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

[Olive]

Highest Grossing Musicals

1. The Phantom of the Opera (Gaga) ¥4.2 billion ($37 million)

2. Chicago (Gaga) ¥3.5 billion ($29 million)

3. Enchanted (Disney) ¥2.91 billion ($28 million)*

4. Mamma Mia! (Toho-Towa) ¥2.6 billion ($28 million)

5. Sweeney Todd (Warner Bros.) ¥2.05 billion ($20 million)

6. Dreamgirls (UIP) ¥1.92 billion ($16 million)

*Only included it because most of it's live-action.

Les Miserables (Toho-Towa) will certainly exceed ¥2 billion ($25 million) with it's estimated opening weekend and if it gets the usual mid/late December legs (8x, 9x, sometimes 10x+ multipliers) then ¥3 billion ($37 million) is in play, too.

[Olive]

LES MIS 4-day 536M yen, or $6.3M

[riczhang]

So it did another 2 million on Monday? That's good. Barely down from Sunday.

[Olive]

Emperor's birthday holiday was on Sunday, so many people did not go to work on Monday.

[Olive]

OP:Z 10-day total: 3.176 billion yen($37.46M), 2.61M adm.

[Olive]

12/22-23

Weekend Ranking

1 (1) One Piece Film Z (Toei) Week 2

2 (-) Les Miserables (Toho-Towa) NEW!

3 (2) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Warner Bros.) Week 2

4 (6) 007: Skyfall (Sony) Week 4

5 (4) Today, I Started Loving You (Toho) Week 3

6 (3) Humanoid Monster, Bem (Toho) Week 2

7 (5) Kamen Rider X Kamen Rider Fourze & Wizard (Toei) Week 3

8 (-) Ooku: The Inner Chambers 2 (Asmik Ace/Shochiku) NEW!

9 (7) Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo (T-Joy) Week 6

10 (8) Frankenweenie (Disney) Week 2

Ranking based on revenue (12/22-23)

*Figures Reported Below Included Monday for a 3-Day Weekend (12/22-24)*

One Piece Film Z remains incredibly strong atop the box office attracting 835,720 admissions to earn ¥1,021,810,350 ($12.2 million) over the 3-day weekend. And after only 10 days in release, it's total is an outstanding ¥3,176,367,450 ($38.1 million) with 2,611,284 admissions. That's the biggest second week total since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. It's also holding a lot better than it's predecessor, and will cruise past ¥6 billion ($75 million). Can it reach ¥7 billion ($85 million)? It'll remain without much competition for it's #1 spot until mid/late January.

Les Miserables debuted in a solid second on 360 screens. Over the weekend frame (Sat-Sun), the film earned ¥295,416,850 ($3.6 million) with 229,225 admissions. And since opening on Friday, it's 4-day total is an excellent ¥536,178,950 ($6.5 million) with 419,361 admissions. A total of ¥3 billion ($37 million) or more is pretty likely, easily making it the highest grossing imported film this New Year ahead of 007: Skyfall and toppling The Hobbit. I'm going to project ¥3.2-3.4 billion ($39-42 million).

Ooku: The Inner Chambers 2 opened on 307 screens and was off to a very slow start. It actually fell short of a ¥100 million opening with ¥97,164,100 ($1.2 million) on 77,319 admissions over the weekend frame (Sat-Sun) and brought it's 3-day total to only ¥138,269,600 ($1.6 million) on 110,512 admissions. It will need to rely heavily on it's female demographic through the weekdays if it wants to recover and post a respectable total in the end.

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[Fullbuster]

12/22-23

Weekend Ranking

1 (1) One Piece Film Z (Toei) Week 2

2 (-) Les Miserables (Toho-Towa) NEW!

3 (2) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Warner Bros.) Week 2

4 (6) 007: Skyfall (Sony) Week 4

5 (4) Today, I Started Loving You (Toho) Week 3

6 (3) Humanoid Monster, Bem (Toho) Week 2

7 (5) Kamen Rider X Kamen Rider Fourze & Wizard (Toei) Week 3

8 (-) Ooku: The Inner Chambers 2 (Asmik Ace/Shochiku) NEW!

9 (7) Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo (T-Joy) Week 6

10 (8) Frankenweenie (Disney) Week 2

Ranking based on revenue (12/22-23)

*Figures Reported Below Included Monday for a 3-Day Weekend (12/22-24)*

One Piece Film Z remains incredibly strong atop the box office attracting 835,720 admissions to earn ¥1,021,810,350 ($12.2 million) over the 3-day weekend. And after only 10 days in release, it's total is an outstanding ¥3,176,367,450 ($38.1 million) with 2,611,284 admissions. That's the biggest second week total since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. It's also holding a lot better than it's predecessor, and will cruise past ¥6 billion ($75 million). Can it reach ¥7 billion ($85 million)? It'll remain without much competition for it's #1 spot until mid/late January.

