The film by Takashi Yamazaki, starring Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe was on about 2,050 screens. The number is quadruple last week’s footprint as it prepares to exit theaters with a bang on Feb.

Godzilla rarely gets the recognition he deserves, both as a hero and as one of fiction’s most flexible characters. But with the recent slew of great, or at least great-looking, Godzilla projects, it’s ...

In the seven decades since Ishirō Honda’s 1954 classic Godzilla kicked off the durable genre of the kaiju (or giant monster) movie, this fearsome mega-reptile, a prehistoric creature summoned from the ...