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NEWS: IMAGI's Astro Boy Film Adds US$3 Million, Drops to #8




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MarzGurl



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:19 pm Reply with quote
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



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:56 pm Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:00 pm Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:43 pm Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:56 pm Reply with quote
The Speed Racer movie was awesome. Reviewers and audiences totally dropped the ball with that one.
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_Earthwyrm_





PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:10 pm Reply with quote
Primus wrote:
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.

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? Confused
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MarzGurl



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:30 pm Reply with quote
Great Rumbler wrote:
The Speed Racer movie was awesome. Reviewers and audiences totally dropped the ball with that one.
I agree with this. I don't understand why so many people disliked Speed Racer. I thought it was accurate, colorful, and fun.
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Tenchi



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:45 pm Reply with quote
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



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:59 pm Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:04 am Reply with quote
^

Change your "really good" to "successful" and you are right.
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nhat



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:25 am Reply with quote
Ctimene's Lover wrote:
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.


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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