{"id":78727,"date":"2025-08-18T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78727\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:56:08","slug":"shin-godzilla-films-4k-remastered-u-s-rerelease-earns-us2-4-million-in-1st-4-days-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78727\/","title":{"rendered":"Shin Godzilla Film’s 4K Remastered U.S. Rerelease Earns US$2.4 Million in 1st 4 Days – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

GKIDS<\/a>‘ rerelease of 2016 film opened on August 14<\/p>\n

\"godzilla2\"Image via GKIDS’ X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9TOHO, GKIDS<\/p>\n

The Box Office Mojo website reported that GKIDS<\/a>‘ 4K remaster rerelease<\/a> of the 2016 Shin Godzilla<\/a> film earned an estimated US$2,475,884 in its first four days of screening in the U.S., and ranked<\/a> at #11 in the weekend box office. The film screened in 1,290 theaters and earned US$849,957 on its opening day on August 14, an estimated US$477,439 on Friday, an estimated US$638,488 on Saturday, and an estimated US$510,000 on Sunday. The film’s rerelease is being screened in Japanese with English subtitles including restored text cards. <\/p>\n

Shin Godzilla earned 8.2 billion yen (US$75.6 million at the time) at the box office in Japan after opening<\/a> in Japan in July 2016.<\/p>\n

Funimation<\/a> first screened<\/a> the film in theaters in North America in October 2016 and it earned<\/a> US$1,918,403.<\/p>\n

The film won<\/a> an award at the 56th Japan Science Fiction Convention’s (Nihon SF Taikai) 48th Seiun Awards in July 2017. The film also won<\/a> the Grand Prize in the Entertainment Division of the 20th Japan Media Arts<\/a> Festival Awards in March 2017. The film also won<\/a> seven awards at the 40th annual Japan Academy Prizes that March, including Picture of the Year and Director of the Year. The film also won<\/a> a Fujimoto Award in April 2017.<\/p>\n

Shin Godzilla represents the first in TOHO<\/a>‘s film series after a 12-year absence since 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars.<\/p>\n

Shin Godzilla: Orthochromatic, a black-and-white version of Hideaki Anno<\/a> and Shinji Higuchi<\/a>‘s Shin Godzilla film, debuted in theaters in Japan in October 2023, prior to the opening of Takashi Yamazaki<\/a>‘s Godzilla Minus One<\/a> film<\/a> that November. The Japan Society screened<\/a> Shin Godzilla: Orthochromatic in Japanese with English subtitles as part of the JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Cinema event in July 2024.
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Sources: Box Office Mojo<\/a>, Deadline<\/a> (Jill Goldsmith)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GKIDS‘ rerelease of 2016 film opened on August 14 Image via GKIDS’ X\/Twitter account \u00a9TOHO, GKIDS The Box…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-78727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}