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NEWS: One Piece Stampede Film's Opening Day in U.S. Ranks at #6

They shouldn't have even bothered with a theatre release at all for it.

It's not about it making Broly level movie, it's about it making no money at all. It's opening is less than half of Battle of God's, a movie that pretty much everyone had seen by the time it released because it came a year and half after.

Than a One Piece movie can open in more theatres than MHA and still make half of it is just poor. A series thats been dubbed by funimation for over a decade, has several movies and this did only $400,000.

Your Name which was also by Funimation, isn't even an established series did $700,000 and that released in 200 fewer theatres.

Bullza wrote:

It's not about it making Broly level movie, it's about it making no money at all. It's opening is less than half of Battle of God's, a movie that pretty much everyone had seen by the time it released because it came a year and half after. Than a One Piece movie can open in more theatres than MHA and still make half of it is just poor. A series thats been dubbed by funimation for over a decade, has several movies and this did only $400,000. Your Name which was also by Funimation, isn't even an established series did $700,000 and that released in 200 fewer theatres.

How is this not making any money? One Piece has never been a big hitter in the west but regardless it’s still liked & profitable enough.

And this is profit regardless of whatever flawed standards you think in.

Also, the only place I've ever seen MHA merchandise anywhere outside of DVDs is GameStop. And even the DVDs I saw at Walmart never get picked up, yet MCU movies always seem to fly off the shelves.

Really successful? It only did $400,000 in Italy. Broly made 5 times as much on its opening.

Obviously DBZ is more popular than One Piece but it's a pretty poor showing that it only did 6% of Broly, that's just pathetic. Even My Hero Academia did almost a million and that's new.

There was no need to give it a theatrical release.

One Piece isn't a hugely popular series in the United States. In 2017, the Fairy Tail movie grossed more than that year's One Piece film despite having a shorter release in fewer theatres. That's notable because Fairy Tail hasn't had One Piece's level of exposure. It's never aired on mainstream US TV, never had a general retail line of merchandise or even a proper video game released in English.

The best way to gauge whether these releases are a success is to look at the per-screen average and compare that to the rest of the films being shown. These limited events are effectively counter-programming the theatres run instead of the 38,472nd run of a Disney movie. That's why they're often scheduled during the week. They're used to increase foot traffic on days business would usually be slow. On Thursday, One Piece: Stampede had the highest per-screen average of any film in more than 100 locations. It did its job.

That live action series is never happening.