Weekend Japan Box Office Top Ten - 2007/11/3 ~ 2007/11/4

Weekend Japan Box Office Top Ten - 2007/11/3 ~ 2007/11/4

1 Biohazard III (Resident Evil: EXtinction; Sony)
2 Always Zoku: San Cho Me No Yuhi (Always - Series: Setting Sun on 3rd Avenue; Toho)
3 Koizora (Toei)
4 Crows Zero (Toho)
5 Hairspray (New Line; Jp Distributor -GAGA)
6 Hero (Toho)
7 Zou No Senaka (Back of an Elephant; Shochiku)
8 Brave One (The Brave One; WB)
9 Good Shepard (The Good Shepard;Universal, Jp Distributor - Toho-Towa)
10 Stardust (UIP)

Miike Takashi's "Crows Zero" drops from the top spot to No. 4 as Milla Jovovich's "Biohazard III" (Resident Evil: Extinction) debuts at No. 1 this week. Two domestic Japanese movies also debut in the top three -- Yamazaki Takashi's "Always Zoku: San Chome No Yuhi" (Always - Series: Setting Sun on 3rd Avenue) with Koyuki, Horikita Maki and Tsutsumi Shinichi and Imai Natsuki's "Koizora" (Love Sky) with Aragaki Yui, Miura Haruma and Koide Kesuke.

Films to make their road show debut in the coming weeks include Paul Greengrass' awesome "Bourne Ultimatum" (11/10), Miki Satoshi's newest "Ten Ten", an adaptation of Fujita Yoshinaga's novel, starring Fuse Eri, Hirota Riona and Ishihara Yoshimizu (11/10) and Jin Chen's WWII love story "Ho Oh - Waga Ai" (AKA Cross Over), a joint Chinese/Japanese production with Nakai Kiichi and Miao Pu (11/3).

Here are the box office receipts for the week.

Film Title---------------Earnings this week/Total thus far (USD)----Weeks in play----No. of Screens
1 Bio Harzard (Sony)---------------$5,208,839/$5,208,839-------------------1------------325
2 Always (Toho)--------------------$4,772,726/$4,772,726-------------------1------------330
3 Koizora (Toei)-------------------$4,145,087/$4,145,087-------------------1------------287
4 Crows Zero (Toho)----------------$2,556,547/$9,111,810-------------------2------------259
5 Hairspray (GAGA)-----------------$606,550/$4,926,516---------------------3------------228
6 Hero (Toho)----------------------$563,243/$68,131,977--------------------9------------325
7 Zou No Senaka (Shochiku)---------$537,193/$2,564,343---------------------2------------289
8 Brave One (WB)-------------------$413,796/$2,119,046---------------------2------------295
9 Ghood Shepard (Toho-Towa)--------$309,926/$3,277,000---------------------3------------290
10 Stardust (UIP)------------------$301,845/$1,666,683---------------------2------------252