Forum - View topicNEWS: Paprika Opens Second in Per-Screen Average
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v1cious
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over $45,000 in just two cities? that's really good.
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CorneredAngel
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Two screens/theaters, both in NYC. The LA opening is on Friday, and then it'll start hitting arthouses throughout the US and Canada. But yeah, this is an extremely strong opening, and the critical response has been very good too. Hell, I think this might be an instance of a Japanese animated film that critics will be more excited about than most anime fans actually are!
Also for comparison, during its opening weekend, Spirited Away, with the name and the marketing machine behind it, brought in just under $450K on 26 screens. So Paprika has an even better per-screen take than that did! |
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Cloe
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Will Paprika be screening anywhere besides the Landmark in LA? I've looked for other showtimes online and have had no luck at all. I'd love to see it this Friday with some friends, but I don't want to drive all the way down to Culver City.
It has a 90% cream of the crop score right now over at Rotten Tomatoes, which is remarkably good. |
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GATSU
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Angel: The thing is that no one knew about Spirited Away, while Paprika has its own MySpace page.
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Jedi General
 Posts: 2485 Location: Tucson, AZ |
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Damn straight. When Spirited Away won the Oscar (before my days of anime fandom, mind you), that was the first I'd heard of it. Anyway, I'm glad to see that Paprika did quite well for just one city. Here's hoping that it will eventually come to a cinema somewhere in my area. |
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rektagunn
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Here ya go: http://www.laemmle.com/viewmovie.php?mid=2663. You'll probably need to call the theaters to get the showtimes since the site doesn't have it yet. Glad to be adding to that 45k this weekend... 
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Deltakiral
 Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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Are you saying that all you have to do is have a myspace page to be more popular? 
More then likely on Wednesday or Thursday more of the online sites will have tickets available for purchase. |
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
 Posts: 3498 Location: IN your nightmares |
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Ghost in the Shell Innocence was screened in the city I live in which has a population of under 300,000, so I think that shows pretty good likelyhood that Paprika will be shown here too. Plus the theatre that Innocence was shown in has the backing of a large university (and its located on campus) with a strong anime fanbase within its student body and in the surrounding area.
I think only a very small portion of the general population pay attention to movie lineups at typical arthouse theatres. So people (anime fans or not) who would enjoy seeing Paprika end up never realizing it's being shown in their own town, or even discovering it in the first place. Quite tragic. |
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Dargonxtc
 Posts: 4463 Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋 |
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I hope they decide to show it at a bunch, because that is the only way it will get close to me. |
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Chrno2
 Posts: 6172 Location: USA |
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Whoa!!!
 You da man! I have yet to see 'Paprika'. Of course a DVD release will be available very soon. And of course that's on our list for next semester. I can't wait to see it.
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Deltakiral
Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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If you can I would tried to see it in the theaters seeing as how it amazing this film was. I think that watching a movie in theaters just adds so much to the whole experience I know I am going to see it again when it gets added to more theaters near me. |
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Hunter Sopko
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I went to the 7:10 at the AMC Empire tonight with a friend and it was surprisingly filled. Musta been 20-40 people. Honestly not bad for a weekday showing. This bodes incredibly well for me on the potential of this movie.
I was at the afternoon show on Saturday too, the theater was over half full. I was very happy about that. |
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Deltakiral
Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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Well Paprika has a few screening opening for June 1 in LA.
I am hoping to get out and see one of the screening for this film. |
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GATSU
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Looks like it has a good RT score, too. My favorite line: "I can't claim to have followed the story line of Paprika any better than I did Pirates of the Caribbean, but this mind-blowing, adult animated adventure from Japan is half the length and maybe five times as much fun."
The reviewer for that one screwed up, though, and attributed Paprika's seiyuu to Akio Ohtsuka. 
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GATSU
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It went down a bit in PTA, but if it stays strong next week, it could beat the average of POTC3.
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