Godzilla Minus One Film’s Follow-Up Unveils Title – News
The next Godzilla film from director Takashi Yamazaki now has a title. Announced at the Godzilla Fest 2025 event, the follow up to Godzilla Minus One will be called Godzilla -0.0, pronounced Godzilla Minus Zero. Yamazaki is returning as director, writer, and visual effects supervisor. TOHO is presenting the film, with Toho Studio and Robot handling production and Yamazaki’s Shirogumi company managing the visual effects.
The original Godzilla Minus One opened in Japan on November 3, 2023, a date chosen deliberately to coincide with Godzilla Day and the anniversary of the first Godzilla film, which debuted on November 3, 1954. The film also screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival as the closing film on November 1 of that same year.
Godzilla Minus One earned an estimated 56.4 million US dollars in the United States and around 50.3 million internationally as of 2024, making it the third highest grossing foreign language film in the United States at that point. Netflix streams both the original color version and the black and white companion cut worldwide. In North America the film is also available for digital rental and purchase on Amazon, Apple iTunes, Google Play, Microsoft, FandangoNOW and VUDU, inDemand, XBOX, and Vubiquity. In Japan, it has been streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video since May 3.
At the 96th Academy Awards in March, Godzilla Minus One won the Best Visual Effects award, making it the first Japanese film ever to take that prize and the first Godzilla film to receive an Oscar nomination of any kind.
My take: The title Godzilla -0.0 continuing the numerical thread from Minus One is a clever touch, and if Yamazaki brings the same emotional restraint and human focus to the follow up, this could be just as special. Very curious to see what crisis calls for a monster this time.
