Adding to Joe Hisaishi getting his first western award show nod with the Globes makes this week especially good for Ghibli fans

@marcochen9117

5 ай бұрын

suzume getting nominated for animated there might get it some traction as well!

I'm so happy to see Studio Ghibli doing so good at the box office. Maybe Disney will take a page from their book and make exciting and good animated movies again.

Dan that pronunciation of Arrietty was certainty something but you get a gold star for the attempt 😅❤ "The Secret World of Arrietty" is an adaptation of "The Borrowers" (one of the most famous adaptations is the live action one from the 90s) to give it a bit more context ❤

@coolholio99

5 ай бұрын

I couldn't help hearing the same... SMH Airy-etta vs. air-I-ity. ("verity" but beginning with A)

@simmypenn-kout422

5 ай бұрын

I didn’t realize what movie he was talking about first 😅 definitely not how I pronounce it

Hey Dan, just want to let you know your box office videos are very appreciated. I recently stumbled across a video from a somewhat large channel where the youtuber compared Godzilla Minus One's box office performance to the English MonsterVerse Godzilla films' box office performance and concluded that Minus One was a flop, ignoring the fact that Minus One's production budget was $15 million while each MonsterVerse Godzilla film cost $150+ million before P&A. KZread really has all kinds of crazy takes...

@DanMurrellMovies

5 ай бұрын

That is a very surface-level take. Happy to add a bit more context, and welcome!

@thebortthe

5 ай бұрын

In a perfect world, Minus One would be making Monsterverse money.

@ivanvoronov3871

5 ай бұрын

I know the video you are talking about.... All i can say is praise dan and pass the statistics)

@dominic6190

5 ай бұрын

Did that certain youtuber also mentioned that Godzilla Minus one was a success in the states because all the conservatives were flocking to see it? 😂If your answer is yes then i know which youtuber you are talking about😂

@-AtomsPhere-

5 ай бұрын

Grace Randolph has a total blind spot for non Hollywood movies. I really like her videos, and have even supported her channel financially before, but when something is out of her normal comfort zone, it’s kind of a train wreck. She likes what she likes, and often has pretty insightful commentary on certain things, but just as often she goes completely off the rails.

Really happy to see a rare but welcome week where the focus of the Box Office shines upon Japanese Cinema. Studio Ghibli has brought light into so many people's lives over the years and it is nice to see Box Office returns and Awards shows giving the content that comes from that part of the world more of a spotlight in the West.

I still haven't seen it (probably this weekend),but it's wild to see a Miyazaki film hit number 1 in America, after decades of having to track down screenings of his latest movie sometimes hundreds of miles away just to watch them.

Dan’s rise to Meme Lord status is glorious😂

Honest question, has there ever been two Japanese films concurrently in the top five domestic BO before this one? Super interesting to witness!

Get well soon, Dan! And thank you for the boxoffice update and charts

Believe it or not, there are actually three Haunted Mansion movies; on Disney+, they have the Muppets' Haunted Mansion, which is by far the best of the three. Why they didn't just put that out in theaters is beyond me.

@MoramothHauntz

5 ай бұрын

I'm not sure Disney knows what to do with The Muppets. I'm still bummed they canceled The Mayhem

it's nice to see 'The Boy and the Heron' *SOAR* it's way to #1 𓅣 Here's hoping it *FLIES* its way towards box office success 🪽

@AlMoSiCe210

5 ай бұрын

I see what you did there... good job

DAN! You should compare all the top Godzilla grossings once that theatrical run ends!

When I was in Vienna earlier this year, I went to a very nice small theater called Burg Kino. They are committed to showing films in their original language and in addition to showing curated new release movies like Maestro, Napoleon and Perfect Days (the latter coming next week), they show older films too, most notably The Third Man at least three times a week.

I love the Roxy. I went to an Eat the Film for Point Break and we were given cap guns to fire off when Keanu shoots at the sky. So much fun! For Pulp Fiction we were given a syringe full of sauce with one dish. Loved it

The Haunted Mansion, Elf, and The Cat In The Hat were all in theaters at the same time. Weird group of movies to have in theaters at the same time.

My last few movie going experiences have been pretty baffling. First we tried to catch Godzilla in Dolby only for the theater to play the wrong movie (Wish). The manager apologized and moved everyone to another theater… Where the movie was so loud it was actually physically uncomfortable. Next time we went to see Boy and the Heron only for them to play the sub titled version instead. Which was fine but we went there because it was supposed to be the sub. Not super happy about it!

