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The authorities X(previously Twitter) account of Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki’s brand-new movie in TOHO’s Godzilla franchise, revealed on Monday that the movie has actually made over 6.01 billion yen (about US$ 39.9 million) and offered 3.92 million tickets since Sunday, its 122nd day of screening in Japan. According to Kōgyō Tsūshinsha, the movie is now the # 1 live-action movie launched in Japan in 2023 (this consists of all live-action movies that opened in Japan in 2023, however still made earnings in 2024).
In Bunka Tsūshinsha’s leading 10 highest-earning domestic movies in Japan in 2023 list, Godzilla Minus One ranked # 6 with an approximated 4.64 billion yen (about US$ 32.9 million) incomes since December 24.
The movie opened in Japan on November 3, 2023 (“Godzilla Day”), which was the anniversary of the very first Godzilla movie’s November 3, 1954 release. The brand-new movie evaluated at The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) as the closing movie of in 2015’s occasion on November 1.
The movie offered 648,600 tickets for 1,041,193,460 yen (about US$ 6.93 million) in its very first 3 days in the Japanese ticket office. The movie offered 14.7% more tickets and made 22.8% more in its very first 3 days than the last live-action Japanese Godzilla movie, Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s Shin Godzilla, performed in its very first 3 days in 2016.
The movie has actually made an approximated US$ 56,418,793 in the United States and US$ 50,303,815 globally, since February 1. The movie has now end up being the 3rd highest-grossing foreign-language movie of perpetuity in the United States.
Japan’s Eiga Engeki Bunka Kyōkai (Film Theater Culture Association) called the movie’s manufacturers Hisashi Usui, the late Shuji Abe, Kenji Yamada, Kazuaki Kishida, Gō Abe, and Keiichirō Moriya winners of the basic award at the 43rd yearly Fujimoto Awards.
Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima are chosen for Best Visual Effects at the 96th Academy Awards. The awards event will occur at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on March 10.
Sources: Godzilla Minus One movie’s X/Twitter account, Cinema Today (倉本拓弥)
