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

[MinaTakla]

CORPSE

 

Weekend Actuals (09/02-03)

01 (01) ¥271,313,500 ($2.5 million), -31%, ¥1,127,472,300 ($10.2 million), Sekigahara (Toho) WK202

(02) ¥165,853,700 ($1.5 million), -38%, ¥816,880,400 ($7.4 million), Wonder Woman (Warner Bros.) WK203

(03) ¥162,698,500 ($1.4 million), -29%, ¥6,652,188,800 ($60.4 million), Despicable Me 3 (Toho-Towa) WK704

(04) ¥104,276,700 ($947,000), -33%, ¥1,186,282,500 ($10.8 million), Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? (Toho) WK305

(06) ¥102,101,500 ($927,000), -18%, ¥2,873,112,500 ($26.1 million), I Want To Eat Your Pancreas (Toho) WK606

(07) ¥97,619,900 ($886,000), -19%, ¥985,040,600 ($8.9 million), High & Low 2: End of Sky (Shochiku) WK307

(---) ¥92,717,300 ($842,000), 0, ¥92,717,300[/b] ($842,000), Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin V (Shochiku) NEW08

(05) ¥91,824,600 ($834,000), -35%, ¥2,507,675,100 ($22.9 million), Spider-Man: Homecoming (Sony) WK409

(08) ¥46,351,900 ($421,000), -34%, ¥3,310,203,600 ($30.2 million), Pokemon: I Choose You! (Toho) WK810

(---) ¥41,679,500 ($379,000), 0, ¥61,515,300 ($558,000), Skiptrace (Kadokawa) NEW11

(---) ¥40,349,000 ($366,000), 0, ¥62,681,350 ($569,000), Train to Busan (Twin) NEW12

(---) ¥39,383,700 ($358,000), 0, ¥123,304,700 ($1.1 million), Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya (Kadokawa) NEW

The first weekend of September is usually devoid of any significant opener, thus it's typically an uneventful weekend with Summer officially over.

Sekigahara repeated atop the box office, and is well on course to exceed ¥2 billion (~$20 million) -- solid for a film released at the very end of Summer. It has sold over 900,000 admissions after nine days in release.Wonder Woman remains in second place, posting a reasonable decline in its sophomore frame. The film wasn't able to breakout of the typical range for the vast majority of DC films, and will be aiming for a total around ¥1.5 billion (~$15 million). Not bad, but also quite boring.

 

Despicable Me 3 will likely feel the result of school being back in session this upcoming week, but before then, it was able to dethrone Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales after its seventh weekend to become the #1 film of Summer 2017. It's going to exceed ¥7 billion ($65 million), almost tripling the total of its predecessor. The third entry in the series has exceeded a multiplier of 11 as well, which matches/exceeds all but the upper tier of imported animated films. 

 

I Want To Eat Your Pancreas continues to be one of the biggest highlights of Summer 2017, delivering yet another strong weekend hold. After six weeks in release, the bittersweet romance has sold over 2.2 million admissions. As a result, it has achieved a multiplier over 11 and could approach a multiplier near 13 (possibly reaching the Top 20/25 since 2000).Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin V debuted in seventh place, selling a solid 49,398 admissions on only 35 screens. The fifth film in the series achieved a notable, and incredibly high, avg. ticket price of ¥1,877 ($17.05). 

 

Spider-Man: Homecoming has stabilized a little bit but it may be too late and could miss the ¥3 billion milestone (a mark no Spider-Man film has failed to reach), unless the mid-September holidays (Silver Week) can get it there. I have to say its performance has been underwhelming, overall. Skiptrace rounded out the Top 10 in a very competitive battle, selling 32,844 admissions on 155 screens and 49,677 since opening on Friday. The action-comedy starring Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville marks a very rare occasion of a Chinese film making the Top 10, though since it's also a Hong Kong and United States production, that puts asterisk next to it.

