I thought it already beat Alice 
it has, Im was wondering If Toy Story 3 will be beaten.
Only by TS 4. 
No, wait, no. That would be terrible. I doubt anything could beat it out.
I hope not, It will be there for all time.
Hurray! Toy Story 3 is the number #1 movie of the year! Oh come on, do you honestly believe anything can beat it? Even if Tron Legacy breaks one billion, it shouldn’t earn as much as this. Woo-Hoo!
A lot of people haven’t seen the first Tron, so a TS sequel is surely more…relevant?
The only movie that could beat it this year would be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Domestically, TS3 did a bit better than the estimate, but still fell in at just under $2M for the weekend. It beat Salt, and Avatar just barely kept ahead. A lot of other newish movies vied for the not terribly big holiday audience, many of which hopefully will fade quickly. Global is up to $1,031Ml, so a pickup of about $19M for the week. Oh, Tangled won’t be released until Thanksgiving weekend, American holiday, in late November. The flavor of Despicable Me, in marketing seemed to favor a late teenage to younger adult audience, ok for families and kids, but not quite what Pixar usually targets. In reality, it appealed very, very strongly to kids, the ending, the minions. So we are thankful that it didn’t bury the toys, which Ice Age did last summer to the ingenious Up.
Edit: on Tuesday, Sept. 7th, the U.S. take went predictably way down to just over $100K. The falloff was 86%, only surpassed by Desp.Me at 87%. These were the biggest falloffs of the top20, but don’t worry, it’s just what happens with the kiddies back in school and the holiday over. One could predict now that TS3 will end with another $2-5M in this country, depending on how much Alpha and Omega hurts it. This is the Lionsgate animated dog love story movie that you might have seen previewed this summer. I doubt most multiplexes can deal with 3 animations on their roster.
International: Scored a whooping $7.5M in Japan for the week, but only $3M in Britain. France and Spain chipped in about half a million each. With the U.S. contribution of $2.3M, we have accounted for about $14M of the $19M box. Some of the numbers are being skewed by rate exchange fluctuations, even with the Mexican peso.
Here’s the 4-1-1 on TS3 3D from Japan. It’s made 10.5 billion yen as of September 4th-5th weekend. From the title it’s only showing in 3D to make room for the newer 2D films. Last month it crossed the 1 billion dollar mark on August 27th globally.
In Japan, it crossed the 10 billion yen mark on August 30th on its 52nd day with 6,900,988 viewers. BTW, Finding Nemo crossed the 10 billion yen mark on its 53rd day. Anyways, Alice in Wonderland(2010) passed the 10 billion yen mark on its 37th day in Japan.
There hasn’t been any marketing in Japan, so my final prediction will be 11.8 billion yen plus one yen and be the highest grossing film in Japan. If you convert 11.8 billion yen into todays yen/dollar exchange rate that comes to 141 million dollars. I could see TS3 3D still playing in movie theaters through January 2011 in Japan.
Edit: 88 million dollars separate TS3 and LOTR, which is in third place. I think making 88 million dollars more is quite reachable especially from the reviews and ratings all around the world. It could coast to 88 million by Christmas Day because there aren’t really any great stories in 3D, I think.
So 1 billion and 30 million, eh?
So now, with the gravy train running out soon, how likely will it be that Toy Story pushes past Dead Man’s Chest as highest grossing Disney movie ever? Dead Man’s Chest is the absolutely final benchmark I think Toy Story 3 has a chance of defeating.
Beating Lord of the Rings is really not looking likely to me, but it has a small glimmer of possibly getting there. But… who knows.
I think it has a chance of Beating Pirates 2 but not Lord of the Rings.
“In Japan, Toy Story 3’s highest-grossing market after the United States, the film grossed $11,156,768 in its opening weekend, currently the second largest opening weekend in 2010 behind Alice’s $14,032,610. By September 5, it earned $122,733,959, currently ranking 2nd among 2010 releases behind Alice ($133,694,649). It is also the highest-grossing animated film ever in Japan, overtaking Finding Nemo which grossed $102,441,470 back in 2003, and the 8th highest-grossing film of all time in Japan.”
The wiki article on Japan claimed that TS3 was the highest grossing animated movie ever in that country. I posted a comment that at least 3 movies: Spirited Away, Ponyo, and Princess Mononoke beat it handily there and hopefully they will correct this minor error. There is a very extensive, current description of the box office for the movie at the wiki, but it’s still not as good as what you can read at worldofkj.com, which includes future predictions for all nations. Even with all the record box its received from Latin America, I would never have predicted it would do so well, esp since it did so mediocrely(sp?) from Belgium to all nations east thru Russia. Japan and Britain have really made up for the slothitude (new word folks!) of central and eastern Europe.
The Wiki source should say
I’m sure there was a Japanese article saying the highest-grossing foreign animated film is TS3
Spirited Away is the highest-grossing animated film ever in Japan, next Howl’s Moving Castle, then Ponyo, all from Studio Ghibli and by Hayao Miyazaki. flashback Don’t get me started why Walt Disney Japan Studios marketing can’t penetrate the three highest-grossing animated films in Japan. They really dropped the ball with TS3. It started with WALL-E. takes a deep breath and says it’s only animation Never mind.
$11M more this past week, $1M coming from the U.S. where the movie slipped vs. Desp. Me. Just one more week before another animation feature joins the roster here - Alpha and Omega (poor TM rating so far). Global take is now up to $1,042M.
