Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Box Office Thread

[Skar]

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/genre/sg4259246337/

I saw this list for highest grossing anime films in the US. Super Hero is currently #6 and might end up being #4.

[KingSailem]

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/genre/sg4259246337/

I saw this list for highest grossing anime films in the US. Super Hero is currently #6 and might end up being #4.

Pokemon was an absolute giant.

[Xeno Goku Black]

It really was, it had a 5 day of $50 million. Take into account that The Phantom Menace, one of the most anticipated movies in history and a 16 year long awaited prequel to the most famous movie franchise in history did only twice that.

[KingSailem]

It really was, it had a 5 day of $50 million. Take into account that The Phantom Menace, one of the most anticipated movies in history and a 16 year long awaited prequel to the most famous movie franchise in history did only twice that.

Thats amazing, Pokémon 2000 broke all kinds of records when it was first released.

[StevenPiccolo]

How much do you guys think the increased number of theaters screening this is affecting the BO? I honestly don't know much about this stuff, I took a look at a few different anime movies and it looks like DBSSH's 3,000ish theaters is quite a large number. And if this means the net profit overall will be less if it costs more to show this in more theaters

[Xeno Goku Black]

How much do you guys think the increased number of theaters screening this is affecting the BO?

I couldn't put a number on it but if the movie wasn't in 1,800 more theatres than Broly it more than likely would have grossed less.

US is pretty much the only major market so far where Super Hero will see an increase over Broly. It didn't happen in Japan or Latin America because Broly had a genuine proper release there. In US, Broly had a limited release so there was always room to grow.

But yes it does cost more to show it in more theatres which is why it couldn't afford to even make the same amount as Broly. It had to make more to warrant it.

[Mr_CINDER]

Pokemon was an absolute giant.

Pokemon is still a giant, it is the highest grossing media franchise in history

[Mr_CINDER]

How much do you guys think the increased number of theaters screening this is affecting the BO? I honestly don't know much about this stuff, I took a look at a few different anime movies and it looks like DBSSH's 3,000ish theaters is quite a large number. And if this means the net profit overall will be less if it costs more to show this in more theaters

Theater count need to increase more in the future for example DC league of superpet released in 4700 theaters, Its a good sign for anime movies anyway 4315-4700 is normal I hope the next DB movie get this treatment. When a movie release in 4000+ theaters its a sign that particular movie is being treated as a blockbuster and DB definitely deserve it, for gods sake DB is one of the highest grossing media franchise in history.

[Xeno Goku Black]

Wednesday gross - $1.05 million

Total gross - $25.3 million

Worldwide - $55.8 million

A heavy drop on Wednesday, down 34% but then a lot of things dropped hard today too, mostly over 30%.

So it's fine, it's guaranteed to surpass Broly anyway. Based on MHA it's going to finish at $39 million. Still hoping for $40 million.

Edit: And for what it's worth Box Office Pro is estimating a $4.8 million second weekend and a 77% drop. A total of $31.6 million by Sunday.

[Mr_CINDER]

Wednesday gross - $1.05 million

Total gross - $25.3 million

Worldwide - $55.8 million

A heavy drop on Wednesday, down 34% but then a lot of things dropped hard today too, mostly over 30%.

So it's fine, it's guaranteed to surpass Broly anyway. Based on MHA it's going to finish at $39 million. Still hoping for $40 million.

Edit: And for what it's worth Box Office Pro is estimating a $4.8 million second weekend and a 77% drop. A total of $31.6 million by Sunday.

Thats good so we can say confidently it will surpass resurection F. How many markets left to release ?

[Xeno Goku Black]

Thats good so we can say confidently it will surpass resurection F. How many markets left to release ?

It's a guarantee that it surpasses Resurrection F. It's impossible for it to not surpass it now. It should do so this weekend in fact.

There's still plenty of markets left but of the significant ones there's France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Hong Kong and if gets a release at all China too.

[Mr_CINDER]

There's still plenty of markets left but of the significant ones there's France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Hong Kong and if gets a release at all China too.

Thats a very good news indeed.

[Gafonso6]

Super Hero had the best opening week for an anime film in Portugal with €113.806,23 (19.387 viewers) beating Jujutsu Kaisen by almost €7.000

[Xeno Goku Black]

So $114,000 and it had a opening weekend of $80,000 I believe.

