Forum - View topicNEWS: 'your name.' Anime Film Tops US$4 Million in N. America
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Mr. Oshawott
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Awesome numbers!
 Many, if not most, anime films wish they made $4 million.
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Cetais
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Tenchi
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^ Your Name made hundreds of millions of dollars elsewhere but $4 million is an impressive performance at the North American box office for an anime film that's neither a Ghibli movie nor one associated with a toy/game franchise.
It's already at #12 overall on the Box Office Mojo Anime list and everything that earned more with a theatrical release in the United States and Canada is indeed a Ghibli or franchise film. |
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Random Name
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seems impressive for only 168 theaters
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Mr. Oshawott
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Even if $4 million is equivalent to only the budget of a typical film, it's still an amazing record for an anime film like Your Name.
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Tenchi
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What's the next standalone anime film on the list after Your Name that's neither from Studio Ghibli nor based on an already-known property?
Answer: Paprika with $882,267, albeit on far fewer screens (37 vs, 311 for Your Name). EDIT: I should probably add that Akira would probably rank higher than at least Paprika, especially if you adjust for inflation, however it's a movie with a handful of prints that toured art house venues for years and they just didn't track the "domestic" North American box office performance of foreign films with extremely limited releases very well back in the 1980s and 1990s, so there are no reliable numbers available. |
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BigOnAnime
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Not exactly good numbers as of late as you'll notice it's had two 50%+ drops already, and it's probably going to be completely done in like a week or two. It also lost 124 theaters. Last week it had 292. Also right now, 44.5% of its opening weekend made up its entire gross, in other words, it was very frontloaded. If you actually have legs, the norm these days is in the low 30s. The 40s is what you expect from superhero movies, the Fast and the Furious franchise, and duds like Ghost in the Shell (currently 47.7%) or Power Rangers (currently 48.5%).
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=yourname.htm I put much of the blame on the fact FUNimation simply didn't push this hard enough, didn't actually go wide (what counts as wide per BOM is 600 theaters, not 300), and they took too long to release it after the Oscar run, and probably in a worse month (though this past weekend and this upcoming weekend (scroll down for projections of the 4/28 wide releases) are garbage). Should have tried January or February when theaters are more desperate thanks to the Dump Months, and also tried to get it into a few hundred more theaters. It could have probably done much better. Though there's also that DVD rip floating around, that also didn't help. BTW, for those looking at how this ranks for anime movies, something to keep in mind, BOM has incomplete data when it comes to anime movies. You'll notice for example one of the Project Itoh movies doesn't have a gross, or Digimon Adventure tri., and they won't have all the days a movie actually played. They also have multiple missing movies, one of the most recent being Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale. Girls und Panzer der Film is another they're missing. |
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Kon'Doriano
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Not too bad. Even though I found the film to be massively overrated, I believe the movie deserves more attention because I believe it's a good example of how beautiful anime is as a medium of entertainment. Huge props to Shinkai, I think he's really outdone himself as a director. His writing is still very rough around the edges but I appreciate what he tried to do. Can't wait to get the Blu-ray once that comes out.
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HeeroTX
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Once you get below $500k, the ranking is largely irrelevant (I'm surprised and a little disappointed that One Piece film Gold is that low on over 250 screens). But I can guarantee that GaruPan didn't crack the top 25, its a great movie and I love it, but distribution was WAY to limited and erratic. I am curious how SAO did. I seriously doubt it broke $1million, but it might've gotten above $500k and gotten into the top 25. I believe it has another short run pending too. But I'm curious how the "theater broadcast" (anime) events generally do. To my knowledge, One Piece was that same style, but SAO is (I think) bigger here in the US than One Piece. |
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Pelfmiester
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Anime News Network posted that SAO Ordinal Scale earned $1.35 million in it's first weekend in N. America. Don't know what the grand total was. I managed to see it on it's 2nd (dub) run myself. I saw Your Name twice in theatres too on it's first and third weekends. It's third being the same weekend as Ordinal Scale. |
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Tenchi
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Over the weekend of April 28th to 30th, 2017, Your Name earned $206,689 on 123 screens, ranking #30th overall and #24th on the per theatre average chart with an average of $1,680.
The cumulative North American total for Your Name through to April 30th is $4,479,066. |
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