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

[Cynosure]

I explained above. Wednesday is Ladies' Day so Tuesday is mostly male movie-goers. The Revenant for exemple did almost as well as Zootopia today despite opening more than two times lower which means it's probably attracting more males.

[LMAbacus]

28 minutes ago, Cynosure said:

 

Wednesday is Ladies' Day so women get a discount around 40%. Women make the majority of movie-goers in Japan and most of them won't go on Thueday when they can go the next day for much cheapter, hence very weak Thuesdays.

 

How high of a majority? In the US women moviegoers are a majority as well, but only by the smallest possible margin of 51-49.

[Cynosure]

I don't know precisely but the gap is much bigger than in the US. You regularly have movies with a 90% women-10% men gender breakdown, if not more (Platinum Data, Today I Started Loving You, Les Misérables etc.) which is something that just doesn't happen anywhere else.

[edroger3]

5 hours ago, Mojoguy said:

Compare Zootopia to BH6, not Frozen, in Japan.

The first weekdays of BH6 were in late December, those of Frozen were in March. I think it is a better comparison.

By the way the gross of BH6 first tuesday (emperor's birthday) was around 2,5M$ (295MYen), 10 times larger than Zootopia, while first mon/fri 5-days frame was around 1Byen (8,5M$) 

[Olive]

Zootopia keeps good amount of seats and screens this weekend, theatres have faith it will hold well.

Edited April 26, 2016 by Olive

[cannastop]

Just now, Olive said:

Zootopia keeps good amount of seats and screens this weekend, theatre have faith it will hold well.

Do you have specific numbers?

[Olive]

Just now, cannastop said:

Do you have specific numbers?

Nope, just checked some big theaters' Friday schedule.

[Olive]

29 April 2016
Captain America: Civil War - 342 theaters
The Sea of Trees   - 176
Terra Formars - 332
Chihayafuru Part II -  299

[LMAbacus]

11 minutes ago, Olive said:

Zootopia keeps good amount of seats and screens this weekend, theatres have faith it will hold well.

 

I checked BOM and pretty much every movie has no change in screen count after one week, and sometimes even several weeks, so I don't know how much that tells us. Wreck-It Ralph, for instance, went 421, 421, 421, 422 in its first four weekends.

[Olive]

Just now, LMAbacus said:

 

I checked BOM and pretty much every movie has no change in screen count after one week, and sometimes even several weeks, so I don't know how much that tells us. Wreck-It Ralph, for instance, went 421, 421, 421, 422 in its first four weekends.

SCreens may remain the same but showtime count will change.

[cannastop]

Now that I know the importance of Ladies' Wednesdays I'm pretty sure Zootopia is going to be #1 on Wednesday.

[Melvin Frohike]

4 hours ago, cannastop said:

Lots of Japanese commentators are talking about the feminist aspects of Zootopia. Maybe that will give it a boost.

 

Could be, as this is thought to be one of the zeitgeist elements that helped propel Frozen.

[cannastop]

　*1　**2358　レヴェナント 蘇えりし者 (The Revenant)

　*2　**1940　名探偵コナン２０１６ 純黒の… (Detective Conan 2016)

　*3　**1760　アイアムアヒーロー (I am a Hero)

　*4　**1756　ズートピア (Zootopia)

 

Really tight race. Also, The Revenant is 1st place, surprisingly.

 

http://mimorin2014.blog.fc2.com/

[cannastop]

  *1　**3553　レヴェナント 蘇えりし者 (The Revenant)

　*2　**3235　ズートピア (Zootopia)

　*3　**2976　名探偵コナン２０１６ 純黒の… (Detective Conan 2016)

　*4　**1967　アイアムアヒーロー (I am a Hero)

 

Looks like Zootopia is starting to break out.

 

http://mimorin2014.blog.fc2.com/

Edited April 27, 2016 by cannastop

[Cynosure]

The Revenant was first yesterday as well at this hour but it still ended up losing the day.

 

Too early to tell who will win the day. I'm thinking Conan because Zootopia has generally slowed down more in the evenings.

Edited April 27, 2016 by Cynosure

[cannastop]

　*1　**4074　レヴェナント 蘇えりし者 (The Revenant)

　*2　**4068　ズートピア(Zootopia)

　*3　**3687　名探偵コナン２０１６ 純黒の… (Detective Conan 2016)

　*4　**2199　アイアムアヒーロー (I am a Hero)

 

Now this is interesting.

 

http://mimorin2014.blog.fc2.com/

Edited April 27, 2016 by cannastop

[Cynosure]

Corpse :

 

Golden Week (04/29-05/06), one of Japan's three busiest weeks at the box office, begins this weekend and with it comes three major wide releases, along with a couple other smaller wide openers (and numerous limited openers).

After briefly checking Friday's screen arrangement across about a dozen locations, here's how the largest screens and number of showtimes are being allocated for Friday:

01. Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare (Toho) WK3
02. Captain America: Civil War (Disney) NEW
03. Zootopia (Disney) WK2
04. Terra Formars (Warner Bros.) NEW
05. Chihayafuru - Part 2 (Toho) NEW

So far, I haven't come across a single location that is bumping Detective Conan from their largest screens, and it still has a lot of showtimes going into its third weekend despite so much competition. Does that mean it'll repeat atop the box office for a third-consecutive weekend? I'm leaning towards it actually doing just that, but it's too early to say at the moment.

I'll have a full Golden Week preview posted tomorrow evening.

 

[cannastop]

Why doesn't Corpse post here, anyways?

[cannastop]

　*1　**4827　ズートピア(Zootopia)

　*2　**4781　レヴェナント 蘇えりし者(The Revenant)

　*3　**4446　名探偵コナン２０１６ 純黒の… (Detective Conan 2016)

 

Alright! Finally Zootopia is in 1st place.

 

http://mimorin2014.blog.fc2.com/

[Cynosure]

Keep in mind that women will get a 40% discount so the increase in admissions will not translate similarly when it comes to gross.