Disney's Frozen - Part 3

[Incarnadine]

Small update.

Weekend actuals were 807 million Yen, $7.966m, and increase of +10% from the previous weekend for no logical reason other than it's just Frozen being Frozen. No holiday, no extra seats (it actually lost a few) and no change in ticket prices.

Today is an even bigger % increase. Last Monday was $0.95m, today is $1.1m, about a +16% increase.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Small update.

Weekend actuals were 807 million Yen, $7.966m, and increase of +10% from the previous weekend for no logical reason other than it's just Frozen being Frozen. No holiday, no extra seats (it actually lost a few) and no change in ticket prices.

Today is an even bigger % increase. Last Monday was $0.95m, today is $1.1m, about a +16% increase.

#1 film of 2013 here we come.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The best of them all - Toy Story 3.

Though generally speaking the two greatest animated films of past 2-3 decades are considered to be Spirited Away and Wall-E both of which won major Best Picture awards itself from important award giving bodies.

The best of them all is either Wall-E, Beauty and the Beast or The Incredibles, but I'll let it slide.

The most underrated has to be "How To Train Your Dragon" though. I love Frozen, but it is a better film, and it lays right at the doorstep of the best from Pixar Ghibli. Also, did everyone forget Rango?

 

[Incarnadine]

We have an update with the actuals from Japan.



While they updated the Japan total, they forgot to update the WW total with the extra 1.8m.

WW total now stands at just over $1,208,150,000 as of Sunday.

Monday was 1.1m
Tuesday is 0.77m

As of today Frozen has passed $1,210,000,000 , less than 5.5m to pass Iron Man 3.
I figured it would pass IM3 on Sunday, but now it looks like Saturday is the day.

 

[DA_Champion]

I'm glad that Iron Man 3 won't be the top movie of 2013.

 

[Lily Adler]

Look at puny Iron Man. Can't protect himself from two little princesses.

 

[DA_Champion]

Look at puny Iron Man. Can't protect himself from two little princesses.

And beaten by Katniss domestically.

 

[Lily Adler]

A little girl with a bow and arrow.

 

[Raiden]

Looks like Frozen just passed IM3 to become #1 movie of 2013 both international and WW.

 

[Incarnadine]

Looks like Frozen just passed IM3 to become #1 movie of 2013 both international and WW.

Yup, was just coming to update that.t:

Another $7m weekend, $7m on the nose this weekend.

Frozen - $1,219.2 Billion
Iron Man 3 - $1,215.4 Billion

Frozen is now the #1 movie of 2013 and #5 movie all time World Wide

Next up is #4, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 at $1,341.5 Billion
To hit #4 Frozen would need about 315m in Japan, certainly not impossible given the way Frozen is still performing

All hail Queen Elsa!

 

[:eek:]

Funny how crazy Japan have been about this movie, while in China it made less than movies like Need for Speed and Robocop

 

[Raiden]

Funny how crazy Japan have been about this movie, while in China it made less than movies like Need for Speed and Robocop

Frozen actually made (I think) close to 100 mil in China, but China pulled it out of theatre even while it was making lots of money because they put a restriction on the length of stay foreign movies has in their own multiplexes. So Frozen could've made much, much more.

 

[Incarnadine]

Frozen actually made (I think) close to 100 mil in China, but China pulled it out of theatre even while it was making lots of money because they put a restriction on the length of stay foreign movies has in their own multiplexes. So Frozen could've made much, much more.

In China Frozen made $48.24m

Frozen didn't have many screens and often only got 2 showtimes on those it did have. Given the limited screens, competition and bad release date it was a minor miracle it still pushed 50m. Frozen couldn't have had much more going against it in China, but even with the handicaps it over performed and even got a small extension to its run there.

 

[X Knight]

Yup, was just coming to update that.t:

Another $7m weekend, $7m on the nose this weekend.

Frozen - $1,219.2 Billion
Iron Man 3 - $1,215.4 Billion

Frozen is now the #1 movie of 2013 and #5 movie all time World Wide

Next up is #4, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 at $1,341.5 Billion
To hit #4 Frozen would need about 315m in Japan, certainly not impossible given the way Frozen is still performing

All hail Queen Elsa!

 

[Snow Queen]

Great news. t:

 

[Quasimod0]

Just babysat some kids last night. They watched Frozen TWICE in a row. lol. Kids love this movie

 

[Incarnadine]

Some weird numbers so far since Saturday.
Apparently Saturday was a national Sports Day for schools. Essentially all students had sports competitions that day (we had track and field day when I was a kid, but it was during normal school hours), so that explains the weekend which dropped -13% to 6.87 million.
Because of that schools were closed on Monday and Monday saw a massive increase to 1.86 million. Last Monday was 1.268m , which was an increase from the Monday before that at 1.02m.
That massive Monday caused what is looking like a 20% drop today from last Tuesday with .72m vs .97m (.85m 2 weeks ago).
I'm guessing we are now past the effect that Sports Day has had and the rest of the week will behave more normally with sub 10% drops.

