China Box Office: ‘Toy Story 4’ Beaten by Old Animated Film ‘Spirited Away’

Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 4” has debuted to record-breaking opening weekends all over the world – but not in China, where it was soundly beaten by a nearly 20-year-old Japanese anime classic, Ghibli Studios’ “Spirited Away.” While “Toy Story 4” made film history in territories around the world with the largest-ever three-day opening for [...

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Disney’s summer box office slate continues to dominate over other studios as “Toy Story 4” launches overseas with a solid $120 million and “Aladdin” crosses $800 million in ticket sales. Disney and Pixar’s latest “Toy Story” entry led international box office charts when it debuted in 37 foreign territories. It also dwarfed the competition in [...]Disney’s domination over the box office only seemed to strengthen this weekend as “Toy Story 4” easily topped box office charts.

Spirited Away is a hell of a film

Lol that 'old film' is a much better film.

Boohoo! Disney didn’t make any money.🎻

NeilBahadur Just wonderful

Oh god, is SPIRITED AWAY an “old animated film” now? I’m gonna be dead soon.

Bad title is bad

I mean, which will win? A film that’s finally being released in China after 18 years, or a newly released sequel that while fantastic, is still a sequel?

o l d a n i m a t e d f i l m

Spirited Away is a peerless classic. Maybe watch it sometime. Highly recommended.

I see you updated in fear of the ratio:

You're not bitter, are you?

Good

Variety - Old animated film! Me - Academy Award winning classic

they know what's up

And?

Spirited away is a stone cold classic

“old animated film” jeez dude it’s not even 20 years old, it’s a classic, and it won Best Picture and is the highest grossing film in Japanese history

'Classic' is only 4 letters longer than 'Old' but your headline writers must be boring people who probably have never seen anything outside the normal and mundane.

Between gadgets and story, story always wins. Relatable story, that is.

xteteczx Chihiro tem que fazer mais bilheteria mesmo. Especialmente porque é a primeira vez que tá passando por lá

'Old animated film' that won an Oscar and the Berlin Festival, and it's considered a masterpiece... But it seems you wanted a shorter headline 🤦‍♂️

Totally expected that.

To be fair, spirited away is top tier.

By “old animated film” you mean timeless classic, I assume

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Box Office: 'Toy Story 4' No. 1 With $118M U.S. Bow, Clears $238M GloballyThe Pixar movie does big business despite coming in behind expectations; 'Child's Play' scares up $14 million, while 'Anna' bombs with $3.5 million in a career worst for controversial filmmaker Luc Besson. Incoming with “well ToyStory4 disappointed at opening weekend” comments, it’s still an impressive opening and it will still be one of the highest grossing films of the year. So chill Not bad. Still beat Toy Story 3, Minions, and The Secret Life of Pets but lost by substantial margins to Incredibles 2 and Finding Dory. Incredibles 2 and Finding Dory were both better movies though. Toy story back and better then ever.
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