“Apes” can’t win against Japanese cartoon

Hayao Miyazaki‘s latest animated feature Spirited Away held off a forceful challenge by Planet of the Apes in Japan last weekend, according to Screen Daily, the online edition of the British trade publication Screen International. Notwithstanding the appeal of Miyazaki‘s film, the box-office performance of Apes proved spectacular as it earned $5.5 million on 326 Japanese screens, an average of $16,871 per screen.