Weekend from September. I'm posting them so I don't have to look them up elsewhere, they'll always be here:

Sept 5-6:

1 20-seiki shônen: Saishû-shô - Bokura no hata (20th Century Boys: The Last Chapter - Our Flag) Toho $5,739,027 374 $15,345 $22,893,123 2 Unknown
2 Ballad: Na mo naki koi no uta Toho $2,493,590 331 $7,534 $2,493,590 1 Unknown
3 The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three Sony $1,740,397 308 $5,651 $1,740,397 1 UK, USA
4 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Fox $801,979 480 $1,671 $20,742,259 4 USA
5 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince WB $791,041 638 $1,240 $82,629,600 8 Unknown
6 Samâwôzu (Summer Wars) WB $601,281 129 $4,661 $13,555,058 6 Unknown
7 Hachiko: A Dog's Story Shochiku $590,103 344 $1,715 $19,035,375 5 Unknown
8 Gekijôban Kamen raidâ Dikeido: Ôru Raidâ tai Daishokkâ (Kamen Rider Decade the Movie: All Riders Vs. Great Shocker) Toei $488,732 322 $1,518 $19,418,091 5 Unknown
9 Amalufi: Megami no hôshû Toho $419,339 317 $1,323 $36,902,266 8 Unknown
10 Transporter 3 Asmik Ace $368,261 161 $2,287 $6,080,399 5 France
11 Gekijô ban poketto monsutâ: Daiamondo pâru - Arceus Chokoku No Jiku He (Pokémon 12) Toho $363,607 321 $1,133 $48,412,133 8 Unknown
12 Hottarake no shima - Haruka to maho no kagami Toho $314,594 211 $1,491 $3,130,376 3 Unknown
13 Taken Fox $299,313 237 $1,263 $3,991,181 3 France
14 Animation Yattâman The Movie Shochiku $289,815 210 $1,380 $2,531,422 3 Unknown
15 Evangerion shin gekijôban: Ha (Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance) n/a $249,058 86 $2,896 $39,044,195 11 Unknown
- Rocket Men Sony $55,572 98 $567 $1,169,480 3 Unknown
- Cadillac Records Sony $16,895 5 $3,379 $231,170 4 USA
- Rachel Getting Married Sony $523 1 $523 $350,962 21 USA


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Sept 12-13:

1 1 20-seiki shônen: Saishû-shô - Bokura no hata (20th Century Boys: The Last Chapter - Our Flag) Toho $3,468,065 -39.6% 374 - $9,273 $29,982,550 3
2 N X-Men Origins: Wolverine Fox $1,903,329 - 514 - $3,703 $2,503,397 1
3 2 Ballad: Na mo naki koi no uta Toho $1,753,874 -29.7% 331 - $5,299 $6,829,590 2
4 N Katen no shiro Toei $1,387,757 - 273 - $5,083 $1,387,757 1
5 N Shinboru (Symbol) Shochiku $1,111,735 - 242 - $4,594 $1,111,735 1
6 3 The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three Sony $853,878 -50.9% 308 - $2,772 $4,611,121 2
7 N Tajomaru WB $798,460 - 305 - $2,618 $798,460 1
8 N Killer Virgin Road Toho $472,860 - 156 - $3,031 $472,860 1
9 5 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince WB $459,371 -41.9% 535 -103 $859 $83,776,293 9
10 6 Samâwôzu (Summer Wars) WB $443,210 -26.3% 120 -9 $3,693 $14,638,534 7
11 N Pûru (Pool) n/a $314,343 - 42 - $7,484 $314,343 1
12 7 Hachiko: A Dog's Story Shochiku $303,622 -48.6% 334 -10 $909 $20,025,195 6
13 4 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Fox $247,679 -69.1% 220 -260 $1,126 $21,496,544 5
14 11 Gekijô ban poketto monsutâ: Daiamondo pâru - Arceus Chokoku No Jiku He (Pokémon 12) Toho $234,405 -35.5% 288 -33 $814 $48,687,041 9
15 9 Amalufi: Megami no hôshû Toho $217,122 -48.2% 306 -11 $710 $37,670,889 9
- - Cadillac Records Sony $28,629 +69.5% 8 +3 $3,579 $282,052 5
- - Rocket Men Sony $14,905 -73.2% 22 -76 $678 $1,252,851 4
- N The Art of War II: Betrayal Sony $10,160 - 5 - $2,032 $10,160 1
- - Rachel Getting Married Sony $801 +53.2% 1 - $801 $352,817 22

