TOKYO -- "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" debuted at number two at the Japanese weekend BO for August 16-17, bettering the bow of "The Dark Knight."
The Rob Cohen pic, third in the "Mummy" series, ended its first weekend in Japan, including $1.666 million in sneaks, with a total of $6.981 million.
This compares with $3.035 million for "The Dark Knight" in Japan. The aud was heavily wieghted towards kids, with a third of the prints being dubbed.
The pic , distribbed by Toho-Towa, is now expected to finish with three billion yen ($27.3 million), compared with 3.2 billion yen ($29.1 million) for
"The Mummy" (1999) and three billion yen ($27.3 million) for "The Mummy Returns" (2001).
Meanwhile, the Hayao Miyazaki toon "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" topped the weekend BO for the fifth week in a row. By August 17, its 30 day on release, the toon had earned $90.5 million on 8,272,811 admissions and now looks likely to finish near the $150 million mark. This would make it Miyazaki's four-highest grossing toon, after "Spirited Away," "Howl's Moving Castle" and "The Princess Mononoke" and the fifth-highest earning Japanese pic of all time.
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