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NEWS: Steamboy in America in October




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ChibiGoku



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:13 pm Reply with quote
So...guess that means it's liscenced.... Anime hyper
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:25 pm Reply with quote
Its always been licensed.

By Sony / Columbia Tristar
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Tenchi



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:07 pm Reply with quote
I'm not expecting a wide release miracle, and I'd be surprised if it even gets 200 screens, but I'm still hoping C/TS gives it a bit wider a release than the Cowboy Bebop film, which didn't, to the best of my knowledge, get shown in Montreal at all until the Fantasia screening last summer, *after* the film was released on DVD.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:11 pm Reply with quote
Cowboy Bebop didn't get a wide release because of the 9/11 parallels and its R rating. If Steamboy is really PG 13, then it could attract a wider audience.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:04 pm Reply with quote
GATSU wrote:
Cowboy Bebop didn't get a wide release because of the 9/11 parallels and its R rating. If Steamboy is really PG 13, then it could attract a wider audience.


I loved the Cowboy Bebop movie, but it's not for the uninitiqted. It was a movie for fans of the show which is why it never got a major release.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:11 pm Reply with quote
I don't personally think there's enough of a domestic market for such a film to get more than a couple of hundred screens, which would still be better distribution than 90% of non-franchise anime films get.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:58 pm Reply with quote
Oh, a wide release would be heavenly.

BUUUUT Sony and their Dimension Films label is really finicky with releasing their anime. If they're smart they would give the film a nice, high-quality dub and build it up to a hefty 150 screens or so. BUT NOT IN ART THEATERS - the lessons learned from Bebop and, say, Perfect Blue is that anime fans aren't really film-savvy enough to bother tracking down the dirt-ridden indie theaters in their town. They'd much rather go to their familiar mall movie megaplexes.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:19 pm Reply with quote
Miramaxe owns Dimension. Sony owns Samuel Goldwyn. As for Perfect Blue, it was one of the more successful anime limited releases.
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