@Prototype-357

5 ай бұрын

Yikes you went to see Godzilla and ended up with Wish? I would have asked for my money back.

I eagerly anticipate Dan acknowledging his mispronunciation of Arriety in next week's episode

@FreefallSC

5 ай бұрын

😂😂

@emmybm15

5 ай бұрын

Yes because that's certainly one way to pronounce Arrietty, although as a huge fan of source material I certainly have never heard an adaptation of "The Borrowers" pronounce it like that 😅 I'll give Dan a thumbs up for effort ❤

@schwa6275

5 ай бұрын

Nah but we gotta appreciate the fact that the guy makes a point to own up to his mistakes. I've been watching film KZreadrs for a good while now and I've literally never seen anyone with so much integrity.

Ghibli lands on top

Dan, I'd love to see you review more anime! Especially as you start looking at older ones and specific directors. I'd highly recommend you check out the works of Hidieki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion) Mamoru Hosoda (Wolf Children, Summer Wars, Bell), Mari Okada (Maquia, Ano Hana) and Kunehiko Ikuhara (revolutionary Girl Utena) These are some of my favorite writers and directors in anime and it shows how versatile Anime can be.

Dan, this isn't movie related, but if you're interested in anime, I HIGHLY recommend Attack on Titan. I've never been a huge anime person at all... but I can confidently say Attack on Titan is the greatest TV show I've ever seen. It just had its final episode last month, and it was PERFECT. Well worth your time!

Arrietty's original Japanese title can be literally translated as Arrietty the Borrower, and I'll never understand the reasoning behind the title change--it's an adaptation of the Borrowers books, which while British is pretty well known in the states (there was a movie back in the 1990s, and the series was popular enough to inspire the American "The Littles" series of books as well as the 1980s cartoon). To be fair, having significantly different names for English releases is fairly common and typically is part of early branding decisions and not always done by the translators. Boy and the Heron's original title was "How Do You Live," a name taken from a real-world book that appears in the film but is not well known outside Japan. Fun facts about other Studio Ghibli names: Castle in the Sky's original title included the name Laputa from Gulliver's Travels (and was a little too similar to a colorful Spanish word to go by unchecked, though the name appears within the movie itself verbally and visually); Kiki's Delivery Service was called Witch's Delivery Service (or Express Home Delivery if you believe Wiki); Porco Rosso was (romanized) Kurnei no Buta, both of which mean Crimson Pig, and is based on a short manga mini-series that Miyazaki did called (translated) "The Age of the Flying Boat;" Isao Takahata's Only Yesterday was originally Omohide Poro Poro (Memories Come Tumbling Down ("poro poro" is a manga sound effect or onomatopoeia for people falling down (probably down stairs), if I remember correctly); Pom Poko had a longer titled that translated to Heisei-era Tanuki War Pom Poko (pom poko or ponpoko is another Japanese sound effect, this time of the mythological version of tanuki drumming their bellies); Spirited Away also had a longer title (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, "The Spiriting Away of Sen and Chihiro"); Whisper of the Heart's original title is more literally translated as "If You Listen Carefully;" Ocean Waves was "I Can Hear the Ocean;" Ponyo was "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea;" My Neighbors the Yamadas has an extra bit of onomatopoeia at the beginning (houhokekyo, which is supposed to be the sound of a particular bird); The Cat Returns was "The Cat's Repayment;" Tales from Earthsea didn't have the Earthsea branding in its original Japanese title (Ged's War Chronicles); From Up on Poppy Hill was From Coquelicot Hill (Coquelicot being a French word for a variety of poppy but used in English for a particular shade of red associate with poppies); When Marnie was There reverts to the original title of the British novel from the slightly different Japanese title ("Marnie of My Memories"). A couple of pre-Ghibli series that either Miyazaki or Takahata worked on also had interesting name changes: the Anne of Green Gables anime from 1979 and directed by Isao Takahata was titled Akage no An (Red-headed Anne), while the Miyazaki developed Sherlock Hound (which is exactly what it sounds like, a series in which the characters of the Sherlock Holmes stories are all dogs--it's actually a fairly good series, though Miyazaki was only directly involved in six episodes) was originally titled Meitentai Holmes (Great Detective Holmes, very similar to the original title of the unrelated shonen manga and anime series Case Closed, aka Meitentai Conan).

Back in 1996 my grandmother introduced me to Kiki’s delivery service. I wish asked her before she passed how on earth she had found that movie.

So glad you were able to visit an independent theater on your trip. That is awesome, I hope you will get to visit more of the theaters you highlight each week.

