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    Source: Toho Co., Ltd. Special Thanks to Chris Mowry In celebration of Godzilla`s 65th anniversary, Toho Co., Ltd. has launched new official Twitter and Instagram pages for the King of the Monsters... Official Twitter: @toho_godzilla Official Instagram: godzilla_toho About Toho Company. Ltd. Founded in 1932, Toho Co., Ltd. is one of the leading entertainment conglomerates in Japan. Toho is best known worldwide as the producer of the Godzilla films, as well as most of the films by the world-renowned director, Akira Kurosawa. Besides film production, Toho also distributes Japanese films (earning the highest box office receipts for decades in Japan) as well as foreign films through its subsidiary, owns first class movie theaters throughout Japan, produces legitimate plays and musicals, and has more than 100 entertainment-related subsidiaries.

    The Shinyokohama Ramen Museum in Yokohama offers a dining experience set in a 1950s small town. Photo courtesy of Daisuke Ishizuka.

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    Author: Daisuke Ishizuka Ramen is a popular food for Japanese. It originally came from China but has been developing in Japan, and now it has become one of the best Japanese dishes. The Shinyokohama Ramen Museum was opened in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture in 1994. Visitors can study what Ramen is, the history of Ramen, and see various Donburi (bowl for Ramen), etc. However, I always go straight to the basement level instead of the museum floor. The ground floor was the built in the image of a Japanese town in 1958, and, because it was built by Toho Eizo Bijutsu Co., Ltd., it almost seems as if I could enter the set of an old Toho movie. Their design art, modeling and aging techniques are great and excellent. There is a movie theater which is screening THE MYSTERIANS (it is not an actual theater); I want to

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    Source: Comscore Official Movie Site: Godzillamovie.com Special Thanks to Paul Dergarabedian Comscore today announced the official worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of June 30, 2019, as compiled by the company’s theatrical measurement services. As the trusted official standard for real-time worldwide box office reporting, Comscore (formerly Rentrak) provides the only theater-level reporting in the world. Customers are able to analyze admissions and gross results around the world using Comscore`s suite of products. About Comscore, Inc. Comscore is a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms. With transformative data science and vast audience insights across digital, linear TV, over-the-top (OTT) and theatrical viewership, we are a powerful third-party source for reliable measurement of cross-platform audiences. About GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS Following the global success of GODZILLA and KONG: SKULL ISLAND comes the

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    Source: Comscore Official Movie Site: Godzillamovie.com Special Thanks to Paul Dergarabedian Comscore today announced the official worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of June 23, 2019, as compiled by the company’s theatrical measurement services. As the trusted official standard for real-time worldwide box office reporting, Comscore (formerly Rentrak) provides the only theater-level reporting in the world. Customers are able to analyze admissions and gross results around the world using Comscore`s suite of products. In its fourth weekend of release, GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS fell to 8th place at the domestic box office and 9th worldwide. The movie finally crossed $100 million in the United States, with the worldwide total just shy of $340 million. About Comscore, Inc. Comscore is a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms. With transformative data science and vast audience

    Photos courtesy of X-Plus. Barugon ©KADOKAWA 1966. Nezubirton ©P-Production. Mechagodzilla and Godzilla TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. Kamen Rider Zi-O © Ishimori Pro・Toei. Gomora © TSUBURAYA PRODUCTIONS. IT © Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. FRIDAY THE 13TH © & TM New Line Productions, Inc.

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    Product Info and Exclusive GIANT High-Res Photos, Direct from X-Plus! Author: Keith Aiken Source: X-Plus Co., Ltd. Special Thanks to Shingo Fujimoto A SCIFI JAPAN EXCLUSIVE The Japanese collectibles company X-Plus Co., Ltd. has provided SciFi Japan with information and more than 100 daikaiju-sized photos of their monster figures scheduled for release in July 2019.

