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NEWS: Sword Art Online Film Earns Over 600 Million Yen Outside Japan




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Eri94



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 11:54 pm Reply with quote
More anime movies making it into theatres and turning a profit is news any anime fan should appreciate.
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Heishi



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 12:17 am Reply with quote
Eri94 wrote:
More anime movies making it into theatres and turning a profit is news any anime fan should appreciate.



Not Anti-SAO fans, though. Laughing
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SWAnimefan



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 12:56 am Reply with quote
When you put it into Yen, it looks impressive. But is $2 million in ticket sales really a theatrical success? Surely the budget of the movie is over $10 million.
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Errinundra
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 2:30 am Reply with quote
Last week it ranked #8 in Australia with sales of AU$265,001.

That's just over ¥23 million.

Your Name grossed AU$927,335 over its run.
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Paulo27



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 3:24 am Reply with quote
SWAnimefan wrote:
When you put it into Yen, it looks impressive. But is $2 million in ticket sales really a theatrical success? Surely the budget of the movie is over $10 million.
The movie already made $20M worldwide at this point.
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SWAnimefan



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 4:12 am Reply with quote
Paulo27 wrote:
The movie already made $20M worldwide at this point.


Mind sharing the source of your information?

Crunchyroll says the movie made around $15 million.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2017/03/16/japan-box-office-sword-art-online-the-movie-has-earned-17-billion-yen-in-4-weeks

And official numbers from outside Japan (minus the US) earned $1.5 million.

http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Gekijo-ban-Sword-Art-Online-Ordinal-Scale-(Japan)/South-Korea#tab=international

So while it very well might've hit the $20 mil mark, without knowing the movie's budget, it's hard to really tell if it is a success or not.
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TheAncientOne



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 6:28 am Reply with quote
SWAnimefan wrote:
Surely the budget of the movie is over $10 million.

Keep in mind this is an anime film. For more information on the costs, refer back to the following article (the last 3 paragraphs are the most relevant):
animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2015-09-08/.92622

Keep in mind the budget of the latest live action Godzilla in Japan was only $15 million.
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Paulo27



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:56 am Reply with quote
SWAnimefan wrote:
Paulo27 wrote:
The movie already made $20M worldwide at this point.


Mind sharing the source of your information?

Crunchyroll says the movie made around $15 million.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2017/03/16/japan-box-office-sword-art-online-the-movie-has-earned-17-billion-yen-in-4-weeks

And official numbers from outside Japan (minus the US) earned $1.5 million.

http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Gekijo-ban-Sword-Art-Online-Ordinal-Scale-(Japan)/South-Korea#tab=international

So while it very well might've hit the $20 mil mark, without knowing the movie's budget, it's hard to really tell if it is a success or not.
This article says $5M+ outside of Japan, and it already made $15M+ in Japan.

And while SAO is pretty popular, it doesn't quite move as many discs as other big series like Love Live, Madoka, Girls und Panzer, Monogatari, with the exception of the 4th, those saw ~$20M+ boxoffices too.
I wouldn't be surprised if Ordinal Scale was expected to make around that from the start but I highly doubt they'd spend around half that making a movie for a late-night anime.
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Nonaka Machine Gun B



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 12:49 pm Reply with quote
This ran in U.S. theaters, without a dub, and made a million U.S. dollars? That sounds impressive, is it? Is the upcoming dubbed showing going to double that?(probably not, but almost definitely there should be an uptick)
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maximilianjenus



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:18 pm Reply with quote
SWAnimefan wrote:

So while it very well might've hit the $20 mil mark, without knowing the movie's budget, it's hard to really tell if it is a success or not.


did not you just say the movie's biudget was 10 million? lol.

most likely it was 1 million, 2 VERY tops and we have to add bluray sales which should be at least 50k.
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R315r4z0r



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 8:42 pm Reply with quote
Nonaka Machine Gun B wrote:
This ran in U.S. theaters, without a dub, and made a million U.S. dollars? That sounds impressive, is it? Is the upcoming dubbed showing going to double that?(probably not, but almost definitely there should be an uptick)

I'd hope they'd try and increase the amount of theaters and showings when it did as well as it did for a single day and subbed.
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Primus



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 10:05 pm Reply with quote
Nonaka Machine Gun B wrote:
This ran in U.S. theaters, without a dub, and made a million U.S. dollars? That sounds impressive, is it? Is the upcoming dubbed showing going to double that?(probably not, but almost definitely there should be an uptick)


Shockingly, it looks like the dub is only being put into a fraction of the theatres that got the subbed release.
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SWAnimefan



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 11:13 pm Reply with quote
maximilianjenus wrote:
did not you just say the movie's biudget was 10 million? lol.


No, I said "surely the budget is over $10 million", not that it was a budget of $10 Million.

The point how much it made relative to it's budget. That's how movie success is measured. If it made more, then it's a success.
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Wonderllama



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 10:53 am Reply with quote
That's pretty good for a bad anime!
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