Video game adaptation takes No. 1, while anime film reaches $450 million worldwide with $20 million U.S. launch
This weekend’s box office was a head-to-head battle between an R-rated anime film and an R-rated video game film, with Warner Bros.’ “Mortal Kombat” winning out with an estimated $22.5 million opening from 3,073 locations.
But Funimation’s “Demon Slayer — The Movie: Mugen Train” hit an important milestone, as well, with its $20 million U.S. opening. Already standing as the highest grossing film in Japanese box office history, it has now passed $450 million worldwide with this U.S. launch that came in just 1,600 theaters. That gives “Demon Slayer” a per theater average of over $12,000, the highest since the opening weekend of “Sonic the Hedgehog” 14 months ago.
Combined, the two films pushed weekend gross totals to an estimated $56 million, a new high for the post-pandemic box office. Now the industry will see how these two films,...
This weekend’s box office was a head-to-head battle between an R-rated anime film and an R-rated video game film, with Warner Bros.’ “Mortal Kombat” winning out with an estimated $22.5 million opening from 3,073 locations.
But Funimation’s “Demon Slayer — The Movie: Mugen Train” hit an important milestone, as well, with its $20 million U.S. opening. Already standing as the highest grossing film in Japanese box office history, it has now passed $450 million worldwide with this U.S. launch that came in just 1,600 theaters. That gives “Demon Slayer” a per theater average of over $12,000, the highest since the opening weekend of “Sonic the Hedgehog” 14 months ago.
Combined, the two films pushed weekend gross totals to an estimated $56 million, a new high for the post-pandemic box office. Now the industry will see how these two films,...
- 4/25/2021
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
In the last big weekend of the summer, studios will use two high-profile films to attempt to fend off the beginning of the 2004 Summer Olympics, whose opening ceremonies take place today. 20th Century Fox will unveil a battle of the extraterrestrials with its much-anticipated Alien vs. Predator, while Buena Vista has already unfurled its royal family comedy Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement, which opened Wednesday. Warner Bros. Pictures also will use the weekend to bow its Japanese anime Yu-Gi-Oh!, based on the popular comic book/trading card franchise. AVP, from screenwriter and director Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat), marks a decadelong effort to bring the two sci-fi giants to the screen. Pitting two Fox franchises -- whose six films have a combined domestic gross of $358 million -- against each other, the film is taking advantage of two dedicated fan bases that have proliferated with the popular Fox Interactive video game of the same name. But unlike the original films' R rating, this time the two species will fight it out in a PG-13 world.
- 8/15/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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