Forum - View topicNEWS: Poppy Hill's U.S. Screening Schedule Listed
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dm
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In the past the Kendall Sq. Theater in Boston (Cambridge, actually) has alternated subtitled and dubbed showings. They may do that for this film, too.
I talked to the manager of the theater once. She explained that distributors much prefer to screen the dubs, because the distributor gets a bigger share of the proceeds (having paid for the dub, they've contributed more to the screening than is the case for the subtitled film). That was back when Disney was distributing Ghibli films, GKids may not have the same attitude (nor the same flexibility). |
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Chrno2
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It's good that they are doing this. I recall the first schedule and many of the screenings had sold out. They had later announced that there were going to add more showtimes in the following week. Really glad they are doing this because a lot of folks do want to see this film. I already got my tickets for 3/17. So next stop is waiting for the DVD release by Gkids.
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dm
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I don't think this is a "screening", I think it's a limited release and those are the dates that the film is opening in different cities.
The Kendall Square Theater in Boston/Cambridge has been showing trailers for the film for quite a while. I don't think they'd show a trailer for a single screening. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Dayum shame Disney wouldn't have touched this with a 3,000 mile pole because of the themes present, otherwise we'd have had a nice wider release to a few hundred theaters. Really blows that right as anime cinema is on this massive incline the fad has to die out in America.
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yotsubafanfan
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I'm kind of going to miss the days when the theaters got the movie on the same day, I live in a small town and my family has to go an hour away just to do some decent clothes shopping. I'm also still living with my parents (I'm only 16), so whether I get to see the movie or not revolves around my parents work schedule, (the only reason why I got to see Arrietty in theaters was because my Dad had a softball meeting at the same time and day it came out so I was just lucky). So I hope it isn't "Going on tour" and leaving the same day it came because if thats the case, I probably won't get to see it until it comes out on Pay per view.
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dm
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I can remember when Princess Mononoke showed up in a handful of theaters. Spirited Away also opened at a relatively small number of theaters (though I think more than 50). That was when I learned a bit about the movie distribution business. Each copy of a film costs on the order of $10,000 to $30,000. So a distributor has to expect to make that much on the copy. With the distributor taking maybe 30% of the ticket price, that means, to make a profit at $10/ticket, 3000 to 10000 people have to see each copy. That's about 15 to 50 sold out theatres per copy of the film. So, distributors make a small number of copies, and move them from theater to theater. There's a second aspect to this. A distributor can't force a theater to take a film. They have to convince theater owners to rent the film because the theater owner expects to fill theaters and sell lots of popcorn. What does this mean for you? You want to see this movie in a local theater? Call your local theater and ask when they plan to show it. Get all your friends to do the same. Convince the manager of your local theater that they will make money if they bring this film to your town. (With digital distribution, the economics change, and I don't know what the per-copy costs are. I do think that the Kendall Square Theater in Boston/Cambridge can show digital films, so it's possible this one is being distributed digitally.) |
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Sky_Renzokuken
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See you at the Seattle screening!
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enurtsol
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Hahaha, when Princess Mononoke opened, my Japanese fellow student and I showed up in the theater with our deer-god and boar headmasks on (t'was near Halloween, y'see). The kids in the room (yes, there were kids in that room) had a blast about it. 
IIRC, it opened "wide" but only in Minneapolis, as a test city (apparently Minneapolis is a middle-of-the-road movie city - if a movie can make it there, it can make it anywhere). It seems it didn't do well enough there to go wide everywhere else, though it still reached 129 screens. Meanwhile, according to Box Office Mojo, Spirited Away started out going up to 151 screens, but after winning the Oscars, opened up to 714 screens. |
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jonindarkrai
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Well as usual i dont get to see it because the big citys around me dont get releases like this.I was looking forword to this
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