[TalismanRing]

I Want To Eat Your Pancreas   

 

[eXtacy]

13 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

I Want To Eat Your Pancreas   

 

 

Weird name for sure. Its actually about a girl with pancreas cancer with only a year left to live. A boy at her school finds out... you see where i am going.

[MinaTakla]

Great news for Dunkirk, Sold drop for DM3

 

CORPSE

 

Weekend Forecast (09/09-10)

01 (---) ¥400,000,000 ($3.7 million), 0, ¥400,000,000 ($3.7 million), Dunkirk (Warner Bros.) NEW

02 (---) ¥250,000,000 ($2.3 million), 0, ¥250,000,000 ($2.3 million), The Third Murderer (Toho) NEW

03 (01) ¥189,000,000 ($1.7 million), -30%, ¥1,575,000,000 ($14.4 million), Sekigahara (Toho) WK3

04 (---) ¥125,000,000 ($1.1 million), 0, ¥125,000,000 ($1.1 million), Before We Vanish (Shochiku) NEW

05 (03) ¥122,000,000 ($1.1 million), -25%, ¥6,825,000,000 ($61.9 million), Despicable Me 3 (Toho-Towa) WK8

06 (02) ¥106,000,000 ($1.0 million), -36%, ¥1,075,000,000 ($9.8 million), Wonder Woman (Warner Bros.) WK3

07 (05) ¥78,000,000 ($720,000), -24%, ¥3,025,000,000 ($27.4 million), I Want To Eat Your Pancreas (Toho) WK7

08 (04) ¥72,000,000 ($665,000), -31%, ¥1,325,000,000 ($12.0 million), Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? (Toho) WK4

09 (06) ¥65,000,000 ($600,000), -33%, ¥1,125,000,000 ($10.2 million), High & Low 2: End of Sky (Shochiku) WK4

10 (08) ¥57,000,000 ($525,000), -38%, ¥2,650,000,000 ($24.1 million), Spider-Man: Homecoming (Sony) WK5

 

Dunkirk is outpacing Interstellar by a considerable margin in terms of pre-sales and morning/afternoon ticket sales, and depending on how old it skews (50+ demo greatly reduces avg. ticket prices), it could enjoy a debut perhaps twice as high. War films generally perform well in Japan, especially if they're related to World War II, and well-received ones often develop great legs. If Nolan's latest does debut around the ¥400 million mark this weekend, I could see it certainly reach ¥2.5 billion (~$25 million) or perhaps ¥3 billion (~$30 million) if its reception is strong enough. Silver Week is coming up as well, which will provide a nice boost for the box office, too.

[Olive]

1	Dunkirk	2017-09-09	Ұ 323,981,600	Ұ 323,981,600	Warner Bros Int'l
2	Third Murder, The	2017-09-09	Ұ 233,112,600	Ұ 233,112,600	Toho
3	Sekigahara	2017-08-26	Ұ 155,282,600	Ұ 1,550,051,000	Toho
4	Despicable Me 3	2017-07-21	Ұ 106,969,000	Ұ 6,815,810,800	Toho Towa
5	Wonder Woman	2017-08-25	Ұ 78,646,900	Ұ 1,040,447,500	Warner Bros Int'l
6	I Want To Eat Your Pancreas	2017-07-28	Ұ 71,550,000	Ұ 3,052,806,400	Toho
7	High & Low The Movie 2: End Of Sky	2017-08-19	Ұ 70,454,300	Ұ 1,127,197,600	Shochiku
8	Fireworks, Should We See It From The Side Or The Bottom?	2017-08-18	Ұ 67,683,300	Ұ 1,324,536,300	Toho
9	Spider-Man: Homecoming	2017-08-11	Ұ 46,661,800	Ұ 2,633,375,500	Sony Int'l
10	Before We Vanish	2017-09-09	Ұ 42,233,000	Ұ 42,233,000	Shochiku

[Olive]

Dunkirk OW is 68% bigger than Interstellar which made 1.22B yen in the end.

