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    Box Office Milestones for New Movie Source: Rentrak Corporation, Warner Bros. Entertainment Official Site: Godzillamovie.com Special Thanks to Paul Dergarabedian and Tom Molter Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ GODZILLA reached some box office milestone this weekend. Propelled by grosses in Japan, the film has now taken in $307.3 million internationally and $507.4 million worldwide. Rough estimates from Toho put GODZILLA`s 2nd weekend in Japan at ¥324.2 million (Approximately $3.2 million US) from approximately 427 screens. GODZILLA ranked #2 behind Warner Bros. Japan`s debuting RUROUNI KENSHIN: KYOTO INFERNO (????????????, Rurouni Kenshin Kyoto Taika Hen). The estimated cume to date in Japan is now ¥1.54 billion (Approximately $15.1 million US). The good news continued on the domestic front as the film finally passed $200 million at the box office in America. As recently as mid-July it appeared that GODZILLA would fall short of that mark, but during the second half of the month it received the needed bump in ticket sales from second-run and discount theaters. GODZILLA will be released on Blu-ray and DVD September 16th. Legendary Pictures recently announced that director Gareth Edwards would return for sequels featuring Godzilla`s most popular Toho co-stars: Rodan, Mothra and King Ghidorah. GODZILLA weekend box office estimates (USD), per data collected as of Sunday, August 3, 2014... Weekend BO Estimate Domestic: $177,997 International: $3,200,000 Weekend Release Cume Worldwide: $507,400,000 International: $307,300,000 Domestic: $200,100,000


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    For more information on Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures` GODZILLA, please see the earlier coverage here on SciFi Japan:


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