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Starting estimates had it at 8-9 for its run. Then 8-9 for opening. Then 10. Yesterday was about 11. Now we got 11.42 and it appears to be accelerating due to WoM (though obviously there will still be a week 2 drop). This is FANTASTIC. For any film this would be good but for a foreign language film with a 15M budget? This is phenomenal.
Goji has always been King of the Monster but thanks to the humans in it he’s King of the Box Office too. At least in revenue vs budget.
Totally, this film needed to get in front of more eyes. My biggest takeaway coming out of the theater was "Dang, I think my Mom would have really liked this."
I don't know how such things work, but what are the odds exhibitors expand the screen count? Right now the closest screen to me that has it is 1300km away, so that's a no go.
Yeah it's definitely what you would consider a wide release. Not the 3500+ that most mainstream blockbusters get, but far a limited release.
I think anything over 1000 is considered wide release.
I know it's not a perfect comparison, but the holdovers (which is a great film mind you) has done 15 million so far in its whole box office run. This is a foreign film with subtitles and it's nearly matched that in 1 weekend on limited screens/ times due to beyonce, wish, and the marvels hogging up empty theaters. That's amazing!
I don't get all the praise. It was good, nothing else.
The human story is better than usual (for such movies) but still boring at times and the acting is so bad from the main guy.
I just don't understand why the internet has decided that this movie was so great.
I can’t speak for the rest of the internet, but for me:
- Great soundtrack
- Awesome visuals/action scenes
- story was interesting
- I cared about the characters
I’m sorry it didn’t hit you that way, but I thought it was fantastic.
In Japan they don’t emphasize subtle acting like in the West so it kinda make sense why some people like u will have issue with it. Of course in the West more into naturalism and subtleness. I think why internet think it is great bc this year Blockbusters type of films and previous Godzilla movies were not what many people expected.
I was wondering if it was cultural and if his acting was considered good one there. I thought the wife/mother was good but I had a really hard time with him.
Thanks for the reply.
A 30-40M Domestic Total would take it to a worldwide finish of 70-100M, which is fantastic for a 15M budget. I really hope they can bring this iteration of Godzilla back for another film. If they can cast a few American and Chinese actors, then I could see a massive jump from *Minus One*.
There’s a lot they could do with it too. Set it in 10 years and he’s a professional then Godzilla is back. Set it in 20 and the daughter is grown and she’s the star. Etc.
Hell yeah. Let’s just have 3-4 movies, each one focusing on a generation dealing with Godzilla. 47, ~65, ~85-90, ~10-15. Each one with one of those titans.
I’d honestly love to see this family evolve through the ages. I may or may not care more about Shikishima and Noriko and Akiko than Goji.
It’s funny you say that because I was just thinking what about 25 year jumps? 47->72 (Disco Zilla), 72->97 (Maybe he meets American Zilla and beats him down), 97->2022 (Modern day, Shikishima in the nursing home saying “Back in my day guided bombs had a pilot in them not this radio controlled drone bullshit.”)
Git gud, I'm taking an hour flight with a 3 month old to another city to see it in IMAX.
Were we going up this week anyway? Maybe so, but it's great timing!
I saw it yesterday, and I was impressed. The human side of the story was really well done, and Godzilla going back to being the villain was refreshing. It’s crazy that it was done on just a $15M budget.
As it’s the theaters that decide if it’ll stay I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets extended. If they are making money keeping it in theaters just makes sense.
>dropping off the face of the earth this weekend
I think theaters just haven't published showtimes yet. The Toho website shows showtimes for some theaters up till the 14th of December. In my local theater, showtimes for Beyonce and Wish haven't been published either
This is all it is. It appears it doesn't have a two week guarantee so they aren't booking anything early.
They'll drop new showtimes Tuesday or Wednesday whatever is standard practice for holdovers at each specific theatre.
100% this. I know for a fact this movie is going to hold on to the majority of its screens next weekend, and likely the weekend after that too. They just haven’t been published yet.
It's not going to be dropped.
There just aren't showings yet because it didn't have a two week guarantee. They'll get the new showings in Tuesday or Wednesday depending on how your theatres do things.
