Forum - View topicNEWS: 'your name.' Anime Film Earns US$627,208 on Friday
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Ultimatum
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I hope that's good!
I wonder if there's any chance of Funi extending the showing dates if it does really well? I can't see it at any of the times they're showing it where I am. I'll probably get it on DVD if I can't see it in theaters, but I was hoping to go with some friends. |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4557 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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For an anime film in a couple of hundred theatres that is neither part of a popular franchise nor a Ghibli film, a ~$1.6 million opening weekend in North America is somewhere between "pretty good" and "outstanding". I think if Funimation continues to run Your Name a few more weeks, there's an outside chance it can break $5 million total. It would probably need to expand a little wider or play in some venues that didn't screen it this weekend for that to happen, though. |
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girlstudentA
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If the theater doesn't list dub/sub call the theater and ask. I feel like we have to educate the theaters that it matters to list things like this. And if you tell them they are losing business cu people don't want to risk seeing the wrong version we will get better handled releases in the future.
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taster of pork
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I saw a subbed screening at 2:00pm on Saturday. The theater wasn't very crowded, but someone who worked there said it was almost full on Friday. Thought the movie was good. Not as great as all the hype made it out to be, but still worth seeing.
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FLCLGainax
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Saw it dubbed in a theater today. The seats filled up pretty quickly. Everybody was surprisingly quiet and respectful of the movie. One of the best experiences I've had watching anime in a theater. Really good movie. The plot reminded me a little of Il Mare, a South Korean live-action film, only with facinating scenery and lighting effects in animation. Shinkai is a master of his craft. The dubbing was top-notch too.
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PurpleWarrior13
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I saw this today (dubbed), and it had a pretty good crowd. Probably 50 people. It was a respectful crowd too that clearly enjoyed what they were watching. The film itself is excellent, and it's probably my favorite movie I've seen this year. The dub was excellent too, and props to anyone who worked on it.
I also work at a movie theater showing this (trying to convince them to let me keep the poster), and this has been doing okay, but it depends almost entirely on the showtime. The earlier and late showtimes are usually pretty dead (less than 10 people), but the 1pm, 4pm, and 7pm shows all did well throughout the weekend. Some people are seeing this more than once. I know of a few that went out of their ways to see it dubbed AND subbed. Again, the attendance seems more influenced by the showtime than the language. I noticed this with Fathom's Ghibli reissues too. It's a bit confusing. You wouldn't know what language was playing unless you checked each showtime on Fandango. Also, PLEASE support any film you love in cinemas. I can't stress this enough. It's still the bread-and-butter of the movie business, and the reason concession prices are so high is because you're paying for two things: the food itself, and funds to keep the theater running. Almost all of the money from the box office goes back to the studios. Also... it's the way movies are meant to be seen. |
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ly000001
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A note to Canadians: Cineplex Odeon will be showing it at some of its theatres that didn't show it this weekend, once on Apr. 12 and again on Apr. 26. One showing will be the subbed version and the other will be the dubbed version (their website will list the subbed version with "Japanese w/e.s.t" in parentheses).
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omiya
 Posts: 1861 Location: Adelaide, South Australia |
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I don't think that Your Name had big audience numbers fo the Australian cinema release unfortunately.
Also, if they tell you, inform others via your favourite social media. |
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CandisWhite
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We’ve got tickets for Tuesday, so more to come! Really looking forward to this one and not everyone who’s going regularly watches anime.
As for concession prices, theatre prices are better than arena prices and with Cineplex you get a discount & points with Scene; Prices have been pretty stable, locally, for years. |
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leafy sea dragon
 Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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Seriously? I don't know of the others, but for Resurrection: F, looking up that theater showed that they'd only show it at 6:30 PM on a Thursday evening (that is, a one-time screening), and I scheduled my day around that, as did many others who went to see it. I remember it quite well due to the hassle involved because I only had one chance to see it in a theater. It was basically the same deal as with Battle of Gods. Same theater too. I guess they were willing to show anime films, but they didn't want to set aside a screen for a week for it, so they picked an evening on a slow day. (I got Summer Wars on home video and saw Sacred Star of Milos at Anime Expo though, so I didn't pay attention to those.) |
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WingKing
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Or just go to https://www.funimationfilms.com/movie/yourname/#theater_locator, look up your local theater, and click the "buy tickets" button underneath it, and it will bring up all the showtimes that that theater and tell you exactly which screenings are subbed and which ones are dubbed. You don't even have to actually buy any tickets - you can just use that to look up the information. |
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BigOnAnime
Encyclopedia Editor
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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/?sort=totaltickets&order=DESC&p=.htm It's not just purely the theaters, part of the blame can also be put on what Hollywood itself is putting out. Theaters are trying whatever they can to get people to come back (restaurant food delivered to your La-Z-Boy seat for example), but it's not just up to them to help keep people coming. |
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belvadeer
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I'm neutrally curious, why are you so anti-dub a lot of the time? |
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Kadmos1
 Posts: 13636 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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If we could get it to $25+ million, that would be a box-office for a limited release of its category. However, I suspect it might not even get $10 million here.
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Shadowrun20XX
 Posts: 1936 Location: Vegas |
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Just seen the movie, it was well.... It's a Shinkai movie. It's got all his tricks and nods to his other films. Real nice landscape jobs. Fandango said it was subbed at 10pm showing. Funi flipped the script, had to listen to the dub. Their dubs are getting real respectable. Music is translated too. I'll def buy it when it gets released. |
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. Thanks again. I hope you love the movie.
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