Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero US Box Office Collection Shatters All The Records
The most anticipated anime movie of the Dragon Ball franchise, “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” has finally arrived in the theatres of North America, and fans are really hyped to watch their heroes on the big screen once again. Despite a poor performance in Japan, the film opened with a banger in the West and on the very first day Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero US box office collection grossed $10 million.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero movie released theatrically in the United States on August 19 under the Crunchyroll brand. As expected, the movie performed extremely well at the ticket counter and earned a massive revenue of $10.8 million on its opening day. This clearly indicates that there were plenty of fans waiting for the Dragon Ball to make a comeback.
In comparison to other successful anime movie openings in the past couple of years, Demon Slayer Mugen Train earned $9.5 million on its first day meanwhile, Jujutsu Kaisen 0 grossed $8.6 million this year. The Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero US box office collection is way ahead of these two popular anime films.
Furthermore, DBS: Super Hero has also broken the 23-year-old record of the “best opening day of all time for an anime” by beating Pokemon The First Movie at the US Box-office! While Super Hero collected $10.8M on its opening day, Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back grossed around $10.1M. These remarkable numbers indicate that DBS: Super Hero is the most successful anime movie in the franchise.
With the anime movie eyeing to top domestic box office charts for the weekend, DBS: Super Hero is projecting a $21 million opening from 3,007 locations, which marks the widest release ever for the distributor. It’s also the widest release ever for an anime film, which includes a massive footprint in premium format auditoriums like Imax, 4DX, and Dolby Cinemas.
What Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Is About?
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is the 21st feature film of the Dragon Ball franchise and follows Piccolo and his former student Gohan as they go on a mission to save the world from the newly reformed Red Ribbon Army. The film opened in Japan in June 2022 and grossed over ¥2.4 billion (around $18 million) since then.
The film is directed by Tetsuro Kodama, produced by Toei Animation, and written by Dragon Ball series creator Akira Toriyama. It is the second film of the franchise to carry the Dragon Ball Super branding and the first to be produced mainly using 3D animation. The film was originally scheduled to be released in Japan on April 22, 2022, but it was postponed to June after a cyber attack at Toei Animation.
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