What a disappointing weekend.

A little weaker than expected, but it was coming off the tail-end of Golden Week. Saturday's pre-sales were misleading, and Sunday evening/night was very slow due to school and businesses starting back Monday morning.

Does Coco still have enough juice left to cross ¥5 billion?

Corpse,
This might be asking a lot, but are there attendance figures you (or we) can find to put with all of those DC/Marvel movies. I realize a few of them might be too old to dig up.

Didn't realize that the original Avengers missed the blockbuster milestone by so less. Sad to see that the Spidey movies have gone down so heavily from the original trilogy. Thanks for putting this list Corpse

It'll be a bit of a crawl, but it's still likely to just reach the milestone.



Yeah, no problem, just give me a little time to compile them. The only films that I may not be able to get admissions for are those that made less than ¥1 billion that were released before 2008. I'm thinking it'll be just seven or eight films (out of all 52), but I'll still get an estimate for those.

Marvel/DC Box-Office History

Top Grossing Films:
¥7.50 billion ($59.2 million) / 5.14 million - Spider-Man (2002)
¥7.12 billion ($66.9 million) / 5.17 million - Spider-Man 3 (2007)
¥6.70 billion ($61.1 million) / 4.80 million - Spider-Man 2 (2004)
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¥3.61 billion ($46.2 million) / 2.38 million - The Avengers (2012)
¥3.21 billion ($26.0 million) / 2.16 million - Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
¥3.16 billion ($39.1 million) / 2.15 million - The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
¥3.14 billion ($30.7 million) / 2.08 million - The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
¥3.00 billion ($20.0 million) / 2.55 million - Batman (1989)
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¥2.80 billion ($25.6 million) / 1.89 million - Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
¥2.63 billion ($24.1 million) / 1.73 million - Captain America: Civil War (2016)
¥2.57 billion ($26.4 million) / 1.70 million - Iron Man 3 (2013)
¥2.55 billion ($23.3 million) / 1.71 million - Avengers: Infinity War (2018) *Estimate* [2 Weeks in Release]
¥2.55 billion ($12.0 million) / 2.30 million - Superman II (1981)
¥2.04 billion ($19.2 million) / 1.40 million - Deadpool (2016)
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¥1.97 billion ($24.2 million) / 1.49 million - The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
¥1.87 billion ($16.4 million) / 1.22 million - Doctor Strange (2017)
¥1.86 billion ($16.9 million) / 1.21 million - Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
¥1.85 billion ($18.1 million) / 1.45 million - X-Men (2000)
¥1.80 billion ($15.9 million) / 1.42 million - X2: X-Men United (2003)
¥1.76 billion ($17.0 million) / 1.18 million - Suicide Squad (2016)
¥1.60 billion ($15.8 million) / 1.21 million - The Dark Knight (2008)
¥1.53 billion ($14.3 million) / 1.20 million - X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
¥1.52 billion ($14.2 million) / 1.01 million - Black Panther (2018)
¥1.50 billion ($11.9 million) / 1.15 million - Superman Returns (2006)
¥1.40 billion ($14.1 million) / 1.06 million - Batman Begins (2005)
¥1.34 billion ($12.2 million) / 0.99 million - Wonder Woman (2017)
¥1.21 billion ($10.0 million) / 0.91 million - Ant-Man (2015)
¥1.20 billion ($13.7 million) / 0.93 million - Iron Man 2 (2010)
¥1.15 billion ($10.2 million) / 0.82 million - Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
¥1.14 billion ($10.1 million) / 0.78 million - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
¥1.10 billion ($9.8 million) / 0.75 million - Justice League (2017)
¥1.07 billion ($9.7 million) / 0.86 million - Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
¥1.03 billion ($10.1 million) / 0.77 million - X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
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¥970 million ($9.8 million) - Man of Steel (2013)
¥950 million ($10.1 million) - Fantastic Four (2005)
¥900 million ($9.3 million) - Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
¥900 million ($9.8 million) - X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
¥850 million ($8.2 million) - Hulk (2003)
¥830 million ($6.9 million) - Daredevil (2003)
¥820 million ($8.4 million) - The Wolverine (2013)
¥800 million ($8.9 million) - Iron Man (2008)
¥750 million ($8.0 million) - X-Men: First Class (2011)
¥740 million ($6.8 million) - Logan (2017)
¥725 million ($6.9 million) - X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
¥700 million ($6.8 million) - Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
¥650 million ($6.3 million) - Thor: The Dark World (2014)
¥550 million ($7.0 million) - Thor (2011)
¥420 million ($4.2 million) - Watchmen (2009)
¥400 million ($5.0 million) - Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
¥370 million ($3.3 million) - Catwoman (2004)
¥240 million ($2.0 million) - The Incredible Hulk (2008)
¥200 million ($1.9 million) - Green Lantern (2011)