Britain: $109.4M, 2nd spot, holding vs. weak competition, $1.6M for the week; Japan $125.5M, 4th place, umm correction, down to 6th place, only $1.6M for the week; Spain 10th place, down from #8, $600K for the week and total of $30M; France: out of the top 10l, down to 13th place and about $500K; Germany: can’t find ; Italy: $17.6M a pickup of only $300K; now that’s only $5.6M of the $11M, still searching for where the money is coming from.
Scandinavia take is up to $11M at the end of their 3rd week, probably about $2M, since access to screendaily.com is restricted this year. There is supposed to be a backdoor into it.
Edit: it still is being shown in 712 U.S. theaters all over the country, but is only making about $50K per day, this is half of last week, a big falloff, and a lot less than I expected for such a strong movie. But it’s 3 months in release and isn’t exactly Titanic, altho the competition has been blah.
Box-office Admissions in France 2010 ended September 14, 2010:
1 . SHREK 4, ● (Paramount Pictures France): 4,524,093
2 . ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures France): 4,520,932
3 . Incept (Warner bros.): 4,514,617
4 . TOY STORY 3 ● (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures France): 4,016,349
5 . CAMPING 2 (Pathe Distribution): 3,963,597
6 . TWILIGHT - CHAPTER 3: Eclipse ● (Snd): 3,926,884
7 . THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures France): 3,836,468
The catch is I wouldn’t put TRON Legacy right out. TRON has a MASSIVE fanbase, thousands of fans a Comic Con waited many hours to get to Disney’s booth. Disney had their booth dedicated to TRON. So it’s hard to tell. I know it’ll do well, but I don’t know if it’ll do as well as Toy Story. One side is that TS appeals to a wider audience.
Deathly Hallows has a massive chance of competing with TS3. Massive fanbase, finale of the series, ect. No doubt it’ll do phenominally.
It’ll be hard to tell. I can’t really give an estimate, because I am a fan of all 3 franchises. And IncredigirlVirginia, if you are into computers or Video Games, you should totally check out the original TRON. Pretty good flick considering when it was released and the effects.
There is strong feeling that HP7 will take $600M+ overseas this winter. American audiences are more discriminating than overseas ones and if the movie just isn’t that good, it won’t surpass $300M, or will nudge just a bit over. So even if it blows over $700M overseas, such movies MUST get past the U.S. tastes, or won’t surpass TS3 this year. Those are the facts.
I’ve posted about this, that HP movies seem to have a lock on a certain fan base. The fact that it’s going to be nearly the last movie should help. Having a good critical buzz will help, especially newspaper reviewers on opening weekend. Altho we all know now that Twitter is probably more important. Some of these fans watch the movie multiple times, even midnite showing and the next day too, and seem to like whatever is presented to them and are hardly reliable. All the previous 6 movies cluster around $900M global. In the U.S., the 3rd one was criticized, and overseas some markets didn’t care much for the last one.
It doesn’t matter how great the CG is for Tron. If the story is lame, the Disney name won’t rescue it. And I agree that even tens of millions of Tron fans worldwide, many of whom are from the early 1980’s, won’t necessarily translate into a billion dollar movie, even if it’s excellent.
Friday, September 17th, 2010 is the last day for TS3 in my area, northern part of Tokyo, Japan. Every Friday the movie schedules are updated on the theater websites and I was quite disappointed that every theater with 3D has decided to end TS3 today. There was no warning from the TS3 Twitter. twitter.com/ToyStory3_jp
No warning from the Disney Japanese TS3 website.
disney.co.jp/toystory/news/index.html
In my area, I was hoping TS3 would show for one more week with some marketing because September 20th and the 23rd are national holidays in Japan. The Borrowers from Studio Ghibli is showing commercials and is playing for another week from the movie schedules.
So TS3 was shown for 69 days in my area and this is how it ends. TS3 is the highest grossing film from Pixar. TS3 has Tokyo city and south of it for ticket sales, which by the way, two-thirds of Japan can still watch maybe one or two more weeks of TS3, I’m guessing. Thanks all here at Pixar Planet for a friendly deep discussion.
See you next year for Cars 2.
Rey
So… how much time do we have left to make as much cash as possible? Toy Story 3 is completely gone from the Dallas, TX region. I assume it’s finished it’s run in USA, Canada, and Mexico as well. And probably the UK too.
What is our final total looking like? Will we pass Dead Man’s Chest?
I hope so. DMC is one of my favorites, but a Pixar win won’t hurt Disney, since they get most of the $ anyway…
Well, you had a lot of confidence it would do well thruout September and maybe beyond. I myself was worried based on past performance of recent Pixar releases in Japan, falling like a rock after spectacular runs. But, it was #6 this past week, altho only making $1.6M, a weak week. I am hoping it will perk up a bit for these holidays, just like it made millions on our Sept. 5th holiday. They added 900 theaters in the U.S. for just this holiday, because of armies of families. Won’t such families come to Japanese theaters on these days? I know that Christmas day is a good holiday for theaters here, better than an ordinary weekday, but most people stay at home. Business varies with the kind of holiday. Guess that big movies are being released there now.
Help us Obon Wani Kyujitsu, you’re our only hope.
Edit: hmm, boxofficemojo is saying that TS3 made only about $4M this past week, thru Sept. 19, quite a low figure, but not too surprising since Rey said it was abruptly disappearing in some of Japan. Someone at worldofkj.com said a torrent of 3D movies in his country was coming, that it has little hope in October of making much. However it did make $650K for the week in the U.S., not too shabby… This week’s performance means it will not move any further up global charts, just individual countries’ charts.