New additions to the chart are in bold.

I also found Porco Rosso's total, so it's now included.

Top Grossing Animated Films

Spirited Away - 30.4 billion, #1 All-Time
Howl's Moving Castle - 22 billion, #3 All-Time
Princess Mononoke - 19.3 billion, #5 All-Time
Ponyo - 15.5 billion, #8 All-Time
Finding Nemo - 11 billion
Monsters, Inc. - 9.5 billion
Tales of Earthsea - 7.65 billion
Toy Story 3 - 5.4 billion, 23 days in release
The Incredibles - 5.3 billion
The Cat Returns - 5.2 billion
One Piece Strong World - 5 billion
Pokemon 10 - 5 billion
Pokemon - 4.9 billion
Dinosaur - 4.9 billion
Up - 4.8 billion
Pokemon 11 - 4.8 billion
Pokemon 12 - 4.7 billion
Pokemon 7 - 4.4 billion
Pokemon 8 - 4.3 billion
Pokemon 2 - 4.1 billion
Evangelion 2.0 - 4 billion
WALL-E - 4 billion
The Borrower Arrietty - 4 billion, 16 days in release
Ratatouille - 3.9 billion
Pokemon 3 - 3.7 billion
Detective Conan 13 - 3.6 billion
Pokemon 9 - 3.5 billion
Doraemon 27 - 3.4 billion
Doraemon 30 - 3.3 billion
Doraemon 28 - 3.3 billion
Pokemon 6 - 3.2 billion
Doraemon 26 - 3.2 billion
Detective Conan 14 - 3.2 billion
Detective Conan 10 - 3 billion
Lilo & Stitch 2.9 billion
Tarzan 2.8 billion
Doraemon 29 - 2.8 billion
Detective Conan 9 - 2.8 billion
Detective Conan 8 - 2.8 billion
Pokemon 4 - 2.8 billion
Chicken Little - 2.7 billion
Porco Rosso - 2.65
Doraemon 25 - 2.6 billion
Doraemon 23 - 2.6 billion
Shrek 2 - 2.5 billion
Detective Conan 12 - 2.5 billion
Detective Conan 7 - 2.4 billion
Pokemon 5 - 2.3 billion
Cars - 2.3 billion
Doraemon 24 - 2.3 billion
Paco and the Magic Book - 2.2 billion
Madagascar - 2.2 billion
Detective Conan 11 - 2.2 billion
Pokemon 13 - 2.2 billion, 23 days in release
Kiki's Delivery Service - 2.15 billion
Shrek - 2 billion
Evangelion 1.0 - 2 billion
Kung Fu Panda - 2 billion
Toy Story 2 - 2 billion

Films that grossed below 2 billion are excluded.

Bayside Shakedown 3 - Y971,993,450 ($11.1m) / 707,399 admissions (447 screens)
Confessions - Y2,707,598,200 ($30.8m) / 2,091,255 admissions, Five Week Total.
The Adventures of Adel - Y106,622,300 ($1.2m) / 87,333 admissions (229 screens)

Bayside Shakedown 3's daily breakdown has finally been released, and the drop on Sunday wasn't even close to being as bad as I originally thought.

Since it was tracking almost even with Alice in Wonderland in admissions Opening Day, I was thinking the Opening Day would be between Y620,000,000-Y660,000,000 (Alice's first day was Y700,000,000).

But Saturday was actually Y529,283,850 (390,017 admissions). Alice in Wonderland's expensive 3D tickets played a much bigger part in it's opening (and overall run) than I expected. Sunday was Y442,709,600 (317,382 admissions), about a 16% drop. Much, much better than the 35% drop I calculated, which would have been considerably bad in the territory.

Toho announced they expect Bayside Shakedown 3 to gross Y10b ($114m), so we'll see how that goes. It's very early.



Confessions looks to have had a small drop, being it's first ever drop. Having survived Bayside Shakedown 3, and with the big three animated films coming up that shouldn't hurt it much at all, I'm pretty confident in saying it'll cross Y3.5b ($40m).

