Shin Godzilla NON-SPOILER news and info

[Gman2887]

Very minor spoilers here, but nothing I don't think is already well known:

[Gman2887]

Shin Godzilla is #1 at the box office again during its 4th weekend. $42.5 million USD. Over 2.9 million in attendance.

[lhb412]

HOLY CRAP!

This is quite literally a monster hit!

[Gwangi]

In watching the Olympics, if Godzilla's popularity once again continues to grow, I wonder if he will be referenced during the opening ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo games! Giant robot Godzilla walking right in the middle of the stadium!

[Gman2887]

[Reaper G]

[Gargantuan Gargantua]

Also, Akira takes place around 2019 after a 3rd World War and they had recently hosted the Olympics in Tokyo. (spooky)

[Gentleman]

I watched the closing ceremonies, and when the Japan preview hit I was sure we'd have a Godzilla sighting. I mean, he is a tourism ambassador to Japan now, right? But no. Hello Kitty and Mario make it in, but no Goji. I was miffed.

[angilas]

Not sure how they know but apparently many of the viewers are said to be repeat viewers: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/j ... ens-921406

With only a couple weeks left in its first run the film seems certain to break 50m, but 60m seems out of range on the big guys 62nd anniversary. Still China's ShinGoji run opens in a couple days. Not really sure how past films have done internationally but if it generates enough buzz in the Pacific perhaps funi will consider extending its run here.

As for the Olympics, I assumed Abe did that because the pipe entrance was more discreet than having a giant monster tear through Rio. Plus there's already Mario and Sonic at the Olympics games so it was somewhat witty. Methinks we'll be seeing Goji in Tokyo, since they don't seem scared to shy away from their pop culture icons and Godzillas popularity is likely to be at an all time high with sequels to this and Godzilla 2 in the works.

[Gman2887]

[QBASS]

[Gwangi]

[Gman2887]

Lulz. Love it.


Also sides with World of KJ and Box Office Theory on the current gross, although they claim it made a little higher with $44.9 million.

I'm sticking with KJ's $44.0 million. They seem to know their stuff, six years running.

[Benjamin Haines]

[Dai]

Trying to avoid spoilers for this movie is becoming a nightmare. Almost every time I go on YouTube, the auto recommendations algorithm shoves videos with spoilery titles and thumbnails in my face, despite me repeatedly opting out of recommendations based on Shin Godzilla related videos. Looking for any Godzilla merchandise online is also a minefield of spoilers.

[klen7]

^ yeh, i woke up to major spoiler gifset in my feed the other morning and the poster was pretty unapologetic. I expected merchandise spoilers since I'm big into collecting, but seeing the climax on a tiny phone screen is pretty obnoxious...

[Hybrid Gojira]

Spoilers suck if you don't want to see them. Unfortunately with the internet, it's hard to avoid them if a movie comes out elsewhere first and you have to wait months before seeing it.

[Kailem]

[Mac]

Toho director hinting at sequel discussions:

http://bylines.news.yahoo.co.jp/sakaios ... -00061026/

[Gargantuan Gargantua]

Do we know what the budget of this movie is yet? I know a comment was thrown around about it being $10 million on facebook but is that what it really was?

[Gman2887]

^I think we're waiting on the Art of Shin Godzilla for that answer.

Weekend estimates are in. Shin Godzilla hit $3.7 million for the weekend (only a 10% drop from last weekend) and sits at #2 for the 5th weekend. Its total is estimated at $50.8 million USD with an attendance of around 3.54 million. Likely higher since the last few weeks of estimates have been lower than the actuals.

The real box office success story was Your Name, this weekend, but that's a whole different monster.

[The Shadow]

I wonder of Hollywood has been watching the movie's box office performance? I can only imagine how much they'd love to have a movie that had weekend to weekend drops that were as low those of Godzilla Resurgence, nowadays it seems like even the major drawing movies have drops of around 50% from the first to second weekend.

[Hybrid Gojira]

[Gman2887]

Actuals are coming in. Per usual, they're higher. $51.6 million with 3.6 million tickets sold.

[Gwangi]

Remember a time, not too long ago, when there were some worries about the lack of marketing and that perhaps, Toho had a dud in their hands! Not sure if one could say that Toho lucked out, or that perhaps they knew what they had, but did not want to over saturate in terms of marketing.