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Godzilla Minus One U.K. Home Editions Will Be Released on December 2
posted on by Andrew Osmond
The 4K Deluxe Edition (pictured) will include a 68-page booklet and four discs. One of the discs will have the film on 4K UHD Blu-ray; one will have the film on standard Blu-ray; and the third disc will have the film's black-and-white version on Blu-ray, entitled Godzilla Minus One/Minus Colour. (This black-and-white version will be exclusive to the Deluxe Edition.).
The fourth disc will be a bonus Blu-ray discs with special features, all English-subtitled. These include a "making of" feature, a "making of VFX" featurette, a behind-the-scenes program, plus event footage and trailers.
The 4K UHD Blu-ray will have the film in 4K via a Dolby Vision HDR presentation, with audio in Dolby Atmos for the Japanese audio and 5.1 audio for the English dub. The Blu-ray editions of the film (including the Godzilla Minus One/Minus Colour Blu-ray) will also have Dolby Atmos Japanese audio and 5.1 English audio.
The Steelbook Blu-ray edition will have three discs: one with the film on 4K UHD Blu-ray, one with the film on standard Blu-ray, and the bonus Blu-ray disc.
The standard Blu-ray and DVD editions will contain a single disc with the film, with the same audio specifications as above.
The film sold 648,600 tickets for 1,041,193,460 yen (about US$6.93 million) in its first three days in the Japanese box office. The film sold 14.7% more tickets and earned 22.8% more in its first three days than the last live-action Japanese Godzilla film, Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi's Shin Godzilla, did in its first three days in 2016. The film has sold a total of 2.87 million tickets for a cumulative total of 4,425,512,980 yen (about US$31.04 million).
Ryunosuke Kamiki plays protagonist Kōichi Shikishima, and Minami Hamabe plays heroine Noriko Ōishi. (The two also lead the cast of NHK's ongoing weekday morning series Ranman.) Other cast members include Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Andō, and Kuranosuke Sasaki.
The film opened in U.S. theaters on December 1, and earned US$11,419,975 in its first three days to rank #3 in the U.S. box office in its opening weekend. The film has the highest opening weekend for a foreign film in the United States this year, surpassing the US$10.1 million opening weekend earnings of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc in March. The film has become the highest-earning live-action Japanese film in North America. The Critics Choice Award has nominated the film for Best Foreign Language Film.
Yamazaki is the director and writer, and is also credited for visual effects. Yamazaki has primarily directed live-action films, including the Always: Sunset on Third Street, Returner, and Parasyte films, but has also directed CG films such as Stand By Me Doraemon.