I don't know for sure, but I'd assume it's the extended version.

The regular version re-release probably wouldn't do very well. Despite selling 10m tickets and grossing Y15 billion, the DVD sales were very mediocre. This Is It, for example, sold more it's first week than Avatar has in over 2 months.

So if the re-release of This Is It, after the DVD release, didn't perform well, the Avatar re-release wouldn't either unless there was a reason to see it again.

It's rare for a domestic (non-Japanese) publication to report on a film, or even the box office in general, from Japan, but both The Hollywood Reporter and Screen Daily have for this past weekend. Below is Screen Daily's as it's more detailed.

The third feature film in the Bayside Shakedown series opened strongly at the top of the Japanese box office this weekend, with the potential to cross the $100m threshold.

Distributor Toho opened Bayside Shakedown 3: Set The Guys Loose! on 447 screens, earning $11.05m (Y972m) on 707,399 admissions for a strong per screen average of $24,724, the highest of the year for a major release.

Toho has stated the film is on track to reach 10 billion yen ($113.7m), though weekday admissions and repeat customers will be key in a summer string of big releases.

If it does reach the threshold, it would be the first local live-action release to do so since the second Bayside film in 2003.

Bayside Shakedown 2 remains the territory’s domestic live-action box office champion at $197.28m (Y17.35b). The original 1998 film earned 114.84m (Y10.1b). Based on a 1997 TV series, the franchise has also spawned a game.

Once again directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro, part three sees series protagonist Aoshima (Yuji Oda), now promoted to chief detective in the major crimes unit, battling to foil a group of criminals who take his colleagues hostage at their old police station. Crows star Shun Oguri joins the cast of regulars.

Dark drama Confessions ($31.6m), also distributed by Toho, moved into the second position after four weeks at the top of the chart, followed by newcomer The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adele Blanc-Sec, directed by Luc Besson; Iron Man 2 and Sex And The City 2.

http://www.screendaily.com/news/asia-pa ... 03.article

Once again, please note that the article is using the exchange rate of today when using USD totals.

i hope to hear some good news soon

okay?

Unless I'm wrong, Japan is the last market for How To Train Your Dragon to
open in. I know it's Dreamworks and they don't typically do well in Japan. But
what are the expectations for this opening August 7th (per imdb)?

Probably low/mid teens. The lack of any western jokes commonly seen in Dreamworks films, and more focus on the story should help it a great deal, though.

Weekend Summary, 7/10-11

1. Bayside Shakedown 3 Set The Guys Loose ! Toho $11,080,725 1 447 $24,789 0 $11,080,725
2. Confessions Toho $2,477,724 5 266 $9,315 -24 $30,867,430
3. Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, The Asmik Ace $1,215,494 1 261 $4,657 0 $1,215,494
4. Iron Man 2 Paramount Int'l $676,950 4 413 $1,639 -44 $11,956,282
5. Sex And The City 2 Warner Bros. International $641,172 5 360 $1,781 -40 $17,145,584
6. Outrage Warner Bros. International $383,537 4 155 $2,474 -44 $7,220,692
7. Masked Rider Den-O Trilogy The Movie Episode Yellow TOEI $372,148 3 211 $1,764 -67 $4,637,689
8. Alice In Wonderland Walt Disney Int'l $350,211 12 198 $1,769 -40 $133,512,767
9. Book Of Eli, The Kadokawa-Herald $345,984 3 239 $1,448 -53 $4,109,490
10. 300 Millions Kadokawa-Herald $208,394 1 97 $2,148 0 $208,394


The bottom half of the top 10 is the weakest in terms of gross in a long time. That'll soon change with the July releases, though.

I've mentioned Bayside Shakedown 3 enough for the week. It's a very strong opening, but just a little below expectations. Toho is still expecting a gross of Y10 billion ($114m) or more. It's run will last into 2011.

Confessions sees the first drop of it's run after spending 4 weeks on top, but it's the best hold in the top 10. Having survived Bayside Shakedown 3, it should be able to reach $40m before it's end.