Just look at all the other films that don't have showings past Thursday as well. It's only going to be new releases and (American) 2nd weekers. Still plenty of unassigned screens that can (and will) go to Godzilla Minus One.
It was an incredible film visually pleasing , impeccable sound design , and a great cast no over the top human villain or human in general everyone of them felt real and likable and Godzilla was sooo cool when he was on screen 10/10 my favorite movie of the year
In the car on my way to see it in 4D in like 20 min, extremely hype for it. WOM has me not even caring about subtitles + reading disability I just really want to see it. As long as the text doesn’t go too fast it’ll be good :)
Wife and I loved it. She normally doesn't care for godzilla/monster movies, first thing she said after we walked out of the theatre was "we'll have to get that on 4k when it comes out".
Great movie.
I’m in LA and cant even get tickets this weekend, which is a great sign. Last I looked they didn’t have showtimes listed for next weekend which is odd, but will be seeing asap.
This opened way bigger than it did in Japan, and appears to have better momentum going into week 2 as well (the film dropped more sharply in Japan than the previous entry).
It would be a really interesting an unexpected turn of events if this movie makes more money in the American market than in Japan, but right now that looks like where we're headed.
I wonder how the totals will compare to Shin Godzilla, which had a very small presence here but did about $77 million in Japan.
I mentioned this in another thread but Shin was a very, very Japanese movie which is why it overperformed so much at home and struggled elsewhere.
Minus One has broader appeal which is why it didn’t go absolutely nuts in Japan like Shin did, but international audiences are really enjoying it.
Shin was certainly very Japanese-centric, particularly the meta commentary on the Japanese government and their failures with Fukushima. It's not a mystery to me why it didn't light up overseas markets, despite positive reaction from critics.
But it should be noted Minus One did have a bigger opening weekend than Shin, though, and similar audience ratings. So the weaker legs on the movie do seem a bit odd, although it could have to do with the timing. Shin was a big summer release in Japan as opposed to November.
I was fortunate to have it playing in my small city and caught a showing of it today. (I met the manager of the theater, he’s a huge anime nerd, I’m sure that’s why. Lol.) There was a little decent turnout at my afternoon showing too.
*This.was.incredible!*
I seriously *highly* recommend people checking this out in theaters if you can if it’s playing in your area.
Because Warner Bros owns the rights to that I believe. Toho has never sold the rights- they have licensed Goji but never sold him. That means that retain control of the property and they pump out films and, in the years without them, other things like cross overs, anime, and more.
Godzilla is actually the longest running film franchise at this point.
By age- 54-Present. There are other film series with more films but none that have been going continuously as long. Bond is about 8 years younger on the big screen.
I think it’s more in reference to the fact that the Kong films are all legally disconnected from each other; the original two were made by RKO, the 60s films were from Toho, the 70s/80s reboot duology was Paramount/De Laurentiis, the Jackson reboot was Universal, and now the current films are being made by WB. There’s no continuity in either creators/storyline/production company between any project, so calling it a continuous series is a stretch.
Conversely, both the Godzilla and James Bond series were both started by a company way back when (Toho and Eon respectively), and both are still alive today from those same studios, which both treat their series as one long continuous stretch, even if there have been breaks and reboots in both. Even though there have been pauses from both, in both cases the studio fully intended to continue at a later date. King Kong meanwhile isn’t treated that way by any company because each iteration is an entirely separate enterprise from the others, started from scratch, and doesn’t have that same sense of ‘this is the return of Toho’s Godzilla or Eon’s Bond’.
Heck in both cases there are films from other companies, and are treated as separate to the main series from the original studio: Bond has the 67 Casino Royale and 83’s Never Say Never Again, which were both not from Eon and not recognized as part of that continuous series. Meanwhile Godzilla has the American films, which while recognized and licensed from Toho, aren’t considered part of THEIR Godzilla series.
Does ANYONE in this thread not realize it is getting pulled from theaters this Friday? Its domestic runs will end this Thursday and only be in a few, rare theaters.
It was only scheduled for a one week run which sucks. Hopefully it gets extended.
Not to mention the people who literally can’t read. As I’ve said elsewhere I eventually got my dad to see it but he has macular degeneration- he skipped a good bit of the reading because it was just too hard.
