The 30th film in the Godzilla series directed by Taki Yamazaki, Godzilla -1.0, was released on 522 screens in Japan last weekend, earning 1.041 billion yen, 23% higher than the 2016 Anno Hideaki's New Godzilla, setting a new high in the Godzilla series, and is currently looking at 6 billion yen to easily win the title of Japan's live-action year. The "-1.0" in the title means "minus one" and tells the story of the sudden appearance of Godzilla in postwar Japan, which has dropped the veritable "zero" country to negative numbers, and the nameless people who survived the war to find a way to survive and resist Godzilla. The overseas distribution of the film is led by Dongbao, and the first overseas markets in North America, Australia and New Zealand are scheduled to file on December 1, and there is no introduction news in the mainland.
Hayao Miyazaki's "The Heron and the Boy" opened at No. 1 in France and No. 4 in Belgium, where it earned 647,000 visitors in 461 theaters for the first time since 2000. In terms of the deposit market, South Korea continues to advance and easily achieve the title, falling 45.5% over the weekend, a total of 1.48 million people has ranked eighth in the history of good results, and the final impact of 2 million people is not a problem. Japanese films in Korea are also dominated by animation, with eight of the top 10 animations including four Ghibli films. The only live-action films that still have a niche are popular romantics, with only two remaining in the top 10: Shunji Iwai's Love Letter, released in 1999, and Michieda's blockbuster Tonight, Even if This Love Disappears from the World, which was a major topic last year.
This week, Disney's "Captain Marvel 2" will land in the global market, but the prospect is very bad, according to 47 market data tracking including North America, in addition to Mexico and France, all other markets are behind the pre-sale performance of DC SuperUK "The Flash", which has just jumped the street. Hollywood analysts have cut their North American opening forecast further to below $50 million, down more than two-thirds from the $153 million for the series' predecessor. At present, if the global box office of the film is less than 394 million US dollars, it will record the biggest drop in the box office of a Hollywood sequel film, surpassing the decline of "Star Wars: Episode VIII" and "Star Wars: Episode VII".
In addition, this Sunday is also an important festival in India, Diwali, and a number of Indian god films are also released. Top of the list is the Hindi action thriller Tiger 3, the sequel to 2017's Tiger Lives and the fifth entry in the YRF spy universe, which tells the story of agent Tiger, starring Salman Khan, who seeks to restore his reputation after being framed. The pre-sale figures are not very clear at the moment, but Bollywood analysts have given first-day forecasts of Rs 5 crore or more domestically and US $3 million or more overseas.