Asmik Ace is having a good year, and have another solid hit with Adele.

Iron Man 2 and Sex and the City 2 continue to do solid business. IM2 may not reach $15m, but it's better than the original's 9m.

Alice in Wonderland will be dropped by most locations this coming weekend, so it'll finish it's spectacular run with about $135m.

Bayside Shakedown 3 has grossed Y1.5 billion ($17m) in five days, according to Distributor Toho. The goal is probably Y2.5 billion ($28.5m) after 9 days. Hopefully it can do $30m.

The predictions from local publications this weekend are all different, it's great.










Let's see if it can top the record, set on 4/17-18, 2010, top 3 of Alice in Wonderland (Y1.31 billion), Nodame Cantabile II (Y564m), and Detective Conan 14 (Y561m) / Y2.43b ($26.3m). Doubtful, $25m looks to be about the max, but it's doable.

2010's Charts have been updated, as of 7/5/2010, with the latest known figures up to this date.

Many new additions will be added to the charts below over the next 4 weeks,


Top 20 Films of 2010

1 Avatar Fox Int'l $166,371,800
2 Alice In Wonderland Walt Disney Int'l $133,512,767
3 One Piece Strong World TOEI $56,776,373
4 Up Walt Disney Int'l $54,285,463
5 Nodame Cantabile The Movie I Toho $44,322,317
6 Nodame Cantabile The Movie II Toho $44,001,689
7 Detective Conan The Lost Ship in the Sky Toho $35,105,075
8 Doraemon Nobita's South Sea Adventure Toho $34,796,716
9 Confessions Toho $30,867,430
10 Liar Game: The Final Stage Toho $26,160,537

11 Oceans GAGA $25,721,299
12 Sherlock Holmes Warner Bros. $23,274,806
13 Younger Brother Shochiku $21,047,812
14 Trick The Movie: Psychic Battle Royale Toho $20,652,348
15 Shutter Island Paramount $18,288,305
16 Sex and the City 2 Warner Bros. $17,145,584
17 Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Decade Movie TOEI $17,035,761
18 Clash of the Titans Warner Bros. $16,408,584
19 Percy Jackson and the Olympians Fox Intl' $15,290,375
20 Crayon Shin-chan: The Super Dimension Toho $13,743,856

i - Still in theaters.

Distributor/Studio Count:

Toho - 8
Warner Bros. - 3
TOEI - 2
Walt Disney Int'l - 2
Fox Int'l - 2
Shochiku - 1
Paramount - 1
GAGA - 1


Top 20 Opening Weekends of 2010

1. April, Alice in Wonderland (Disney) - $14.3m (2day), 859 screens - $16,644 pta, 828,149 admissions
2. Dec. 09, One Piece Strong World (TOEI) - $11.7m (2day), 188 screens - $62,192 pta, 819,738 admissions
3. July, Bayside Shakedown 3 Set The Guys Loose! (Toho) - $11.1m (2day), 447 screens - 24,789 pta, 707,399 admissions
4. Dec. 09, Up (Disney) - $7m (2day), 663 screens - $10,461 pta, 440,804 admissions
5. Dec. 09, Avatar (Fox) - $6.61m (2day)/$14.56m (5day), 839 screens - $7,881 pta
6. March, Doraemon South Sea Adventure (Toho) - $6.12m (2day), 366 screens - $16,710 pta, 498,198 admissions
7. April, Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II (Toho) - $6.11m (2day), 410 screens - $14,915 pta, 437,613 admissions
8. April, Detective Conan Lost Ship in the Sky (Toho) - $6.1m (2day), 352 screens - $17,339 pta, 471,527 admissions
9. Dec. 09, Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider W & Dikeido (TOEI) - $5.01m (2day), 292 screens - $17,882 pta, 396,178 admissions
10. Dec. 09, Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I (Toho) - $4.36m (2day), 409 screens - $10,612 pta, 317,302 admissions

