The source.
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Hong Kong ranks TS3 third overall in gross sales, but Japan’s gross sales volume will speak the loudest in Asia. At the moment US$1 equals HK$7.76, so If you convert HK$71.7mil. into US$, that comes to US$9.24 mil. so far.
I’ve been thinking about this article that lizardgirl pointed out earlier in this thread. You know, in the past couple of years, Disney has released their Pixar movies all over the calendar, which was speculated to be about maximizing box office in the respective countries and even polishing Pixar’s reputation by giving the public a time to focus on this studio’s offering without much competition (such as Disney releasing Alice in mid-March to such great effect).
So within a few days TS3 will have been released all over the world. And I think it’s because of the $1.5-1.7 billion that Disney expected to haul in due to toy merchandising alone. The toys from Toy Story will be fresh in kids and parents’ minds come this Xmas season. But what’s it’s all about now, and since March really, when Toy Story was all over Toys’RUs and WalMart stores, is about summer merchandising. They know that more $$ is to be made from the toys and launched their release schedule accordingly, instead of “TS3 coming to Hokkaido Dec. 5th …finally!”
Current gross:$895,000,000
It has officially become Pixar’s biggest movie worldwide and it’s only 24 millions behind Shrek 2 so by next weekend it’s going to be the biggest animated movie worldwide of all time.
Excellent work, everyone!!! Now, the final goal I can completly expect: dethroning Shrek 2. While Shrek 2 is a great movie, time to show Dreamworks who’s REALLY the king of computer animation.
Then if we get at least another hundred million… we’ll be roughly $1 billion. Come on folks, let’s do it!
You said it Homer, Woo-Hoo!
Just add another cool $15 mill., give or take, to the Japanese pot into last weeks and you get a running total of $77,625,090.92.
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You know we’re coming soon into our last lap in Japan for box office sales. Why don’t Disney/Pixar pull a Ponyo move. Lets just say, Disney/Pixar says this will be the last of the TS movies. So people will be obliged to watch TS3.
There was a big rumor that Ponyo would be Hayao Miyazaki’s last film. It was kind of true. It was his last directorial movie, but that didn’t mean he could still write a script like he has done for The Borrowers (Arrietty)
Ponyo made big, big bucks because of the rumor.
Really, the oppurtunity is now, money wise and the Pixar side of the Disney/Pixar equation to say we are really for originality and this will be the last so go watch TS3 before its over.
EDIT: I’ve just watched a video about sequels and originals and Lee Unkrich says “We’re just as rigorous with the story development on the sequels as we are with the original”. That’s great, but I would really like TS3 to be in the top three animated movies in Japan, in box office sales, and also be the number one animated movie in the states. How much more sales does TS3 need to beat Shrek 2? Close probably. TS3 breaking the top three in Japan for animation is close too and it would be great for a Disney/Pixar film to be in the top three in Japan finally.
Start at 7:23 for the comments about making sequels from Lee Unkrich. bfi.org.uk/live/video/405
Just a breakdown of what might have been TS3’s last big week:
Britain: soared to over $82M since July 19th, so in just 2 1/2 weeks, and it will certainly break the $100M barrier there. Some pundits are claiming it will finish between $90-100M in Japan.
Germany: limps to a ghastly $9M in this malnourished nation. France: up to a respectable $32M. Italy: doing ok, up to $16M. Spain: oddly not packing them in here, but an ok $22M, falls from 1st place.
Mexico: moves up to $61M there, a respectable $24M in Brazil and very nice totals in Columbia and Argentina. The Americas have nearly all pulled in a stunning gross - $534M of the $895M mentioned here. In most countries TS3 is in the top 5 movies ever released, some #2 and even a #1.
Hong Kong: rolls over $10.3M. Australia: to $38M, falls to 5th (5th biggest gross of any movie there). South Korea: opens with $4M, a close 3rd place finish. Underwhelming.
Global: may become the 5th or 6th biggest box ever, passing The Dark Knight and probably Alice.
Domestic: falls to 9th place and is only making $500K-1M per day. Still it will cross the $400M mark by Friday, and finish as 8th or 9th biggest film. It’s now trailing Shrek2 by $20M. HP7 will have to be really good to beat our toys.
So do you think our toys will be able to beat Shrek? I’m doubting we’ll pass Alice in Wonderland.
And sadly, I’m not questioning whether HP7 will make big bucks. It is the first half of the final film in the series. A lot of hype will go there, as well as the legions of Harry Potter fans, myself included. This will be huge. 
We’ll definetly loose #2 worldwide.
No. Definitely not. TS3 is not going to pass up Shrek2 domestically, unless Tom Hanks and Tim Allen die in a plane crash. It won’t even be close. And I dare say, it wouldn’t have happened even if Despicable Me was out of the picture.
Harry Potter has never pulled a $415M run. The 3rd installment was just ‘good’ in my opinion and its box suffered. And the last, the 6th, was between ‘good’ and ‘very good’, and this paled next to the other excellent installments. I haven’t read the last book, and am not sure who the director is this time around. Expect a huge, Twilight-like opening weekend, but word-of-mouth will influence the final haul.
Finally, Chopperface, speculation about Alice in Wonderland. Over at the WorldOfKJ.com site, which is chock full of amateur analysts, they are predicting a final take of $1,020M-1,040M, which just passes up Alice.
As much as I want Toy Story 3 to beat Shrek, I hope that doesn’t happen!
As you can tell, I’m a huge Harry Potter fan and am very excited for the first part of the final chapter (99 more days!). However, I do not think it will be as big as when Part 2 comes out in 2011.
Given that, I think Toy Story 3 has it pretty much locked up domestically, but I think internationally it could be very close. It really could go either way, to TS3 or HP.
Uh, I meant worldwide, DarkHand. 
Oh, rereading your post it seems like, just in my posts, there was a ping-pong between domestic and global. I think it’s pretty well established that this weekend will allow the TS3 to internationally zoom past Shrek2, and I mean zoom. We should get $15-20M more from the Scandinavian release at the end of August, those will be the last countries in the entire world to see it. It does burn me up that Germany dropped the ball here.
Anyways, HP movies have gotten between $224M and $317M here in the U.S., but finish at $795-975M worldwide. Most big blockbuster serial films not based on American comic books do 2x overseas business. A HP film has never broken $1B globally, or over $317M domestically, and I agree that the last part will have the biggest attendance. I will admit that I liked maybe 2 of those movies more than this latest toys installment, TS2 was my favorite of the bunch. Will How to Train Your Dragon take home the Academy Award for animated films, no matter how much $$ the toys make? Stay tuned.
TS3 is officially the highest-grossing animated film of all-time. It has taken in $920 million to date and has a possibility to become the first animated film to break $1 billion! I think it will.
Yayaya! Bring out the champagne! throws confetti
throws confetti with e-j-e I think it will break 1 billion too. It deserves to be the highest grossing Pixar film.
Somewhere, Jeffrey Katzenberg is mourning along with his green joke…
LOL!
EXCELLENT! Haha!
I think we could possibly hit $1 billion… but I can’t tell. DarkHand, what do you think? I’m not sure what to think. With this much success, we could, but the gravy train only lasts so long…
I feel like Toy Story 3 has brought balance to the force…