According to HR, the film is once again #1 and stands at $45.3 million now.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/too ... /Japan.jsp


Coco Before Chanel is certainly doing very well in Japan for a film like that.

http://www.cinemanavi.co.jp/english/weekend.html

7 openers in the top 10.

Astro Boy debuting a No.10 is disappointing.

I haven't updated this in a month, sorry. BOM INTL is still behind on everything, jeez.

Oct. 3-4 : http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/japan ... =40&p=.htm


Nov 7-8, 2009
1 1 MICHAEL JACKSON'S THIS IS IT SONY $3,924,845 -31.7 322 -- $12,189 12 $23,470,240
2 3 I GIVE MY FIRST LOVE TO YOU TOHO $2,094,418 -24.3 302 -- $6,935 16 $14,401,871
3 2 THE UNBROKEN TOHO $1,781,755 -41.6 403 -- $4,421 16 $16,132,377
4 4 FRESH PRETTY CUTRE THE MOVIE! TOEI $1,023,896 -45.9 159 -- $6,440 9 $4,306,149
5 5 KAIJI TOHO $968,117 -40.1 306 -- $3,164 30 $21,875,437
6 7 REBIRTH OF BUDDHA TOEI $693,179 -11.4 189 -- $3,668 23 $6,626,248
7 new DRAG ME TO HELL GAGA $541,683 -- 152 -- $3,564 3 $676,617
8 6 FEEL THE WIND SHOCHIKU $537,179 -44.7 240 -- $2,238 9 $2,627,204
9 new SAW VI ASMIK $442,706 -- 59 -- $7,504 3 $607,728
10 new MY RAINY DAYS GAGA $330,448 -- 121 -- $2,731 2 $330,448


MJ should see 40m, making it the second biggest film of the fall behind 20th Centry Boys - Chapter 3 (50m). The film was No.1 for Nov 14-15, beating A Christmas Carol (though I think one article said ACC opened at No.1, so it had to be close if the estimates had MJ at No.1 again, either way, it had to have a good hold this weekend).

Nov. 14-15, 2009
1 new DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL WALT DISNEY STUDIOS INTL $3,185,564 -- 515 -- $6,186 2 $3,185,564
2 1 MICHAEL JACKSON'S THIS IS IT SONY $3,035,345 -22.9 323 -- $9,397 19 $32,522,396
3 new NO MORE CRY! TOHO $2,293,602 -- 303 -- $7,570 2 $2,293,602
4 new ZERO FOCUS TOHO $1,754,476 -- 322 -- $5,449 2 $1,754,476
5 2 I GIVE MY FIRST LOVE TO YOU TOHO $1,632,789 -22.3 302 -- $5,407 23 $17,878,737
6 3 THE UNBROKEN TOHO $1,524,757 -14.7 403 -- $3,784 23 $20,450,165
7 4 FRESH PRETTY CUTRE THE MOVIE! TOEI $891,703 -13.2 159 -- $5,608 16 $5,655,546
8 new THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN TOEI $614,959 -- 233 -- $2,639 2 $614,959
9 5 KAIJI TOHO $551,623 -43.2 306 -- $1,803 37 $23,341,661
10 8 FEEL THE WIND SHOCHIKU $381,081 -29.3 240 -- $1,588 16 $3,601,424

Solid for A Christmas Carol.
This Is It will cross 40m.

This past weekend, 2012 opened at No.1 with 7m. Very good, and should finish in the mid/high 20's.