Good to see The Boy & The Heron (aka Rick and Mahito) doing well - I saw it yesterday here in the UK, it was excellent.

I am so glad you liked The Roxy, from a happy and grateful kiwi , Jeremy!

The only marketing I've seen for The Boy and the Heron was a trailer before Godzilla Minus One. It looked great though and I'm thinking I might check it out for my birthday next week.

It would be cool to add a segment highlighting the top movies that week in one particular country or city, it could shine a light on some more underseen foreign movies and show the cool regional differences in watching

Thanks Dan!

19:22 Honestly, I agree; I hope people’s takeaway from The Marvels wasn’t, “oh we shouldn’t put other people into the seat of the director”, rather it should be “This was her biggest accomplishment and that’s impressive. Of course, it didn’t perform to expectations, but plenty of other directors haven’t been performing well for the Marvel company as a whole, so we shouldn’t just chalk it up to her only, since I think this is a Marvel-wide issue”.

if Suzume gets nominated for Best Animated Film, The Boy and The Heron wins Best Animated Film, and Joe Hisaishi wins Best Original Score, I will honestly not be able to function I'll be so overcome with joy. I rarely like Japanese media but Suzume, The Boy and The Heron, and Godzilla Minus One have become three of my all-time favorite films so unexpectedly, really hope they get tons of love this awards season!

@nytro222

5 ай бұрын

The Boy and The Heron will defintely be nominated, but I can't see Across The Spiderverse losing.

@russ1422

5 ай бұрын

@@nytro222I haven’t seen The Boy and the Heron yet, but recency bias may give it an edge if it plays well with the Academy.

@johncra8982

5 ай бұрын

@@nytro222 idk. the Academy members generally vote for whatever animated film their kids watched, so that category is always the most prone to trash wins. but I can hold out some hope that they'll make the right call and give it to The Boy and The Heron.

@closeben

5 ай бұрын

IMO Suzume is a significantly better movie so I would hope it wins over Heron. Spider-Verse doesn’t desserve a win for the fact that half of it hasn’t come out yet.

Thanks for the charts Dan. Get well soon!

Wow, the Roxy looks amazing! Great video Dan, hope you're feeling better.

I was hoping 'The boy and the Heron' would have done a bit better. The advanced screening I went to nearly filled the IMax I saw it in. Good to see Godzilla holding well. I am planning on seeing it again, and hopefully word of mouth is putting fresh butts in seats too. I did keep myself busy with Eileen (I enjoyed it, though had issues with the ending) as well as got in Die Hard, A Christmas Story and Tokyo Godfathers (a favorite Christmas movie of mine).

@toddhollen

5 ай бұрын

I was hoping to go to The Boy and the Heron, but I got COVID :( Hopefully I'll be able to go to it and Eileen this weekend. Tokyo Godfathers is a great movie, I just watched it last year.

Well done on another episode

Dan, I really do love the section where you highlight movie theaters. I hope you keep doing it.

You’re the best, Dan!

Welcome back! I missed you in November.....

Consistent as always, Dan!

The Man!

Love that Japan is taking over for the time be the American Box Office, well deserved.

@strawberrylime33

5 ай бұрын

Maybe the Japanese movies aren't overflowing with superheroes and reboots😂

What you are saying concerning budgets is oh so accurate. I have mostly worked with advertisement. And am a hyphenate. So when it came to me directing a few short films, I engaged people who I had gotten to know either as a Director's Assistant, Film Editor and even Director, with whom I had a great relationship with. It's very much hustling, but both cast and crew did me a favor and cut their salary to basically nothing except for like coming to the sets and proper catering. They also knew that it would be a fun set (even though I have learned never to shoot stuff in water again). So if you are well-connected you can do miracles on a shoe-string budget. But ideally they all got a hefty paycheck on a previous project. Plus, since I also edit, I could keep post-production costs to a minimum. Think my most expensive short film cost like 2K. However, had anyone else pursued these kind of things like covering an entire bus with black cloth to simulate night or actually renting the camera- and lighting equipment instead of simply borrowing it all... I think that the budgets would balloon way beyond 25K per pic.

I'm a technician in an independent chain in the UK and we still mask our movies! It can be a pain in the butt haha but it's worth it!!

I had to double take when Dan was talking about The Boy and the Heron and he said “they got the dub done.” For a second a thought he was using the slang word dub for “double u” meaning the movie got the win.

Lets goooo!

