Weekend Japan Box Office Top Ten - 2007/11/10 ~ 2007/11/11

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Weekend Japan Box Office Top Ten - 2007/11/10 ~ 2007/11/11

Japan Box Office Top Ten report for the weekend of 2007/11/10 ~ 2007/11/11

1 Koizora (Toei)
2 Always Zoku: San Cho Me No Yuhi (Always - Series: Setting Sun on 3rd Avenue; Toho)
3 Biohazard III (Resident Evil: Extinction; Screen Gems; Jp Distributor - Sony)
4 The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal Pictures; Jp Distributor Toho-Towa)
5 Crows Zero (Toho)
6 Eiga Yes! Puricure 5 -Kagami No Kuni No Miracle Dai Boken (Movie- Yes! PreCure 5 - Big Miracle Adventure in the Land of Mirrors)
7 Hairspray (New Line; Jp Distributor -GAGA)
8 Zou No Senaka (Back of an Elephant; Shochiku)
9 Hero (Toho)
10 Disturbia (Dreamworks SKG; Jp Distributor - Herald)

Imai Natsuki’s “Koizora” (Love Sky) takes the number one spot this weekend. Last week’s number one, Biohazard III, drops to the third spot. The anime movie for the animation series “Yes! PreCure 5” makes its debute this week as does Paul Greengrass’ “Bourne
Ultimatum” with Matt Damon.

Notable films making their “road show” debute in the coming weeks include Hirayama Hideyuki’s ”Yajikita Dochu - Telesco” (AKA Three For The Road) with Awaji Keiko, Emoto Akira and Fujiyama Naomi (11/10), Zhuangzhuang Tian’s ”Wu Qingyuan - Kiwami No Kifu” (Master of Go) with Chen Chang (11/17) and Adrienne Shelly’s “Waitress” (in Japan - Waitress - Oishi Jinsei No Tsukurikata - How To Cook A Delicious Life) with Keri Russell (11/17).

Here are the box office receipts for the weekend.

Film Title---------------Earnings this week/Total thus far (USD)----Weeks in play----No. of Screens
1 Koizora (Toei)---------------$3,987,222/$11,834,459----------------------2------------287
2 Always (Toho)--------------------$3,987,024/$13,629,210-------------------2------------382
3 Biohazard III (Sony)-------------$3,534,600/$13,117,821------------------2------------327
4 The Bourne Ultimatum (Toho-Towa)-$2,936,281/$2,936,281-------------------1------------309
5 Crows Zero (Toho)----------------$1,951,482/$13,594,213------------------3------------259
6 Puricure 5 (Toei)----------------$1,562,646/$1,562,646-------------------1------------137
7 Hairspray (GAGA)-----------------$411,093/$5,995,292---------------------4------------228
8 Zou No Senaka (Shochiku)---------$341,078/$3,543,731---------------------3------------289
9 Hero (Toho)----------------------$326,397/$69,054,610--------------------10-----------320
10 Disturbia (Herald)--------------$202,427/$202,427-----------------------1------------125