Marvel/DC

There you go, gman2887. The only admission estimates are Batman and Superman II (estimate calculated using the avg. ticket price of the year they were released), and X-Men (strangely I can't find any admission figure on it despite being a 2000 release).

I also updated Avengers: Infinity War's estimate following this morning's rough figures. Weekend Actuals will be posted later this evening.

If you really want some admissions for the films below the ¥1 billion milestone, feel free to ask. Just note that none of them came anywhere near 1 million admissions (many of the films that earned up to ¥1.5 billion didn't either). Here's a quick guide: If a film grossed around ¥900 million, it likely sold around 700,000 admissions; if a film grossed around ¥700 million, it likely sold around 500,000 admissions; if a film grossed around ¥500 million, it likely sold around 300,000 admissions.

Thanks Corpse! This is extremely helpful. Appreciate you taking the time to make this table!

No problem!

Weekend Actuals, from this weekend and last weekend, will be posted in the next hour or so, followed by the updates yearly charts.

Corpse, random question, but I was re-experiencing Avatar's record-breaking gross across the globe reading articles and such.

I was wondering what the potential for Avatar 2 is Japan? I think it grossed like ¥15b+ which is huge. However since 3D is so little of the gross in Japan nowadays, is there any way to could come close to that?

3D shares for high-profile releases have actually increased a bit over the past couple years (no where near 2010-2012 levels, though), and other premium formats have been doing pretty well, too. Ticket prices also went up for the first time in nearly 20 years in 2014, so that's caused the avg. ticket price to climb ever so slightly as well. A high-profile 3D release has actually been able to match the avg. ticket prices of those films released back in 2010-2012 as a result of all this.

So, Avatar 2 should have a similar avg. ticket price as Avatar despite a 3D share going down from ~85% to probably ~40%. However, I see a sizable decline for Avatar 2 in Japan. The first film seemed to mostly benefit from being this must-see event film in theaters, and I don't think the sequel(s) will be able to replicate that same event status unless a new way to watch films in theaters is introduced along with them or something.

And while home video sales in Japan aren't very impressive since TV broadcasts of movies and video rentals are still popular in the market, Avatar had particularly weak sales compared to its box-office results (and its TV broadcasts have had mediocre ratings), meaning I don't think it really developed a significant following after leaving theaters.

I think this is a typo. Boss Baby increased instead of decreased.

Fixed!

Ready Player One seems to have handled Avengers very well in Japan.

IW will easily cross AoU now. Corpse with the weaker field do you think it will have enough juice to come close or pass the original Avengers?

Amazing for Conan it's now guaranteed to take over TLJ for the biggest domestic movie if the year

It doesn't need to overtake TLJ to be the biggest domestic film of the year. It already is the biggest domestic film of the year.

10,000 posts - just because I can

Congrats to everybody who participated, and special thanks to Corpse for keeping going with it all these years! (Even through the May/June barrenness)

And this is the 10,000th reply!

Now you're apart of the 10,000th post (EDIT: 10,001st!).

And thanks.

EDIT: LOL -- Algren beat you and me.