GODZILLA MINUS ONE | Japan 11/3/23, North America 12/1/23 | Wide Release

[MovieMan89]

3 minutes ago, Eric Atreides said:

Ain’t Japan known for treating crew like dirt with little pay? Feel like I remember reading that during the whole budget discourse

Probably more like known for not paying their actors who haven’t produced a hit in 10 years $20 mil a pop… 

[AMCTheater2000]

 

[Brainbug]

22 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

How??? And what is Hollywood even doing then? Then can’t make a so called “indie” for $10mil…

 

And if you want to dig deeper, the actual VFX budget was probably around 4-5M:

 

All 610 of the film's visual effect shots were handled by a crew of 35 artists at Shirogumi's Chōfu studio,^[28][74] under the supervision of Yamazaki and direction of Kiyoko Shibuya.^[23][24] According to the Los Angeles Times, between a quarter and a third of the film's budget was spent on visual effects.

 

19 minutes ago, Eric Atreides said:

Ain’t Japan known for treating crew like dirt with little pay? Feel like I remember reading that during the whole budget discourse

 

Generally speaking yes, Japans labour laws can be critized heavily for creating poor working conditions for VFX artists, but if you want to believe the director and the crew of Minus One, this doesnt apply here:

 

Yamazaki remarked that Japanese studios are either dubbed "white" or "black", with a "white" studio being one that "doesn’t exploit its employees" while a "black" studio "makes you work overnight at all hours and really doesn’t pay you well". Shirogumi, the studio responsible for the film's visual effects, is literally named "white team" in Japanese, which Yamazaki suggested means that "we want to believe we are setting up standards and an environment that is very workable for all the artists and everyone who is with us here today". Moreover, he emphasized that the visual effects team had not been mistreated and the team avoided working long hours (mentioning that it is a "very welcoming environment" anyway even if they work overtime) and cited how they assembled a kitchen in the studio to make it "more comfortable and cozy". Yamazaki also spoke of his hopes their visual effect budgets would increase in the future and that this could drive further improvements

Edited March 13 by Brainbug

[MovieMan89]

A movie has truly never deserved that vfx award more if that’s what they spent 

[AniNate]

Not that it isn't impressive that minus one's budget was kept that low nor that it was undeserving of the vfx win, but I have grown tired of the "movies are too expensive" discourse especially in the aftermath of the strikes. It's their money to spend as they please and it's not like they're just setting it on fire. It's going to other businesses and personnel that contribute to keeping the industry running, whether they are vfx companies, actors, or lavish wrap party catering services.

 

 

Edited March 14 by AniNate

[Issac Newton]

 

Poster Nailed it!!

[Issac Newton]

Japan upto Thursday - ¥7.35B (4.86M admits)

 

300K Giveaway push for 5M admits I guess (from April 19)

 

As for Shin is at ¥8.25B - let's how close were are finishing...

[Belakor]

So Toho wants to continue to milk the movie with minor releases here and there? that's why the VOD release seems so long?

Not that I'm complaining, it deserves every dollar. 

[Issac Newton]

May 3rd - Amazon Prime 

 

[AJG]

3 hours ago, Issac Newton said:

May 3rd - Amazon Prime 

 

 

FINALLY. Hopefully a global drop like Evangelion. 

[Issac Newton]

 

 

[Ryan Reynolds]

 

 

 

Edited June 1 by Ryan Reynolds