Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero movie beats Broly for top 5 anime movies
The Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero anime film is earning around $ 30.761.982 after its second weekend in North America. This takes the film above Dragon Ball Super: Broly (US $ 30.712.119 in 2018) and places it in the top five highest-grossing anime films ever at the US box office (unadjusted for inflation).
The anime films that have earned the most in their final totals at the US box office are Pokémon: The First Movie, Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train and Pokémon 2000 - The Movie. Box Office Mojo's website reported that Jujutsu Kaisen 0 earned $ 29.693.448 last year, while The Numbers website reported $ 33.919.605.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is bringing in $ 4.565.668 this weekend, which places it in 5th place for the time period, below Top Gun: Maverick and above the DC League of Super-Pets . His daily box office counts so far are:
Thursday 18 August: 4.303.671 USD
Friday 19 August: USD 6.611.743
Saturday, August 20: 5.813.401 USD
Sunday 21 August: USD 4.395.234
Monday 22 August: USD 1.514.414
Tuesday 23 August: USD 1.593.787
Wednesday, August 24: USD 1.053.705
Thursday 25 August: 910.359 USD
Friday August 26: $ 1.320.925 (revised)
Saturday August 27: 1.894.743 USD (new)
Sunday, August 28: $ 1.350.000 (estimate)
It has been released 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 $ 3,4 million on 327 IMAX screens, an IMAX opening record in the United States for anime films. 17% of the film's first weekend total came from IMAX screenings and 40% from all premium large-format screenings (including IMAX and its competitors).
Box office Mojo lists that the film grossed $ 53.890.827 worldwide, ahead of this weekend's estimated box office return.
The film earned US $ 21.124.049 to make it through its opening weekend in North America. The weekend's first box office alone has already made it the highest grossing anime film ever. 6 at the US box office. The film was also released in Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Ireland, Chile and other countries outside the United States for $ 12,3 million (about 1,7 billion yen).
The film is the third anime film to exceed the weekend box office in the United States and ranks 3rd in the largest openings in the United States, after Pokémon: The First Movie with $ 31.036.678 in 1999 and Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train with 21.234.994 USD in 2021.
By comparison, Dragon Ball Super: Broly earned $ 9,8 million in its opening weekend at 1.236 theaters across the US and Canada.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero was released in Japan on June 11. The film sold around 498.000 tickets for around 670 million yen (about $ 4,99 million) in the first two days. The film earned 2.442.861.650 yen (about $ 18,11 million) as of August 7.
Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures will screen the film in theaters around the world this summer, with the largest opening ever for an anime film. The film was released on Friday in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. The projections include both original Japanese audio with subtitles and dubbing. The company is distributing the film to “all continents, including North America, Latin America, Europe, Australia / New Zealand, Africa, the Middle East and Asia (excluding Japan)” in 13 dubbed languages and 29 subtitled languages.
Tetsuro Kodama directed the film and Naoki Satō composed the music. Nobuhito Sue was the art director, Chikashi Kubota was the animation director, and Jae Hoon Jung was the CG director. The creator of the original Dragon Ball manga, Akira Toriyama, worked on the original story, script and character design for the film.
