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Ataru
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Someone get me a cup to hold my drool. If that is just alittle over of a minute of the movie, I can't wait for full thing.
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ultrabot
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but how long are we going to have to wait after the movie is out in Japan for it to come to the states?
If a decent US movie studio/anime publisher got behind this, I think it could do fairly well in theaters, given a large amount of publicity that is. |
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Craeyst Raygal
 Posts: 1383 Location: In the garage, beneath a 1970 MGB GT. |
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I like it very much. Now we just sit back and watch Bandai feud for the rights to it.
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jmays
ANN Past Staff
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http://www.productionig.com/innocence.php Production I.G / Tokuma Shoten / Nihon Television / Dentsu / Disney / Toho / Mitsubishi Presents I think this one may already be beyond Bandai. -Jonathan |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4543 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Honestly, I think it will make it to a few dozen cities at most. Wide releases are very expensive for the studios and there just isn't a large enough anime fanbase for anything except the kiddy TV franchise spinoff films for the studio executives to risk anything remotely approaching a wide release for something like this. Even the Cowboy Bebop movie, with a fanbase of hundreds of thousands from the TV airings, didn't make it to more than about 16 screens a weekend. They buy the rights to these films in the first place because there's a large enough profit to be had in terms of DVD sales for it to be interesting to them. Maybe it would do better than the executives think, but the executives are very conservative when it comes to spending their shareholders' money on a genre (yes, we know it's a medium, but I'm speaking from their point of view) that has yet to prove itself in any big way at the domestic box office; they'd rather wait for another studio to take a risk with a wide release and then see how the chips fall. We all know that the studios greenlight all sorts of crap, and some of it flops in a big way, like Gigli, but the fact is that, at some point, the studio executives were convinced Gigli would make a return on their investment. At this point, for whatever reason, they don't think anime films would make back at the box office what they'd spend on the rights, dubbing, prints and advertising. Last edited by Tenchi on Thu Aug 07, 2003 5:24 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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LordByronius
ANN Columnist
 Posts: 861 Location: Philippe for America! He is five. |
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Hm. The Disney part may just be because of the Studio Ghibli co-production. Or, it could me much more. Picture it: "MIRAMAX PRESENTS INNOCENCE: GHOST IN THE SHELL 2! WINNER OF THE 200(4? 5? 6?) ACADEMY AWARD!" Well, whatever. I'm not too worried. The bigger the distributor, the bigger chance the film will have to be a success. Or, at least that's how I like to look at it. |
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king_micah
 Posts: 994 Location: OSU |
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I live in areas with little tokyo art houses. I am not worried.
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GATSU
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Manga said a long time ago that Disney licensed GITS 2, but I.G. staff have been reticent to admit anything. Anyway, since Jagged Team's down, my joke for this news was, "In this sequel, you find out that Deckard's a Replicant! (Oops, wrong movie!)"
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king_micah
Posts: 994 Location: OSU |
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As if! He couldn't be! His emotions were real!
oh wait. Wrong Forum. I will be happy to see this movie. |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
 Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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Since speculating about the US release seems pretty pointless right now, I'm just going to join Ataru in saying "please somebody find something to hold my drool". The animation looks FRIGGIN awesome, the best I've ever seen. I mean... for some movies you think the animation is so good it might be rotoscoped, but in this case it's way too good to be a simple case of rotoscoping. Just jaw-dropping gorgeous. Witness me being reduced to quivering fanboy state...
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JETBLACK87
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I just got back from Otakon...and at the Production I.G panel somebody asked about Dinesy and I think the answer was that it was just an investment. buit I could be wrong.
P.S. Hallelujah!!! Oshii is back!!! |
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GATSU
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Jetblack: Nonetheless, I'm glad someone asked them about that! But their answer is probably bs. Disney wouldn't be putting money down for the project if they didn't want international distribution rights.
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Neilworms
 Posts: 155 Location: Chicago IL |
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I was the one who asked that question. Now that we know we can all relax... if disney did have the US rights to it unless Oshii had a contract as specific as Miyazaki's it would have been hacked to bits (see Shalon Soccer) or never released (look at Avalon) :(
I hope dreamworks doesn't ruin it in any manner :). BTW, I'm surprised I didn't see you at that panel Jetblack... I thought it was just Brian Ruh and I who were from the IG forums there. |
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JETBLACK87
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I got my brother to start downloading Shaoling Soccer cause I can't stand L-A dubs and cause of all the edits. though I'll probably still see it in hteatres if its a wide release. is Avalon dead in thw water or are there planse for a dvd or what? me and my friend where on the left isle. I thought it was interesting how the few people where there. |
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GATSU
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There was supposed to be a home video release of Avalon, but it never panned out.
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