week 4

4 (-) Insight into the Universe (TOEI) NEW

5 (3) Dearest (Toho) Week 4

6 (-) Key of Life (Clockworks) NEW

7 (4) The Avengers (Disney) Week 5

8 (-) Mirror Mirror (Gaga) NEW

9 (9) The Intouchables (Gaga) Week 3

10 (8) Akko-chan: The Movie (Shochiku) Week 3

'Bayside Shakedown THE FINAL' held off 'Resident Evil' in it's second weekend in admissions, but fell to second in gross. After 11 days (including Monday), the film has already exceeded 2 million admissions and ¥2.5 billion ($32 million). ¥6 billion ($75 million) becomes easier to reach, and maybe ¥7 billion ($90 million) could still be in play.

'Resident Evil: Retribution' opened on 779 screens and grossed ¥676,992,500 ($8.6 million) on 433,938 admissions over the weekend. And since Friday, it's four day total reached a very impressive ¥1,248,816,000 ($15.8 million) on 820,085 admissions. When compared to it's predecessor, it retained 85% of it's four day total. It should easily achieve ¥4 billion ($50 million) and become the second biggest Hollywood film of the year.

'Insight into the Universe' debuted to ¥138,213,900 on 116,431 admissions on 329 screens over the weekend. That's a very low avg. ticket price for an opening weekend, which indicates the film has strong female appeal (70, or 80%) and will thrive more on the weekdays.

'Mirror Mirror' did manage a Top 10 debut afterall. Playing on 191 screens, it grossed ¥66,158,600 ($830,000) on 51,233 admissions for the weekend. Since it's opening on Friday, it's grossed ¥85,366,300 ($1.1 million) on 68,151 admissions.

Edited September 18, 2012 by Corpse

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Sept. 15-16

Weekend Ranking

1 (1) Bayside Shakedown THE FINAL (Toho) Week 2

2 (-) Resident Evil: Retribution (Sony) NEW

3 (2) Rurouni Kenshin (Warner Bros.) Week 4

4 (-) Insight into the Universe (TOEI) NEW

5 (3) Dearest (Toho) Week 4

6 (-) Key of Life (Clockworks) NEW

7 (4) The Avengers (Disney) Week 5

8 (-) Mirror Mirror (Gaga) NEW

9 (9) The Intouchables (Gaga) Week 3

10 (8) Akko-chan: The Movie (Shochiku) Week 3

'Bayside Shakedown THE FINAL' held off 'Resident Evil' in it's second weekend in admissions, but fell to second in gross. After 11 days (including Monday), the film has already exceeded 2 million admissions and ¥2.5 billion ($32 million). ¥6 billion ($75 million) becomes easier to reach, and maybe ¥7 billion ($90 million) could still be in play.

'Resident Evil: Retribution' opened on 779 screens and grossed ¥676,992,500 ($8.6 million) on 433,938 admissions over the weekend. And since Friday, it's four day total reached a very impressive ¥1,248,816,000 ($15.8 million) on 820,085 admissions. When compared to it's predecessor, it retained 85% of it's four day total. It should easily achieve ¥4 billion ($50 million) and become the second biggest Hollywood film of the year.

'Insight into the Universe' debuted to ¥138,213,900 on 116,431 admissions on 329 screens over the weekend. That's a very low avg. ticket price for an opening weekend, which indicates the film has strong female appeal (70, or 80%) and will thrive more on the weekdays.

'Mirror Mirror' did manage a Top 10 debut afterall. Playing on 191 screens, it grossed ¥66,158,600 ($830,000) on 51,233 admissions for the weekend. Since it's opening on Friday, it's grossed ¥85,366,300 ($1.1 million) on 68,151 admissions.

Good for RE5 !

[Wadey Wilsoney]

What has the critical reception for RE5 been like? What kind of legs will it have?

[druv10]

RE5 grossed 1.25B yen from Fri- Mon on 779 screens.Average ticket price was 1520 yen（$19.3）.

What's TA's weekend number/total? Nothing was posted.

[baumer]

There is some kind of public holiday in Japan on October 8th. Does anyone know what movies open there on the 5th? And why wouldn't EXP2 open that weekend instead of the 20th?