‘The Boy and the Heron’ Makes Anime History With $10.6 Million Opening – Hayao Miyazaki’s film is the first original anime title to open wide to No. 1 at the U.S. box office.
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‘The Boy and the Heron’ Makes Anime History With $10.6 Million Opening – Hayao Miyazaki’s film is the first original anime title to open wide to No. 1 at the U.S. box office.
by DemiFiendRSA
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>“The Boy and the Heron,” possibly the final animated film from Hayao Miyazaki, expanded wide to 2,205 theaters this weekend after two weeks in select theaters. The film is earning an estimated $10.6 million this weekend.
>While anime has carved out a place for itself at the box office thanks to Crunchyroll’s franchise films like “Dragon Ball Super: Broly,” “The Boy and the Heron” stands out as the first original anime film to open wide to No. 1 at the U.S. box office.
>With that result, “The Boy and the Heron” is on pace to become Miyazaki’s highest grossing film in the U.S., passing his previous U.S. directorial record of $15 million for “Ponyo” in 2007 and $19.1 million for “The Secret World of Arriety,” a film he wrote but did not direct, in 2012. Its $5.5 million opening day total is also the highest ever for GKIDS, passing the $1.8 million for Makoto Shinkai’s “Weathering With You” in 2020.
I ate a lot of edibles and still couldnt keep up with the ~~insanity~~ creativity in this movie
It’s also wild to me that the No.1 movie only made 10mil? I don’t really keep up with those kind of numbers but in my head they’re always much larger numbers.
That’s cool considering that it looks like my local theaters aren’t giving it proper circulation. Closest theater has a dozen screens but just a single showtime tomorrow and the next isn’t even playing it.
Definitely up there as one of the best Ghibli movies. You leave the theater confused and then it all just starts to click and make sense.
Seeing it tonight. I’m excited