The Crunchyroll anime raked in $20.1 million from 3,008 locations, bypassing the $11.6 million take of another new release, Universal's "Beast".
This image provided by Crunchyroll shows a still from “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero”, which topped the charts in its first weekend in cinemas, with $20.1 million in ticket sales according to studio estimates on August 21, 2022.
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Computer-animated martial arts film "Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero," the 21st in the Japanese franchise, has seized control of the North American box office with an estimated take of $20.1 million,
That impressive result this weekend for the film from Crunchyroll — which called it the best global opening ever for an anime movie — proved a bright spot in a tepid August, easily outshining the $11.6 million take of another new release, Universal's "Beast", industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported on Sunday.
The box office receipts mark an official total of $20,100,000 from 3,008 locations.
"This is another outstanding Crunchyroll anime opening," said analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research. He said Crunchyroll, 95 percent owned by Sony, now "dominates the genre."
Gross rated "Beast" as having only a "fair opening" for the Friday-through-Sunday period – at least "for an action-adventure film featuring a beast."
The beast, in this case, is a huge rogue lion that pursues a recently widowed man (Idris Elba) and his daughters when they go on safari. Iceland's Baltasar Kormakur directs.
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Slow months
Sony's action-thriller "Bullet Train," which topped the box office the last two weekends, slid to third at $8 million. Brad Pitt plays a paid assassin on a train seemingly loaded with them.
In fourth was the still high-flying "Top Gun: Maverick," which took in a substantial $5.9 million in its 13th week out. The Tom Cruise vehicle has pulled in $683 million domestically and $703 million overseas.
And in fifth, down three spots from last weekend, was Warner Bros's animation "DC League of Super-Pets," at $5.8 million.
August is always slow at the box office, "but with no big releases during the last two weeks, business has dropped more than normal, to roughly -40 percent below August 2019," Gross said, "and that's how it will continue until October."
Rounding out the weekend's top 10 were:
"Thor: Love and Thunder" ($4 million)
"Nope" ($3.6 million)
"Minions: The Rise of Gru" ($3.5 million)
"Where the Crawdads Sing" ($3.2 million)
"Bodies Bodies Bodies" ($2.4 million)
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Source: TRTWorld and agencies
Bollywood film Shamshera‘s poor run at the box office continues as it has not earned INR50 crores even after 12 days of its release.
Shamshera, which stars Bollywood couple Ranbir Kapoor in a double role, made its debut on July 22. The film got mixed reviews and has been declared disappointing as far as the box office collection is concerned.
It earned INR0.7 crores on the 12th day of its release. The film’s total collection is INR48.5 crores so far. It looks like its collection will be close to INR75 crores if the situation does not improve.
It is pertinent to mention that Shamshera got produced at a massive budget of INR150 crore. The film has not earned one-third of its budget so far.
It is Ranbir Kapoor’s seventh flop movie of his career.
Shamshera – which sees Ranbir Kapoor, Vaani Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt in the cast, tells the story of a tribal leader who relentlessly fights for his tribe’s freedom & dignity in the fictitious city of Kaza.
Khila Bisht and Neelesh Mishra have co-written the film. Karan Malhotra has directed and written its screenplay.
Aditya Chopra produced the film while Sudhanshu Kumar and Bharat Rawail are the executive producers and supervising producers respectively.
Shamshera debuted with slightly more than Rs. 10 cr on day 1.
The figures shocked the industry because they were lower than expected.
On day 2, the movie contributed between Rs. 9.95 and Rs.10.30 cr, indicating a slow Saturday.
Shamshera, directed by Karan Malhotra and starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt and Vaani Kapoor, released in theatres.
Both Ranbir Kapoor and director Karan Malhotra made their movie debuts in the film after absences of four and seven years, respectively.
Since the best of directors collaborated on it, there were enormous hopes for the movie.
Unfortunately, the movie didn’t live up to the expectations, and its numbers—which came in at just a little bit over Rs. 10 cr. net on its opening day—are, to put it mildly, unimpressive.
Shamshera debuted with slightly more than Rs. 10 cr on day 1, and the figures shocked the industry because they were lower than expected.
On day 2, the movie contributed between Rs. 9.95 and Rs. 10.30 crore, indicating a slow Saturday. The picture will struggle going forward to even attain a reasonable total due to the extremely low starting point and bad trend.
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Shamshera was the fifth most popular post-pandemic opener, which is unfortunate because one would have anticipated it to be at the top of the list. Although some Sunday increase is anticipated, it won’t be compelling enough.
The day wise nett box office of Shamshera is as follows:
Day 1 – Rs. 10.05 cr Day 2 – Rs. 10.10 cr Total – Rs. 20.15 cr
For this historical epic, Yash Raj Films used a fairly aggressive pricing strategy, and the average ticket price was among the lowest for a Bollywood movie this year.
The audience has been sparse, and the producers appear to have missed out on the extra money they could have made in their drive for a larger audience.
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