11. March, Liar Game: The Final Stage (Toho) - $4.33m (2day), 283 screens - $15,307 pta, 308,824 admissions
12. May, Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale (Toho) - $4.0m (2day), 320 screens - $12,515 pta, 270,705 admission
13. Jan., Oceans (Gaga) - $3.76m (2day)/$4.36m (3day), 303 screens - $12,483 pta, 280,726 admissions
14. March, Sherlock Holmes (WB) - $3.64m (2day)/$4.57m (3day), 441 screens - $8,392 pta
15. Feb., Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (Fox) - $3.41m (2day)/$4.12m (3day), 561 screens - $5,976 pta
16. April, Crayon Shin-chan (Toho) - $2.95m (2day), 325 screens - $9,051 pta, 238,831 admissions
17. April, Shutter Island (Paramount) - $2.94m (2day)/$3.7m (3day), 442 screens - $6,646 pta, 208,427 admissions
18. June, Confessions (Toho) - $2.93m (2day), 266 screens - $11,037 pta, 194,893 admissions
19. June, Iron Man 2 (Paramount) - $2.89m (2day)/$3.74m (3day), 414 screens - $6,971 pta
20. Jan., Younger Brother (Shochiku) - $2.62m (2day), 303 screens - $8,635 pta
20. May, Kamen Rider Den-O Trilogy the Movie Episode Red (TOEI) - $2.58m (2day), 209 screens - $12,360 pta, 199,381 admissions


Admissions for the top chart will eventually be added. I have a few known figures, but I'm waiting for when I have at least half.

Distributor Toho earned 3.2b Yen (about $36.5m USD) in June 2010.

From Jan. through June of 2010, Toho has now earned 28.6b Yen (or about $325m USD). The total does not include Nodame Cantabile Part 1 or Professor Layton (which combine for about 4.7b Yen ($53.5m USD)), but they'll be added in for the 2010 total figure that is likely between 33-34b Yen or $370-380m as of June 2010.

Toho recently released Bayside Shakedown 3 for July, which has earned 1.5b Yen ($17m+ USD) in five days. Toho is expecting a total of 10b Yen ($114m) or more for the third installment.

Toho's other July releases include: Pokemon 13 (7/10), Studio Ghibli's latest, The Borrower Arrietty (7/17), and Naruto Shippuden The Movie 4 (7/30).

July 2010 is shaping up to become Toho's biggest month ever, and possibly Toho's biggest year to date, their record being 2008 with Y73.91b ($820.8m). In 2009, Toho earned Y65.5b ($724.3m).

Weekend Forecast, 7/10-11

1 1 Bayside Shakedown 3 Set The Guys Loose! (Toho) 2
2 N Pokemon 13 Ruler of Illusions: Zoroark (Toho)
3 N Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney Intl)
4 2 Confessions (Toho) 6
5 N Predators (Fox Intl)
6 N Fowler Desperate Sword (Toei)
7 3 Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, The (Asmik Ace) 2
8 4 Iron Man 2 (Paramount) 5
9 5 Sex and the City 2 (Warner Bros.) 6
10 N Anpanman the Movie (2010) (TTC)


Bayside Shakedown 3 is expected to remain on top this weekend thanks to it's strong weekdays, and no noticeable signs of initial frontloading after the 7 year gap since the last film.


Pokemon 13 is projected to narrowly beat Toy Story 3 thanks to it's whopping advance ticket sales. It's been reported to have sold 2m tickets (meaning over $20m in gross already, but sales are spread out for the month). Pokemon 11 holds the all time animated pre-sales record, selling 2.4m tickets in advance, besting any animated movie in the world, and is in the Guinness Book of Records.


Toy Story 3 will open above Up, but thanks to the unusual Summer release date, may have to settle for opening in third. There's still a chance it can beat out Pokemon 13 since the tickets for TS3 are about 40% higher, but it's an uphill battle against Pokemon's big loyal fanbase.

October re-release, the extended version.

