Second “GANTZ” movie earns 550 million yen in first weekend

Posted on April 25, 2011 by tokyograph

Image from: Cinema Today

“GANTZ: PERFECT ANSWER” finally hit theaters this past weekend. Cinema Today reports that its opening 2-day gross amounted to nearly 552 million yen from an audience of almost 424,000 viewers. While early numbers indicated that it was performing slightly better than the first film that was released in January, it ended up falling short of that movie’s opening weekend of more than 590 million yen.

The first “GANTZ” film has earned approximately 3.4 billion yen to date, with a total attendance of 2.73 million moviegoers. Despite performing worse at the outset, “GANTZ: PERFECT ANSWER” is still aiming to surpass that number and possibly reach 4 billion yen.

Last Friday, the day before the movie’s premiere, NTV aired “ANOTHER GANTZ,” an edited version of the first film that removed some scenes and added new ones. It was announced later that night that “ANOTHER GANTZ” is already going to be released on DVD as a Director’s Cut Edition on May 13, just three weeks after the broadcast. A website for the release has been launched.

Sources:
Cinema Today
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  • http://buyme-arashi.livejournal.com/ buyme_arashi

    From Tokyohive: “GANTZ PERFECT ANSWER“ opened at 375 screens and mobilized a total of 423,675 people, thus the box office revenue came out to 551,610,800 Yen (6.72 million USD), which means that it had an even better start than the first “GANTZ” movie.

    “despite performing worse at the outset”? not really sure about the math but it opened with lesser screens than the 1st movie so the difference should be accounted for. TH figures for Gantz WBO: The first of two “GANTZ” movies opened on a total of 410 screens and achieved a box office revenue of 592,823,900 Yen, which equals to approx. 7.2 million USD.

  • Anonymous

    When you’re talking about reaching a target total gross (the $4 billion mentioned in the original article), the film’s per-screen average doesn’t matter. Especially when the per-screen average is only 25,000 yen higher.

    At its current rate, unless the number of screens increases without dropping the per-screen average, it is going to end up grossing less than the first film.

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