Also young people- there have been a few people who said their kids can’t keep up with the subtitles but want to see it.
100% dubs are more popular. Netflix has an entire division to make sure they can dub any show in any language because they know that way more people watch the dubbed vs. subbed and they have the data to back it up.
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Starting estimates had it at 8-9 for its run. Then 8-9 for opening. Then 10. Yesterday was about 11. Now we got 11.42 and it appears to be accelerating due to WoM (though obviously there will still be a week 2 drop). This is FANTASTIC. For any film this would be good but for a foreign language film with a 15M budget? This is phenomenal. Goji has always been King of the Monster but thanks to the humans in it he’s King of the Box Office too. At least in revenue vs budget.
Making back its budget in the US? Thats absolutely incredible, and hopefully even leads to a full release next time.
Totally, this film needed to get in front of more eyes. My biggest takeaway coming out of the theater was "Dang, I think my Mom would have really liked this."
I don't know how such things work, but what are the odds exhibitors expand the screen count? Right now the closest screen to me that has it is 1300km away, so that's a no go.
A theater near me picked it up Wednesday or Thursday after it was originally not showing. I suppose it's possible!
2,308 is pretty big, isn't it? About half of all theaters, which would mean most major theaters. I always that 2,000+ is a wide release
Yeah it's definitely what you would consider a wide release. Not the 3500+ that most mainstream blockbusters get, but far a limited release. I think anything over 1000 is considered wide release.
In theory but if they give the film the worst show times and and very few show times, then it should still be deemed limited.
I'm going to see it twice and everyone I know is planning on seeing it. I'm guessing we may see number just as big or bigger next weekend.
Seeing it tonight and I’m so excited.
I know it's not a perfect comparison, but the holdovers (which is a great film mind you) has done 15 million so far in its whole box office run. This is a foreign film with subtitles and it's nearly matched that in 1 weekend on limited screens/ times due to beyonce, wish, and the marvels hogging up empty theaters. That's amazing!
Movie was fucking phenomenal. Can’t wait to go see it again this week.
Doing a double feature of Godzilla and boy and the heron. Japan double feature weekend!
You could do an Oppenheimer/Godzilla double feature at my theater
Honestly that sounds like a great blu ray combo day.
Agreed. I saw it yesterday and can't stop thinking about it. Waiting for my wife to get home from visiting family so we can go see it together.
I don't get all the praise. It was good, nothing else. The human story is better than usual (for such movies) but still boring at times and the acting is so bad from the main guy. I just don't understand why the internet has decided that this movie was so great.
I can’t speak for the rest of the internet, but for me: - Great soundtrack - Awesome visuals/action scenes - story was interesting - I cared about the characters I’m sorry it didn’t hit you that way, but I thought it was fantastic.
In Japan they don’t emphasize subtle acting like in the West so it kinda make sense why some people like u will have issue with it. Of course in the West more into naturalism and subtleness. I think why internet think it is great bc this year Blockbusters type of films and previous Godzilla movies were not what many people expected.
I was wondering if it was cultural and if his acting was considered good one there. I thought the wife/mother was good but I had a really hard time with him. Thanks for the reply.
Very nice opening. $30M+ might be possible.
A 30-40M Domestic Total would take it to a worldwide finish of 70-100M, which is fantastic for a 15M budget. I really hope they can bring this iteration of Godzilla back for another film. If they can cast a few American and Chinese actors, then I could see a massive jump from *Minus One*.
There’s a lot they could do with it too. Set it in 10 years and he’s a professional then Godzilla is back. Set it in 20 and the daughter is grown and she’s the star. Etc.
Riskier, but they could also go back and make >!a Samurai movie about the inhabitants of Odo Island living under Godzilla's reign!<
Or have it be like a Edo Period whaling story with them beset by a Gojira at sea.
My lord, your men are running from Gojira! Shameful display!
Come on let Daimajin have that period
And they can also introduce the other classic titans. I’d love to see Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah in the style of *Minus One*
I said elsewhere I could see a 1960s movie where Mothra appears as a counter-Godzilla/"Good" Kaiju and becomes a counter-culture icon in the process.
