Forum - View topicany news on when funi will release a list of the theaters
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hikaru393
Posts: 525 Location: champlin MN |
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it's 9 more days till march 17th any clue when they will release a list of theaters?
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4537 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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According to their newsletter site, so far, it's:
Landmark Theatres Shattuck Theatre 2230 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 464-5980 Hillcrest Theatre 3965 5th Ave. San Diego, CA 92103 (619) 819-0236 Lumiere Theatre 1572 California Street (at Polk) San Francisco, CA 94109 (415) 267-4893 Midtown Art Cinema 931 Monroe Drive Atlanta, GA 30308 (678) 495-1424 Century Centre Cinema 2828 North Clark Street Chicago, IL 60657 (773) 509-4949 Lagoon Theatre 1320 Lagoon Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55408 (612) 825-6006 Magnolia Theatre 3699 McKinney Ave, Suite 100 Dallas, TX 75204 (214) 764-9106 Varsity Theatre 4329 University Way N.E. Seattle, WA 98105 (206) 781-5755 Dobie Theatre (Dobie Mall) 2025 Guadalupe Street Austin, TX 78705 (512) 472-3456 E Street Theatre 555 11th Street NW Washington DC 20004 (202) 452 |
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hikaru393
Posts: 525 Location: champlin MN |
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awsome i knew it hd a very high chance of coming to MN but now i know for sure hopefully it has more then 1 show time and for more then a day also unlike inuyasha.
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Tenchi
Posts: 4537 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Before anyone in one of the major markets not listed (i.e. New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Detroit, etc...) complains, I'd imagine FUNi's going to add more theatres to that preliminary list within the next few days, the locations that are listed are just the ones that FUNi was ready to announce.
While the plan I've read about was 100 screens/35 top markets, I'd say that it's almost inevitable that it's going to be a gradual roll-out over a couple of weekends rather than hitting all those screens all at once on March 17th. |
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hikaru393
Posts: 525 Location: champlin MN |
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anyone know if it will be in theaters more then 1 day and have a few show times?
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camelot187757
 Posts: 426 Location: The Nacirema Dream (17 and counting Asuka) |
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Damm thats disapointing. No VA (yea! yea!) theaters announced even with the 7's population. And whats up with the 8 billion theaters set up in CA? Like its the only state that anime is popular in. They certaintly didn'y make any effort to do any coast to coast shopping. I mean No FL, no NY(no really wtf?), no TN those cities have a great pop. ready for pickin and for aquiring fan bases (uh duh). This really pisses me off.
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Tenchi
Posts: 4537 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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It's not the final list, it's just the list of theatres they're ready to announce.
They're in discussions to get many more theatres than that. |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4537 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Okay, the full theatre list is out.
If I'm reading the list correctly, it's all late-evening showings on weekends, presumably sharing screens with family films that the bulk of the audience would watch as matinees or in the early evening at the absolute latest (i.e. Curious George, The Shaggy Dog). I'd have thought that Dragonball Z would do more business as a matinee, but I guess it's a lot cheaper for Funi to only book theatres for specific timeslots rather than book them for the whole week, and the matinee slots probably weren't available. They may be wrangling more theatres as we speak, but, so far, they haven't proven my "couple of dozen screens, at most" prediction wrong. EDIT: By the way, I'm fully aware that it's usually the theatres that pay the studios/distributors for the rights to show the films, but, for a startup like Funimation Films, I'd wager that some money might have to flow the other way just for them to get a foothold. Especially with anime films in an hour-long "roadshow" format, a format that hasn't really been properly tested in American theatres yet. EDIT II: Okay, it's not "weekends" so much as it's Friday, Saturday, and Tuesday (Tuesday being the night a lot of theatres cut the prices on tickets). |
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