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    Source: Comscore Official Movie Site: Godzillamovie.com Special Thanks to Paul Dergarabedian Comscore today announced the official worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of June 16, 2019, as compiled by the company’s theatrical measurement services. As the trusted official standard for real-time worldwide box office reporting, Comscore (formerly Rentrak) provides the only theater-level reporting in the world. Customers are able to analyze admissions and gross results around the world using Comscore`s suite of products. About Comscore, Inc. Comscore is a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms. With transformative data science and vast audience insights across digital, linear TV, over-the-top (OTT) and theatrical viewership, we are a powerful third-party source for reliable measurement of cross-platform audiences. About GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS Following the global success of GODZILLA and KONG: SKULL ISLAND comes the

    GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS topped the worldwide box office in its opening weekend. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. © 2019 WARNER BROS. ENT. © LEGENDARY 2019

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    Source: Comscore Official Movie Site: Godzillamovie.com Special Thanks to Paul Dergarabedian Comscore today announced the official worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of June 9, 2019, as compiled by the company’s theatrical measurement services. As the trusted official standard for real-time worldwide box office reporting, Comscore (formerly Rentrak) provides the only theater-level reporting in the world. Customers are able to analyze admissions and gross results around the world using Comscore`s suite of products. After debuting at the top of the domestic and international box offices, GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS fell to fourth place in its second weekend. Ticket sales dropped by 67%, comparable to the second weekend of 2014`s GODZILLA, though that film had a much stronger opening weekend. G:KOTM is faring better overseas, bringing the film`s worldwide box office total to just shy of $293 million. About

    GKIDS and Fathom Events present Yoshifumi Kondo’s WHISPER OF THE HEART, starting July 1. Image courtesy of GKIDS and Fathom Events. © 1995 Aoi Hiiragi / Shueisha - Studio Ghibli - NH

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    Heartwarming Coming?Of?Age Classic From the Legendary Studio Ghibli and Director Yoshifumi Kondo Comes to Select Theaters Nationwide Source: GKIDS Inc., Fathom Events, Scoop Marketing press release Official Site: ghiblifest.com Special Thanks to Jessica Nelson, Katherine Schwappach, Erik Stein and Lucy Rubin Throughout 2019, GKIDS and Fathom Events’ STUDIO GHIBLI FEST 2019 presents a series of Studio Ghibli’s celebrated animated masterpieces on cinema screens nationwide, along with some very special surprises. Following April’s showings of HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (???????, Hauru no Ugoku Shiro, 2004) and May’s NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (????????, Kaze no Tani no Naushika, 1984), coming in July is WHISPER OF THE HEART (??????, Mimi o Sumaseba, 1995). This July, discover the brilliance of this heartwarming coming?of?age classic from the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (???????, Tonari no Totoro, 1988) and the Academy Award?winning SPIRITED AWAY

    GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS topped the worldwide box office in its opening weekend. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. © 2019 WARNER BROS. ENT. © LEGENDARY 2019

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    Source: Comscore Official Movie Site: Godzillamovie.com Special Thanks to Paul Dergarabedian Comscore has announced the official worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of June 02, 2019, as compiled by the company’s theatrical measurement services. As the trusted official standard for real-time worldwide box office reporting, Comscore (formerly Rentrak) provides the only theater-level reporting in the world. Customers are able to analyze admissions and gross results around the world using Comscore`s suite of products. About Comscore, Inc. Comscore is a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms. With transformative data science and vast audience insights across digital, linear TV, over-the-top (OTT) and theatrical viewership, we are a powerful third-party source for reliable measurement of cross-platform audiences. About GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS Following the global success of GODZILLA and KONG: SKULL ISLAND

    GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS is the Godzilla movie for fans who find pure joy in watching monsters tear into each other. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. © 2018 WARNER BROS. ENT. © LEGENDARY 2019

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    Leave Your Plot Concerns at the Door Author: Matt Frank Official Site: godzillamovie.com (US), godzilla-movie.jp (Japan) Official Twitter: #GodzillaMovie If there is any universally accepted analysis for GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS that cannot be argued, it is that this film is never boring. The same could not be said for the previous 5 Godzilla features, depending on your mileage as an audience member. While there are aspects of each film that I personally enjoyed, and even loved, there was a restraint and deliberate approach to pacing that has characterized the last 5 years of movies featuring the King of all Kaiju. GODZILLA (2014) is a dramatic and borderline minimalist monster movie that is so desperate to be taken seriously that it ultimately shoots itself in the foot, despite a killer final act. SHIN GODZILLA (2016) is basically a “what if Godzilla really

    A classic struggle is reimagined in GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. © 2018 WARNER BROS. ENT. © LEGENDARY 2019

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    Author: Richard Pusateri Official Site: godzillamovie.com (US), godzilla-movie.jp (Japan) Official Twitter: #GodzillaMovie GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS, the third installment in the Legendary Pictures MonsterVerse series, has been able to connect fondness for the classic 1960s Godzilla movies with the form of modern blockbuster action movie extravaganzas. GKOTM remembers where it came from. This movie is not your father’s Godzilla but it remembers your grandfather’s Godzilla as it has many references, large and small, to the classic Japanese giant monster movies of the 1950s and ‘60s. GKOTM begins with an aural and visual tribute to Toho’s original 1954 monster movie and continues symbolic references to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima first seen in GODZILLA (2014). The allusions to older versions of Godzilla begin immediately. The opening of GKOTM reprises scenes from GODZILLA (2014), first film in the MonsterVerse series, mirroring the opening scene

    The X-Plus display at Super Festival. Photo by Edward L. Holland. © TOHO CO., LTD.

