Battle of Gods Box Office - $51.2 million

[Hellspawn28]

Did China ever get Battle of Gods yet? I know they are limited on how many movies get release in their country, but DBE did good in China. I would imagine BOG will likely do well in that country.

[TheGmGoken]

What was the sale rate for Korea? It was release there in Aug 2013

[Bullza]

$3.5 million is actually supposedly for the entire year's worth of films.

I'm not sure about that, going by the tweet it seems as though he meant each. Plus one of his comments below says he doesn't know the budget of the movies.

Maybe if we knew the budget of One Piece Strong World or Film Z then that would be a good comparison.

Did China ever get Battle of Gods yet?

No unfortunately, it would have made quite a few million were it to be released there but I imagine that chance has gone. It did release in Hong Kong though.

What was the sale rate for Korea? It was release there in Aug 2013

It made $204,000 there, not a lot and a poor amount for the amount of theatres it was in but that only includes the first three days worth. There was no data after that, so it either had a 3 day limited release or it made more money and it wasn't tracked.

Like I said the $48 million is from all the money that has been tracked. According to animenewsnetwork the movie released in places like Costa Rica, Paraguay, Taiwan etc and there's no box office data for them. They aren't big markets but it could have put it over $50 million already.

Apparently in Italy it made $1.3 million in 2 days when 6 other movies opened the same weekend but there was no other data after that and if it wasn't a limited release it could have made another couple million.

[Bullza]

The movie dropped like a rock in Spain this weekend, a whopping 84% for a $282,000 total.

That's pretty disappointing.

[Hellspawn28]

I guess China turn down the movie because they must feel like it won't do so well. If BOG made big money in China then I would imagine Toei would get a small amount of it. I remember reading that Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures only got 20% of China's gross on Pacific Rim.

[Blade]

I guess China turn down the movie because they must feel like it won't do so well. If BOG made big money in China then I would imagine Toei would get a small amount of it. I remember reading that Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures only got 20% of China's gross on Pacific Rim.

China has a government imposed quota on the quantity of foreign media that can be imported over a certain time period, which has led to many Hollywood film makers filming scenes or moving elements of production to China, investing in the Chinese economy, and thus circumventing these rules.

It could simply be that Battle of Gods just wasn't that big of a deal for the Chinese market when competing against big Hollywood blockbusters, and as such it was passed on for theatrical release.

[Bullza]

Well the movies about a week away from release in America, of course I'll be keeping track of it's box office and I'll update the thread when the figures come in.

I have no idea how much money this will make, anime movies have a terrible track record in U.S even those marketed by Disney plus it's only in theatres for 4 days. Perhaps $2-3 million or something like that? It'd be nice if it finally pushed the movie past $50 million.

On the plus side 800 theatres is a good amount, it should have been in theatres for a good 10 days though.

[TheDevilsCorpse]

What's worse is that it's only in theaters for 4 days AND most of the ones I've looked at only have one showing of the film each day. =/

[Daimakku]

Well the movies about a week away from release in America, of course I'll be keeping track of it's box office and I'll update the thread when the figures come in.

I have no idea how much money this will make, anime movies have a terrible track record in U.S even those marketed by Disney plus it's only in theatres for 4 days. Perhaps $2-3 million or something like that? It'd be nice if it finally pushed the movie past $50 million.

On the plus side 800 theatres is a good amount, it should have been in theatres for a good 10 days though.

Yeah, a couple of millions in the single digits seems about right. FUNimation has been advertising BoG as much as they can. On TV during Toonami, on YouTube, Facebook ads, I think I've seen a few ads here on Kanzenshuu too. So they're doing a good job at reaching the target audience.

What's worse is that it's only in theaters for 4 days AND most of the ones I've looked at only have one showing of the film each day. =/

Yeah, I think that's the case everywhere. Lots of theaters, but only one showing a day for four days, and totally skipping the day they'd have the most profit, Friday..

In my local theater they're playing at 7PM during the tuesday and wednesday showing, but on the thursday and saturday showing they're playing the movie at 1:30PM.. odd timeslot I'd say. If it had been saturday at 7PM I think I'd be all over that one.

I keep checking MovieTickets and Fandango, and they all seem to still have tickets for all showings in my theater.

[MarcFBR]

They aren't skipping Friday, it isn't available to them.

Special event showings are limited timeslot, normally streamed in via satellite connections, and are used to fill theaters when there is some expectation that they'll be empty.

Theater's aren't going to have issues filling up on most Fridays in the summer.

Events like this tend to only screen a handful of times because the truth is, they wouldn't fill more than that (Funi's advertising has been laser targeted to places where they will likely get the best return on an advertising budget that likely isn't high, but higher than most anime stuff in the USA would get.)

Any attempt at a wider theatrical release would have been crushed by the fact that you'll have decent second weekend business for Guardians, and likely great first weekend business for TMNT.

(Which doesn't include the extra showings they seem to have scheduled in a few places a week later that aren't really being advertised, including a few limited Friday screenings at midnight.)

Even something as well known as Ghostbusters is only getting a straight week, and that's with Sony doing the full court press to advertise the upcoming nice Blu-ray set.

[rs_chaosmaster]

If Battle of Gods can somehow crack the top 10 for box office totals in the USA that would be a huge win for it as well as anime in general which I say is entirely possible!!

[FortuneSSJ]

Such a shame, Portugal didn't get this.

[MarcFBR]

If Battle of Gods can somehow crack the top 10 for box office totals in the USA that would be a huge win for it as well as anime in general which I say is entirely possible!!

That's not going to happen for half a dozen different reasons.

[sangofe]

Such a shame, Portugal didn't get this.

Believe it or not, but it hasn't been announced for France yet either!

[Bullza]

If Battle of Gods can somehow crack the top 10 for box office totals in the USA that would be a huge win for it as well as anime in general which I say is entirely possible!!

That's not going to happen for half a dozen different reasons.

Being in the Top 10 on the dailies is possible if it can make a good half a million.

[Bullza]

Usually the Box Office figures for Tuesday would be released on Wednesday at about 8pm GMT (17 hours from now) on Box Office Mojo but the site doesn't even have the movie on it's release schedule so I'm hoping it will be tracked on there or at least somewhere.

On Movietickets the movie had sold about 11% of all tickets which is double that on Lucy. I still have no idea how it'll do but I hope it's in the millions.

If it does decently it could mean the next movie could have a bigger release.

[Hellspawn28]

If Battle of Gods can somehow crack the top 10 for box office totals in the USA that would be a huge win for it as well as anime in general which I say is entirely possible!!

That's not going to happen for half a dozen different reasons.

As much I want it to be happen, he's right. It's a Japanese animated movie, it's very unlikely to happen. Even our large size fanbase is not good enough to help it happen. Not to mention it's a limited release, the movie won't be in most theaters by Friday or Saturday.

[DragonBalllKaiHD]

If the movie is doing well enough, the theaters will keep it for a little while.

[Hellspawn28]

There's other movies coming out. They need to make room for other major films like Sin City 2, The Expendables 3, Let's Be Cops, The Giver and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Theaters have to pull out movies for other movies. It's also a foreign movie, I would imagine the main target audience of the movie already seen the movie in theaters by next week.

[TheAldella]

My theatre was Paaaaaaaaacked. People were Standing. In the Back.