Nov. 21-22 estimate rankings.

1 NEW 2012 SPE 1
2 2 MICHAEL JACKSON'S THIS IS IT SPE 4
3 1 DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL Disney 2
4 3 No More Cry !!! (JPN.) Toho 2
5 NEW INGLORIOUS BASTARDS Toho Towa 1
6 4 Zero Focus (JPN.) Toho 2
7 6 The Unbroken (JPN.) Toho 5
8 5 I Give My First Love To You (JPN.) Toho 5
9 NEW Macross Frontier The Movie (JPN.Animation) KLOCK WORX 1
10 7 Fresh Pretty Cure! (JPN.Animation) Toei 4

This Is It is still holding up very well. It'll even have a shot at the Top 10 of the year. 40m is basically a lock for it. Up will surely find a place in the Top 10, and I'm sure there's at least another local film that will find it's way into the Top 10 this winter, too.

BOM (probably off by wide margins) 2009, Top 10

1. Rookies: The Movie Toho ($90m) *
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince WB ($85m) *
3. Red Cliff: Part II Toho-Towa ($56.4m)
4. Twentieth Century Boys - Chapter Three Toho ($50m) *
5. Pokemon the 12th Movie Toho ($49m)
6. Evangelion: 2.0 n/a ($41m)
7. Amalufi Toho ($40m) *
8. Gokusen: The Movie Toho ($38m) *
9. Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser Toho ($35.7m)
10. Angels and Demons Sony ($34.2m)


*Since BOM decided to fuck up the INTL section, these films' totals aren't known as they were still playing. Sooo, they are guesses on my part based on the last known total and the last known weekend gross. All of these will likely increase because BOM happens to be low on everything the past few years, they don't update after a certain number of weeks. So I'm using Eiren (Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan) for previous year.

Eiren (Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan) 2008, Top 10

1. Ponyo on a Cliff (Toho) $172.15m
2. Boys Over Flowers: Final (Toho) $86.07m
3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (PPI) $63.42m
4. Departures {Shochiku) $61m
5. Red Cliff: Part I (Toho-Towa) $56.09m
6. Suspect X (Toho) $54.64m
7. Pokemon the 11th Movie (Toho) $53.31m
8. Partners: The Movie (Toei) $49.31m
9. I Am Legend (WB) $47.87m
10. Wall-E (Disney) $44m

Source: 1/29/2009 07:40:00 PM
http://www.screendaily.com/japanese-box ... 88.article
http://jasongray.blogspot.com/2009/01/j ... re-in.html

Only Wall-E and Departures are BOM numbers since they grossed a great deal of their totals in 2009 and weren't included. BOM seems totally useless with international numbers now that I've found numbers from the actual source of the number. And boy does it change so much, Eiren's Top 10 of 2007 puts one film over 100m when, according to BOM, no film since 2004 had crossed 100m until Ponyo did in 2008.

Eiren (Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan) 2007, Top 10

1. Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End (Disney) $102.46m
2. Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (WB) $88.36m
3. Hero (Fuji TV / Toho) $76.61m
4. Spider-Man 3 (Sony) $66.93m
5. Letters From Iwo Jima* (WB) $47.94m
6. Pokémon: The Rise Of Darkrai (10th Movie) (Toho) $47.19m
7. Always: Sunset On Third Street 2** (NTV / Toho) $42.86m
8. Monkey Magic (Fuji TV / Toho) $41.08m
9. Love and Honour* (Shochiku) $38.63m
10. Transformers (UIP) $37.69m

Source: 01 Feb 2008 10:49
http://www.eiren.org/
http://jasongray.blogspot.com/2008/02/j ... -2007.html

Wow, At World's End passed $100 million?!

Yes, BOM has $91.1m, but that's probably the total when they stopped tracking it. Same with many, many others. We all know Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince wasn't just dropped from theatres and finish with $83m while it was still doing six digit figures, and this when BOM's INTL section was still being updated.

