Battle of Gods Box Office - $51.2 million

ShadowDude112 · Post by **ShadowDude112** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 8:16 pm

Hellspawn28 wrote:I just hope this won't hold on the official home video release like Funi is doing with Eva 3.0.

I don't quite understand what you mean by that. Could you elaborate? I'm not a big Eva guy, so I don't get how they relate.

Post by **TheDevilsCorpse** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 10:14 pm

Funimation announced a home release for Eva 3.0, but the fan demand for it to be in theaters was overwhelming. Funi decided to have a limited screening for it, but pushed back the home release as a result. There's more to the story after that, but that's the gist of the worries.

Hellspawn28 · Post by **Hellspawn28** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 10:39 pm

I don't think 3.0 has any official home video release date as of now. I just hope we don't have to wait a full year for a home video release.

Bullza · Post by **Bullza** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 5:52 am

Well it's the next day and there's still been no update for the movie. I don't know if that means they're no longer tracking it or what, there was supposed to be showings on Monday so we'll see if shows up today along with the other numbers but if not I'd say that's probably it unless Funimation give them out down the road.

Baggie_Saiyan · Post by **Baggie_Saiyan** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 7:32 am

Hellspawn28 wrote:I don't think 3.0 has any official home video release date as of now. I just hope we don't have to wait a full year for a home video release.

I don't think you have to worry, since reports have suggested that FUNi had to re-dub Eva 3 hence the long wait.
(one of the reports here: http://www.evamonkey.com/funimation-dub ... -finished/ )

Bullza · Post by **Bullza** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:31 am

Still nothing from Box Office Mojo but I have found this information here from a site called moviecitynews.

http://moviecitynews.com/2014/08/the-we ... eport-100/

"Japanese anime stalwart Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods was good returns, grossing $730,000 following a midweek opening that boosted its cume to $2.9 million."

That's a lot more than I thought to be honest following that Thursday gross. It might be enough to push the movie to $3 million in US now. It's still an estimate but it shouldn't be far off.

Edit: Looks like it only made $8,800 from 32 theatres on Friday so I'd say it probably made around $700,000 on the Saturday.

TheBlackPaladin · Post by **TheBlackPaladin** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:21 am

I apologize if it was mentioned earlier and I can't find it, but if it is known, what was the budget for BoG? I really want this movie to break even...I suspect that it most likely has, but I'd like to be sure, because I missed my opportunity to see this movie in a theater, and really want the next (recently announced) DBZ movie to get the same theatrical treatment as BoG.

Baggie_Saiyan · Post by **Baggie_Saiyan** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:33 am

According to this: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ ... s/?a=77649
50mYen.

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:52 am

Baggie_Saiyan wrote:According to this: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ ... s/?a=77649
50mYen.

That seems a little low at under $500,000, given that it costs around $150,000 to produce a typical weekly episode of One Piece.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:01 pm

Blade wrote:
Baggie_Saiyan wrote:According to this: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ ... s/?a=77649
50mYen.
That seems a little low at under $500,000, given that it costs around $150,000 to produce a typical weekly episode of One Piece.

Well the movie was 85 minutes, which is about 4 times the length of your average anime episode...and i believe One Piece has a higher budget than your average anime anyway.

Bullza · Post by **Bullza** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:29 pm

The budget isn't 50 million Yen. Toei was given 50 million Yen (around $640,000) by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. This has confused a lot of people into thinking that was the entire budget of the movie.

It's unknown what the actual budget of the movie is. If we knew the budget of something like One Piece Film Z then we could have a reasonable comparison but we don't. I'd guess it'd be in the single digit million range though.

Movies traditionally need to double their budget to break even and Battle of Gods has probably at least quadrupled it. It's getting a sequel so it's obviously done well enough for them.

What I would like to know is how many DVD's/BluRays it sold in Japan and what the average cost of them were so I could work out how much money it made from it's Home Video release too.

