The staff of the Godzilla Minus One live-action film released a trailer on Thursday highlighting the film’s Oscar nominated visual effects ahead of the 96th Academy Awards.
Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki’s new film in TOHO’s Godzilla franchise, opened in Japan on November 3, 2023 (“Godzilla Day”), which was the anniversary of the first Godzilla film’s November 3, 1954 release.
The film sold 14.7% more tickets and earned 22.8% more in its first three days than the last live-action Japanese Godzilla film, Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s Shin Godzilla, did in its first three days in 2016.
The film sold 648,600 tickets for 1,041,193,460 yen (about US$6.93 million) in its first three days in the Japanese box office.