Eiren has numbers for half the decade, and I'm looking for their official number for 2004-2006 right now. Here is this also, pretty much every stat regarding the box office this decade.

Eiren (Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan) 2006, Top 10

1. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire* (WB) $90.49m
2. Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 (BVI) $82.34m
3. The Da Vinci Code (SPE) $74.45m
4. Tales From Earthsea (Toho) $62.93m
5. Umizaru 2 - Test Of Trust (Toho) $58.4m
6. Chronicles Of Narnia: Lion, Witch And Wardrobe (BVI) $56.43m
7. Suite Dreams (Toho) $50.02m
8. Sinking Of Japan (Toho) $43.93m
9. Death Note: The Last Name (WB) $42.78m
10. Mission : Impossible III (UIP) $42.37m

Source: 30 January, 2007
http://www.screendaily.com/japanese-fil ... 59.article

11/21-22

1 new 2012 SONY $7,008,065 -- 610 -- $11,489 2 $7,008,065
2 2 MICHAEL JACKSON'S THIS IS IT SONY $2,987,122 -2.3 314 -- $9,513 26 $40,334,643
3 1 DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL WALT DISNEY STUDIOS INTL $2,274,490 -29.1 515 -- $4,416 9 $7,888,402
4 3 NO MORE CRY! TOHO $1,901,970 -17.7 303 -- $6,277 9 $6,465,619
5 new INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS TOHO TOWA $1,410,398 -- 315 -- $4,477 3 $1,782,537
6 4 ZERO FOCUS TOHO $1,179,287 -33.3 322 -- $3,662 9 $5,274,882
7 6 THE UNBROKEN TOHO $1,089,088 -29.1 403 -- $2,702 30 $23,436,088
8 5 I GIVE MY FIRST LOVE TO YOU TOHO $1,007,430 -38.7 302 -- $3,336 30 $20,144,827
9 new MACROSS FRONTIER KLOCKWORX $990,643 -- 30 -- $33,021 2 $990,643
10 7 FRESH PRETTY CUTRE THE MOVIE! TOEI $653,101 -27.3 159 -- $4,108 23 $6,662,248

Good for 2012, but even more impressive for This Is It. Remaining almost flat and crossing 40m with ease. 50m is easily in reach now.

Disappointing for Inglourious Basterds but the distributor really chose the wrong weekend to open it. I mean against 2012?! C'mon!

11/28-29 estimate rankings

1 1 2012 SPE 2
2 3 DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL Disney 3
3 4 No More Cry !!! (JPN.) Toho 3
4 5 INGLORIOUS BASTARDS Toho Towa 2
5 7 The Unbroken (JPN.) Toho 6
6 NEW THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Asmik Ace/Kadokawa 1
7 6 Zero Focus (JPN.) Toho 3
8 8 I Give My First Love To You (JPN.) Toho 6
9 10 Fresh Pretty Cure! (JPN.Animation) Toei 5
10 9 Macross Frontier The Movie (JPN.Animation) KLOCK WORX 2

Just when This Is It crosses 40m with ease, and is aiming for 50m, still in the top 3, Sony removes it from theatres. WTF. The film had a solid 10/15m left.

Nov/28-29

1 1 2012 SONY $4,389,629 -38.6 610 -- $7,196 9 $18,681,564
2 3 DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL WALT DISNEY STUDIOS INTL $1,757,731 -24.2 516 -- $3,406 16 $12,471,838
3 4 NO MORE CRY! TOHO $1,425,952 -26.5 303 -- $4,706 16 $10,351,244
4 5 INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS TOHO TOWA $844,349 -41.3 314 -- $2,689 10 $4,275,100
5 new THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON KADOKAWA $787,692 -- 197 -- $3,998 2 $787,692
6 7 THE UNBROKEN TOHO $752,854 -32.2 403 -- $1,868 37 $26,193,667
7 6 ZERO FOCUS TOHO $711,905 -40.8 322 -- $2,211 16 $7,934,159
8 8 I GIVE MY FIRST LOVE TO YOU TOHO $700,304 -31.8 302 -- $2,319 37 $22,366,448
9 9 MACROSS FRONTIER KLOCKWORX $632,877 -37.3 30 -- $21,096 9 $2,611,968
10 10 FRESH PRETTY CUTRE THE MOVIE! TOEI $494,551 -25.7 158 -- $3,130 30 $7,853,596