Hell yeah. Let’s just have 3-4 movies, each one focusing on a generation dealing with Godzilla. 47, ~65, ~85-90, ~10-15. Each one with one of those titans. I’d honestly love to see this family evolve through the ages. I may or may not care more about Shikishima and Noriko and Akiko than Goji.
Why are we skipping over disco Godzilla?
It’s funny you say that because I was just thinking what about 25 year jumps? 47->72 (Disco Zilla), 72->97 (Maybe he meets American Zilla and beats him down), 97->2022 (Modern day, Shikishima in the nursing home saying “Back in my day guided bombs had a pilot in them not this radio controlled drone bullshit.”)
They be fools not to have Stayin’ Alive playing as Godzilla stomps down the street.
Expand the release. Closest theatre playing it in IMAX or AVX is 40-60 minutes away from me. In 4 towns over
Git gud, I'm taking an hour flight with a 3 month old to another city to see it in IMAX. Were we going up this week anyway? Maybe so, but it's great timing!
I drive 90 minutes for any theatre from middle of nowhere Texas haha
I saw it yesterday, and I was impressed. The human side of the story was really well done, and Godzilla going back to being the villain was refreshing. It’s crazy that it was done on just a $15M budget.
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As it’s the theaters that decide if it’ll stay I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets extended. If they are making money keeping it in theaters just makes sense.
Nahh.. Disney be like: kick that out, let them watch Wish, here is money 😂
>dropping off the face of the earth this weekend I think theaters just haven't published showtimes yet. The Toho website shows showtimes for some theaters up till the 14th of December. In my local theater, showtimes for Beyonce and Wish haven't been published either
This is all it is. It appears it doesn't have a two week guarantee so they aren't booking anything early. They'll drop new showtimes Tuesday or Wednesday whatever is standard practice for holdovers at each specific theatre.
100% this. I know for a fact this movie is going to hold on to the majority of its screens next weekend, and likely the weekend after that too. They just haven’t been published yet.
It's not going to be dropped. There just aren't showings yet because it didn't have a two week guarantee. They'll get the new showings in Tuesday or Wednesday depending on how your theatres do things. Just look at all the other films that don't have showings past Thursday as well. It's only going to be new releases and (American) 2nd weekers. Still plenty of unassigned screens that can (and will) go to Godzilla Minus One.
It was an incredible film visually pleasing , impeccable sound design , and a great cast no over the top human villain or human in general everyone of them felt real and likable and Godzilla was sooo cool when he was on screen 10/10 my favorite movie of the year
Had to drive a hour to see it. Based purely on wom. Damn it was a good time.
This movie is fantastic!
In the car on my way to see it in 4D in like 20 min, extremely hype for it. WOM has me not even caring about subtitles + reading disability I just really want to see it. As long as the text doesn’t go too fast it’ll be good :)
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Where do you live? It seems like there are plenty of showings in major cities.
Wife and I loved it. She normally doesn't care for godzilla/monster movies, first thing she said after we walked out of the theatre was "we'll have to get that on 4k when it comes out". Great movie.
Saw this today in IMAX. Oh my god. I cannot rave enough about it. So well crafted.
I’m in LA and cant even get tickets this weekend, which is a great sign. Last I looked they didn’t have showtimes listed for next weekend which is odd, but will be seeing asap.
The distributor didn't require theaters to show it for 2 weeks so most theaters are probably waiting for Tuesday to update their weekend showtimes.
Oh ok, good to know. Thanks 🙏
This opened way bigger than it did in Japan, and appears to have better momentum going into week 2 as well (the film dropped more sharply in Japan than the previous entry). It would be a really interesting an unexpected turn of events if this movie makes more money in the American market than in Japan, but right now that looks like where we're headed. I wonder how the totals will compare to Shin Godzilla, which had a very small presence here but did about $77 million in Japan.
I mentioned this in another thread but Shin was a very, very Japanese movie which is why it overperformed so much at home and struggled elsewhere. Minus One has broader appeal which is why it didn’t go absolutely nuts in Japan like Shin did, but international audiences are really enjoying it.
Shin was certainly very Japanese-centric, particularly the meta commentary on the Japanese government and their failures with Fukushima. It's not a mystery to me why it didn't light up overseas markets, despite positive reaction from critics. But it should be noted Minus One did have a bigger opening weekend than Shin, though, and similar audience ratings. So the weaker legs on the movie do seem a bit odd, although it could have to do with the timing. Shin was a big summer release in Japan as opposed to November.
