"We're absolutely thrilled that Dragon Ball fans could come together to experience and enjoy this amazing film in theaters," said Mitchel Berger, senior vice president of global commerce for the distributor, in a statement. The Dragon Ball universe is almost 40 years old, and includes manga, television shows, movies, games and toys. The Toei Animation production was directed by Tetsuro Kodama, who had the support of "Dragon Ball" creator Akira Toriyama. "Beast," meanwhile, settled for a second-place debut with $11.6 million.Ĭrunchyroll released "Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero" on 3,900 screens in North America, marking the widest-ever opening for an anime. "Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero" topped the charts in its first weekend in theaters, with $20.1 million in ticket sales according to studio estimates on Sunday.
How will they shake up what we see in the Top 10 above? Be sure to return here to CinemaBlend next Sunday to find out – and you can get a look ahead of what's in store from fall and winter with our 2022 Movie Release Schedule.NEW YORK - Idris Elba may go head-to-head with a lion in "Beast," but the action flick was no match for the latest "Dragon Ball" movie at the North American box office this weekend. Thompson's The Invitation and George Miller's Three Thousand Years Of Longing are surely hoping for the former, as the pair of titles will be arriving in wide release. Looking ahead, next weekend will bring summer 2022 to a close – but will it conclude with a bang or a whimper? Everyone behind Jessica M.
To date, the movie has made $21.9 million globally – but it will need to make a hell of a lot more than that if its going to be looked at as a success. The film was released in a number of foreign markets earlier this month prior to its domestic release, and thus far that has translated to an extra $10.3 million added to its worldwide totals. On the hunt for silver linings, one bit of good news is that Beast's box office numbers are being bolstered by overseas performance. The total from its first three days in release means that it had just the twenty-ninth biggest opening weekend of 2022 thus far, the film having made less than Robert Eggers' The Northman back in April ($12.3 million) and more than what Roland Emmerich's Moonfall made when it came out in February ($9.9 million). The new creature feature thriller featuring Idris Elba protecting his family from a revenge-seeking lion wasn't made with a ridiculous budget – $36 million, according to Variety – but the movie has a long way to go before its considered a financial success following its $11.6 million debut.īeast earned middling reviews in the middle of last week, and it seems that has translated to mediocre earnings. While everyone behind Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is likely celebrating the film's the domestic release this weekend, there isn't too much to be celebrated about the box office earnings for Beast. Beast Does Only About Half The Business Of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero And Settles For Second Place It's unclear if that will happen with Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, and that's mostly because of the circumstance that led to the movie's success in the last few days: a lack of big competition. The other anime movies I mentioned all tended to have front-loaded opening weekends, with dedicated fans showing up in the first few days of the feature's release, and then leaving the film to fade from the box office rankings. According to Box Office Mojo, the film has made $18.1 million outside of North America.Įxactly how sustainable the success will be is a big question mark at the moment. The latter film ultimately took the #1 spot seven days later.ĭragon Ball Super: Super Hero is the twenty-first feature film in the Dragon Ball franchise, and the movie's performance in the United States and Canada is exceeding what the anime was able to do in Japan (where it was release back in June). It started in April 2021, when Simon McQuoid's Mortal Kombat dealt with some serious competition from Haruo Sotozaki's Demon Slayer in its second week of release.
Those who have been tracking the weekend box office results since the start of the pandemic will note that Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is the first anime title to make it to the tippy top of the domestic chart, but the success of the new movie is arguably part of a trend we've been seeing since last year. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Sits At The Top Of The Domestic Box Office Chart As Anime Fans Show Up In Big Numbers
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