Godzilla Minus One Storms Japanese Box Office
After Godzilla Minus One stomped in with its official trailer, the latest film starring the radioactive lizard is running rampant in Japan. Toho's Godzilla Minus One, which released November 3rd almost exactly 69 years after the first Godzilla movie debuted, has so far made $7.8M, according to Comscore.
It’s the biggest IMAX opening weekend ever for a live-action Japanese film, generating $1.2M from 49 screens. It makes sense: Godzilla is a creation made to see on a 70ft screen.
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These numbers mean its outpacing the last film starring the radioactive monster, 2016’s Shin Godzilla. Where that film takes place in modern day, inspired by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and Tōhoku tsunami, Godzilla Minus One is set in 1945, at the end of WW2.
Directed by Takashi Yamazaki, it’s been attracting high review scores. Unless you’re currently in Japan, you can see it for yourself when Godzilla Minus One emerges onto the US mainland 29 November.