B · Post by B » Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:35 pm

Bullza wrote:What I would like to know is how many DVD's/BluRays it sold in Japan and what the average cost of them were so I could work out how much money it made from it's Home Video release too.

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:38 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:
Blade wrote:
Baggie_Saiyan wrote:According to this: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ ... s/?a=77649
50mYen.
That seems a little low at under $500,000, given that it costs around $150,000 to produce a typical weekly episode of One Piece.
Well the movie was 85 minutes, which is about 4 times the length of your average anime episode...and i believe One Piece has a higher budget than your average anime anyway.

If One Piece does have a higher budget, it sure as Hell doesn't show. I would believe Naruto Shippuuden has a higher budget, but One Piece looks like it is produced on $100,000 an episode. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann was produced on $180,000-200,000 an episode and obviously has a higher number of drawings (to say nothing of a better schedule and better animators who know how to properly use drawings). One Piece has closer to three thousand drawings an episode, whereas a two cours series has closer to four thousand or higher. Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Fullmetal Alchemist had ten thousand drawings for Episode #19 (Mustang versus Lust), so it's budget was probably closer to $200,000 or higher. Little Witch Academia ran for 26 minutes, used 17,000 drawings, had a budget of $400,000 and was in production for six months (the project was funded by the Japanese government to help train young animators).

My guess is that Battle of Gods cost $1,000,000 USD, but doesn't look it thanks to poor directing from Hosoda Masahiro, the use of CG, a rushed production schedule, and a huge number of untalented animators animating most of the film.

Bullza · Post by **Bullza** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 3:19 pm

Anybody that feels the need can do the math themselves.

On that site that there's also a year end chart and between the DVD and Blu Ray sales of the standard and special edition of the movie it sold 80,498 units.

Using the retail price listed on here and then converting it to dollars would make $4.95 million by the end of 2013.

Was the extended edition ever released?

I just came across this.

Funimation confirmed on Monday that it will add more screenings on Tuesday, August 12 at over 350 theaters. After that, "only a very small group of theaters will be showing the movie throughout the remainder of the week."

JamesOwnz · Post by **JamesOwnz** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 1:57 am

Finally saw the movie at the independent theater by me.. one showing, one night only.

Was pretty full.

Tatakae!!Ramenman · Post by **Tatakae!!Ramenman** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:13 pm

I'm finally going to see it tomorrow night. I'm gonna try to get there 30 minutes early, because it sounds like the screenings for this movie have been pretty crowded.

Bullza · Post by **Bullza** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:15 am

Well Box Office Mojo finally updated their numbers and it looks like Moviecitynews was way off.

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=d ... lz2014.htm

It's Thursday gross which at $263,000 has been lowered to $178,000.

Friday - $19,769
Saturday - $246,098
Sunday - $30,547
Monday - $22,181
Tuesday - $118,069

Total - $2,553,002

Worldwide - $50,353,002

Bullza · Post by **Bullza** » Sat Aug 30, 2014 12:15 am

The movie releases today in Australia and New Zealand and it looks like theres been more demand for it than they expected.

They originally announced that it'd be in theatres on the 30th at 12 locations with one showing each as seen here.

http://www.madman.com.au/news/dragon-ba ... creenings/

But now it looks like it's also being shown on the 31st, 6th and 7th. They've added an extra location in New Zealand and theres multiple showings per day, up to as many as five in Sydney.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... end/.78154

And they didn't even include the sold out showings on there.

Edit: Looks like it sold out two showing since the above article as made. CinemaNova on Twitter said tickets were selling fast for it.

Bullza · Post by **Bullza** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 8:30 pm

Opening numbers for Australia are in.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/austr ... =35&p=.htm

It opened at #11 and has made $117,000 which is impressive considering it's only from 8 theatres and it does mean it has the highest theatre average of them all. So that's pretty good because I was expecting maybe $50,000.

In New Zealand it opened at #14 and made $11,000 across 4 theatres and it's theatres average was nothing special.

Worldwide it now stands at $50.5 million.

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