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    The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | December 13, 2024 | New Line/WB | Anime | Kenji Kamiyama directing.

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    17 minutes ago, Porthos said:

     

    As I've said on more than one occasion, I agree.

     

    That being said, I do want to point out "not anime" isn't quite saying much as anime itself covers a wiiiiiiiiide range of visual styles.  And also story beats/themes.  Not to mention story telling styles.  

     

    After all, Pokemón and The Boy and the Heron are both "anime", but there's very little else in common between the two films.  

     

    I hesitate to say a lot of this will depend on how "weird" this will look to folks not accustomed to anime (though as I just mentioned animation style absolutely was a strike against TCW and was brought out as a cudgel even as recently as last year's Wish).  So instead I'll just say that its visual look might go a long way as to how much of an uphill climb this needs to win over possibly skeptical people.

     

     

    in regards to the weirdness factors, its written and illustrated by westerners, so I assume it's just going to be a normal lotr story but with a slight anime-ish look 

     

    similar to the scott pilgrim show now that I think about it, though not looks-wise of course 

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    The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | December 13, 2024 | New Line/WB | Anime | Kenji Kamiyama directing.

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    3 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:

    Clone Wars is not comparable. Completely different circumstances. It's also, again, not anime.

     

     no way any of the ads mention the term "anime", so its totally dependent on whether people associate the Castlevania art style with anime or not

    I wager most of the GE will assume its not; doesn't mean they'll watch it, but I dont see why this should perform much worse than a "normal" animated lotr spin-off

    maybe an animated lotr spin-off has a ceiling of 40 million, but that's another question

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | December 13, 2024 | New Line/WB | Anime | Kenji Kamiyama directing.

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    2 hours ago, lorddemaxus said:

    Actually the highest grossing one is the Demon Slayer one. Also grossed 47 mil in the US. Boy and the Heron also tripled Spirited Away's DOM. Anime films are more popular than ever in the US imo. This is definitely not grossing over 100 mil DOM but don't see why somewhere around the 40s can't happen.

     

    2 hours ago, SpiderByte said:

    The truth is anime films are carried very very heavily by Japan itself. The biggest ww anime film, Spirited Away, only made 10 million domestic. And while the LOTR films did the 60-90 range when they first came out in Japan, the Hobbit movies only did 13-19. So a format with a weak domestic track record and a franchise who's region that format does best in hasn't been nearly as strong.

     

    dont see the point in comparing this to an anime movie, if it flops it'll be for other reasons; if there is a precedent to compare it to, it'd have to be the an animated spinoff to a live-action franchise, but imagine if what if came out in 2021 as a theatrical release

     

    the clone wars pilot movie did 35 million domestic despite terrible reviews, just being a bunch of eps stitched together and little to no marketing, I think something like that is the floor; considering the release date and if its well received, I could see it doing 100 million 

     

    the only anime thing about is the animation studio, and even then (according to what I've read), it just looks like Castlevania 

    2025 Box Office Predictions and Discussion

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    38 minutes ago, Flip said:

    Also, if both Michael and Passion of the Christ stick to April 18th, we might have two movies doing over 100m on the same weekend for the first time ever

     

    could be fun

     

    and though I do expect P2 to open to over 100, I'm not sure whether easter weekend hurts or helps

    my family would never  go to the theater on easter Sunday, not even for THE Jesus movie 

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    2025 Box Office Predictions and Discussion

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    24 minutes ago, poweranimals said:

    Where are people getting Passion 2? I'm not seeing it anywhere on the release schedule.

     

    https://productionlist.com/production/passion-christ-resurrection/

     

    began filming 3 days ago, dont know if it'll be ready for easter 2025, if its not, then it'll probably be 2026

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenit_News_Agency

     

    those guys claim its release date is april 18th, doubt they'd fake it, but id rather a trade report it 

     

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    DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE | 07.26.2024 | Disney | latest trailer on page 76

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    5 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:

    Did you just not watch either trailer which prominently features the TVA and footage from the MCU films in it? Or the trailer with the gigantic ant man head? Come on now, people are reaching to say that "people won't notice it's an MCU movie"

     

    the ant-man head is a good point, I must not have been paying enough attention, though some of the audience might just see it as a meaningless 4th wall break

    If Loki really is going to be the big connection, then I cant see this doing too much for the mcu in general; doubt aspects of the loki tv show are recognizable enough for that 

    Captain America: Brave New World | February 14, 2025 | Harrison Ford is General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross

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    9 minutes ago, Kon said:

    I mean, The Marvels set a precedent that MCU movies could make less than 250M. It has also shown a current weakness on the MCU brand to attract people.

     

    As the MCU as a brand seems pretty weak, Captain America 4 will depend on the characters popularity, but I doubt Sam has so much popularity

     

    I myself thought that the base mcu fan base was worth around 350 million dollars 

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | August 2, 2023 | CG reboot produced by Seth Rogen produced | Fourth most profitable movie of 2023

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    40 minutes ago, Grebacio said:

    I don't want to derail the thread too much, but I've read on Reddit that maybe Deadline conviniently included Merchindise for Paw Patrol and TMNT so they can have enough movies to not list Sound of Freedom

     

    doest make sense because of the "small budgets, big profits" article they posted yesterday, if Sound of Freedom is not in the top 10 and or that other list, it means they're claiming its profit was less than 46 million, which makes no real sense and probably indicates they disqualified it or something like that 

     

    do want to know what happened with Jurassic Wick 4 though 

     

    Horizon Part 1 | Kevin Costner-directed Western | June 28, 2024

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    >New Line’s Kevin Costner three-hour western Horizon: An American Saga “can be a $5M or a $100M movie,” per one rival.

     

    I know the interviewee was probably just trying to secure his place in the article, but is there any precedent for something like this (an action epic by a famous actor on his turf) failing to crack double digits?

     

    how do you even justify the 5 million number (ow or dom total irrelevant, both seem crazy); as long as its ok, I dont see why it shouldn't at least make the 150 million ww the majority of 2010 westerns did

     

    I frankly cant see much difference between this and something like the equalizer trilogy

     

    Megalopolis l Francis Ford Coppola's future magnum opus l CINEMA HAS BEEN SAVED

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    In his statement to VF, Coppola includes a long list of names that influenced the creation of “Megalopolis”: “I wouldn’t have been able to make it without standing as I do on the shoulders of G.B. Shaw, Voltaire, Rousseau, Bentham, Mill, Dickens, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Fournier, Morris, Carlyle, Ruskin, Butler, and Wells all rolled into one; with Euripides, Thomas More, Moliere, Pirandello, Shakespeare, Beaumarchais, Swift, Kubrick, Murnau, Goethe, Plato, Aeschylus, Spinoza, Durrell, Ibsen, Abel Gance, Fellini, Visconti, Bergman, Bergson, Hesse, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Cao Xueqin, Mizoguchi, Tolstoy, McCullough, Moses, and the prophets all thrown in.” 

     

    Will admit to letting myself get excited

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