Cinema.pia's Top 10 Most Anticipated Summer Releases (July & August):

01. Gintama (07/14/17)
02. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (07/01/17)
03. Tokyo Ghoul (07/29/17)
04. Shinobi's Country (07/01/17)
05. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (08/04/17)
06. Spider-Man: Homecoming (08/11/17)
07. Sekigahara (08/26/17)
08. Wonder Woman (08/25/17)
09. The Mummy (07/28/17)
10. Mary and the Witch's Flower (07/08/17)

As of 05/30/17

I hope Mary and the Witch's Flower breaks out. It gives me serious Miyazaki vibes from the trailer, kind of like a more serious Kiki's Delivery Service. The animation looks beautiful too.

Japan's live action industry is dying, they should stop ruining the original work by adapting them into cheap VFX trash, I had horrible experience with Attack on Titan, even the top notch Youtubers have higher budget than that for their videos

Mary will continue where Your name left off, likely to be another anime blockbuster

I still want to see Attack on Titan. I have it downloaded on my old (broken) laptop.

^ If you are a fan of the series or are really interested in it, than watch both otherwise its not worth it. Try to watch both of the movies together and if possible just the anime series, its not too big anyways.

I have (had) both as one file. Three hours, jeez.

I only managed to sit through the first part. They made a really bad movie. So personally I don't think you should waste time with it. Rewatch the animated series instead.

I've never seen the animated series. I just want to watch it because it was a big Japanese film.

Well i don't know if you're gonna find a good modern huge Japanese live action movie. I've seen a couple of them and they're all (very bad) CGI fests that mimic the usual Hollywood plot and dialogue structure. I'd rather opt for something bizarre and fun like Hentai Kamen. After the first WTF effect you can get into it and enjoy for the bizarity it is.

I agree with _axiom you should rather watch the anime series than the movies for AoT.

The Weekend Forecast will be posted in an hour or so, sorry for the delay.

Beauty and the Beast will repeat atop the box office for a seventh-consecutive week, while Logan is looking at a modest second place debut.

Shit for Logan, but then did anybody really expect it to do amazingly well in Japan? Even The Wolverine didn't do so well and that was SET in Japan.

Damn I thought the positive WoM will help Logan to open well but oh well...

Fate is doing much better than GotG2 surprisingly.

Great for BatB crossing $10b mark, still hoping for it to do more than Alice.

Is BatB good for another weekend at #1? Which possible releases can dethrone it this month?

How come the vast majority of movies are released so late in Japan in comparison to other countries? I've never really understood that.

I believe it'll achieve an eighth weekend at #1, but next week will prove to be a challenge. Toho is releasing Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon and Warner Bros. is releasing Confessions of a Murderer.

For a number of reasons, but two in particular are key factors:

1. Marketing/Release Schedule: Japan isn't like China in that they limit the release of imported films and release them in unfavorable weeks/months, rather it's quite the opposite. A lot of Hollywood blockbusters are released in "weak" for Japan in the U.S. and elsewhere (November, May, and June, for example are poor months in Japan), so the investment returns would be at risk unless a blockbuster is an established property with proven success. Also, the Japan movie industry releases a lot of films, and while many films can thrive together at once in the market without cannibalizing one another, there are only so many screens/showtimes to go around so imported releases sometimes get delayed a bit.

And, to further add to this point, a delayed release often plays out in favor of an imported releases so long as a film doesn't completely bomb financially and critically in the U.S. and elsewhere first. If a film is a smash hit in the U.S. and elsewhere, it maximizes the potential of its eventual Japan release since it allows for a larger release, proper dubbing, and higher general interest among Japanese audiences who are often reserved in the films the choose to see.

2. Localization: Imported films that get the dub treatment almost always perform better than a release that's in English only (with subtitles). Japanese audiences generally prefer to watch films with Japanese voice actors, and it can take some time to get this done correctly since most American films contain many Western jokes, songs, dialogue, etc. that's often very foreign in Japan.

Piracy is also near non-existent in Japan, so delayed theatrical releases (even to the point of home video release everywhere else in the world) never suffer from this like they normally would in most parts of the world.

Biggest Seventh Weekends/Seven Week Totals (2001-)

¥785.0 million ($6.5 million), -14%, ¥17.13 billion ($150.8 million) - Spirited Away (2001)
¥772.1 million ($7.6 million), -07%, ¥12.10 billion ($118.4 million) - Frozen (2014)
¥767.4 million ($5.7 million), -22%, ¥15.91 billion ($120.6 million) - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
¥731.9 million ($6.1 million), +13%, ¥13.61 billion ($114.1 million) - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
¥703.8 million ($6.9 million), +13%, ¥12.88 billion ($125.8 million) - Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
¥700.9 million ($6.8 million), -11%, ¥14.21 billion ($138.5 million) - Your Name. (2016)
¥571.5 million ($6.2 million), -16%, ¥9.64 billion ($106.3 million) - Avatar (2009)
¥543.9 million ($4.5 million), -10%, ¥13.51 billion ($115.5 million) - Bayside Shakedown: Save the Rainbow Bridge! (2003)
¥513.2 million ($4.8 million), -11%, ¥12.73 billion ($118.1 million) - Ponyo (2008)
¥411.2 million ($3.9 million), -32%, ¥9.16 billion ($86.4 million) - The Last Samurai (2003)
¥350.6 million ($3.2 million), -20%, ¥6.03 billion ($56.0 million) - Zootopia (2016)
¥348.8 million ($3.1 million), -40%, ¥9.55 billion ($83.4 million) - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
¥338.9 million ($3.5 million), +06%, ¥8.85 billion ($90.7 million) - The Wind Rises (2013)
¥334.0 million ($3.3 million), -11%, ¥6.67 billion ($64.5 million) - The Eternal Zero (2013)
¥317.8 million ($2.4 million), -30%, ¥7.43 billion ($56.5 million) - Monsters, Inc. (2002)
¥310.6 million ($2.9 million), -42%, ¥9.57 billion ($90.3 million) - Finding Nemo (2003)
¥306.7 million ($2.6 million), -12%, ¥7.57 billion ($64.5 million) - Big Hero 6 (2014)
¥305.0 million ($2.7 million), -13%, ¥10.35 billion ($91.7 million) - Beauty and the Beast (2017) *Estimate*
¥302.3 million ($2.7 million), -17%, ¥6.14 billion ($57.3 million) - Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004)
¥300 million+

For comparison with Alice :
¥299.2 million ($3.2 million), -21%, ¥10.71 billion ($117.8 million) - Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Corpse, when are Blu-ray/DVD release dates typically announced in Japan for Hollywood films? I noticed Disney has (had?) a habit of announcing them early and affecting their film's late legs. Do you know when Moana or Sing had their home release dates announced (just to use a couple of the year's recent blockbusters)?

What a wonderful country.

I've fun watching Chris and Leon doing fun things together in Resident Evil: Vendetta, but I'm very shock that it's not on box office, didn't it release in Japan already?

Kamen Rider Series> X-Men series in Japan, so that was expected for Logan