Variety Asia reports that the Golden Compass earned 2.5m USD (Y270m) this past weekend at advanced screenings in Japan this weekend. Audience demographics exceeded expectations drawing in not only families but teens and fans in their fifties and sixties. Although the Japanese distributor Gaga has not released their own box office projections, Variety calculates: “A straight line B.O. projection would be $51 million — not “Harry Potter” territory, but not bad for a pic that finished in the US with $70 million.” This estimate would set worldwide box office gross to 380m USD according to Box Office Mojo’s numbers. Read more.
The Golden Compass opens in Japan to 700 screens this weekend.
Geeez I hope this means they’ll do subtle knife!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:'( :'( :'( pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee dont ruin the subtle knife pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee
phheeeewwww
Good luck to TGC in Japan and China
actually its performance in the chinese box office should be pretty negligible. even though it’s pretty impressive that there’ll be a chinese release, cinema-going culture is pretty dwarfed by the massive pirated/legitimate dvd culture. but it’s nice that TGC will see a big screen audience nonetheless.