Les Miserables debuted in a solid second on 360 screens. Over the weekend frame (Sat-Sun), the film earned ¥295,416,850 ($3.6 million) with 229,225 admissions. And since opening on Friday, it's 4-day total is an excellent ¥536,178,950 ($6.5 million) with 419,361 admissions. A total of ¥3 billion ($37 million) or more is pretty likely, easily making it the highest grossing imported film this New Year ahead of 007: Skyfall and toppling The Hobbit. I'm going to project ¥3.2-3.4 billion ($39-42 million).

Ooku: The Inner Chambers 2 opened on 307 screens and was off to a very slow start. It actually fell short of a ¥100 million opening with ¥97,164,100 ($1.2 million) on 77,319 admissions over the weekend frame (Sat-Sun) and brought it's 3-day total to only ¥138,269,600 ($1.6 million) on 110,512 admissions. It will need to rely heavily on it's female demographic through the weekdays if it wants to recover and post a respectable total in the end.

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One Piece is really a phenomenon in Japan, and the manga started in 1997 so it's not recent.

[Olive]

Yearly Box Office Update

Top Distributor Toho earned ¥5,282,073,310 ($64 million) for the month of November, up 1% over last November, to bring their 11-month total to a record ¥69,938,782,046 ($848 million), up 29% over last year and up 2% over their record 2010 year.

For December they have 'Inazuma Eleven', 'Today, I Started Loving You', 'Humanoid Monster', and 'Blue Exorcist' releasing this upcoming weekend. Not too impressive, but combined these films should earn approx. ¥3.3 billion ($40 million) for the month. Factor in the many holdovers from November and earlier months, and Toho should reach close to ¥4.5 billion ($55 million) for December and about ¥74/75 billion ($900-915 million) for 2012.

The overall yearly Box Office (1/1-12/31) looks headed for approx. ¥190/195 billion ($2.3/2.4 billion) and ~150 million admissions thanks to a great boost from 'Evangelion 3.0' and 'One Piece Film Z' which will combine for ~¥10 billion ($120 million) by year's end.

[Olive]

Ladies' day gives LM a big boost!

[riczhang]

Ladies' day gives LM a big boost!

Do you have a rough figure for LM yet?

[Olive]

Not yet, maybe tomorrow we'll have estimates.

[Olive]

Emperor's birthday holiday was on Sunday, so many people did not go to work on Monday.

5-day 616M yen

[RthDeadWov]

wed saw 26% increase over Tues 6 day 719.5m 578k admits

[riczhang]

Good for Les Mis. About 8.4 million USD.

[RthDeadWov]

LM 1st 7 days fri-thu 791.9m

[DeeCee]

RthWhat has the period of deflation done to Average ticket prices in Japan when expressed in Yen? What the average ticket price in say 1990 when compared to now?

[cremino]

Thanks to Corpse

12/28-29

Weekend Forecast

1 One Piece Film Z (Toei) Week 3

2 Les Miserables (Toho-Towa) Week 2

3 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Warner Bros.) Week 3

4 Today, I Started Loving You (Toho) Week 4

5 007: Skyfall (Sony) Week 5

6 Blue Exorcist: The Movie (Toho) NEW!

7 Humanoid Monster, Bem (Toho) Week 3

8 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (Kadokawa Pictures) NEW!

9 Ooku: The Inner Chambers 2 (Asmik Ace/Shochiku) Week 2

10 Kamen Rider X Kamen Rider Fourze & Wizard (Toei) Week 4

Unfortunately full weekend figures from last week still aren't available so I can't really forecast half of the Top 10. So... I'll just predict the openers and post the what the estimated totals should be after this weekend for films above ¥1 billion.

Blue Exorcist: The Movie is opening at 183 locations via Toho and will probably be aiming for ¥100 million ($1.2 million) this weekend. The manga has gained in popularity over the past year with sales of each volume since the fifth exceeding 750,000. This puts it around Bleach's level right now (a little higher actually), so a box office performance may be similar.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 is opening at just 147 locations and will struggle to reach ¥100 million for the weekend. It's likely to open between ¥75-90 million ($1 million), on par with the previous two entries.

[Projected Totals after Sunday, ¥1 billion+]

One Piece Film Z - ¥4.2 billion ($51 million) after 16 days.

007: Skyfall - ¥2.1 billion ($26 million) after 30 days.

Today, I Started Loving You - ¥1.3 billion ($16 million) after 23 days.

Les Miserables - ¥1.1 billion ($14 million) after 10 days.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - ¥1.0 billion ($12 million) after 17 days.

[Olive]

One Piece Film Z is up to ¥3,640,926,000 ($44 million) with 3,014,842 admissions as of Thursday, it's 13th day in release, becoming the fastest film to exceed the 3 million admission milestone since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.

[Olive]

LM is staying strong, many shows are sold out.

[Fullbuster]

$100m for One Piece Z?