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Nice poster!
I want Yamazaki's project to harken back to the Showa-era version, but I want the tone of Godzilla 2014 and Shin to still be there and maybe depict Godzilla as a neutral force of nature, since Toho's last 2 incarnations were more-or-less villainous depictions.
On Legendary's side, I highly doubt that Godzilla is returning in the next movie due to it being most likely a Kong sequel. But I do believe that he will get a third movie after his TV show.
UPDATE 5/25/2022:
This is going to be something of a hodgepodge of information, since I still don't have the verified actuals. But the estimates have been pretty close lately.
Last weekend Shin Ultraman was #1 at the box office for the second weekend in a row with an estimated 2.027 Billion Yen (estimated $15.9 Million). (According to Eiga Ranking News)
By Monday, Eiga Ranking News reported the haul for Shin Ultraman pushed it to 2.1 Billion Yen, (an estimated $16.5 Million) making it the 3rd highest grossing, live action Japanese film of 2022 in just 11 days. A fairly substantial stat. Currently the 2 movies ahead are The Last 10 Years and Confidence Man JP. Both are within striking distance and sitting with less than 3 Billion Yen.
The Last 10 Years has been in theaters for 10 weeks, so it's not pulling away anytime soon. And Confidence Man JP is finished at the box office. Including animated (anime) films, Shin Ultraman sits at #5 for 2022. (Animation is notorious for being more successful at the Japanese box office though.) Including foreign films, it sits at #8 for the year--And climbing.
And then something happened Wednesday, according to the latest report by Eiga Ranking. There was a strange uptick in sales for Shin Ultraman today, which has pushed its estimated gross to 2.232 Billion Yen. The exchange for that amount is estimated for $17.5 Million USD! That's a massive uptick for a weekday in Japan and I'm not sure what caused the surge.
Comparing its opening weekend attendance to the current gross, Shin Ultraman sits at an estimated 1.4 Million tickets sold.
For comparison, Shin Ultraman has now sold more tickets than the following Godzilla movies:
Godzilla x Megaguirus - 1.35M tickets
Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla '74 - 1.33M tickets
Godzilla vs. Kong - 1.25M tickets
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. - 1.20 tickets
Godzilla: Final Wars - 1.0M tickets
Godzilla vs. Megalon - 0.98M tickets
Terror of MechaGodzilla - 0.97M tickets
Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters - < 0.17M tickets
Godzilla: The Planet Eater - < 0.14M tickets
Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle - < 0.09M tickets
Keep in mind, most of these movies either flopped at the box office, were merely skirting by due to a decline in Japanese cinema in the 1970s or were limited releases. Shin Ultraman is only in the middle of its second week at the box office.
To further illustrate what a juggernaut this movie is for the genre, Godzilla vs. Kong took 9 weeks to only hit 1.25 million tickets. Shin Ultraman is on day 13.
It has also beaten the following non-Godzilla kaiju/giant monster movies of recent years:
Kong: Skull Island - 1.34M tickets
Attack on Titan: Part 2 - 1.23M tickets
Pacific Rim - 1.03M tickets
Pacific Rim: Uprising - 0.61M tickets
Rampage - 0.30M tickets
If Shin Ultraman can get to the 3.0M mark, it will have outsold 22 movies in the Godzilla series, including every Legendary Pictures film and the entire Millennium Series.
Charts have been added and updated for comparison. Hopefully we'll get some actuals before the weekend.
Curious to see the new incarnation of Toho's Godzilla
HinikunaGoji,
Not to mention the increasingly likely possibility of Godzilla appearing in the next Monsterverse film. Either Toho's new negociation with them changed up the prior contract or the next Legendary movie is being staggered in a way so it's not in production at the same time as Toho's.
Or Godzilla's just not in it and the deal was changed to television-only for Legendary. Who knows.
The bigger mystery right now is Yamazaki's project and what it is.
They really seem to be pushing forward Monsterverse though. I mean the clock teaser, and on the day of the MV show announcement?
Maybe becuase of how GvK preformed especially bc of covid
HinikunaGoji,
Correct. Toho calls the shots on their own IP. It's just whatever route they believe will feed them the most income.
Legendary wouldnt have a choice if toho wanted to make godzilla movies content at all.
And Toho already hinted at the MV godzilla show before WB or Legendary. So I think its safe to say, Toho is still interrested in keeping him in MV
I assume that Legendary will let Toho go full steam ahead on this Godzilla movie before announcing Godzilla's MonsterVerse future in full. Just saying.
