Forum - View topicNEWS: Evangelion: 2.22 Film's DVD/BD Pre-Orders Top 800,000
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Megiddo
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Hey, at least if you were Canadian you had a choice of like 3 theatres in your city where you can see it.
If only I were joking. |
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_V_
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An open question I have is exactly how many prints they actually made: they only showed it in something like two dozen locations in the USA, but never at the same time.
Widest release was only 6, so did they only make 6 prints and just ship them around? Then again, it did run in 50+ locations in Canada, but that's because movies are cheaper to run there. And really, in the end, how high were ticket sales from a one-week run in Winnipeg? |
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Shay Guy
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There really hasn't been anything to match Eva, has there?
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JuicyB
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I feel you man. I wanted to see this but the only theatre showing it in my city was a two hour drive away to an iffy side of town. Not worth the effort when I can watch it in the comfort of my own home. |
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_V_
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Consider: the finale movie came out in English in 2002, the Director's Cut full DVD set in 2004. The manga adaptation's marathon 9 volume print run was in 2004. By 2006, right before Rebuild was announced, there had been 2 years with NO Eva news, and given that it basically had a Fight Club-style ending, there was NO possibility for a continuation like a Gundam series would. ...and yet it didn't die. Its a popular series. So if *the end of the show on a scale of years* could not reduce Eva to the history books.....the appearance of a full remake movie series will ensure its popularity well into the coming decade. But if you think about it, the reason for these high pre-orders is obvious: the first movie had three alternate versions, while the second only has the one. Eva 1.01 sold over a quarter of a million units in six months, but many fans were holding out for the other versions. Now, the wait has been very long, and they announced for months "this is the only version of this we're ever making" And of course, factor into that, that after the success of Eva 1.0, fans in Japan have now really warmed up to the idea of this new "Rebuild" thing. Eva 1.0 was the introduction: it needed to be similar in order to hook the fans back. Now "Eva's in the theaters, and all's right with the world. " |
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maribeasteva2
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HOORAY!
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bayoab
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Except the last reported unadjusted numbers were only ~515k (575k-625k after standard adjustment estimations) across all versions of 1.x. This means that there is either a huge gap between the leaks and reality... or a lot, lot more people are ordering 2.22. |
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DrizzlingEnthalpy
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Dakaran
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I'm asking ANN to put online a trailer if they can of this gem to boost sales and promote the product even more. This can only help anime with a massive success over there if parts of it transfers here.
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holy_
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Hope it sells more than MJ DVD/BD
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Kaioshin_Sama
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As a standalone trademark I don't think so. If we're talking meta-franchises as well then maybe. I think I remember reading that the number one best selling trademark of all time in Japan was Evangelion followed by the original Mobile Suit Gundam. As in Mobile Suit Gundam without any other entry of the Gundam franchises since they are considered seperate trademarks in the long run. If they weren't then I would say Gundam is probably more than a match since it has about 15+ years on the Eva franchise. Last edited by Kaioshin_Sama on Tue May 04, 2010 8:21 am; edited 1 time in total |
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_V_
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Your statement is utterly silly: ANN cannot possibly do that. Studio Khara are worried about bootlegging, and worse, "reverse-importation" -- now that Japan and the USA are in the same Blu-ray region, and the USA has cheaper Blu-ray prices, Japanese fans could simply mail-order cheaper Blu-rays. To this end, *they intentionally did not include English subtitles of any kind in either the DVD or Blu-ray version* How could it possibly "boost sales" when we cannot possibly buy and watch it? ANN actively spreading such news would only lead to a boost in piracy. Indeed, the trailer they put up on their website only works for Japanese IP Addresses. ***Just search youtube, multiple people posted the trailer up there. |
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Leon Evolon
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YouTube has tons of trailers for it, though most of them are probably not uploaded with permission... but YouTube has always been full of rips and copies 
Anyway, I have two favorite trailers for the second movie: The first one was released quite some time ago and doesn't contain as much that'll spoil the key scenes -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIrpShbs2tU This next one contains a lot of scenes of the Evas and just goes to show the huge amount of work that went into this movie (more spoiler-ish, watch at your own risk) -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh9bJqJ_NHY |
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TheZeonicFront
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Do you have a source for this? I need to use some cold hard facts to troll some Gundam fans. (pay no attention to my screen name. Eva is my first love  )
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DrizzlingEnthalpy
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