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Looks great! Frozen got me onto this forum Still remember people claiming that it did not have incredible WoM during its initial run.

sooo.... it went to 1m? do you have a comparison that matches? Man i really hope that this is not a blip and ends up similar to Valerian! (though i mean even when using that and adjusting, it would open quite a bit above current tracking)

Havent seen it, but that would be really close to the anime/manga... there is no fight/confrontation that does not involve tons of exposition about what is actually going on. I guess that is part of what people who have seen it comment on when they say that in many parts it is a love letter to the source material. Cringe and all .

Did he get to eat some flan?

So it is not revealed that he has the hands of his brother (literally)? Thats a shame I read somewhere that there is a prequel novel that fills in these gaps. Guess the film was busy enough without it. Nice to hear that it worked for you though. The way the romance plays out was one of my favourite parts of the anime adaption (and the manga which i read afterwards).

Trying not to get spoiled completely for the movie, but i really would love to know whether Hugos backstory was included. Reviews do describe him as extremely bland so i suspect that none of his pretty tragic history with hunter warriors and his family has been adapted?

Nice interview with the pony cinematographer https://www.awn.com/animationworld/lights-camera-action-cinematography-my-little-pony-movie a lot of work goes into making movies like this (even if they are relatively low budget)

Well yeah, this breaking out big was always a huge longshot. But at least deadline has it tracking far above long range forcasts (those were for around 8M? ). If it really does 14-17M it should be reasonably profitable. http://deadline.com/2017/10/ryan-gosling-blade-runner-2049-worldwide-box-office-opening-harrison-ford-1202181411/

Oh right Coco is Pixars first musical? So i guess chances are pretty slim if they are successful with this. Though we already had years with two animated entries. frozen/despicable me 2 and moana/trolls... seems like for those two one is a pop piece that can run on the radio and the other one a typical musical song, so probably not exactly comparable to this years entries. And yeah, "Time to be Awsome" live would be fun... wonder if Zoe Saldanas part would be done by somebody else (she does have a pretty good voice).

Regarding the animation style. I think they went for fluidity and character expressiveness while trying to keep the somewhat simplistic flash look. Btw, they did switch to a more complex/powerful animation software for the movie. I think they got this to work very very nicely and it plays to the strengths of hand drawn animation. I love that they did not go full on 3D CGI... when was the last time a US handdrawn movie has been released wide? Oh, and since this is a full blown musical it would be fun if it got an oscar nomination for best song I havent really kept up with what would be current frontrunners in that category... but SIA did also do the WW song right?

I think one direction is more a movie girls want to see without their parents and little brothers... so i think it might not skew that extreme with respect to age and gender. But yes, it will be interesting to see how that turns out.

I do agree that this hurdle is certainly quite a bit higher when compared to stuff like Frozen (which probably hit nearly all demographics) because the ponies are in many minds really a pure little-girl toy-franchise whereas the Disney Princesses are much more accepted by the general public (though it is an even bigger little girl toy franchise). I guess the main characters not being human is part of the reason for this (though Zootopia showed that that is also not always an issue)... still, i really do hope that it is at least somewhat successful with respect to its budget. And well... if it does break out against all the odds, it would just show that friendship truly is magic (i will show myself out now)

That does sound promising... btw, when will the review embargo be lifted? Oh, and for those interested. Here is a short "making of" they aired recently (does contain a few spoilers)

yeah, if it is really good and connects with people it certainly can break out. But i do not think that initial full on marketing would really help with this. This has to grow through word of mouth which, if it really takes off, can be supported by later official marketing pushes.

I think the marketing budget is just not comparable to a modern blockbuster so they try focusing it where it counts for them. This cannot be compared to other life action toy franchises for which i bet huge marketing machines were in place. I guess The Nutjob or Winnie the Pooh would be a comparison budget and marketing wise? Anybody remember how much presence those had in non kids focused media?

So are there any comparable movies that opened in roughly 2500 theaters? I just hope for a top 5 spot on opening weekend... maybe even in front of Ninjago if that falls hard?

Just listened to a few of the songs on youtube (damn... dat villain song). There are a lot of different styles in there. Not much of it seems to be the super cutesy shugary stuff i expected. Really nice. Wonder if that goes over well with the little ones, but i am starting to look forward to this.

it would be funny if this ends up above that other adaption of a beloved nineties animated movie on RT

Check that clip carefully. She wears a body suit (can see it on her neck)

Already suspected a few pages back that they seem to go the RoboCop route of amnesiac cyborg... hope they dont make it too similar to that. And yeah, the visuals are what might make this somewhat watchable if they mess up the story too badly

The thing is, that this does not seem to be a straight up remake of neither of the movies nor the tv series. So i would not hold that against ist. They do give the whole story a different spin. The scenes which have been similar to the anime movies are going to play out in a different context (as a small example the whole robo geisha stuff is from the second movie and the jumping down skyscraper and breaking through the glass is from the first one... they also stated that ). What i do fear is that that new spin is going to be integrated in a way which destroys what is at the core of the original... as always only time will tell whether the people involved will succeed or not... but just dismissing this since it is supposedly a scene for scene remake is missing the mark by a quite a bit.

well strictly speaking the Majors would be rubber (or something close to it) as well

So in the original anime (i am afraid i dont know the manga so i cant say anything about storylines tackled in that) she As far as i know they will go with a more conventional storyline and villain which has been in an arc shown in the GitS anime tv series. But kudos to them if they can pull off what you have suggested above. That would be pretty ambitious

I actually think that the story will not really follow the story of the first move that closely even though there seem to be quite a few scenes lifted out of it 1:1. As far as i know it will lift stuff from multiple media such as the stand alone complex series, the manga and the movies. So while they try to retain the visual style the story will be different... which in itself might be an issue if they mess this aspect up too much. I get robocop vibes from this (the whole amnesia and built to save people angle...) and that makes me a bit worried.

i would assume so... at least it has been used in the bad quality cam version of this clip also, i like the trailer quite a bit. Only thing that might be a bit worrying is the whole amnesia thing... will be interesting to see how that plays out. They probably have made some changes to her character in order to make her more relatable... anyways, the below clip is what got me into serious anime, so i really hope this whole thing turns out all right