

Dinged by mixed reviews, Beast opened to a lackluster $11.5 million from 3,743 North American cinemas.ĭragon Ball Super: Super Hero is the latest example of the passionate audience for anime films in the United States, and Crunchyroll, which is mostly owned by Sony Pictures, has been owning the market in North America.Įarlier this year, the company’s PG-13 Jujutsu Kaisen 0 notched a remarkable $17.6 million in its debut, while its 2021 release Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train generated $21.2 million to start, which is even more impressive since cinemas were still operating at reduced capacity. The newest Dragon Ball Super installment earned twice as much as the weekend’s other new nationwide release, Universal’s survival thriller Beast, starring Idris Elba. Super Hero is a necessary bright spot in an otherwise dreary August at the movies. The anime film, playing on 3,007 screens, is backed by the production company Crunchyroll, which specializes in Japanese anime film and television.

"Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Mononoke Ninja Chinpuden" - 1.9 billion yenġ0 (8).LOS ANGELES, USA – Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero topped the box office in its debut, beating expectations by collecting an impressive $21 million in North American ticket sales. "The Way of the Househusband: The Cinema"ĩ (7). "Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island" - 690 million yenĨ (6). "Teasing Master Takagi-san Movie" - 85 million yenħ (3).

"Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween" - 8.79 billion yenĦ (new). "The Quintessential Quintuplets the Movie" - 1.39 billion yenĥ (5). "Top Gun: Maverick" - 4.3 billion yenĤ (4). "Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO" - 670 million yenĢ (1). Weekend box office Top 10 in Japan (June 11-12, 2022)ġ (new).
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Isekai Quartet The Movie -Another World-, a feature film from the crossover project between KONOSUBA, Overlord, Re:ZERO − Starting Life in Another World, and Saga of Tanya the Evil, was released on June 10, but failed to rank in the top 10 in its opening weekend. Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island, the Yoshikazu Yasuhiko-directed latest anime feature film in the Gundam franchise, ranked seventh in its second weekend with a total gross of 690 million yen (5.43 million USD). The 73-minute film made its sixth place debut with 85 million yen (669,104 USD) and ranked No.1 in Filmarks' ranking with an average rating of 4.11/5.0 based on 322 reviews.

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While Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO ranked second (3.98/5.0), the highest rated film of the weekend in Filmarks' first day satisfaction ranking was Teasing Master Takagi-san Movie, the feature film sequel to the TV anime series based on Soichiro Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga. Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween also kept its same fifth position in its ninth weekend, bringing its total to 8.79 billion yen (69.19 million USD). Its current total gross has reached 1.39 billion yen (10.94 million USD) to become the fourth top-grossing Japanese anime film of this year. The Quintessential Quintuplets the Movie, a sequel to the two-season TV anime adaptation of Negi Haruba's romantic comedy manga, held the same fourth-place spot it held last week in its fourth weekend. RELATED: Crunchyroll Brings Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO to Theaters Around the World This Summer "Dragon Ball" film first Saturday-Sunday gross comparison: The film's first two-day gross was about 82.4 percent of that of the franchise's previous 20th film Dragon Ball Super: BROLY released in December 2018. It was enough to become the top-grossing film of the weekend and to beat Tom Cruise's Top Gun Maverick, which had dominated the Japanese box office for two consecutive weekends. The 99-minute film earned 670 million yen (5.04 million USD) on 498,000 admissions on its first Saturday and Sunday. Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO, the much-anticipated 21st feature film in Toei Animation's long-running Dragon Ball anime franchise, finally released in 369 theaters across Japan on June 11.
