MEXICO CITY – Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus Zero opened at No. 1 in Mexico with MXN43.15m ($2.3m) and 553,530 admissions from Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 November, according to the weekly chart that Canacine, the national film-industry chamber, publishes from Comscore data. Corazón Films released the Toho sequel.
The win was narrow. La venganza del Charro Negro, the Ánima Estudios animation that had led for two weekends, finished about 46,000 tickets and MXN8.9m behind with MXN34.25m ($1.8m) and 507,460 admissions. Its running total now stands at MXN232.17m ($12.4m) from 3.63 million admissions.
Key facts
- Godzilla Minus Zero, 5–8 November: MXN43.15m ($2.3m) and 553,530 admissions; MXN44.44m ($2.4m) and 564,760 admissions including the 3 November IMAX previews
- La venganza del Charro Negro, third weekend: MXN34.25m ($1.8m) and 507,460 admissions, down 34.9% in pesos and 33.8% in admissions on the Day of the Dead weekend; total MXN232.17m ($12.4m) and 3.63 million admissions
- Top 10: MXN170.83m ($9.1m) from 1,896,800 admissions, of which Godzilla Minus Zero took 25.3%
- Two concert screenings, the Stray Kids live viewing and Rammstein – Live in Mexico City, earned 26.4% of the top-10 gross from 12.7% of its admissions
All figures are Canacine’s. Shares, averages and changes are FilmBunch calculations from its chart. Dollar amounts use the European Central Bank cross rate for Friday 6 November 2026, about MXN18.70 per USD.
A faster, wider launch than Minus One
Corazón Films prepared a release on about 2,000 screens, the Mexican trade site Kinótico reported on 5 November, with IMAX at the front of the campaign. “IMAX is the spearhead, because this is the first Japanese production filmed for the format,” Carla Farell, the distributor’s operations director, told the site. (Our translation from Spanish.)
The previous film took a very different route. Godzilla Minus One reached Mexican cinemas in 2023 almost two months after Japan, through an alliance between the Konnichiwa! festival and Cinépolis’s +Que Cine strand, and went on to an unexpectedly strong commercial run of more than a million admissions, according to Kinótico. The sequel has already sold more than half that number in Mexico.
This time the gap was two days. Toho opened the film in Japan on 3 November, Godzilla Day, and Mexican IMAX screens ran previews the same day, the news agency Amexi reported, before the national release on 5 November and North America on 6 November. The difference between Canacine’s weekend and cumulative columns puts those previews at about MXN1.29m and 11,230 tickets.
Godzilla also commanded a higher price. Its average ticket worked out at MXN77.95, against MXN67.49 for the family audience of Charro Negro. In North America the film opened to $30.6m on final figures, and in Japan it passed ¥2.5bn in six days.
Charro Negro keeps building
Marvick Núñez’s Las Leyendas sequel, released by Videocine, opened on MXN93.65m and 1.45 million admissions on 22–25 October, the second-biggest Mexican opening on published lists. It held No. 1 over the Day of the Dead weekend with MXN52.64m and 766,129 admissions, reaching MXN170.31m and 2.66 million by 1 November on Canacine figures reported by Milenio.
The holiday midweek was worth about four-fifths of a weekend. Set against the new cumulative, Monday 2 to Wednesday 4 November, which included the 2 November holiday, added about MXN27.6m and roughly 460,000 admissions.
The film has now grossed 2.3 times the MXN100.8m lifetime of its 2018 predecessor, La leyenda del Charro Negro, and sold about 1.5 times that film’s 2.41 million tickets, on Videocine’s figures for the earlier title. It has also overtaken Paramount’s Heart of the Beast (El Corazón de la Bestia), which was just ahead a week earlier and now stands at MXN175.30m and 2.26 million admissions after a ninth-place weekend of MXN2.28m.
The rest of the chart
Trafalgar Releasing’s Stray Kids World Tour ‘RUN IT’ Live Viewing was third with MXN32.99m ($1.8m) from 131,870 admissions. At about MXN250, its average ticket was more than three times Godzilla’s, so the K-pop event finished only MXN1.26m behind Charro Negro while selling about a quarter as many tickets.
Warner Bros.’ The Cat in the Hat (El Gato con Sombrero) was fourth with MXN19.78m and 256,860 admissions, the third-highest ticket count on the chart. Rammstein – Live in Mexico City, from Contenido Cinépolis, added MXN12.18m from 109,270 admissions. LAIKA’s Wildwood (Wildwood: El bosque salvaje) took MXN11.59m in its second weekend, and Warner’s Clayface MXN9.59m for a total of MXN63.50m and 820,580 admissions. Universal’s Sense and Sensibility (Sensatez y sentimiento) was eighth on MXN2.83m in its second weekend, and Diamond Films’ Entrega al límite closed the top 10 on MXN2.19m.
Canacine counts Thursday to Sunday, the usual Mexican weekend. Its page prints the Godzilla Minus Zero admissions as “553.53 millones”; against a MXN43.15m gross only thousands make sense, so FilmBunch reads the figure as 553,530.
Our reading
Three very different films sat within MXN10.2m of each other at the top: a Japanese kaiju sequel, a local family franchise and a one-off concert screening. Godzilla won on a wide, IMAX-led release timed to Japan, but by about 46,000 tickets. Charro Negro lost only about a third of its audience in the week the new No. 1 arrived, a hold that leaves the Las Leyendas film with room to run. The next tests are Godzilla’s second-weekend drop and whether Charro Negro, MXN17.8m short, reaches MXN250m.
Sources
- Canacine, Taquilla del 05 al 08 de noviembre 2026 (Comscore data), checked 10 November 2026
- Kinótico, Godzilla Minus Zero apuesta por IMAX y 2,000 pantallas en México, 5 November 2026
- Amexi, Godzilla Day se celebra en México con funciones anticipadas de Godzilla Minus Zero en IMAX, 3 November 2026
- Milenio, ¿Qué películas dominaron la taquilla en México? (Canacine figures for 29 October–1 November 2026)
- Videocine, La venganza del Charro Negro film page
- European Central Bank euro reference rates, 6 November 2026 (MXN 20.8828 and USD 1.1165 per euro)