Detective Conan Movie 18: "Dimensional Sniper" (2014)

[ssjup81]

I bought my ticket for tomorrow night. Because of work I had no choice but to go to the last showing.

[Wakarimashita]

[Wakarimashita]

Weekend Forecast [04/19-20]

01 (--) ¥720 million ($7.0 million), Detective Conan: The Sniper from Another Dimension (Toho) NEW
02 (01) ¥660 million ($6.4 million), Frozen (Disney) Week 6
03 (--) ¥220 million ($2.1 million), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Disney) NEW
04 (--) ¥200 million ($1.9 million), Crayon Shin-chan: Serious Battle! Robot Dad Strikes Back (Toho) NEW
05 (02) ¥190 million ($1.8 million), Crows: Explode (Toho) Week 2
06 (05) ¥60 million ($580,000), The Snow White Murder Case (Shochiku) Week 4
07 (03) ¥55 million ($530,000), Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider: Kamen Rider Taisen feat. Super Sentai (Toei) Week 4
08 (06) ¥50 million ($490,000), L-DK (Toei) Week 2
09 (04) ¥45 million ($440,000), Doraemon: Nobita's Great Demon - Peko and the Exploration Party (Toho) Week 7
10 (07) ¥40 million ($390,000), Team Batista: Kerberos's Final Portrait (Toho) Week 4

>Detective Conan has only failed to debut in 1st once in the past 17 years, which was in 2010 when up against the mammoth Alice in Wonderland's debut. It could fail to debut on top again this year with another Disney titan, Frozen, still playing so well, but Conan has the edge over Frozen so far this morning at most locations.

Ticket sales at Toho Cinemas are ahead of last year's at the same point in time, and last year's film just so happened to be the biggest opener in the franchise's history. So needless to say, this is a very encouraging sign. And with the tax hike, it "only" has to match the admissions of last year's film to exceed ¥700 million ($7 million) over the weekend. But so far admissions look stronger, so it may climb even higher.

>Frozen lost most of the biggest screens to Conan, thus decreasing its seats by about 13% at Toho Cinemas, and 18% at Movix Cinemas. This marks the first time since it opened that it has lost any seats. In order to defeat Detective Conan, and claim a sixth-consecutive week atop the box-office, it'll need to avoid a drop over ~15%, so it'll be close.

>Crayon Shin-chan and Captain America should also have a close battle to see which of them ranks 3rd over the weekend. Both films should be aiming for ¥200 million ($2.0 million).

If this projection holds over the weekend, this will be an excellent result. Looks like I was too worried and underestimated Conan's power.

[kkslider5552000]

Conan is too popular in Japan for me to care if a single movie OUT OF EIGHTEEN didn't do as well because of a perfectly valid reason.

[Wakarimashita]

Out of all the Conan movies, if ever there was one that deserved to miss the #1 spot, surely it was the 14th one. Surely movie 18 won't be that bad. ^^

[ssjup81]

What was movie 14 again?

[Wakarimashita]

'The Lost Ship in the Sky'. ^^

[Jecka]

Aww but 14 was fun *shot*

[ssjup81]

'The Lost Ship in the Sky'. ^^

Oh, that one.

Well, time for work. Wish I could sleep all day instead. 10:00 - 7:00 can be exhausting at times.

[Wakarimashita]

A few Toho Cinemas movie theatres :

Tickets Sold (as of 11AM) / Tickets Available (%)

Kinshicho:
1,242/2,119 (58.6%) - Detective Conan
703/1,569 (44.8%) - Frozen

Shibuya:
1,344/1,639 (82.0%) - Frozen
992/1,170 (84.7%) - Detective Conan

Ebina:
1,472/3,780 (38.9%) - Detective Conan
685/2,406 (28.5%) - Frozen

Umeda:
1,619/4,749 (34.1%) - Detective Conan
869/3,658 (23.8%) - Frozen

Nishinomiya:
1,116/2,488 (44.9%) - Detective Conan
985/1,949 (39.6%) - Frozen

Overall (as of 11AM):
6,441/14,306 (45.0%) - Detective Conan
4,586/11,221 (40.8%) - Frozen

[frankguo8]

What was movie 14 again?

lol

this sounds like a joke

YAY for CONAN. Japanese really likes their own movies haha.

[Chekhov MacGuffin]

M18 review. Lots of spoilers: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/nuruta/20140419/1 ... um=twitter

[ssjup81]

What was movie 14 again?

lol

this sounds like a joke

YAY for CONAN. Japanese really likes their own movies haha.

No joke, I have a tough time recalling the films, unlike the earlier ones where I watched them more than once.

[Okiyakaivan]

ep 735 side story for M18

[Okiyakaivan]

when the Dimensional Sniper OST out on online?