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mdo7
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Yeah, I got this as breaking news from Wall Street Journal from Twitter yesterday, I was surprised to read about this, but I'm not sure what to say about this.
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Kadmos1
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For dog lovers, SoftBank is noted for their commercials that has a white Hokkaido/Ainu dog.
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chronos02
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Don't remind us of Lily Bergamo T-T.
On topic, maybe this will approach Japanese Animation to the western market's Cinemas a bit? I can always hope... |
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KH91
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Oh.
Tiger & Bunny ads are serving a purpose now. |
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EricJ2
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Goodbye, Softbank... 
(Seriously, it is reflecting the current state of the animation industry that only foreign countries WANT Dreamworks anymore. It's only overseas ticket sales that keep those danged Madagascar sequels going anyway, like the French with Jerry Lewis.) |
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enurtsol
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"White family" - Meet Japan's Most Popular Ad Family Through 6 years and 130+ spots, 'The Whites' remain No. 1 with viewers Besides the white dog father, stars Aya Ueto and made a household name out of emigrant African American actor Dante Carver ("in 2008, Carver was voted the most popular male actor in a TV commercial in Japan, beating Takuya Kimura, who had previously held the top position for eight consecutive years"). 
And of course, their maid: 
And since Softbank now owns Sprint, Sprint has its own weird family.
Dreamworks still earn money. How to Train Your Dragon 2 pulled in $611 million this summer, and even the underperforming Mr. Peabody & Sherman grossed $273 million worldwide. It's just that Softbank is a maverick - it's not a typical Japanese company. Follows after its maverick founder and CEO Masayoshi Son, who has ambitions going beyond Japan and taking on the world and even mandates English to be the company common language (especially in order to rise up its executive ranks). |
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EricJ2
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And, as more increasingly of late, we emphasize "Worldwide"-- Domestically, MP&S only earned $111M--ie. less than half--of that, and inspired its stockholders to riot. (Which generally happens with most underperforming once-trendy companies, but particularly those living in denial.) Well, they said they wanted an "Asian market", just a surprise they got a Japanese one instead of the Chinese one they were aiming for. |
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Lycosyncer
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With DreamWorks Animation having plenty of underperformers under their belt in recent years, it's not surprising to hear news of a buyout actually happening.
It's such a shame too because I really am a fan of the How to Train Your Dragon series. |
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enurtsol
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It is for any Hollywood film these days --movie budgets not going down, then the Great Recession only slowly recovering, yet multiplex cinemas exploding in other countries-- so there's where room for money to be made.
Then Japan has to make Kung Fu Panda for China. |
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