MUMBAI: Toy Story 3 made a bow in Japan roping in over 977 million yen ($11.2 million) from about 650,000 admissions in the last weekend edging out Bayside Shakedown off the top spot after only one weekend. The figures give the film the second-biggest opening of the year behind Alice in Wonderland.
Only two animated films, both Hayao Miyazaki productions from Studio Ghibli, Howl‘s Moving Castle and Spirited Away have ever recorded bigger openings in Japan.
The Borrower Arrietty, the latest Studio Ghibli production based on the English children‘s book The Borrowers will release next weekend, on 17 July. The film is the directorial debut of Ghibli animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi.
