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Detective Conan - The Scarlet Bullet's worldwide gross

The worldwide gross of The Scarlet Bullet currently on Box Office Mojo, which is the source we use on Wikipedia is $95,659,979. The point of contention is its box office gross in China. It has stood at $26,000,000 since Apr 23-25, the second weekend of the movie's release in China. However, other sources, such as the live box-office tracker Endata, an article from AnimeNewsNetwork based on a report by Tadashi Sudo in AnimationBusiness, and the box office website The Numbers, all note that the movie has grossed at least 210 million yuan (approx. $33,000,000). I would think that this is more credible, considering that it's highly unlikely that the movie no longer earned anything past its second weekend, if we are to believe Box Office Mojo. Endata even tracked its weekly earnings until it was taken off the Chinese theaters in July.

Box Office Mojo's numbers are not always updated. For example, one of the more well-reported and well-documented earnings is for Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare (2016). You can see how much it actually earned through various other reports like in Anime News Network and Kogyotsushin. Box Office Mojo has its worldwide gross at $9,953,934, even though Box Office Mojo itself shows that the movie earned about $11,117,684 in its Japanese opening weekend alone. This is the reason why another Wikipedia editor opted to use The Numbers's figure of $66,265,957 instead, since it is more accurate. It is for these reasons that I believe it would be more acceptable for us to use The Numbers's figures, as opposed to Box Office Mojo's, so we can reflect the more accurate number. I hope you can advise on this regard. ScalaAdCaelum (talk) 07:07, 8 November 2021 (UTC)