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    Author: Edward L. Holland Official Site: sufes1 Special Thanks to X-Plus Company Ltd., Star Ace Japan Company Ltd., Jeremy Soles and Summit Kaiju International On April 28, 2019, the 80th spring edition of Super Festival was held at the Tokyo Science Museum near the Imperial Palace area. Vendors, toy makers, shop owners, production company reps, artists, actors, personalities and the hottest lines of tokusatsu, anime and independent toys were represented in full effect during the extremely popular one-day event.

    Click on the above pic for a giant, high-res look at the GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS bus shelter poster. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. © 2019 WARNER BROS. ENT. © LEGENDARY 2019

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    Source: Warner Bros. Pictures Official Site: godzillamovie.com (US), godzilla-movie.jp (Japan) Official Twitter: #GodzillaMovie Special Thanks to Melanie Klein Warner Bros. Pictures has provided SciFi Japan with another poster for GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS. This design is now being displayed at bus shelters. Following the global success of GODZILLA and KONG: SKULL ISLAND comes the next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ cinematic Monsterverse: GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS. Directed by Michael Dougherty (KRAMPUS) from a script he wrote with Zach Shields, based on the character “Godzilla” owned and created by TOHO CO., LTD. The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species -- thought to be mere myths

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    Source: Warner Bros. Pictures Official Site: godzillamovie.com (US), godzilla-movie.jp (Japan) Official Twitter: #GodzillaMovie Warner Bros. Pictures has provided the complete final credits for GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS, opening worldwide on May 31, 2019. For much, much more on this film, please see the links at the end of this article. A WARNER BROS. PICTURES and LEGENDARY PICTURES PRESENTATION A LEGENDARY PICTURES PRODUCTION In Association with Toho Co., Ltd. In Association with Huahua Media A FILM BY MICHAEL DOUGHERTY GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS CAST Dr. Mark Russell: KYLE CHANDLER Dr. Emma Russell: VERA FARMIGA Madison Russell: MILLIE BOBBY BROWN Dr. Ishiro Serizawa: KEN WATANABE Dr. Ilene Chen and Dr. Ling: ZIYI ZHANG Dr. Rick Stanton: BRADLEY WHITFORD Dr. Vivienne Graham: SALLY HAWKINS Alan Jonah: CHARLES DANCE Sam Coleman: THOMAS MIDDLEDITCH Colonel Diane Foster: AISHA HINDS Chief Warrant Officer Barnes: O’SHEA JACKSON, JR. Admiral

    King Ghidorah and Godzilla battle in Boston in GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS. Photo courtesy of Toho. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. © 2019 WARNER BROS. ENT. © LEGENDARY 2019

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    Source: Toho Co., Ltd. Official Site: godzillamovie.com (US), godzilla-movie.jp (Japan) Official Twitter: #GodzillaMovie A SCIFI JAPAN EXCLUSIVE Toho Co., Ltd. has provided press materials for the Japanese release of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS (?????????????????, Gojira Kingu Obu Monsut?zu). They will open the film in Japan on Friday, May 31; the same day as the international release from Warner Bros. Pictures, and the Chinese launch from Legendary East. INTRODUCTION The King awakens. The end of the world begins. 2014: "Resurrection" -- Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ GODZILLA 2016: “Resurgence” -- Toho`s SHIN GODZILLA 2019: Godzilla "Awakens"... A national icon that was "born" in Japan in 1954, Godzilla has continuously evolved over more than 30 feature films that have been viewed by an audience of over 100 million people in Japan alone. Godzilla, one of

    Click on the above pic for a giant, high-res look at the new GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS poster. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. © 2019 WARNER BROS. ENT. © LEGENDARY 2019