Toho has announced that Bayside Shakedown 3 has grossed Y1.9 billion ($21.5m) in 7 days. The film grossed Y972 ($11.1m) million the first 2 days in release, so that means a gross between Y900 million ($10.1m) - Y1.0 billion ($11.2m) from Mon - Fri., or basically matching it's opening weekend during the weekdays.

It's always a good sign when a film matches it's opening weekend in weekdays. $30m is possible after 9days now.

Below are tickets sold/tickets available for the first showings today at several locations:

Shunan MOVIX: 31/176 = Predators
　Shunan MOVIX: 13/176 frantic sword-Fowler
　Shunan MOVIX: 35/212 = Toy Story 3
　Shunan MOVIX: 176/452 = Pokemon
　Shunan MOVIX: 29/212 = Bayside The Moive 3
　MOVIX Hiedu: 36/310 = Predators
　MOVIX Hiedu: 19/236 frantic sword-Fowler
　MOVIX Hiedu: 58/273 = Toy Story 3
　Isesaki MOVIX: 26/178 frantic sword-Fowler
　Isesaki MOVIX: 30/204 = Toy Story 3
　Isesaki MOVIX: 21/246 = Toy Story 3
　Isesaki MOVIX: 210/508 = Pokemon
　Isesaki MOVIX: 45/228 = Bayside The Moive 3

　Kurashiki MOVIX: 67/203 = Predators
　Kurashiki MOVIX: 28/106 frantic sword-Fowler
　Kurashiki MOVIX: 96/206 = Toy Story 3
　Kurashiki MOVIX: 119/310 = Toy Story 3
　Kurashiki MOVIX: 311/456 = Pokemon
　Kurashiki MOVIX: 101/203 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Kurashiki MOVIX: 79/203 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Shimizu MOVIX: 26/171 = Predators
　Shimizu MOVIX: 11/168 frantic sword-Fowler
　Shimizu MOVIX: 105/227 = Toy Story 3
　Shimizu MOVIX: 91/424 = Pokemon
　Shimizu MOVIX: 35/208 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Shimizu MOVIX: 35/258 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Miyoshi MOVIX: 91/155 = Predators
　Miyoshi MOVIX: 57/110 frantic sword-Fowler
　Miyoshi MOVIX: 117/124 = Toy Story 3
　Miyoshi MOVIX: 180/201 = Toy Story 3
　Miyoshi MOVIX: 472/519 = Pokemon
　Miyoshi MOVIX: 135/332 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Miyoshi MOVIX: 161/228 = Bayside The Moive 3

　Sendai MOVIX: 31/161 = Predators
　Sendai MOVIX: 22/130 frantic sword-Fowler
　Sendai MOVIX: 71/284 = Toy Story 3
　Sendai MOVIX: 215/383 = Pokemon
　Sendai MOVIX: 67/175 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Sendai MOVIX: 18/231 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Rifu MOVIX: 21/123 = Predators
　Rifu MOVIX: 12/154 frantic sword-Fowler
　Rifu MOVIX: 48/311 = Toy Story 3
　Rifu MOVIX: 75/224 = Toy Story 3
　Rifu MOVIX: 199/519 = Pokemon
　Rifu MOVIX: 43/327 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Kashihara MOVIX: 23/174 = Predators
　Kashihara MOVIX: 15/197 frantic sword-Fowler
　Kashihara MOVIX: 23/482 = Toy Story 3
　Kashihara MOVIX: 71/325 = Pokemon
　Kashihara MOVIX: 19/241 = Bayside The Moive 3

　Utsunomiya MOVIX: 30/152 = Predators
　Utsunomiya MOVIX: 21/152 frantic sword-Fowler
　Utsunomiya MOVIX: 98/225 = Toy Story 3
　Utsunomiya MOVIX: 291/504 = Pokemon
　Utsunomiya MOVIX: 75/167 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Utsunomiya MOVIX: 79/311 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Hashimoto MOVIX: 58/164 = Predators
　Hashimoto MOVIX: 16/131 frantic sword-Fowler
　Hashimoto MOVIX: 89/225 = Toy Story 3
　Hashimoto MOVIX: 264/408 = Pokemon
　Hashimoto MOVIX: 44/265 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Hashimoto MOVIX: 71/164 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Saitama MOVIX: 59/120 frantic sword-Fowler
　Saitama MOVIX: 104/339 = Toy Story 3
　Saitama MOVIX: 140/179 = Toy Story 3
　Saitama MOVIX: 342/420 = Pokemon
　Saitama MOVIX: 134/297 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Saitama MOVIX: 74/502 = Bayside The Moive 3