Dan: The Eras Tour has finished its theatrical run AMC announcing that they’re doing daily showings of The Eras Tour over the holidays: You were saying?

@DanMurrellMovies

5 ай бұрын

Well, they stopped reporting grosses so…🤷🏻‍♂️. They need to text me next time!

I crumble to dust when the flashback chart goes to movies I saw in theaters.

The Eras Tour is still playing in 4 theaters near me this weekend.

Does the studio publish data on the difference between dubbed vs subbed screenings?

I wish someone does the same thing you are doing but in India!!!! Gosh i love Dan with charts

Thank you Dan!! I appreciate your acknowledgment of Nia DaCosta’s milestone (granted we understand the bigger Marvel issues) it’s still a cool accomplishment for a Black woman director in this industry!! Seriously one of my favorite KZread weekly videos are your charts!!!

@ikuturso7570

5 ай бұрын

I disagree. Why classify people like this? I mean should we acknowledge also the best opening by e.g. moldovian gay buddhist? If not, why not?

Saw Godzilla minus one today and holy shit that movie was amazing

Nice to see another Charts video Dan.

Arrietty looks like a member of The Borrowers so I reckon it's probably pronounced A-ree-yeti, as at the very least that was a character in a TV adaptation we had in the UK back in the '90s (featuring Ian Holm!)

19:03 Unfortunately Dan it's going to be hard for people not to take that away as the lesson to be learned when you have assholes like Bob Iger basically saying the Marvels was bad because it was "unsupervised". If that isn't him blaming the Director I don't know what is.

@thegreyinitiate3680

5 ай бұрын

That’s the exact opposite of what I felt with that movie. To me, it felt TOO supervised. Like the creative people in charge of it weren’t allowed to actually be creative, since the movie was already being made by committee on the corporate level. THAT is the issue, not the fact that you hired a newer director who doesn’t have the weight or influence to throw around and get what exactly they want.

Hey Dan, I really appreciate all the work that you have been putting into your videos. I was just wondering if the new this week Series will be returning.

@DanMurrellMovies

5 ай бұрын

Sadly no - I really liked doing it, but the viewership didn't justify the time it took to make.

Loving the WETA hat

Just seen the movie Godzilla Minus One at the Embassy here in Wellington City, NZ, it's only at selected theatres, I enjoyed it 'subbed' version. I wish it was at the theatre I go to in Porirua city 'Readings' cinema. for cost The Embassy is $23.00 nz Adult, Reading cinema - $13.00 nz Adult. It's so great you spent your honeymoon in New Zealand so far away and that it was a good experience, from everyone who watches your channel Have a wonderful Merry Christmas.

@DanMurrellMovies

5 ай бұрын

I was able to visit The Embassy in New Zealand as well as a Reading cinema in Queenstown! Love experiencing movies in different countries.

The movie was all sold out over the weekend! I couldn’t go. Will see it this week instead. :)

That's Wonka/Napoleon how it started/how it's going really got me

Eras Tour Blu Ray will set records

I watched Wonka here in India and it really surprised me. Its nowhere as good as the Paddington movies but it still left me with that super snuggly heartwarming feeling after it ended

Not getting my Murrell notifications time to storm the castle

In case Dan sees this, most people pronounce it "air-eee-etty" like Betty

Dan if you move to New Zealand don't stop doing the show!

Just wanted to let you know Dan, Arriety is promounced Air-ri-eh-tea

I mean, you pronounced Arrietty *completely* wrong but props for trying. You're doing amazing work Dan!

@DanMurrellMovies

5 ай бұрын

It’s always fun when I put hours into a video and a large chunk of the comments are about one single thing I did wrong…

Glad to see more musicals being in limited release since it accessibility of a movie ticket price rather than Broadway prices is huge. Also glad the Waitress performance was not when the cast had Colleen of current Miranda Sings infamy I remember seeing musical concert performances (with operas also being an option) when I was younger and when Fathom events did not make Christian faith based films their niche

Thanks For Raining On My Parade! Just Be Happy That Japan Had 2 Films In The Top 5....

@19Jackattack95

5 ай бұрын

I’m curious if this was the first time this has happened

33:45 - Wait, the masking thing isn't common? My local AMC theater does that. The pre-show stuff runs at 16x9 or thereabouts and then the curtains adjust before the trailers start.