@redfirebird2008

[redfirebird2008]

11 minutes ago, Olive said:

Dunkirk OW is 68% bigger than Interstellar which made 1.22B yen in the end.

@redfirebird2008

 

Very nice. Japan performance locks up $500m worldwide. WB has to be very happy with this result. Much better performance in this market compared to South Korea and China (versus Interstellar's performance in those markets).

Edited September 12, 2017 by redfirebird2008

[lab276]

Wow, DM3 did well, ¥6.8b.

[a2k]

19 minutes ago, lab276 said:

Wow, DM3 did well, ¥6.8b.

more than POTC5 probably. japan and china brought $200m combined for DM3, pretty surprising. animations can surprise in japan and china. zootopia went nuts in china with $230m and frozen's japan run is a legend.

[MinaTakla]

21 minutes ago, a2knet said:

more than POTC5 probably. japan and china brought $200m combined for DM3, pretty surprising. animations can surprise in japan and china. zootopia went nuts in china with $230m and frozen's japan run is a legend.

DM3 now in Japan: $61.9m. Will end with $64-65m. Highest grossing animated film of the year (surpassing Conan) and 3rd best Hollywood film of the year there after Beauty and Fantastic Beasts (may cross that one which stands at $64m). DM3 already made 1.5x Minions in Japan and more than Zootopia and may cross Dory too (may have crossed it)

POTC now in Japan around $60.5. Will end at $61m almost. 

 

[John Marston]

Illumination films have done very well here while Pixar has kind of faded. Only Monsters University has had a notable Japan run since 2010. Finding Doey did well but not as much as you would think 

Edited September 12, 2017 by John Marston

[Olive]

46 minutes ago, a2knet said:

more than POTC5 probably. japan and china brought $200m combined for DM3, pretty surprising. animations can surprise in japan and china. zootopia went nuts in china with $230m and frozen's japan run is a legend.

It has beaten POTC5 as the top-grossing movie of summer 2017.

[MinaTakla]

VARIETY

 

Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” landed at the Japanese box office in the number one slot. With Warner distributing on 444 screens, the WWII epic earned $2.98 million on 220,000 admissions for the Sept. 9-10 weekend. This was 68% better than the opening frame for the 2014 Nolan film “Interstellar,” which finished with $11.5 million in Japan. “Dunkirk” is expected to end its run near the $20 million mark.

Opening at number two was the Hirokazu Kore-eda legal drama “The Third Murder.” Co-released by Toho and Gaga on 314 screens, the film made $2.14 million. This was about 75% of the first weekend score of Koree-eda’s family drama “Like Father, Like Son,” which earned a total of $29 million in 2013.

Despite leaving the Venice film festival without a prize, the film is expected to finish around the $15 million mark.

Meanwhile, the Masato Harada samurai war epic “Sekigahara” slipped from the number two to number three slot, while driving its cumulative total to $13.7 million. In fourth, “Despicable Me 3” cemented its position as the top film of the Japanese summer with a total of $62.5 million on for distributor Toho-Towa.

Edited September 12, 2017 by MinaTakla

[RSG]

11 hours ago, MinaTakla said:

DM3 already made 1.5x Minions in Japan and more than Zootopia and may cross Dory too (may have crossed it)

POTC now in Japan around $60.5. Will end at $61m almost. 

 

I think you have the grosses mixed up. Finding Dory earned 6.83 billion yen and Zootopia 7.63 billion yen. DM3 will cross Finding Dory but likely not Zootopia.

[UserHN]

14 hours ago, John Marston said:

Illumination films have done very well here while Pixar has kind of faded. Only Monsters University has had a notable Japan run since 2010. Finding Doey did well but not as much as you would think 

Even if Pixar has faded, I can still consider their films to have really good box office in Japan. On the other hand, Pixar's sister company, Walt Disney Animation is more of a winner than Illumination. Ever since Frozen was released, Disney Animation films have done really well: Big Hero 6 ($77 million), Zootopia ($70 million), and Moana ($46 million).  If you compare those films to Illumination's latest releases (Minions' $43 million/TSLOP's $42 million/Sing's $45 million/DM3's $62 million), I consider Disney Animation's films to have the upper hand. I don't expect DM3 to do Zootopia numbers. I also expect The Incredibles 2, Wreck-It Ralph 2, Toy Story 4, and especially Frozen 2 to do significantly well in Japan. 

