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You know, I wasn't even totally confident that The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya would reach the top ten list at the Japanese box office for its opening weekend, given that it shared its opening weekend with WonFes and that some Haruhi fans have become rather disenchanted, but in the top 10 it is-- #7, to be exact.

The only other new entry on the list is Warner Bros. INVICTUS, and the two of them unfortunately bumped off The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Nodame Cantabile the Movie I. Poor Nodame. But on the other hand, it's hardly a surprise that everything else held firm, since last week exactly half of the films on the list were new releases.

An interesting thing to note: the #1 movie is Avatar and has been for seven weeks now. But #2 is a documentary from Disney/Buena Vista called OCEANS. I looked into it and the film has already made $10 million overseas, but isn't opening in the US until April 22 (my birthday!). I'm a bit of an ocean life buff, and hey, I already trust Japanese taste in a lot of things, so I guess I'll look forward to this too.    
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Hellos on Feb. 8, 2010

Woot for Haruhi!
John_Martone on Feb. 8, 2010
@gia: You didn't leave me my trailer this time Gia... so I had to take care of it all by myself.
 
 
 
Also, I finally figured out who did that song. Yuki Takashashi. No idea who that is, but I can buy her CD off of Amazon.
lanaswift on Feb. 8, 2010
I'm not surprised it did well, and i'm also not surprised it DIDN'T do mind-blowingly well.
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