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NEWS: Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Anime Film's Trailer Reveals, Previews King Gnu's Theme Song

DarkJak2050 wrote:

In terms of the Box Office; how will Jujutsu Kaisen 0 do against SAO: Aria of a Starless Night? If you ask me, with both being released in Fall 2021, SAO: Aria of a Starless Night is going to be Jujutsu Kaisen 0's biggest competition. And I'm being straight up, Jujutsu Kaisen has potential & I want the franchise to do well.

SAO is going to struggle just to clear 2B, a mark that JJK should clear with extreme ease. I'd say a finish below 5B would be pretty disappointing for a very strong franchise like this.

Well, since Jujutsu Kaisen has an official English Dub, it raises the next big question:

Is Jujutsu Kaisen 0 going to get a theatrical run outside of Japan? If so, how long will the wait be?

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 needs to have a theatrical run outside of Japan for it to have a shot of outperforming SAO in the Box Office. Particularly in North America (since it's one of the major Theatrical Markets).

SAO's theatrical run outside of Japan is slated a little more than a month after Japan's theatrical release; Dec. 3rd to be exact. Before Jujutsu Kaisen 0 gets released in Japan.

China (which is another major Theatrical Market) is a question mark because of it's censorships; from what I can gather from prior parts in this forum is that Demon Slayer; Mugen Train wasn't released in China because it couldn't get passed China's censorships. Given what's in the Jujusu Kaisen franchise, the same thing could happen to 0.

To make it worse; SAO has a better shot of getting passed China's censorships. Unless it gets snagged for something else (which is unlikely).

SAO isn't that strong of a theatrical experience outside of Japan. Even in Japan, while clearing 2 billion is generally considerable quite good for a franchise movie, it remains a fairly small film in the grand scheme of things. In most years, a gross similar to that of Ordinal Scale would be either barely inside the top20 biggest movies of the year (in japan), or even outside of it.

All these factors existed for ordinal scale as well, but they weren't all that impactful. At the end of the day, Ordinal Scale only collected around 1.8B yen outside japan as far as I can tell, with the US performance only clocking in at a little over 150M yen - China was really the only big contributor to its worldwide BO. Even assuming this movie has equal performance outside JP (which isn't the case in japan - it's doing worse, but I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt), that'll still mean it'll clock in a finish somewhere in the 3.5B-4B range worldwide. But again, that's a mark that JJK will aim to (and should) clear with ease in Japan alone, and failing to do so would result in a pretty big disappointment for it.

As for tackling the question - it probably will get a theatrical run outside japan. Hard to tell if china will be one of these markets though, since what is or isn't allowed there can be a bit unpredictable at times.