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Ah now this is interesting.

https://mantan-web.jp/article/20220824d ... 2000c.html

According to that Super Hero has made ¥7 billion worldwide. Seemingly as of Sunday.

Resurrection F made ¥7.9 billion worldwide and Broly made ¥13.5 billion worldwide.

This is one of those situations where in terms of dollars say Super Hero does make $80 million then that's a little under two thirds of Broly's $125 million. However in yen that would be near ¥11 billion. It could go up to ¥12 billion so not really that far off Broly in domestic currency.

[Xeno Goku Black]

Thursday - $899,000

Total - $26.2 million

Worldwide - $56.7 million

A steeper drop than most others in the top 10. Box Office Report is also estimating a $4.8 million weekend for a $31 million total. That seems like it's gonna be about right.

If it's lucky it could get to $32 million if it had a weekend closer to $6 million which is still a 70%+ drop.

It's losing more ground to Demon Slayer as the days go on but it should surely pass Broly come Sunday.

[Lord Beerus]

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Film Beats Broly to Reach Top 5 All-Time Anime Films in U.S.

The Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero anime film is earning an estimated US$30,761,982 after its second weekend in North America. That brings the film above Dragon Ball Super: Broly (US$30,712,119 in 2018) and puts it in the top five highest-grossing anime films ever at the U.S. box office (unadjusted for inflation).

The anime films that have earned more in their final U.S. box office totals are Pokémon: The First Movie, Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train, and Pokémon 2000 - The Movie. The Box Office Mojo website reported that Jujutsu Kaisen 0 earned US$29,693,448 last year, while The Numbers website reported US$33,919,605.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is bringing in an estimated US$4,565,668 this weekend which ranks it #5 for the timeframe, below Top Gun: Maverick and above DC League of Super-Pets. Its daily box office tallies so far are:

Thursday, August 18: US$4,303,671
Friday, August 19: US$6,611,743
Saturday, August 20: US$5,813,401
Sunday, August 21: US$4,395,234
Monday, August 22: US$1,514,414
Tuesday, August 23: US$1,593,787
Wednesday, August 24: US$1,053,705
Thursday, August 25: US$910,359
Friday, August 26: US$1,320,925 (revised)
Saturday, August 27: US$1,894,743 (new)
Sunday, August 28: US$1,350,000 (estimate)

It opened on over 4,000 screens in over 3,100 theaters, including those with premium offerings such as IMAX, 4DX, Dolby Cinemas, MX4d, and DBox. In its first extended weekend, it earned US$3.4 million on 327 IMAX screens — a record IMAX U.S. opening for anime films. 17% of the film's first weekend total came from IMAX screenings, and 40% came from all premium large format screenings (including IMAX and its competitors).

Box office Mojo lists the film as having made US$53,890,827 worldwide, before this weekend's estimated box office returns.

The film earned with US$21,124,049 to top its opening weekend in North America. The first weekend box office alone already made it the #6 highest-grossing anime film ever at the U.S. box office. The film has also opened in Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Ireland, Chile, and other countries outside the United States with US$12.3 million (about 1.7 billion yen).

The film is the third anime film to top the U.S. weekend box office, and it is #3 in highest U.S. openings, after Pokémon: The First Movie with US$31,036,678 in 1999 and Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train with US$21,234,994 in 2021.

Comparatively, Dragon Ball Super: Broly earned US$9.8 million in its opening weekend in 1,236 theaters in the U.S. and Canada.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero opened in Japan on June 11. The film sold about 498,000 tickets for about 670 million yen (about US$4.99 million) in its first two days. The film has earned 2,442,861,650 yen (about US$18.11 million) as of August 7.

Dragon Ball Superhero has grossed $69.2 worldwide as of August 29th

[Mr_CINDER]

Dragon Ball Superhero has grossed $69.2 worldwide as of August 29th

Good at least it surpassed Res F ,if only the movie did well in japan it could have surpassed the numbers of Broly

[ClutchBangstrip]

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Film Beats Broly to Reach Top 5 All-Time Anime Films in U.S.

The Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero anime film is earning an estimated US$30,761,982 after its second weekend in North America. That brings the film above Dragon Ball Super: Broly (US$30,712,119 in 2018) and puts it in the top five highest-grossing anime films ever at the U.S. box office (unadjusted for inflation).