　Misato MOVIX: 47/185 = Predators
　Misato MOVIX: 56/174 frantic sword-Fowler
　Misato MOVIX: 31/189 = Toy Story 3
　Misato MOVIX: 142/255 = Toy Story 3
　Misato MOVIX: 328/518 = Pokemon
　Misato MOVIX: 79/287 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Kawaguchi MOVIX: 65/210 = Predators
　Kawaguchi MOVIX: 41/141 frantic sword-Fowler
　Kawaguchi MOVIX: 76/240 = Toy Story 3
　Kawaguchi MOVIX: 304/427 = Pokemon
　Kawaguchi MOVIX: 49/250 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Kawaguchi MOVIX: 57/210 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Kameari MOVIX: 55/172 = Predators
　Kameari MOVIX: 21/139 frantic sword-Fowler
　Kameari MOVIX: 157/227 = Toy Story 3
　Kameari MOVIX: 149/172 = Pokemon
　Kameari MOVIX: 142/460 = Pokemon
　Kameari MOVIX: 23/234 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Kameari MOVIX: 67/305 = Bayside The Moive 3

　Akishima MOVIX: 28/163 = Predators
　Akishima MOVIX: 30/130 frantic sword-Fowler
　Akishima MOVIX: 42/382 = Toy Story 3
　Akishima MOVIX: 107/234 = Toy Story 3
　Akishima MOVIX: 346/495 = Pokemon
　Akishima MOVIX: 34/208 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Akishima MOVIX: 43/196 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Sakai MOVIX: 8 / 150 = Predators
　Sakai MOVIX: 15/150 frantic sword-Fowler
　Sakai MOVIX: 13/196 = Toy Story 3
　Sakai MOVIX: 74/387 = Toy Story 3
　Sakai MOVIX: 175/472 = Pokemon
　Sakai MOVIX: 39/202 = Bayside The Moive 3
　Sakai MOVIX: 7 / 258 The Moive 3-Bayside
　Kashiwanoha MOVIX: 20/105 = Predators
　Kashiwanoha MOVIX: 19/141 desperate sword-Fowler
　Kashiwanoha MOVIX: 60/223 = Toy Story 3
　Kashiwanoha MOVIX: 79/363 = Toy Story 3
　Kashiwanoha MOVIX: 219/473 = Pokemon
　Kashiwanoha MOVIX: 35/294 = Bayside The Moive 3

Yao MOVIX: 62/178 = Predators
Yao MOVIX: 30/153 frantic sword-Fowler
Yao MOVIX: 49/217 = Toy Story 3
Yao MOVIX: 242/330 = Toy Story 3
Yao MOVIX: 171/449 = Pokemon
Yao MOVIX: 200/208 = Pokemon
Yao MOVIX: 72/260 = Bayside The Moive 3
Yao MOVIX: 58/217 = Bayside The Moive 3
Tsukuba MOVIX: 23/166 = Predators
Tsukuba MOVIX: 16/146 frantic sword-Fowler
Tsukuba MOVIX: 43/214 = Toy Story 3
Tsukuba MOVIX: 126/471 = Pokemon
Tsukuba MOVIX: 19/187 = Bayside The Moive 3
MOVIX: 29/182 = Predators
MOVIX: 14/108 frantic sword-Fowler
MOVIX: 16/172 = Toy Story 3
MOVIX: 42/207 = Toy Story 3
MOVIX: 81/426 = Pokemon
MOVIX: 28/312 = Bayside The Movie 3
MOVIX Kyoto: 71/172 frantic sword-Fowler
MOVIX Kyoto: 67/180 = Toy Story 3
MOVIX Kyoto: 109/422 = Toy Story 3
MOVIX Kyoto: 29/189 = Toy Story 3
MOVIX Kyoto: 31/451 = Bayside The Movie 3


