Godzilla Minus Zero Plunges 75% in Second Weekend After Record $30.6 Million Opening

Godzilla Minus Zero has gone from record-breaker to cautionary tale in the space of a week. Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju sequel opened in North America to $30.6 million — the biggest opening ever for a live-action foreign-language film — and is now projected to earn just $7.5 million in its second weekend, a fall of around 75 per cent, according to Variety, after a second Friday down an estimated 86 per cent.

The film took $2.1–2.4 million on its second Friday, per Deadline, against an opening Friday of around $13.5 million, and its domestic total stands at roughly $42 million, with a worldwide gross of $74 million. The opening had been a genuine event: $63 million worldwide in its first weekend, $12.7 million of the North American total from IMAX screens alone — the first Japanese production ever filmed for IMAX — a 90 per cent Rotten Tomatoes score and an A CinemaScore.

Godzilla Minus Zero by the numbers: opening weekend $30.6 million domestic, $63 million global; second weekend estimate $7.5 million, down 75 per cent; second Friday down 86 per cent; domestic total about $42 million; worldwide about $74 million; opening-weekend IMAX share 40 per cent of the North American total. For comparison, 2023’s Godzilla Minus One finished with $57.1 million in North America — a total Minus Zero is still chasing.

The weekend’s new No. 1 is Johnny Depp’s Ebenezer, heading for a $20 million opening, while Nicholas Hoult’s How to Rob a Bank is off to a weak start at around $4 million — so Minus Zero’s fall is a front-loaded rush burning itself out, not a collapse against fierce competition. Its next test comes on November 20, when The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping arrives.

Here is the Filmverse take: this is the classic shape of a fan-driven opening — a record built on IMAX screens and opening-weekend urgency, with little of the repeat business that sustains a hit. None of it erases the record: a subtitled Japanese monster film opening to $30.6 million in North America remains a landmark, and $74 million worldwide in ten days is strong by any measure except the one set by its own first three days. Our opening-weekend report: https://filmverse.in/godzilla-minus-zero-32-million-us-opening-record-foreign-language/

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Source: Variety via ScreenRant, Deadline, FandomWire, The Numbers and Boxoffice Pro. All box-office figures are trade estimates.

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