Forum - View topicNEWS: IMAGI's Astro Boy Film Adds US$3 Million, Drops to #8
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MarzGurl
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So, if I'm understanding this correctly, this movie is about $55 million away from breaking even?
If I'm understanding right... wow, ouch. |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4555 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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About the only thing that surprises me is that it dropped less than 60% on Hallowe'en weekend. I was expecting a drop of more than 70%.
Still a bomb, though. EDIT: I suppose it's simply that when a movie opens that low, the second weekend drops aren't going to be as spectacular as it probably would have been had the film opened around $10 million. |
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darksharingan
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Up until now, not one American remake of any anime has been great.
Transformers Dragonball Evolution Speed Racer Legend of Chun Li Astro Boy all mixed reviews or negative. |
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Primus
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I don't know if a person with a Death Note avatar should be judging the quality of American movies, when those Death Note movies are of even more dubious quality.
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Great Rumbler
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The Speed Racer movie was awesome. Reviewers and audiences totally dropped the ball with that one.
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That doesn't make any sense. At all. Since when did origin of a person's avatar have any relation to the validity of their opinions, especially when the avatar has nothing to do with the subject of the news piece? Where did that comment even come from? And why? 
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MarzGurl
Posts: 142 Location: San Antonio, Texas |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4555 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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I don't think it's that all that many people didn't like the Speed Racer movie, it's more that most people weren't interested in seeing a live-action movie about Speed Racer.
It's the same reason why the Astro Boy movie flopped: just because you can remember watching a TV show when you are young, and may even have fond-but-hazy memories of that show, doesn't necessarily mean you're going to rush out and see a remake of said show. |
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Ktimene's Lover
 Posts: 2242 Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert) |
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While other people may have disliked the Transformers movie (I haven't seen the second one yet), I enjoyed even if it was "Hollywoodized". The 2 films collectively have made over $1.5 billion globally. Thus, these are really the only "really good" American movie adaptations of anime thus far.
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therealssjlink
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^
Change your "really good" to "successful" and you are right. |
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nhat
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The interesting thing about transformers is that it is half american and half JP. The JP created the toyline and other countries created the TV series. |
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