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NEWS: Evangelion 3.0 Earns 5.1 Billion Yen/US$56 Million

mdo7 wrote:

Not really surprised by this, I knew even before this came out Evangelion 3.0 would end up making a lot of money.

Uhhhh... In the movie industry...$56 mil is kinda a flop... Especially when paired against its budget. Especially considering it opened 3 months ago.

I highly doubt 3.0 cost much more than it made. If we are to consider the production values of something like Akira ($11 Million if Wikipedia is to be trusted) which were quite high for its time, how would something like 3.0 cost way more than that?

Also you can't apply American movie budgets to anime movie budgets, they are two completely different things.

Also you can't apply American movie budgets to anime movie budgets, they are two completely different things.

we'll never know. Japanese companies are much more private about costs than the ones stateside. Here, it's like some manner of pride if your film is crazy expensive.

Altogether, it's very possible the film's complete budget - from production to marketing - scrapes a 100 mil.

Altogether, it's very possible the film's complete budget - from production to marketing - scrapes a 100 mil.

On the contrary, you'd be surprised how expensive anime films can be to produce. Stateside, there's been a bigger interest in indie films more than ever - studios are looking to save.

Ten, twenty years ago, that would''ve been the case. But today...well, the times are a changin'. And...like that guy with the nonsensical username above me stated, the marketing for this film went up to 11. Altogether, it's very possible the film's complete budget - from production to marketing - scrapes a 100 mil.

That said, we'll never know. Japanese companies are much more private about costs than the ones stateside. Here, it's like some manner of pride if your film is crazy expensive.

vangelionite88 wrote:

jdnation wrote: Damn I'm itching to see this! Hurry up and release the blu-ray! Can't Funimation get on board to work with Kara to get the English blu-ray out the same time as Japan? THis is the sort of stuff that needs to be clockworked. that would be great but regarding evas release schedules...... well they have never been released according to their own timetables, 3.0 wont be released in japan even until december this year, so at best a us release wont come until 2014.

Where is proof that it will release in December? If going by 2.0 trend it will be Sep/Oct but they made everyone wait too long for that (and they know it) so I would predict it will be in the summer.

mdo7 wrote:

Not really surprised by this, I knew even before this came out Evangelion 3.0 would end up making a lot of money.

Uhhhh... In the movie industry...$56 mil is kinda a flop... Especially when paired against its budget. Especially considering it opened 3 months ago.

walw6pK4Alo is giving you the price that it would take to purchase the Japanese version since it would require any licensor to charge the same price as it for a simultaneous release and not worry about any Japanese person reverse importing the release.

You are comparing different mediums of different popularities (in regards to profits) not to mention the huge issue of the language barrier. Most games that are released from a Japanese publisher tend to have English audio/text only. If they do have Japanese audio, there is usually a delay between Japanese/international releases if the system can play releases between regions. As for manga, it is again released English-only (or whatever is the dominant language in that country), so there's little reason to reverse-import.

Anime fans run the gauntlet of people who only watch in English to people who only watch in Japanese, so you can't do that kind of release without alienating some fans. Most people who purchase dubbed release tend to want a "reasonably priced" set, so they wouldn't pay the same price as the JP simultaneous release.

You are assuming that there are no issues between Funimation and the international rights holder, which may or may not be the animation studio, Khara. Why is it so important that this movie have an immediate release in NA when the region gives perhaps 250,000 USD to license the film compared to the 5,036,164,770 yen (approximately 54,864,841 USD at the current exchange rate) they earn from sales (of which 30 million goes to the distributor to fund the committee)? It's incredibly selfish to say "I'll give you less than 1 percent of your domestic sales returns, so let me release it on the same day you do!"

Given the increased proceeds 3.0 has over 2.0 in theatres and the likely increase in sales for 3.33 over 2.22, they are doing well focusing on the domestic market alone. Why should the Japanese rights holder worry about piracy affecting the international market when the movie does so well in the domestic market? Should the Hollywood studios or Disney worry about piracy of their releases affecting international sales when they make their money back from domestic showings/home video releases? Then why should the 3.0 production committee worry about Funimation's problem (or whoever licenses the movie)?

The other issue is that previous Eva Rebuild licenses require theatre showings prior to disc release, which takes logistical time to arrange and provide materials. Of course any disc release would be the likely 3.33 version since there was no disc release of 2.0 in Japan, nor is there likely to be one for 3.0 in Japan. It'd still take time to author discs and get them in line to press from their distributor.

Madman has said there is an international hold on the license, which makes sense as they want to recoup costs from their primary market before allowing licensors to have copies that could leak and damage their primary source of income. It sucks as an international fan, but that's what happens when you don't live in the primary market as a fan.

Hmmm, that does make sense given they are concerned about reverse importing... Never thought of it that way...

That would make sense for TV shows. But films wouldn't suffer that. Although it's correct that the concerns about reverse importing still hold here...