Forum - View topicNEWS: Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Box Office Results
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GATSU
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I wonder how Appleseed will do.
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Dejiko
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Depends on how well they promote it. GITS is a respected name as an anime property, so Innocence was bound to attract a certain following by default. Anime-wise, Appleseed only has a very average OVA to it's name. As long as it's stressed that this adaption is more in line with the decidedly more complex manga, it could do well (if not better than Innocence). Time will tell 
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Mr. Blonde
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Seeing how american audiences seem to love CG animation, it might do pretty well. Unless they market it all wrong, trying to make it seem less foreign; I can see it now "This summer, the bloody quest of Johnny Appleseed is brought to life in a motion picture event that kind of looks like a pixar movie... Appleseed."
I can't wait though. Tah-dah! My first post! 
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LordByronius
ANN Columnist
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Eh. Some of the audience at the Innocence show I attended knew about Appleseed too, which I find kinda odd considering the lack of promotion it's been getting from Geneon, or whoevertheheck has it.
Me, I'm waiting for Steamboy. Which I'm upset that I had to read a frickin' AICN article to finally find out that it won't be coming stateside until 2005. |
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GATSU
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Byron:
D'oh! I hope that doesn't stop the Best Animated Film category from being implemented...Sony's site still claims 2004 though... |
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Mr. Blonde
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Does Howl's Moving Castle have any sort of release date yet?
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GATSU
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Mr Blonde: Whenever Eisner gets his s**t together.
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Mr. Blonde
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Oh, so I guess I shouldn't expect it anytime soon.
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mrgazpacho
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I think there's enough anime fans in an Innocence audience for *someone* to know about Appleseed
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nagashi
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Geneon was pushing appleseed pretty hard at otakon ::shrugs::
As to Howl, I would guess mid to late 2005, but I don't really have anything to back that up. Many of the European releases are starting in December. We'll see.. |
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TMBounty_Hunter
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I am all the way up in Canada, and i was lucky enough to get on the Toronto International Film Festival screening of Innocence. an amazing movie, well worth the wait of more then a year, too bad it isnt released in Canada. we had 2 screenings stuffed full, and im told the theatre holds 1000 people. im glad Innocence made its way all the way to 28, maybe this will be enough for GoFish to release it in Canada.
as for Appleseed, the official word goes it will be dubbed in theatres this fall and on DVD next spring. and as for Steamboy, i was one of the lucky few to see it at one of the first screenings in North America also at the Toronto Film Festival. i got in there simply because it was the only other anime at the fest. Magnificent movie. SONY is distributing it and they say they will go for a wide release, and it will be dubbed. they said that Katsuhiro Otomo couldnt attend because he was shy and nervous about how his new movie would be recieved here, but i think he was sitting 3 rows in front of me the whole time, at least it looked like him. if you ask me, Innocence might be the most amazing of the bunch, but it is just too much for North America and thier view of animation. i bet Steamboy will rake in loads of cash, been 16 years since Otomo last dazzled us with a great movie, and people have been waiting. the lines at the film festival were disturbingly long, im surprised i got in. |
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JETBLACK87
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Appleseed is most likely gonna be advertised as "From the creator of Ghost in the Shell". So that might give it a good chance.
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Vekou
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Uh-oh! Congratulations to DreamWorks, though. This is a sizable achievement for anime released theatrically in the US... maybe this'll happen more often. |
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thecactusman17
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I''m always sort of suprised: several (not all, but several) anime movies d poorley nation-wide, but sem to make a tidy profit fo the theaters they do show in. So why don't more theaters make the effort to show them?
Saw the film in Berkely (shattucks Cinema is kickass in terms of atmosphere) and I enjoyed it, for the mos part. Some problems (particularly the car animations) and a bit difficult o understand at times, but I did enjoy itoverall, so I guess that counts for something. |
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Tenchi
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That's also, allegedly (according to a moderator of a Cowboy Bebop board), what a SONY representative said about the Cowboy Bebop movie at an early festival screening, and it got all of 16 screens a weekend. I'm guessing they just meant "nationwide", meaning it will be on one screen in each of the larger metropolitan areas. |
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