The anime films that have earned more in their final U.S. box office totals are Pokémon: The First Movie, Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train, and Pokémon 2000 - The Movie. The Box Office Mojo website reported that Jujutsu Kaisen 0 earned US$29,693,448 last year, while The Numbers website reported US$33,919,605.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is bringing in an estimated US$4,565,668 this weekend which ranks it #5 for the timeframe, below Top Gun: Maverick and above DC League of Super-Pets. Its daily box office tallies so far are:

Thursday, August 18: US$4,303,671
Friday, August 19: US$6,611,743
Saturday, August 20: US$5,813,401
Sunday, August 21: US$4,395,234
Monday, August 22: US$1,514,414
Tuesday, August 23: US$1,593,787
Wednesday, August 24: US$1,053,705
Thursday, August 25: US$910,359
Friday, August 26: US$1,320,925 (revised)
Saturday, August 27: US$1,894,743 (new)
Sunday, August 28: US$1,350,000 (estimate)

It opened on over 4,000 screens in over 3,100 theaters, including those with premium offerings such as IMAX, 4DX, Dolby Cinemas, MX4d, and DBox. In its first extended weekend, it earned US$3.4 million on 327 IMAX screens — a record IMAX U.S. opening for anime films. 17% of the film's first weekend total came from IMAX screenings, and 40% came from all premium large format screenings (including IMAX and its competitors).

Box office Mojo lists the film as having made US$53,890,827 worldwide, before this weekend's estimated box office returns.

The film earned with US$21,124,049 to top its opening weekend in North America. The first weekend box office alone already made it the #6 highest-grossing anime film ever at the U.S. box office. The film has also opened in Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Ireland, Chile, and other countries outside the United States with US$12.3 million (about 1.7 billion yen).

The film is the third anime film to top the U.S. weekend box office, and it is #3 in highest U.S. openings, after Pokémon: The First Movie with US$31,036,678 in 1999 and Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train with US$21,234,994 in 2021.

Comparatively, Dragon Ball Super: Broly earned US$9.8 million in its opening weekend in 1,236 theaters in the U.S. and Canada.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero opened in Japan on June 11. The film sold about 498,000 tickets for about 670 million yen (about US$4.99 million) in its first two days. The film has earned 2,442,861,650 yen (about US$18.11 million) as of August 7.

Dragon Ball Superhero has grossed $69.2 worldwide as of August 29th

I now think they put ALL of their marketing behind the One Piece film, because they knew Dragon Ball didn't need it. There's no way the lack of marketing WASN'T intentional, now.

They knew Dokkan, Black Frieza, and Fortnite was going to be all that was really necessary. On top of the fact that all of those events doubled as marketing and profitable products at the same time. The 3D likely cut more costs, they actually got paid off their advertising, and the film itself likely turned a profit. Further evidence that despite Gundam's gains EVERY analyst casually predicted that Dragon Ball would retake the top spot. Like no one in the field took Gundam surpassing Dragon Ball seriously, at all. It seems VERY suspicious.

[StevenPiccolo]

I now think they put ALL of their marketing behind the One Piece film, because they knew Dragon Ball didn't need it. There's no way the lack of marketing WASN'T intentional, now.

I'm confused by this, I feel like if anything, One Piece would be the one that doesn't need marketing. I'm not super familiar with it, but I thought it was way more popular and would have been a hit regardless. Unless you're talking about marketing in places outside of Japan.

[ClutchBangstrip]

I now think they put ALL of their marketing behind the One Piece film, because they knew Dragon Ball didn't need it. There's no way the lack of marketing WASN'T intentional, now.

I'm confused by this, I feel like if anything, One Piece would be the one that doesn't need marketing. I'm not super familiar with it, but I thought it was way more popular and would have been a hit regardless. Unless you're talking about marketing in places outside of Japan.

That's what I mean. They can rely on the rest of the planet to sell DB. If you take my 2nd paragraph into account, what this movie did was golden. It's almost as tho they got paid to market their own film.

One Piece was marketed heavily because it needs to do exceptional at home. It needs to make a global gross at home. Dragon Ball doesn't have that problem. They litteraly used sources they themselves get paid from to push a film and have that film do well.

I don't think it's a coincidence that Dragon Ball trended on several sites for several straight days for different reasons, right before the film dropped outside of Japan. Toei, in total, probably made far more money than what the box office numbers even said when you look at this project in total.