Toho and GKIDS released a third and final trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero on 5 November 2026 — and it gave fans what they had been waiting for: King Ghidorah’s first official appearance in the film’s marketing.
The three-headed monster rises through storm clouds in the trailer’s closing moments, confirming that the King of the Monsters will face his greatest rival. The reveal comes just hours before the film opens in North American theatres on Friday, 6 November 2026, in standard, IMAX, Dolby Cinema, 4DX and D-BOX formats, after Godzilla Day IMAX early screenings on 3 November.
The film is already a record-breaker in Japan. It opened there on 3 November with 910 million yen — about 5.7 million dollars — on day one, the biggest opening day ever for a live-action film in Japan, and took about 1.38 billion yen, roughly 8.6 million dollars, in its first three days. We covered that record-breaking Japan opening earlier this week.
North American tracking puts the opening weekend at 25 to 30 million dollars from about 3,254 theatres, which would be distributor GKIDS’ biggest opening ever and roughly triple Godzilla Minus One’s 11.4 million dollar US debut.
The film is the first Japanese production filmed for IMAX and the first R-rated Godzilla movie. Director Takashi Yamazaki returns as writer, director and visual effects supervisor, with the story set in 1949.
King Ghidorah has been one of the most requested returns in the franchise, and the final trailer’s reveal is designed to send fans into opening weekend at full excitement. If the tracking holds, Godzilla Minus Zero is set to be one of the biggest Japanese film openings in North American history.
It is a big week for trailers, from the Angry Birds Movie 3 trailer with its surprise Sonic cameo to this final Godzilla reveal. Godzilla Minus Zero is in theatres now.
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