Forum - View topicNEWS: GKIDS Acquires N. American Rights to Naoko Yamada's A Silent Voice, Liz and the Blue Bird Anim
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Thulebox
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Uh oh. With the last licensed movie from Eleven Arts being Blue Thermal from 2022 and then news like this I'm worried about them.
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chrisc1978
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So what happened to Eleven Arts?
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tinyirnfist0
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Actually, their last release was DEEMO Memorial Keys which was in 2023. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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It's too bad about Eleven Arts because as much as I love GKids we need more than one US distributor putting out anime movies especially now with GKids owned by Toho.
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FireChick
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All I remember hearing was that they were subjected to a hacking incident, but nothing else after that. |
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Primus
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They ended up in a no-man's land. GKIDS has the ability to get titles into Oscar conversations and in the case of Heron, even do strong numbers at the U.S. box office. Sony has the ability to get their movies seen across multiple markets to decent results (if it's a franchise film). Netflix has the ability to get your film in front of a massive audience, while paying for an entire production's budget, multiple times over. What could Eleven Arts do to combat that level of competition? Not much, so they'd be left with the movies no one else wanted. There aren't a tonne of anime films that aren't franchise tie-ins and there's going to be very few leftover after those three take their picks. How many of those movies are decent and marketable to a North American audience? It's the same reason you don't see Sentai or Viz acquire many movies. |
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MFrontier
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Sad about Eleven Arts but I do have a lot of faith in GKIDS at least.
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Jabootu
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Hopefully this will set the stage for procuring the rights to other KyoAni films and seeing them in theaters too. I would pay $200 to see K-On! the Movie theatrically. Maybe this inches us a bit closer to that happening.
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TdFern 87
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Looks like GKids struck gold with this one but what did happen to Eleven Arts they got bankrupt or something?
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NJ_
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Also their reach in theaters was trash compared to Fathom Events. Speaking for my area, when Viz and Toei got the Sailor Moon movies to theaters, it was in a lot of locations unlike R's original screening through Eleven Arts which was in one location in the far west. They even had Mazinger Z Infinity in the same locations which was insane considering Mazinger's a bit more obscure in the states in comparison. |
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Alec D
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I loved A Silent Voice and will gladly go see it during its theater rerun. Eleven Arts didn't get it in many local theaters near me and I had to drive to see it the first time.
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TdFern 87
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Nice to see the movie getting more attention along with Liz and Blue getting re-releases.
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