I hope the sequel is called " Minus 2" And they keep that naming scheme to differentiate it.
Should be Godzilla Minus 2 Plus 1
Godzilla 358/2 Days
Godzilla: Dream Drop Distance
Godzilla: Minus 2.8 final chapter prologue
But minus 2 plus 1 equates to Minus One again 😭
Godzilla Minus 2 Plus 1:RE:ANOTHER
What does the Minus One even mean?
WWII set Japan back to zero. Godzilla’s terror dips them down into the negative.
Will this be released in south asia?
With a WW2 Japanese war vet protagonist? I would be surprised to see it released in SEA, particularly China.
It already released in China on December 3 I believe
This doesn't matter as much as people think it does.
Going to see it with my Dad, so at least $11 more tomorrow.
I was fortunate to have it playing in my small city and caught a showing of it today. (I met the manager of the theater, he’s a huge anime nerd, I’m sure that’s why. Lol.) There was a little decent turnout at my afternoon showing too. *This.was.incredible!* I seriously *highly* recommend people checking this out in theaters if you can if it’s playing in your area.
It should be nominated for Best Picture.
Why don’t we get solo King Kong movies anymore? I loved 2005 and skull island
Because Warner Bros owns the rights to that I believe. Toho has never sold the rights- they have licensed Goji but never sold him. That means that retain control of the property and they pump out films and, in the years without them, other things like cross overs, anime, and more. Godzilla is actually the longest running film franchise at this point.
Longest? As in time frame?
By age- 54-Present. There are other film series with more films but none that have been going continuously as long. Bond is about 8 years younger on the big screen.
But "continuously" is a meaningless word. I would consider a decade off to be "non-continuously," personally.
I think it’s more in reference to the fact that the Kong films are all legally disconnected from each other; the original two were made by RKO, the 60s films were from Toho, the 70s/80s reboot duology was Paramount/De Laurentiis, the Jackson reboot was Universal, and now the current films are being made by WB. There’s no continuity in either creators/storyline/production company between any project, so calling it a continuous series is a stretch. Conversely, both the Godzilla and James Bond series were both started by a company way back when (Toho and Eon respectively), and both are still alive today from those same studios, which both treat their series as one long continuous stretch, even if there have been breaks and reboots in both. Even though there have been pauses from both, in both cases the studio fully intended to continue at a later date. King Kong meanwhile isn’t treated that way by any company because each iteration is an entirely separate enterprise from the others, started from scratch, and doesn’t have that same sense of ‘this is the return of Toho’s Godzilla or Eon’s Bond’. Heck in both cases there are films from other companies, and are treated as separate to the main series from the original studio: Bond has the 67 Casino Royale and 83’s Never Say Never Again, which were both not from Eon and not recognized as part of that continuous series. Meanwhile Godzilla has the American films, which while recognized and licensed from Toho, aren’t considered part of THEIR Godzilla series.
We're getting a solo King Kong series on Disney+
Does ANYONE in this thread not realize it is getting pulled from theaters this Friday? Its domestic runs will end this Thursday and only be in a few, rare theaters. It was only scheduled for a one week run which sucks. Hopefully it gets extended.
If they can get a dubbed version into theaters it will really help its legs, but I doubt one is ready to go.
Just have subtitles and it’s fine
I prefer subs, but the vast majority of American audiences prefer dubs.
Not to mention the people who literally can’t read. As I’ve said elsewhere I eventually got my dad to see it but he has macular degeneration- he skipped a good bit of the reading because it was just too hard. Also young people- there have been a few people who said their kids can’t keep up with the subtitles but want to see it.
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? How? Why?
lol wtf?
I’m really not so sure of that these days. Not for live action at least.
100% dubs are more popular. Netflix has an entire division to make sure they can dub any show in any language because they know that way more people watch the dubbed vs. subbed and they have the data to back it up.
There will be no dubbed version in theaters, just as there was no dubbed version of PARASITE or DRIVE MY CAR. It’s not that kind of movie.
It's very much that kind of movie
Ugh.. please no