Edited September 13, 2017 by UserHN

[UserHN]

14 hours ago, MinaTakla said:

DM3 now in Japan: $61.9m. Will end with $64-65m. Highest grossing animated film of the year (surpassing Conan) and 3rd best Hollywood film of the year there after Beauty and Fantastic Beasts (may cross that one which stands at $64m). DM3 already made 1.5x Minions in Japan and more than Zootopia and may cross Dory too (may have crossed it)

POTC now in Japan around $60.5. Will end at $61m almost. 

 

I think you are mistaken. DM3 still has not crossed Zootopia's numbers.

[MinaTakla]

42 minutes ago, UserHN said:

I think you are mistaken. DM3 still has not crossed Zootopia's numbers.

Correct, DM3 by the end of its run will have passed every single Pixar and Walt Disney animated film in the past few years (since after BH6 and until now) except Zootopia in 2016. Illumination is as strong, or even stronger, than Pixar now in that market as per Corpse (Japanese box office expert).

Edited September 13, 2017 by MinaTakla

[RSG]

19 minutes ago, MinaTakla said:

Correct, DM3 by the end of its run will have passed every single Pixar and Walt Disney animated film in the past few years (since after BH6 and until now) except Zootopia in 2016. Illumination is as strong, or even stronger, than Pixar now in that market as per Corpse (Japanese box office expert).

 

According to Corpse, WDAS has taken the niche formerly filled by Pixar with Illumination following in second place. Pixar hasn't had a huge hit since Toy Story 3 and Monsters University. Inside Out and Finding Dory both made considerably less than they were expected to, and the recent Cars 3 was a big disappointment. Maybe Incredibles 2 can turn Pixar's luck around, but I'm not betting money on it. 

Edited September 13, 2017 by RSG

[UserHN]

6 hours ago, MinaTakla said:

Correct, DM3 by the end of its run will have passed every single Pixar and Walt Disney animated film in the past few years (since after BH6 and until now) except Zootopia in 2016. Illumination is as strong, or even stronger, than Pixar now in that market as per Corpse (Japanese box office expert).

Since Frozen, Walt Disney Animation only has 3 films that were released in Japan: Big Hero 6 ($77 million), Zootopia ($70 million), and Moana ($46 million). After BH6, there are only 2 films, which are Zootopia and Moana. So among the Walt Disney Animation releases, DM3 will only outgross Moana. I won't consider that as an Illumination win over Walt Disney Animation. You can't just exclude Zootopia because, as I've said, since BH6, Walt Disney Animation only released 2 films. I think for now, Walt Disney Animation has the upper hand in Japan over Illumination. DM3 will be Illumination's biggest Japan grosser, but even that can't touch BH6 and Zootopia. 

[MinaTakla]

11 minutes ago, UserHN said:

Since Frozen, Walt Disney Animation only has 3 films that were released in Japan: Big Hero 6 ($77 million), Zootopia ($70 million), and Moana ($46 million). After BH6, there are only 2 films, which are Zootopia and Moana. So among the Walt Disney Animation releases, DM3 will only outgross Moana. I won't consider that as an Illumination win over Walt Disney Animation. You can't just exclude Zootopia because, as I've said, since BH6, Walt Disney Animation only released 2 films. I think for now, Walt Disney Animation has the upper hand in Japan over Illumination. DM3 will be Illumination's biggest Japan grosser, but even that can't touch BH6 and Zootopia. 

Maybe, but Illumination is in a much stronger position than Pixar there now. Second to WDAS but above Pixar.