The future of Dragon Ball franchise is uncertain now.

On the brighter side, here's the result of Japan Academy Film Prize
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/47th_Japa ... Film_Prize
Some interesting things I notice
-Godzilla -1 sweeps as expected
-Is this the first time foreigner win best director?
-Happiest person would be Sakura Ando, who win both lead actress and support actress in the same event, she already won both categories before. Japanese voters don't seem to care about 'spread the wealth' concept.
-The battle between Heron and Blue Giant end in a happy ending situation where Heron take best animation while Blue Giant take best music.

Also

Is this the first time ever for Japan's cinema to show English dub (with Japanese sub) despite the film's original language is Japanese?

Chiming in to say that I'm really digging the Shogun TV series on FX and wouldn't mind seeing it air on the big screen (perhaps across 4-5 parts) for a limited time.

Any initial presales data on Oppenheimer prior to it's end of March release?

Pre-sales for Nationwide start 48 hours before opening. Oppenheimer will have 3 Premiere Shows in Tokyo on March 25 (whose pre-sale will start from March 19 (00:00 JST). In addition, the film had preview screening on back 2-3 days ago at Hiroshima &Nagasaki where in addition to the notable personals like Takashi Hiraoka, Tatsuya Mori, Arthur Binard, the film was presented to 110 Students from High School &University at Hatchoza, Naka Ward, Hiroshima. Some inner critics circle have watched the film in Early March

As for the premieres, the film will open on

Toho Cinema Shinjuku (IMAX)
109 Cinemas Premium Shinjuku (35 mm)
Shinjuku Wald 9 (Dolby Cinema)

March 25 (Monday) - 19:00 JST Show for all 3 [Presales will start from March 19 (00:00 JST)]

You can read comments on Oppenheimer here - https://eiga.com/news/20240315/19/

Thanks, appreciate those insights!

Some interesting progresses from the latest weekend report
Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle (currently no.3) surpasses 7 billion yen.
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM (currently no.9) surpasses 4 billion yen.
Godzilla Minus One re-enters the chart at no.4 in its 20th weekend and reaches 6.4 billion yen
The Boy and the Heron re-enters the chart at no.8 in its 36th weekend, surpasses 9 billion yen, and now ranked at 64th in the highest grossing film in Japanese cinema.

Is Corpse no longer active at KJ?

He has left and come back a few times in the last half year

ok. That is unfortunate as this thread is about his updates.

Oppenheimer opened in Japan. Initial reactions shared on DHD article below.

$800k FRI Opening Day. So $1B is out but will be an interesting run there. 4.0 stars from audiences.

DHD https://deadline.com/2024/03/oppenheime ... 235871494/

¥420-¥430M Debut I guess.

Hopefully it has the legs that carry it to a billion $.

Need Good Exchange rate too

Oppenheimer

¥379M / 231K admits — 3-Days Debut

I wonder how would GW be like? I wish Corpse could return..

Seems like 3.4B-3.5B Debut

OD was reportedly 960M / 630K admits

Friday - ¥962,785,780 / 638,119 admissions
Saturday - ¥1,239,818,980 / 839,126 admissions
Sunday - ¥1,149,889,740 / 797,088 admissions

OW - ¥3,352,494,500 / 2,274,333 admissions.

Second biggest OW of all time behind Demon Slayer's.