Forum - View topicNEWS: Japanese Movie Exports Earn $60m in 2004
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Haiseikoh 1973
 Posts: 1590 Location: Waiting for the Japanese 1000 Gunieas. |
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See. they shouldn't have waited for some dumb company to buy the rights to Naruto.....
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Jacut
Posts: 142 Location: Paris, France |
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"Some recent stand out hits were especially popular in a single regions like Spirited Away, which was hugely successful in France."
Well in fact, Spirited Away was released in april or may 2003 in my country(France), so... |
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linlinchan
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Proof that the anime/manga market has probably hit and passed full saturation point.
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AnimeHeretic
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I suspect you're right. Shelf space seems to have stabilized and in some stores decreased slightly. I'm not as thrilled as I was when the DVD explosion first came out, as I'm more interested in the ultraviolent samurai flicks and LA comedies now. SO much of the anime and manga releases just seem [IMO] like garbage now (so many series that I never thought was worth going beyond volume 1). I guess it's a Chicken and the Egg kind of thing: are people like me responsible for the decline or are the anime makers/distributors responsible for pushing junk that I don't care about? |
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Ialdaboth
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Just a question that have been bothering me since I read this news : US$60.61m seem to be awfully low, especially if anime is just a part of it, and if it covers sales from all foreign coutries, no ?
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4548 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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There weren't really any breakout hits last year. Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2 was pretty much an arthouse circuit film more or less everywhere in the world outside of Japan.
Next year's total will likely be much higher, with Howl's Moving Castle possibly beating the $60 million figure by itself, not that I'm expecting it to make much more than $15 to 20 million or so in the United States. |
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Kazuki-san
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Except that the article is talking about the earnings made from selling the rights to films/anime/etc, not the amount of money any particular title earns outside of Japan. |
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jay saenz
 Posts: 81 Location: Costa Rica |
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Geez!!! I though that the japanese were smarter at business than what they really are.
See, they earned only $60 million over movie exports, and the american remakes of their movies make 3 or 4 times that amount of money. The japanese moviemakers have the bright ideas and the Hollywood people get the money... that is what a call a great way to do business, of course if you are in the Hollywood side... I don't know the japanese people can't belive that people outside their country can find their work very atractive, at least as atractive as the Hollywood movies. If the japanese realize that and stop beliving that they need to adapt their work for the western taste, and just push a little bit harder with better marketing strategies, they can improve their media exports in a great way. So, for the japanese anime and movie industry, take Hollywood and any middle man out the way and show your stuff... There are big entretaiment companies like Sony that are owned by japanese and have big business worldwide, and have the resources to distribute and promote the japanese cinema outside Asia without problem. I belive that a great quality of the US moviemakers and bussiness men in general is their huge confidence in their country and culture, and that is perhaps the main reason of the worldwide fame of the US entretaiment business.... |
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Cowpunk
Posts: 168 Location: Oakland - near the Newtype Lab |
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One factor to remember is the strength of the yen. Many contracts have an up front payment and then a percentage of the sales. With the dollar so weak that percentage does not mean as many yen as when the dollar was stronger. A similar state may exist in relation to other currencies.
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cyrax777
 Posts: 1825 Location: the desert |
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I think its more the later atleast in the Manga market theres just so many titles to choose from and the crap to gold ratio seems to be very high atleast in my tastes. I was at the bookstore yesterday intending to buy a new Manga to start collecting and besided what I already read there wasnt anything that catched my fancy. Theres just so much out now and I either have what I want or its not liscned. and in the case of the anime I want I can just wait for the eventual brick or boxset. |
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AnimeHeretic
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Actually, smaller amounts in $ could indicate a stronger dollar vs the yen as it buys more. It's the comparison of sales in yen that we need to compare since it would be the base currency for sale of JP items. Looks like the $ is strengthening vs the yen and dropping like a brick vs the Euro and GBP. |
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