Toho's Godzilla Minus One sets multiple records and becomes the largest IMAX opening for a live-action Japanese film.
Godzilla Minus One, the Japanese kaiju film directed and written by Takashi Yamazaki, has roared its way into history books this weekend. It has raked in a whopping $1.2 million from merely 49 IMAX screens to not only become the biggest IMAX Opening ever for a live-action Japanese title in Japan but also secured its spot as the fourth-highest live-action IMAX opening and the fifth-highest IMAX local title opening in the country.
In Japan, Godzilla Minus One, which is the franchise’s 37th film and Toho’s 33rd film, was released in over 500 theaters nationwide — including IMAX, 4DX, ScreenX, and Dolby Cinema formats. This makes the film one of Japan's widest theatrical distributions of all time. The sub-franchise of Godzilla that most Americans are familiar with is Legndary's MonsterVerse, comprising titles like Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla vs. Kong, or the upcoming Warner Bros.’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. The film in question, Godzilla Minus One, develops its own continuity and takes the audience back to post-WW2 Japan. It paints a vivid picture of a nation recently scarred by atomic bomb detonations, awakening the iconic, terrifying beast we all know as Godzilla.
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