Total:
4883 / 9489 (@ 22 screens) - Pokemon 13
2787 / 8899 (@ 35 screens) - Toy Story 3
1885 / 8423 (@ 33 screens) - The Movie 3 Bayside
751 / 3300 (@ 19 screens) - Predators
612 / 3312 (@ 22 screens) - Sword Desperately Fowler



Pokemon 13 will be the clear winner this weekend in admissions, and will probably win today in gross as well, and is slightly ahead of last year's film at the same locations, but it's much cheaper tickets give Toy Story 3 and Bayside Shakedown 3 room to catch it in gross for the weekend.

Going to be interesting to see how the rest of the day turns out.

How much is it for a ticket to see Toy Story 3 and Bayside Shakedown 3?

Toy Story 3's average ticket is about Y1450 ($16.50 USD)
Bayside Shakedown 3's average ticket is about Y1400 ($16 USD)
Pokemon 13's average ticket is about Y1100 ($12.50 USD)

Bayside's is accurate, while TS3's is based on Up's avg ticket price opening weekend, and Pokemon 13's on Pokemon 12's avg. ticket price opening weekend.

TS3 might be hard to gauge though with possibly more 3D screens than Up (although, it's opening on 140 less screens than Up overall), and Pokemon 13 is a bit tricky having sold 2m advance tickets which are never used all at once, but throughout the first month. 2m admissions would give it the biggest opening of all time.

I don't really understand TS3's 525 screen count, Up opened on 662 screens. Maybe Disney decided to not abandon Alice in Wonderland quite yet.

Toy Story really picked up during the day on Saturday, while Bayside Shakedown 3 isn't doing all that great, down over 30% from last Saturday, which is a hefty drop in Japan. Perhaps the mixed user reviews are the reason.

Below are the total ticket sales for Saturday at the same Toho and Movix locations I've posted sales for before,

Pokemon 13 - 32410/44891
Toy Story 3 - 27179/57086
Bayside Shakedown 3 - 26417/56308

If the rest of the country would mirror the results above for Saturday, it's going to be a really close race as rough calculations rank them: TS3 > Pokemon 13 > Bayside Shakedown 3. However, they're very, very close and could easily change when more locations are factored in.

And some news for TS3 was released, having it tracking 30% ahead of Up based on partial first day sales. If it maintained that pace throughout the rest of Saturday and on Sunday, it would open around Y800,000,000 or about $9m USD, which would be good enough for No.1... I think.

For fun, and to see how accurate it'll be in the Fall, Oricon released the results of their poll question asking people to rank the Top 10 Highest Grossing films this summer:

1. Bayside Shakedown THE MOVIE 3 (Released July 3)
2. The Borrower Arrietty (released July 17)
3. Toy Story 3 (released July 10)
4. Dogwood (released August 21)
5. Pokemon 13 (released July 10)
6. Salt (released July 31)
7. Inception (released July 23)
8. Extraordinary Measures (released July 24)
9. Surely Someday (released July 17)
10. Adventures of Adele, The (released July 3)

Don't care about those movies. How is Predators doing? WTF did fox release this in Japan so soon? Should have waited till end of month.

Terrible, won't debut in the Top 10 with under a $1,000 pta.

ha ha but that wasn't funny

From what I can tell by morning ticket sales on Saturday, it's performing a little better than expected and it will edge out Confessions for the 4th spot this weekend. Both are R15+ (equivalent of R17 in the US), so the avg. ticket for both films should be similar.

Assuming a weekend gross around $2m for Confessions, that may mean Predators can do $2.5m, maybe up to $3m. Which would be very solid, and gives it a good chance at Y1 billion ($11m+).

Keep the update coming corpse

but only good ones

like ts3 opens with 12m something like that

kisses