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    Source: Warner Bros. Pictures Official Site: godzillamovie.com Official Twitter: #GodzillaMovie Special Thanks to Melanie Klein Warner Bros. Pictures has provided SciFi Japan with the latest poster for GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS. Following the global success of GODZILLA and KONG: SKULL ISLAND comes the next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ cinematic Monsterverse: GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS. Directed by Michael Dougherty (KRAMPUS) from a script he wrote with Zach Shields, based on the character “Godzilla” owned and created by TOHO CO., LTD. The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species -- thought to be mere myths -- rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity’s very

    Doraemon and his friends are back on the big screen in DORAEMON THE MOVIE: NOBITA`S CHRONICLE OF THE MOON EXPLORATION. Image courtesy of Toho Co., Ltd. © Fujiko Pro ? Shogakukan ? TV Asahi ? Shin-Ei · ADK 2018

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    Source: Toho Co., Ltd. Official Site: doraeiga.com/2019 (Japan) A SCIFI JAPAN EXCLUSIVE Toho Co., Ltd. has provided information and high-res images from their new anime film, DDORAEMON THE MOVIE: NOBITA`S CHRONICLE OF THE MOON EXPLORATION (?????????????????, Eiga Doraemon Nobita no Getsumen Tansa-ki). The 39th movie in the franchise opened in Japan on March 1, 2019 and topped the domestic box office in its first two weeks of release. The success of NOBITA`S CHRONICLE OF THE MOON EXPLORATION continues a trend for the series. The popularity of the Doaemon films have exploded in recent years with DORAEMON THE MOVIE: NOBITA AND THE BIRTH OF JAPAN 2016 (??????? ??????????, Eiga Doraemon Shin • Nobita no Nihon Tanjo), 2017`s DORAEMON THE MOVIE: GREAT ADVENTURE IN THE ANTARCTIC KACHI KOCHI (??????? ?????????????, Eiga Doraemon Nobita no Nankyoku Kachikochi Daib?ken) and last year`s DORAEMON THE MOVIE: NOBITA’S TREASURE ISLAND (???????

    U.S. poster. Image courtesy of ELEVEN ARTS. © 2018 Tomihiko Morimi, KADOKAWA / Penguin Highway Production Committee

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    Source: ELEVEN ARTS press release Official Site: penguin-highway.com (Japan), elevenarts.net/titles/penguin-highway (US) The anime movie PENGUIN HIGHWAY (??????????, Pengin Haiuei, 2018) comes to U.S. and Canadian cinemas beginning April 12, courtesy of ELEVEN ARTS. Based on the novel of the same name by Tomihiko Morimi (The Night is Short, Walk on Girl), PENGUIN HIGHWAY is the first feature film from the up-and-coming animation house, Studio Colorido. The creative team includes director Hiroyasu Ishida, screenwriter Makoto Ueda (THE NIGHT IS SHORT, WALK ON GIRL), and character designer Yojiro Arai (THE WIND RISES, TYPHOON NORUDA), with music by Umitaro Abe. The theme song is by Hikaru Utada (KINGDOM HEARTS, EVANGELION: 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO). Budding genius Aoyama is only in the 4th grade, but already lives his life like a scientist. When penguins start appearing in his sleepy suburb hundreds of miles from the sea,

    Ryan Reynolds is Pikachu in the live-action film, POKÉMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU. Photo courtesy of Toho. © 2019 Legendary and Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved. © 2019 Pokémon.

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    Source: Toho Co., Ltd. Official Movie Site: detectivepikachumovie.com (US), meitantei-pikachu.jp (Japan) Official Movie Twitter: #DetectivePikachuMovie A SCIFI JAPAN EXCLUSIVE Toho Co., Ltd. has provided press materials for the Japanese release of POKÉMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU (名探偵ピカチュウ, Meitantei Pikachū). They will open the film in Japan on Friday, May 3; one week ahead of the international release from Warner Bros. Pictures, and the Chinese launch from Legendary East.

    Sample page from the GODZILLA `94 Graphic Novel final chapter. Artwork courtesy of Todd Tennant. Godzilla © TOHO CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved

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    It All Ends This Thursday Official Site: kaijuphile.com/american-godzilla94 Special Thanks to Todd Tennant In 1994, Sony Pictures hired Jan De Bont (SPEED, TWISTER) to direct an American Godzilla movie written by screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (SHREK, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN series). The project was canceled later that year. Working with Rossio, artist Todd Tennant has completed a graphic novel adaptation of the unmade GODZILLA (1994), which they began releasing in chapters online for free. This coming Thursday, March 28th, the final 14 pages will be posted, so that fans will finally be able to read the complete graphic novel from start to finish.

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