Does that come off as irony to anyone else?
I'd take this with a grain of salt. It's interesting nonetheless.
Yamazaki is in the middle of shooting this film and will continue to through mid-June. Could "Godzilla: Zero" be the working title?
My First Godzilla Movie was during "2014" all the way back to when I was 6 years old since now like 8 or 9 years later during now in 2022 I am now like 13 years old now LOL
My first year of encountering the interest in Godzilla The King of The Monsters Himself was all the way back in the year completely complete named and legiterally/literally called "2014" and all the way back then in that year I was 6 years old and I encountered the interest in him on a "2014" Godzilla Movie TV Spot and that's the only one epic, awesome, precious, based and cool moment part where I first got the encounter of my first time having interest because then after that I legiterally/literally just went immediately/instantly drawing him on paper when I 6 years old that time in the year completely complete named and legiterally/literally called "2014" but finally now like 8 or 9 years later I am like 13 years old during now in this year 2022 and I am still a OG godzilla fan still loving the MV Titanus Godzilla Incarnation aka MV Titanus G21-22 and the only reason why I say "22" in the name MV Titanus G21-22 because I first of all know that he is/he's gonna have a TV Series Show/Show Series this year and also "Godzilla Vs Kong 2" aka The 2nd Sequel GVK Movie LOL
Do people not know this master piece of cinema?
The BATS
I say Kamoebas would win because I don't know those other monsters you're talking about.
I come from a family of heavily mixed ethnicity across Asia. Most of all, I am Taiwan aborigine - Japanese. My people were enslaved by Japanese during the war and persecuted mercilessly if we didn’t throw our ancient culture away and adapt the Japanese lifestyle. I am not sore towards my Japanese family, history is a nasty thing, but I feel for my Japanese family too. They lost everything during the war, experienced Atomic hellfire, and their friends fallen from the aftermath.
Godzilla, has united my family from both ends. Godzilla has created unity, and for that I am grateful beyond words. My Japanese ancestors had been following Godzilla from the very beginning since it first released. My indigenous tribe appreciate the accuracy and respect to our culture portrayed in Mothra’s films. Even since the 1960s, portraying native culture not as cannibalistic savages, but sympathetic beings who have been bothered too many times by invaders. And the lore across Mothra’s character is incredible and contrasts so well to my culture, while still a fresh take in their own right.
I have watched every Godzilla movie since Godzilla VS Biollante (1989) when they debut in theatres whenever I visited my family in Japan, and watched every last Godzilla movie through subsequent home-video release. Over my childhood into my adulthood, I have acquired a vast Godzilla collection, and I love to read the supplemental details from the books and novelization, or the old pamphlets they given out at the theatres.
P.S, I despise the new American Monsterverse with a burning passion, but the 2014 film is okay, before they franchise it.
Monsterzero9, I appreciate the effort. But REIKO is an Operating System, not a pilot.
ErlikoIsCoolALT,
The Kamoebas in both Go! Godman and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. was likely not the same one in Space Amoeba.
Yeah Kamoebas did survive. Since he was shown in 2003 dead on the beach. But lets talk about it without the volcano.
Plus one didnt kill the other techincally, i mean kamo drags gamines into the volcano, so technically he wins
I haven't seen the movies with these kaiju yet
I mean, I feel like the movie answers this regardless...
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HinikunaGoji,
Agreed. Shin Godzilla's ending never felt like the set up for a sequel. Before the "Cinematic Universe" thing became so popular, plenty of movies had "cliffhangers" that were merely meant to be contained to a theme or motif.
Singular Point actually has unresolved arcs and longstanding, unanswered questions, unlike Shin Godzilla. Of which seem to be purposefully unresolved for a second season.
And again, this wouldn't be Toho leaving it be. It would Orange and Bones studios--Which operates differently and independently of Toho.
The post credit scene of Singular Point seems like the set up for a second season, though I would argue that the endings for both GMK and Shin Godzilla also seemed like they were set ups for sequels as well. Obviously I can't say for sure if Singular Point season 2 will happen or not, but given Toho's track record with the Millennium and Reiwa series constantly resetting the timeline and moving on to the next project, it wouldn't surprise me if Singular Point continued that trend.
Honestly i would be more confused. Ive never thought of shins ending as a cliffhanger, but SP definitely has one, and the credit scene.
Spider-Man is my favorite.
Well, I kinda only watched GVK for Godzilla Vs. Kong.
