Demon Slayer The Movie Hit At Overseas Box Office!

[gaastra]

It just beat titanic!

https://deadline.com/2020/11/the-croods ... 234622859/

[gaastra]

Now second biggest film in japan history! No shock sony has announced it's coming to american movies next year!

[Daniel]

Limited Fathom Event or full on? I'm thinking the former but you never know.

[gaastra]

Closer to catching spirited away!

https://deadline.com/2020/12/monster-hu ... 234651166/

In Japan, Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train is estimated to have added about $6M during the FSS session. That would bring the local total to 28.7B yen ($276M) and leave 2.1B yen between the cultural phenomenon and Japan’s highest-grossing film ever, Spirited Away (30.8B yen), which it should catch before month’s end. Last weekend, it sailed past Titanic to take the No. 2 spot on Japan’s all-time charts. It is already the No. 1 animated title of 2020 worldwide, and internationally, and remains at Nos. 5 and 3 in the overall worldwide and international rankings for the year — based on the Japan cume alone.
Demon Slayer a few weekends ago became IMAX’s biggest movie ever in Japan and has now reached a cume of $18M in the market (adding $655K this weekend for a mere 20% drop). The Toho/Aniplex/Ufotable juggernaut has a total $19.3M in IMAX when including Taiwan and Hong Kong (the latter market’s cinemas were closed again last week amid a coronavirus surge).

[Daniel]

Starting today the dub streams on Funimation. Nice if you don't have cable.

[gaastra]

It beat spirited away! It's the highest grossing film in japan history during a virus!

https://deadline.com/2020/12/demon-slay ... 234655693/

To wit: Japan’s Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train has perhaps become the story of the year. A runaway success across this period, and in its 9th weekend, it is now estimated to have crossed $310M worldwide (largely from the home market, but also including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Vietnam). The movie is days away from becoming the top-grossing film of all time in Japan, overtaking Hayao Miyazaki’s 2010 Spirited Away. Think about that for a minute: It has taken 19 years to reach this level, and was done so during a pandemic.

[Daniel]

A little premature, but I don't doubt it.

Congrats on the 1000th post!

[Ben]

[Dacey]

Absolutely insane this is happening when movie theaters are empty here (and that's counting the ones that aren't closed). Guess they must be doing something right in Japan.

[EricJ]

Health-masks were socially common among crowded hypochondriac Tokyo city-dwellers during winter-cold season for DECADES before they ever became fashionable over here.
No one ever politicized it, so taking precautions was just another day for them.

[Randall]

True. I was just watching Ultra Q the other night, and noticed that even then (1966) you could spot mask-wearers in the crowd.

[gaastra]

Not so fast says spirited away! They rereleased spirited away in japan and it put it back in first by a good number!

Demon slayer says "curses foiled again!"

https://variety.com/2020/film/asia/toho ... 234853839/

[Daniel]

Check out this upcoming figure of Tanjiro. Sweet! Need to get that bad boy. Surprisingly I don't own anything already. What with the pandemic haven't had a chance to visit my local Tokyo shops. Man I miss them.

[Daniel]

Looks like it has now officially passed Spirited Away to become Japan's all-time highest grossing movie! Congrats!

[gaastra]

New pokemon movie could not beat the months old demon slayer movie in japan!

Doreamon lost to it also at the japan box office!

https://gamerant.com/pokemon-movie-numb ... fice-2020/