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Godzilla Minus One Rises to #1 at U.S. Box Office
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The film has earned an estimated US$11 million in its first three days in the U.S. box office. Box Office Mojo recorded the film's opening weekend earnings at US$11,419,975. The film opened in 2,308 theaters.
Godzilla Minus One is now the foreign film with the highest opening weekend so far in the United States this year, suring the US$10.1 million opening weekend Kimetsu no Yaiba
Swordsmith Village Arc in March.The film opened in U.S. theaters last Friday.
Godzilla Minus One opened in Japan on November 3, 2023 ("Godzilla Day"), which was the anniversary of the first Godzilla film's November 3, 1954 release. The new film screened at The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) as the closing film of this year's event on November 1.
The film sold 648,600 tickets for 1,041,193,460 yen ($6.93 million) in its first three days in the Japanese box office. The film sold 14.7% more tickets and earned 22.8% more in its first three days than the last live-action Japanese Godzilla film, Shin Godzilla, did in its first three days in 2016.
Source: Box Office Mojo (link 2) via Yaraon!
