Forum - View topicNEWS: Frozen Tops Ponyo at Japanese Box Office
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Calathan
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There are a couple mistakes in the article. It should say Armageddon was a 1998 film, not a 1988 film. Also, Frozen won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, not Best Animated Short Film.
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mdo7
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Congrats, Frozen for taking the Japanese box office.
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partially
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Why did Armageddon do so well? I guess Japanese just love their disasters.
I still haven't seen Frozen. |
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enurtsol
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It also just tops Japan's Oricon music chart too.
"Soundtrack from Disney film 'Frozen' tops Oricon chart" The last time a movie soundtrack topped the Oricon chart was in 2003 when Eminem held the No. 1 spot with “8 Mile.” Meanwhile, in the U.S., the soundtrack on Wednesday earned its 13th nonconsecutive week atop the Billboard 200 album chart, selling nearly twice the number of copies as its nearest challenger. |
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Lycosyncer
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Congrats to Frozen! It's already currently at #8 in the highest grossing film of all time in Japan's box office but with the current momentum that it is going, it may rise even further! If it has any chance in beating James Cameron's Avatar there, then that makes me happy.
The movie has already been breaking a lot of records in Japan and it seems to me that everyone there loves the film and I am already betting that the film will have incredible staying power and won't be gone for a little while there. Whoever scheduled Frozen to open on March 14th in Japan should definitely get a raise. |
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Kutsu
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It's already above Avatar both in yen and admissions.
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Lycosyncer
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@Kutsu
Sweet! Take that, Avatar! Next up, I wonder if Frozen has any chance in reaching the $200 million milestone in Japan next because due to the film being a huge phenomenon there and has incredible staying power, it may just get there. With that in mind, I wonder if it has a chance in beating Spirited Away's box office record in Japan. |
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Kutsu
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At this point, unless it crashes, $200M is almost a given. If it holds well this weekend (post-Golden Week), it has a chance at catching Spirited Away in dollars. However, I don't think it will in yen or in admissions (which are used to establish box office records in Japan).
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pachy_boy
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Very well-done rendition!
So Japan does sometimes dub the Disney songs. I was under the impression they left the songs untouched and just subtitled them, especially judging from the Disneyland Japan videos I've seen where the attractions play the songs in English. Little Nemo in Slumberland was a movie animated in Japan, and yet when I watched it in Japanese, curious to hear what the songs sound like in Japanese, I was rather surprised to still hear them in English. |
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enurtsol
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Disney dubs their songs because they have the resources to do it, and most people particularly children like to watch in their language.
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SquadmemberRitsu
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It's a fantastic movie so I'd say it deserves every single one of those accolades. Although in regards the Academy Award I thought Madoka Rebellion was a better movie. Not that it ever had a chance of winning or even getting nominated with its niche status in the west but that's my two cents.
Being the massive piece of weeaboo scum that I am I think I might have to watch the movie with the Japanese dub sometime. |
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CastMember1991
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This is my favorite modern Disney movie, and the best Disney film I've ever seen since The Lion King. I especially loved that Mickey Mouse short which played before the movie, Get a Horse!. If you haven't seen it, please rent it on iTunes; you'll love it!
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Mister Ryan Andrews
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Most of the Academy Awards didn't even watch any of the entries. http://www.cartoonbrew.com/award-season-focus/definitive-proof-that-academy-voters-are-ignorant-about-animation-96680.html Not sure why people still care about their opinions when they flat out admit they don't care about animation. |
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enurtsol
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It's also a 3rd movie whose context would be lost without the previous two.
Not that I totally disagree with Amid Amidi, but there's a few things ya gotta see about that article: First, 7 people is not a poll make. Just because Hollywood Reporter interviewed 7 animated people does not make it a poll. And Hollywood Reporter doesn't say it's a poll - they're merely showing the brutal honesty of some voters. So who can say how many watched how ever many of the entries? We certainly can't make the jump from 7 to "most." Second, those who admitted not watching all the animated entries ended up abstaining - which is what they should do. Those who made picks didn't clearly say how many of the entries they watched. So who knows? Lastly, just be careful using Amid Amidi's editorials. For years, he's been known to be a controversial figure in animation circles. Among some of the stuff he's known for (I was in that forum with him):
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