You are welcome to look at the talkback but please consider that this article is over 20 years old before posting.
Forum - View topicNEWS: Steamboy in America in October
|
Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | ||
|---|---|---|---|
|
ChibiGoku
Posts: 686 |
|
||
|
So...guess that means it's liscenced....
|
|||
|
|||
Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10460 Location: Do not message me for support. |
|
||
|
Its always been licensed.
By Sony / Columbia Tristar |
|||
|
|||
Tenchi
 Posts: 4541 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
|
||
|
I'm not expecting a wide release miracle, and I'd be surprised if it even gets 200 screens, but I'm still hoping C/TS gives it a bit wider a release than the Cowboy Bebop film, which didn't, to the best of my knowledge, get shown in Montreal at all until the Fantasia screening last summer, *after* the film was released on DVD.
|
|||
|
|||
|
GATSU
Posts: 15567 |
|
||
|
Cowboy Bebop didn't get a wide release because of the 9/11 parallels and its R rating. If Steamboy is really PG 13, then it could attract a wider audience.
|
|||
|
|||
ShellBullet
 Posts: 1051 Location: I hit things, with my fist. |
|
||
I loved the Cowboy Bebop movie, but it's not for the uninitiqted. It was a movie for fans of the show which is why it never got a major release. |
|||
|
|||
|
Tenchi
Posts: 4541 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
|
||
|
I don't personally think there's enough of a domestic market for such a film to get more than a couple of hundred screens, which would still be better distribution than 90% of non-franchise anime films get.
|
|||
|
|||
|
LordByronius
ANN Columnist
 Posts: 861 Location: Philippe for America! He is five. |
|
||
|
Oh, a wide release would be heavenly.
BUUUUT Sony and their Dimension Films label is really finicky with releasing their anime. If they're smart they would give the film a nice, high-quality dub and build it up to a hefty 150 screens or so. BUT NOT IN ART THEATERS - the lessons learned from Bebop and, say, Perfect Blue is that anime fans aren't really film-savvy enough to bother tracking down the dirt-ridden indie theaters in their town. They'd much rather go to their familiar mall movie megaplexes. |
|||
|
|||
|
GATSU
Posts: 15567 |
|
||
|
Miramaxe owns Dimension. Sony owns Samuel Goldwyn. As for Perfect Blue, it was one of the more successful anime limited releases.
|
|||
|
|||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group