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Inuyashiki Film Opens at #5 with Detective Conan, Shin-chan in Top 3
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Meitantei Conan: Zero no Shikkōnin (Detective Conan series, remained at #1 at the box office in Japan in its second weekend. The film sold 620,000 tickets on Saturday and Sunday to earn 820 million yen ($7.55 million), and earned 820,184,900 yen from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold a total of 2.47 million tickets for 3,233,128,800 yen ($29.5 million).
The film had earned 1.296 billion yen ($12.1 million) on Saturday and Sunday of its opening weekend, and had sold 1,289,000 tickets in its first three days to earn 1.67 billion yen ($15.6 million). The film's opening Saturday and Sunday sales represented 100.7% of the total that last year's franchise record. The new film could possibly be the series' sixth consecutive film to break the franchise's previous box-office record.
Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare, and centers on Tōru "Zero" Amuro. Police chief Hyōe Kuroda, who is rumored to be Rum in the Black Organization, appears for the first time in a film for the franchise.
film, fell from #2 to #3 in its second weekend at the box office. The film earned 198,179,000 yen ($18.2 million) from Friday to Sunday, and the film has earned a total of 651,768,100 yen ($5.98 million).
The film had sold 315,000 tickets to earn 367 million yen ($3.42 million) in its opening weekend. The film is expected to earn more than 1.6 billion yen ($14.9 million). The opening weekend sales represent 111.2% of the total that last year's Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Shūrai! Uchūjin Shiriri (Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Invasion! Alien Shiriri) film earned in its opening Saturday-Sunday weekend. Last year's film earned a total of 1.62 billion yen ($15.1 million) at the box office in Japan.
The kung-fu action film is set in a Chinatown named Aiyātown in Kusakabe, Saitama (the setting of the main series). Kimiko Ueno wrote the script.
The live-action film of Inuyashiki manga opened on 313 screens on Friday and ranked at #5 at the box office in its opening weekend. The film sold 91,000 tickets to earn 124 million yen ($1.14 million) on Saturday and Sunday. The film is expected to sur 1 billion yen ($9.21 million) at the box office.
Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Takarajima (earned a cumulative total of 5,035,450,700 yen ($47 million).
The film had became the highest-grossing anime in the current 13-installment Doraemon film series the previous week after grossing more than 4.44 billion yen ($41.5 million) in 32 days.
The latest Doraemon film is inspired by Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo set out on an adventure in the Caribbean Sea. Nobita is the captain of a ship and fights his enemies on board. Shizuka gets kidnapped, and a storm impedes their journey. Mini-Dora robots help Nobita and friends on their journey. When the adventurers finally find the mysterious Treasure Island, they discover it is more than just an ordinary island.
The Boy and The Beast producer) penned the script.
Sound! Euphonium franchise, opened on Saturday, but ranked #11, out of the top 10. The film earned 53,573,900 yen ($492,400) in its opening weekend.
opened in Japan on April 7.
The live-action Misumisō manga dropped from the top five of the mini-theater rankings in its third weekend.
Sources: Eiga.com, Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), comScore via KOFIC
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