@DanMurrellMovies

5 ай бұрын

None of the chains here in Arkansas do it and I haven’t seen it done in most others for a while.

and nice WETA cap 👍🏻

They need an eat the film for Withnail and I

Very curious to hear your thoughts on most of these awards movies

Not sure if this happened to anyone else but I went to see Die Hard this week for its rerelease in honor of its 35th anniversary and there were some audio issues during my screening. Like gunshots were inconsistent, music where there would be music is gone, and more

I was tossing up whether to be That Guy here, but since you seemed interested in Arrietty's different names internationally, I'll bite the bullet - it's "Ari-ETty" rather than "aRAI-uh--TY. Underrated movie IMO - there's an early heist-like sequence that's one of my favourites sequences in film.

@DanMurrellMovies

5 ай бұрын

It appears many people chose to be That Guy, haha.

@joeldipops

5 ай бұрын

@@DanMurrellMoviesAhh, sorry, I did try to look through a few comments first, haven't seen any yet, but people do like to internet, aye.

What does the roxy threatre do when its a movie that switches aspect ratio?

I think road to recovery is my favorite chart

Just to give you a heads up Dan, Arrietty is pronounced “air-ree-yeti”

Big weekend for Japanese films!

Eat the film sounds great. I had that exact idea a while ago, I figured it would go well with a food related movie like ratatouille or chef.

Thanks for pointing out how underpaid the Japanese artists are. South Korea has a similar problem, and I’m not even sure if we have a residual system for actors here. Animators are all underpaid across the globe, so I don’t think celebrating a really low budget is a good thing for the artists that were involved.

Havent had time for movies lately but I wanna see the Beyonce concert film but as you state, its only on weekends and its longer than the Eras Tour a little bit.

I read Th Eras tour will be opening in China on January

12:41 Yeah I was looking at the budgets for both Wonka and Aquaman 2 and Wonka is on track to make back its budget because it has a $125 million dollar budget which is $80 million less than Aquaman 2 which is at $205 million.

Wow you really like charts lol There were like 50 charts in this video ❤

It's easy to make a cheap Godzilla, if you focus on the humans and show Godzilla barely. It makes him scarier and helps the Budget.

Is the ‘what’s coming next week’ show still ongoing?

Coming soon, Wonka vs Napoleon: Dawn of Patisserie

👍👍

It's a-ree-eh-tee for Arrietty

Celebrating a black director for the Marvels would be like if there had been the first black captain piloting the Titanic.

I wonder if US theaters are just particularly bad at masking. My local big theater chain in Germany does it and I've always taken it for granted. I don't even think I've seen an unmasked theater presentation in the country in at least years. Here it's not just something for the small, uber-passionate venues, it's just normal.

my buddy and I went and saw Godzilla minus one. We loved it. A week later we were talking about going to the theater again. We didn't. Because there is nothing good to see. Pleasantly surprised to see how foreign film is doing good in the US. Love to see more anime films coming. I really urge people to see Chinese movie Wondering Earth 2. The plot is nothing special, but the cinematic. Damn. It's CG yes. But it's the most expensive CG I've ever seen. It beat any of those Marvel movies in my book.

The Eras Tour movie doing $620k in its 8th & final wkend means they could probably have gotten another wkend or two in Theaters to officially get it above $180m domestic/$250m worldwide. Surprised that Oppenheimer in its 21st wkend was in 1,316 Theaters after getting a 1,215 expansion taking in $363k it arguably doesn't need whereas Godzilla Minus One should've gotten more than its 232 theater expansion and been in well over 3,000 Theaters! Beyonce's Renaissance with a 74.9% drop was heavily front-loaded, were the tickets significantly more expensive?! IMAX tkt sales crossing $1bn for the year (3rd highest ever) with just 2 $1bn+ movies all year is impressive. In comparison, 2019 with $1.11bn in IMAX sales had 9 $1bn+ movies that year.

broooooooooooooooooo, im so mad it doesnt come out where i live !!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭

Hey Dan, how do I contact you about an indie shoutout?

Netflix just dumped a huge spreadsheet containing streaming data for first half of 2023.

What happened to coming this week/ this week's releases video?

@DanMurrellMovies

5 ай бұрын

The people watching didn’t justify the time it took to do the video, so I’ve decided to stop making them unfortunately

@Ushi123

5 ай бұрын

@@DanMurrellMovies Sad. 😢

Kinda back handed compliment. Hah

Love your charts, I was wondering (since you brought it up) what female minority director has had both biggest opening and most financially successful movie. As a minority myself is always great seeing under represented groups doing great.

Your pronunciation of “Arrietty” is hilarious 😂

@waterywingz

5 ай бұрын

He got everything else right tho. Mononoke, Ponyo