For comparison:

8 N Twilight Asmik Ace $689,676 - 199 - $3,466 $689,676 1
5 N Twilight New Moon Kadokawa $787,692 - 197 - $3,998 $787,692 1

Very little growth here. I wouldn't even call it growth really.

2009 has lost a lot of ground on 2008. Jan-June was up 17%, but Jan-Oct. is now up just 0.3%. There just wan't a way to keep up with Ponyo's post summer run last year.

Ponyo:
First Week: 14.3M [1.56B]
Second Week: 15.01M [1.65B], +0.7M [+76.6M] (total - 29.3M [3.2B])
Third Week: 18.45M [2.05B], +3.44M [+375M] (total - 48M [5.25B])
Fourth Week: 17.6M [1.93B], -0.85M [-282M] (total - 65.5M [7.2B])
Fifth Week: 25.4M [2.77B], +7.8M [+855M] (total - 90M [10B])*Holiday Week*
Sixth Week: 14.2M [1.55B] , -11.2M (total - 104.2M [11.5B])
Seventh Week: 13.3M [1.42B], -0.9M (total - 117.5M [12.7B])
Eighth Week: 7.8M [.846B], -5.5M (total - 125.4M [13.61B])
Ninth Week: 6.3M [.657B], -1.5M (total - 131.7M [14B])
Tenth Week: 2.2M [.233B], -4.1M (total - 133.9M [14.2B])
Eleventh Week: 2.6M [.277B], +0.4M (total - 136.5M [14.5B])
Twelth Week: 5.3M [.542B], +2.7M (total - 141.8M [14.9B])
Thirteenth Week: 4.4M [.448B], -0.9M (total - 146.2M [15.35B]
Total - $172.15M

gotta love them

and I will love them more if Up opens with 10m+ this coming weekend..

be real.. be real.. be real..

Anything above $7 million would be great for Up.

$7m is probably a bit too high. Wall-E opened below $5m, but finished around $50m. I think Up will do slightly better, but not an opening 50% or more over Wall-E. The multiplier will be around 10 afterall.

would 3D be a factor in japan. Some one from japan told in BOM that 3D tickets costs 500 yen more. I think there was a HR article about 3D counts in OS countries. I forgot the number for japan.

Well, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 3D - $419,385 - $1.3m. :-p

3D isn't big in Japan, in fact, the IMAX site only has 12 IMAX/3D theatres in the entire country. I doubt 3D will do well if tickets are indeed 500 more yen. It's already around $15 for a ticket, the average japanese person only sees 1/2 movies a year.

It's a completely different situation there.

IA movies aren't that big a deal in japan. Pixar movies always play well(except cars). Plus the theme of Up is miyazaki like. It should play well.

I found the HR article. There are 150 3d screens and the 3D ticket rate is 2000yen compared to 1200 yen for 2D.



http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... 499fa5802b

Nice find.

Up will play well I believe, and should beat Wall-E. But a big opening (7, 8, or more) isn't going to happen. An opening of that level would likely mean a total almost double Wall-E's.

Finally some Non-Bom 2009 figures, as suspected, BOM was way off on these two. Over 10m low on both!





So the top 2 of the year (I hope Rookies hits 100m, just 1m away, but I don't know if it's still playing, doubtful though since 6 months is usually when local films end their runs) so far:

1. Rookies: The Movie - $99m
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - $93m

Potter 6 ends the downward spiral for the franchise (HP4 90, HP5 88), being the first to see an increase, and probably beat Potter 5 worldwide even though BOM has it below it.