https://movieweb.com Godzilla appears in post-World-War-II Japan, which is at its low point at zero, and knocks the country down one to the negatives. Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:26:43 GMT en-US hourly 60 Godzilla Minus One, the latest installment in the Godzilla franchise, has not only conquered the box office but also left viewers with a thought-provoking cliffhanger that has sparked widespread discussion.

]]> Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:26:43 GMT https://movieweb.com/godzilla-minus-one-director-explains-ending/ This year’s hit monster movie, Godzilla Minus One, is getting the black and white treatment, with Toho announcing that the Godzilla outing will be re-released in striking monochrome style in January 2024. Taking to social media to share a poster and trailer for the black and white version of Godzilla Minus One, the re-release promises to hark back to the Godzilla movies of old, and will also seemingly receive several new titles: Godzilla-1.0 and Godzilla-1.0/C. Check out the newly released trailer and poster below:

]]> Wed, 20 Dec 2023 10:19:22 GMT https://movieweb.com/godzilla-minus-one-black-white-release-trailer/ Since 2014’s release of Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla, Japan, and the United States have reignited cinematic dialogue, periodically trading monumental blows in the form of monster movies with a blockbuster appetite. Edwards’ contemporary take on the 1954 classic brought the reptilian monster back to the forefront of the public consciousness, helping establish Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse as one of the more financially successful franchises and renewing Toho’s interest in bringing Godzilla back to the big screen.

]]> Wed, 13 Dec 2023 23:31:18 GMT https://movieweb.com/godzilla-minus-one-better-monsterverse-movies/ Gojira continues its onslaught and reaches a brand-new, crowning achievement. The King of the Monsters is obliterating more than just Japan these days, as the latest installment in the 69-year-old franchise, Godzilla Minus One, has wiped out yet another record. And this time, it’s a personal best for the film series. Godzilla Minus One now boasts the best Rotten Tomatoes audience score of any movie featuring the killer kaiju.

]]> Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:41:36 GMT https://movieweb.com/godzilla-minus-one-rotten-tomatoes-franchises-record/ In a game of theatrically based musical chairs, Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé is clearly out. After the concert movie won its opening weekend in theaters rather handily with $21.8 million domestically (per The Numbers), singing sensation Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s bubble burst. Beyoncé and her big-screen ambitions took a serious hit over the last three days as The Boy and the Heron ascends to the top spot at the box office in a close three-way race.

]]> Sun, 10 Dec 2023 20:27:07 GMT https://movieweb.com/box-office-the-boy-and-the-heron-hunger-games-godzilla-poor-things/ Over the last decade, the MonsterVerse franchise has slowly expanded and built itself into one of the few truly successful cinematic universes. It has done this by methodically building its universe with each new film, only producing one or two projects at a time and giving audiences plenty of time to miss the series between installments.

]]> Sun, 10 Dec 2023 15:01:19 GMT https://movieweb.com/godzilla-minus-one-what-monsterverse-can-learn/ WARNING! This article contains Godzilla Minus One spoilers.

]]> Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:27:23 GMT https://movieweb.com/godzilla-minus-one-2-director-comments/ Toho's 33rd Godzilla film, Godzilla Minus One, could be the best one yet, as following its Rotten Tomatoes debut with a perfect 100%, the movie continues to hold a 97% critic's score and 98% audience rating. Now the mighty monster movie is following its record-breaking debut with an extended run at the U.S. box office, remaining in cinemas until at least December 14. This follows the news that the newest outing for Japan's biggest movie export has broken another record, by taking the #1 spot in the U.S. chart on Monday - the first time a foreign movie has done so since 2004's Jet Li movie, Hero.

]]> Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:02:01 GMT https://movieweb.com/godzilla-minus-one-extended-release-record-breaker/ With the recent worldwide release of Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus One, fans everywhere are taking delight in the film’s rich world-building, impressive spectacle, and surprisingly deep themes. The excellent new addition to the Godzilla franchise is highly original and utterly unique, but it also shares a few common threads with other iconic films.

]]> Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:01:19 GMT https://movieweb.com/movies-clear-influence-godzilla-minus-one/ Godzilla is without question the villain this time around. Over the decades, in the nearly 70-year franchise, the King of the Monsters has been portrayed as both a super-powered savior and a fire-breathing foe. In Godzilla Minus One, he'll be trending towards the latter as post-World War II Japan is threatened again by the overpowering kaiju. Surprisingly, director Takashi Yamazaki’s giant monster movie is smashing, of all things, records here in the United States: It’s the biggest debut for a live-action Japanese movie.

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