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Ghibli's Arrietty Earns US$18 Million After 5th Weekend
posté à par Egan Loo
The Box Office Mojo website reports that Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Studio Ghibli's anime film The Secret World of Arrietty (Karigurashi no Arrietty) has earned an estimated US$233,000 during the March 16-18 weekend, its fifth weekend in American theaters. Arrietty's theater count dropped by 197 as 304 theaters continued to screen the film, and the film had a per-screen average of US$766. Ticket sales fell 44.2% from the fourth weekend.
With a current total of US$18,011,000, Arrietty remains the fourth highest grossing theatrical anime release in the United States (although not when adjusted for inflation). It is about US$1.8 million below #3's Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie (US$19,765,868).
Here is how the various Ghibli films have performed in the United States in their fifth weekend:
Film | Year | 5th Weekend | Theaters | Per-Screen Average | Gross-to-Date |
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Princess Mononoke | 1999 | US$318,772 | 124 | US$2,570 | US$1,638,393 |
Spirited Away | 2002 | US$519,252 | 151 | US$3,438 | US$3,424,435 |
Howl's Moving Castle | 2005 | US$305,925 | 177 | US$1,728 | US$3,817,641 |
Ponyo | 2009 | US$628,347 | 589 | US$1,067 | US$14,333,967 |
Tales from Earthsea | 2010 | US$0 | 0 | US$0 | US$48,043 |
The Secret World of Arrietty (Estimated) | 2012 | US$233,000 | 304 | US$766 | US$18,011,000 |
In his directorial debut, Yonebayashi re-imagines Mary Norton's 1952 novel The Borrowers by moving the story to a Tokyo suburb. The story revolves around Arrietty, a member of the "little people" who live under the floorboards of a regular human family's home. Arrietty's family tries to remain hidden from the human "beans." Walt Disney Pictures gave the film the widest opening for a Studio Ghibli film in North America to date.