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Michi
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Iiiiinteresting. Too bad I'm no longer with my ex that was totally into DBZ with me, but I will still totally support FUNi and see those in theaters.. provided there's a showing near me.
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ACDragonMaster
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Hm, y'know, DBZ may actually be a good place to start with anime in theatres. Because it's a well-known, popular title, but unlike things like Pokemon, Funimation doesn't have a habit of editing it. Getting something that isn't Pokemon and isn't Miyazaki into more than just the independant theatres would certainly be a step forward, I think.
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hikaru393
Posts: 525 Location: champlin MN |
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hopefully they come to MN that would be awsome to see fusion reborn on the big screen.
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4469 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Keep in mind that "select theaters" is a code term for "a couple of dozen screens nationwide, maximum", so, if you're not near a theatre that already gets the limited release anime films, you're not likely to get these ones either.
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Michi
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 741 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Yeah. I live near San Francisco, and Cowboy Bebop's movie was shown there a few years back when I saw it in theaters. :X I have some hope for the DBZ movies...
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Wyvern
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Aren't the DBZ movies all pretty short? The first one was 45 minutes, and the others are only an hour, if I'm remembeirng right. I don't think that's long enough to count as a feature. Wonder how FUni will deal with that. Maybe it's explained on the website, but it wouldn't load for me.
It's interesting that Return of Cooler made the cut. I always figured that if they were ever going to release DBZ films theatrically, they'd edit that one together with Cooler's Revenge, since the two movies have such closely related stories, and market them as one film, thus getting around the short length problem. Kind of like what they did with the American Digimon movie. I wonder when they'll get around to releasing the last movie. It's easily the best one. |
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Steventheeunuch
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I'm kind of surpised they didn't try to get movie #13 on it, since it would have been all technically "new" footage. The length of the movies is why they're being doubled-up, but if anything, movie 6 is a good thing (since it breaks formula at times). |
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lheiskell
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Press release hasn't been sent out, but I can say it's more than "a couple of dozen screens." Lance Heiskell FUNimation Guy |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4469 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Maybe Steamboy-level distribution (50-60 screens) then?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I suspect that too much more than that, and you'd be flushing money down the toilet on prints and advertising. |
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TheVileOne
Posts: 272 Location: Texas |
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Just to give you an idea, Spirited Away was shown in around 700 theatres after it was nominated for an Academy award, that was its largest amount.
Anime typically doesn't get widespread distribution in the US. Cowboy Bebop was never shown in more than about 50 theatres. Appleseed even less (self-distributed by Geneon). If this gets more anime theatres, then I think its great. DBZ is the best way to start since it has a built-in audience and fanbase, the kids like it and it could bring them in. Although DBZ's popularity has pretty much peaked, I'd say its still a fairly hot/popular commodity. My ultimate hope is that this leads to Funimation distributing the Fullmetal Alchemist themselves without another Hollywood studio like Dreamworks getting their dirty hands on it. |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4469 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Yeah, I know, that's why I was using Steamboy as a more realistic example.
Since it's Dragonball Z, I really don't see most mainstream critics enjoining readers/viewers to overcome their anti-cartoon resistance and witness it on the full screen in all its glory, they way they mostly do for Ghibli films, so I wasn't using Disney's relatively wider distribution of the Miyazaki films as a guideline. |
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TheVileOne
Posts: 272 Location: Texas |
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When it comes to DBZ's core US demographic, what critics say has utterly no meaning or bearing at all.
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Kazuki-san
 Posts: 2251 Location: Houston, TX |
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I'm not sure many screens beyond that number would be willing to pick those titles up anyway. Considering the numbers that new, anticipated anime releases get, I would doubt they'd see DBZ as a huge money maker. Also, I could see them doing sort of a roving release, where they shuffle prints around. |
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TheVileOne
Posts: 272 Location: Texas |
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Just to give you guys an idea, the production of prints and movie distribution is NOT cheap. That's why digital technology has really helped and supported the indy and student filmmaking community.
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Kazuki-san
Posts: 2251 Location: Houston, TX |
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Well yes, that's why we are debating the level of distribution we are likely to see. Digital is certainly the future, but there are currently not that many Digital Cinema equipped theatres out there. In addition, the DLP projectors common to DC setups as well as pre-show advertising are vulnerable to the 'rainbow effect.' Certainly you could throw something up on say.. the Christie projectors that the Regal Cinemas chain uses for pre-show adverts, but I wouldn't pay what they charge to see it. |
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