As of today it looks like Frozen is at 196.82m and should pass 200m before the weekend, then the march to 244m (passing Spirited Away) becomes very interesting to track.t:

 

[jmc]

I'm late to the news but I'm genuinely surprised that this film has beaten Iron Man 3.

 

[Tanin]

Spoilers:
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[Incarnadine]

A bit of an early weekly update.

Frozen passed 200m in Japan on Friday with 200.2m.

This week was a weird one because of that sports day last weekend depressing the weekend, followed by schools being closed Monday causing a huge increase followed by a depressed Tuesday before things normalized.

1.82m Mon +80% Schools were out.
0.72m Tue -20%
1.75m Wed -5%
0.80m Thu +2%
0.90m Fri -10%

Saturday estimate is about 2.75m, down about 8-10% from last Saturday, but Sunday is where things get interesting. As it's the first of the month it's a discount day at all theater chains and to make things even more interesting the biggest news channel in Japan has been making a big deal over Frozen passing 20 Billion Yen this week (only the 3rd movie ever to hit that number). There are massive sell out being reported from all theater chains and today is going to be huge, likely over 5 million, making it one of the biggest single days in Frozen's run, probably top 5.
With the monster Sunday the weekend estimate is 7.7-8 million.

Just when it looks like it was slowing down after last weekends 6.9m (first weekend under 7m) it bounces right back and goes higher than opening weekend again.
Needless to say Frozen will stay #1 for its 12th straight week and sets a record for biggest 12th weekend ever. Every weekend starting with its 8th weekend though to its 12 is an all time record for those respective weekends. It's just unstoppable (until the damn DVD release).

 

[X Knight]

^^ amazing!!

 

[Incarnadine]

All time biggest weekends in Japan starting with 7th weekends.

Biggest weekends:

7th

¥785.0 million (-13%) / ¥17.13 billion -> ¥30.40 billion - Spirited Away (2001)
¥772.0 million (-9%) / ¥12.30 billion -> ¥??.?? billion - Frozen (2014)
¥767.4 million (-22%) / ¥15.91 billion -> ¥20.30 billion - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
¥731.9 million (+13%) / ¥13.61 billion -> ¥17.30 billion - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
¥703.8 million (+13%) / ¥12.88 billion -> ¥22.00 billion - Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

8th

¥1.09 billion (+40%) / ¥14.50 billion -> ¥??.?? billion - Frozen (2014) *Estimate*
¥695.0 million (+02%) / ¥18.65 billion -> ¥30.40 billion - Spirited Away (2001)
¥644.9 million (-08%) / ¥15.26 billion -> ¥22.00 billion - Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
¥507.1 million (-11%) / ¥10.97 billion -> ¥15.60 billion - Avatar (2009)
¥505.8 million (-31%) / ¥14.73 billion -> ¥17.30 billion - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

9th

¥694.0 million (-39%) / ¥16.90/17.00 billion -> ¥??.?? billion - Frozen (2014) *Estimate*
¥650.0 million (-07%) / ¥19.98 billion -> ¥30.40 billion - Spirited Away (2001)
¥419.2 million (+21%) / ¥10.47 billion -> ¥13.70 billion - The Last Samurai (2003)
¥404.7 million (-20%) / ¥11.87 billion -> ¥15.60 billion - Avatar (2009)
¥377.4 million (-11%) / ¥15.27 billion -> ¥17.35 billion - Bayside Shakedown: Save the Rainbow Bridge (2003)

10th

¥788.0 million (+07%) / ¥18.50 billion -> ¥??.?? billion - Frozen (2014) *Estimate*
¥510.0 million (-21%) / ¥22.40 billion -> ¥30.40 billion - Spirited Away (2001)
¥359.4 million (-11%) / ¥12.60 billion -> ¥15.60 billion - Avatar (2009)
¥349.1 million (+18%) / ¥18.48 billion -> ¥20.30 billion - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
¥310.5 million (-10%) / ¥16.42 billion -> ¥22.00 billion - Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

11th

¥707.0 million (-12%) / ¥19.80 billion -> ¥??.?? billion - Frozen (2014) *Estimate*
¥435.0 million (-15%) / ¥23.60 billion -> ¥30.40 billion - Spirited Away (2001)
¥323.1 million (-08%) / ¥18.98 billion -> ¥20.30 billion - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
¥311.8 million (-13%) / ¥13.23 billion -> ¥15.60 billion - Avatar (2009)
¥252.8 million (-18%) / ¥16.85 billion -> ¥22.00 billion - Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Frozen is just a beast. I really love that 2013's biggest worldwide grosser was a female led film and that 2013's biggest North American film was female led.

 

[Raiden]

Frozen is just a beast. I really love that 2013's biggest worldwide grosser was a female led film and that 2013's biggest North American film was female led.

Hollywood should really take note.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Hollywood should really take note.

Unfortunately they always think that it's a fluke. People want to see good films regardless of the gender of the protagonist.