Forum - View topicNEWS: 1st Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Film Becomes Highest-Grossing Japanese Film Ever Globally
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Axbox360
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Wow. It even passed the new Fantastic 4 movie
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GATSU
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Axbox: Yeah, ANN said that.
Anyway, anyone know how to get BOM to update their anime rankings? They haven't done so since DB Super Hero. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/genre/sg4259246337/ And The Boy and the Heron and Infinity Castle should be on there. Also, anyway, does anyone know if Infinity Castle will play in China? Cus, if so, it might have a chance of beating Superman, F1, and the live-action How to Train Your Dragon, next. |
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Beatdigga
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It looks like it will pass Superman and F1 before finishing up.
Demon Slayer. Beating Superman and Brad Pitt’s biggest hit in years. |
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Marzan
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It’s been a massive hit. Crazy how it outperforms big Hollywood blockbusters
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Dancing Green
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Neat. I knew it'd do well in Japan but seeing it do well overseas is also nice to see.
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Flared
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Never would I have thought even six or seven years ago that an anime film would have this level of success worldwide. It's even outperforming films with over 10x the budget.
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Kaoru G
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Nice to see it do so well even several years after it's ended. KnY has been manga & anime's undisputed global phenomenon this decade. I'm sure the remaining 2 films will also do well. I'm really looking forward to some of the upcoming fights, which were outstanding in the manga.
Congratulations & thank you to UFOtable for this incredible adaptation. |
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Kicksville
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I don't mean to downplay Demon Slayer's success in saying so, but I don't think it's that surprising. I feel like the audience for this sort of thing has definitely been there for a while, but the right combination of elements to make it happen just kept not coming together. In this case, an already successful current title + entry essential to that title (not an optional spin-off) + wider than normal distribution + good advertising in the right places. |
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ZiharkXVI
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Its not that surprising if you were trying to guess say a year or 2 ago (although before this movie released i know a lot of folks on this very website were predicting it would do well, but not as well as Mugen Train...). I think surprising is more for someone 5 or so years ago. Anime movie doing this well? If we are honest, that would have been harder to picture. Times have changed, although it still matters what the movie is. The new CSM movie will do well im sure, but its not going to show the same success. The story needs to transcend cultural barriers - and heroes fighting evil demons is sort of a universal encoded message into our DNA as humans. |
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Beatdigga
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Unfortunately, the lesson Hollywood is likely to learn from this is that someone needs to greenlight a live-action Demon Slayer. As opposed to art styles in animation, allowing stories to properly climax, sword fights are cool, etc.
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Kicksville
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Which isn't what I'm saying. The audience has been there a long, long time, but there hasn't been a confluence of elements coming together in a way that brings out everyone to the box office at once. My reaction is less "Wow, who knew this was even possible" and more "It's about time". |
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Axbox360
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Most likely. They are making a live action my hero academia and Naruto. |
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Lily Garden
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What Hollywood should learn from this: good character writing elevates action heavy narratives
What Hollywood will learn from this: ‘people like swords. Let’s get some actors on a green screen.’ |
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ZiharkXVI
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I confess im not sure what you are saying then, but my post was representative of my opinion. Just to elaborate, if I woke up tomorrow and found out that Scarlet was making 70 million in NA opening weekend, I'd still be very surprised. My analysis is that the specific story matters a lot to popularity. You can find stuff like Jujutsu Kaisen widely available on lots of mediums and streaming platforms, but it's not going to be doing those numbers in worldwide theaters. The reason why DS resonates is that it is widely attractive to a broader audience. It must. Anime has not quite got the magic of reaching completely across those barriers yet in the way Western media once dominated the sphere. Combine a Hollywood/Disney not understanding the market anymore with DS capturing the market perfectly. That's why im not surprised now in this particular instance. Although if they're smart they'll take a serious look at a simpler shonen story. Its why those are generally the most popular stories. And yes, all Hollywood will want to make live action knockoffs of it. Its all they can do. And yet they'll still be bad because they can't understand the soul of the story. |
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jdnation
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I don't think we can conclude too much from this about anime in the Western theatrical market yet, other than Demon Slayer being an outlier phenomenon. It's a lightning-in-a-bottle franchise.
Rather than a barometer of anime theatrical films, it only proves the popularity of the TV series, especially considering it is not welcoming for newcomers, so this was definitely a built-in fanbase driven phenomena. The upcoming Chainsaw-Man movie works better as an entry point for anyone who has not watched the show. But it is more adult and while popular, doesn't match the popularity of Demon Slayer. It'll be interesting to see how that does, and then see if there is a noticable trend. I doubt Scarlet will do much, and I don't see anything else original on the horizon. Maybe if Otomo and Sunrise finally put out the new Akira trilogy, as that title has cache, but mainly with adults. Maybe the Solo-Levelling peeps ought to consider a movie. All Hollywood will learn from this is the potential of taking a popular TV Series snd making a movie, which they've already occasionally done. But the American mass market is a completely different creature from the anime fandom. If anything, anime's rise in popularity is increasingly youth-driven on largely new properties, whereas Hollywood is riding on the fumes of old IP that it is running into the ground as it's original creators have hardly any involvement. The manga-to-anime model filtered by the reader survey ranking systems is what works pretty well, combined with the fact that the Japanese public at large appreciates these mediums versus the Western snobbery at comics and animation that is thankfully changing, but while the old guard smells the money potential, they fundamentally don't understand why. |
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