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Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron Opens at #1 With 2.15 Billion Yen in 1st 4 Days
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The film earned more than Miyazaki's celebrated Academy Award-winning 2001 film The Wind Rises. The film exceeded US$1.7 million from 44 IMAX screens, which is a new three-day opening record, according to entertainment news website Deadline.
The film Studio Ghibli
film to get a simultaneous IMAX release. The film is also screening in Dolby Atmos, Dolby Cinema, and DTS:X.licensed the film, and it will release it in North American theaters later this year.
Miyazaki is credited with the original work, in addition to directing the film and writing the script. performs the theme song "Chikyūgi" (Globe).
The anime opened in Japanese theaters last Friday. The anime will also air on television as a special this summer.
The cast for the quintuplets - Inori Minase - performed the anime's opening theme song "Gotōbun no Mirai" (Five Equal Futures) and the ending theme song "Takaramono" (Treasure).
The anime adapts stories that have not yet appeared in the previous anime projects.
The film opened at #1 on on June 30. It earned 605,494,180 yen ($4.19 million) in its first three days and sold 469,600 tickets.
The first sequel film Chi no Halloween -Unmei- (Bloody Halloween -Fate-) opened on April 21.
SUPER BEAVER performs the theme song "Gradation" for the first film, while the band also performs the theme song "Hakanakunai" (Not Merely Fleeting) for the second film.
The first live-action Tokyo Revengers film streaming the film worldwide excluding Asia, Spain, and Latin America.
The film sold 1.276 million tickets and earned 1.843 billion yen ($13.54 million) in its first three days in Japan.
The film is now the #3 all-time highest-earning animated film worldwide if Disney's 2019 CG film The Lion King is counted as animated, or #2 if not.
The film opened in the U.S. and in over 60 markets worldwide on April 5.
The film has been the highest-grossing film of 2023 worldwide. The film is also the highest-earning video game adaptation in history.
The concert opened in Japan on May 20 and earned 220 million yen ($1.58 million) in its opening weekend. The 16 cast of the IDOLiSH7, TRIGGER, Re: vale, and ŹOOĻ units reprised their roles from the anime series and games.
Eiji Inomoto (Trigun Stampede) was the CG chief director.
The movie opened on June 30 and earned 113,432,810 yen ($788,390) in its first three days.
The film commemorates the 35th anniversary of the anime and the 50th anniversary of the Anpanman picture book series.
The film features Comet Robo, a home for robots who can make anything, and Roboly, a robot girl who is the best at what she does. She learns that there is one "precious thing" that she cannot make on her own, so she and her robot bird partner Koto leave Comet Robo to find it. They find a music box and arrive at Anpanman's world to find the owner. While spending time with Anpanman, Roboly's chest begins to feel "warm." During this time, Baikinman creates the strongest mecha "Roboking" and plans to turn Comet Robo into Comet Baikin-Robo. Thus, Anpanman and friends try to protect Comet Robo while Roboly searches for the "important thing."
Detective Conan franchise, is still out of the top 10 in its 14th weekend, but it still earned 42,884,000 yen ($308,200) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 13,380,421,330 yen ($96.18 million).
The second part of Otomate brand's Collar x Malice game, dropped from #1 to #3 in the mini-theater rankings in its fourth weekend.
Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2, link 3), comScore via KOFIC
