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Godzilla tracker

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Sources

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§ Franchise and series sources
  • Godzilla
    • "Search Results: "godzilla"". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
    • "Godzilla Movie List". Toho Kingdom. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
    • Schil, Charlie (7 May 1986). "Godzilla's back—older, fatter and still flaky". Pacific Stars and Stripes. p. 25. Retrieved 14 April 2022 – via NewspaperArchive. With the exception of Dr. Frankenstein's creature and King Kong, Godzilla is probably the most enduring and profitable monster of filmdom. He's appeared in at least a dozen movies over three decades and they've grossed an incredible half-billion dollars.
    • Edelson, Edward (1980). Great animals of the movies. Doubleday. p. 85. ISBN 9780385147286. By the late 1970s, Godzilla films settled down to a comfortable formula. Toho was making two films a year. Each cost in the neighborhood of $1.2 million and could be counted on to earn about $20 million.
    • Ryfle, Steve (1998). Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: The Unauthorized Biography of the Big G. ECW Press. ISBN 9781550223484.
    • American films
    • Toho grosses
      • 1954–mid 80s cum: see Schil (1986). The Godzilla franchise grossed an estimate $500 million during its first thirty years. This is taken as the cumulative gross for the Showa era, with the gross for The Return of Godzilla/Godzilla 1985 ($15 million) subtracted and replaced by the reissue grosses for the original film (approximately $600,000) and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla ($14 million), roughly balancing out.
      • Godzilla (1954): see Toho Kingdom for Japanese gross ($2.25 million) and Box Office Mojo for US gross (approx. $600,000). For the American re-edit, Godzilla, King of the Monsters! ($2 million), see Ryfle (1998, p. 58)
      • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974): see Edelson (1980) for initial worldwide gross ($20 million), and Box Office Mojo for 2002 Japanese reissue ($14,122,958).
      • Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975): see Edelson (1980).
      • The Return of Godzilla (1984): see Toho Kingdom; see Box Office Mojo for Godzilla 1985 gross.
      • 1989–1992; 1994; 1999–2000: see Toho Kingdom.
      • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993): "Godzilla about to return to old stomping grounds". Elyria Chronicle Telegram. July 29, 1994. p. 17. Retrieved April 7, 2022 – via NewspaperArchive. Last year's Godzilla vs. Mecha-Godzilla brought in $36 million at the box office and generated another $158 million in related sales of books and merchandise — huge numbers for the Japanese entertainment industry.
      • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995): see Ryfle (1998, p. 346).
      • 2001–2018: see Box Office Mojo.

Review

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  • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) checkY
  • Godzilla (2014) checkY