Resurrection F Box Office - $64.8 million Worldwide

[Bullza]

Sorry for the long time bump but I wanted to make a mention if this.

On February 18th Boruto the movie got released in Chinese theatres. As of March 6th the movie has made $15.47 million. It's propelled the movie to about $40 million worldwide.

Resurrection F never got released in China and it clearly lost out because of it. It might not have made as much as $15 million, could have been less or more but either way it would have added a HUGE chunk to the movies gross. It could have put the movie past $80 million.

Now I don't know if this is a new thing because China have been pretty strict about letting foreign movies in their theatres and The Last Naruto movie or the new One Piece and DBZ movies don't seem to have been released there in theatres. They are supposed to be loosening up though.

So it's probably too late for RoF to get a Chinese release now but if they do make another movie they definitely need to release it in China because it would guarantee that it'd be more successful than this one.

Even DB Evolution made more money in China than Japan so it can't be that unpopular.

[Lord Beerus]

Sorry for the long time bump but I wanted to make a mention if this.

On February 18th Boruto the movie got released in Chinese theatres. As of March 6th the movie has made $15.47 million. It's propelled the movie to about $40 million worldwide.

Resurrection F never got released in China and it clearly lost out because of it. It might not have made as much as $15 million, could have been less or more but either way it would have added a HUGE chunk to the movies gross. It could have put the movie past $80 million.

Now I don't know if this is a new thing because China have been pretty strict about letting foreign movies in their theatres and The Last Naruto movie or the new One Piece and DBZ movies don't seem to have been released there in theatres. They are supposed to be loosening up though.

So it's probably too late for RoF to get a Chinese release now but if they do make another movie they definitely need to release it in China because it would guarantee that it'd be more successful than this one.

Even DB Evolution made more money in China than Japan so it can't be that unpopular.

And considering that Dragon Ball is loosely based on Journey To The West, which China absolutely loves, I reckon it could have used that as a marketing tool to rake in a lot of extra cash. I reckon the third movie will get a much wider release, especially in China.

[Kuririn Fan]

Dragon Ball is loosely based on Journey to the West only in the first arc. Very loosely, and that arc is 23 out of 519 chapters.

[Lord Beerus]

Dragon Ball is loosely based on Journey to the West only in the first arc. Very loosely, and that arc is 23 out of 519 chapters.

The show still make heavy references to Wuxia tropes in later arcs.

[Kuririn Fan]

Dragon Ball is loosely based on Journey to the West only in the first arc. Very loosely, and that arc is 23 out of 519 chapters.

The show still make heavy references to Wuxia tropes in later arcs.

Yes, but you were talking about Journey to the West.

[Hellspawn28]

Even DB Evolution made more money in China than Japan so it can't be that unpopular.

DBE had Stehpen Chow being a producer and Chow Yun-fat as one of the major roles in the movie. Those two seem to be popular over there. Not to mention, Fox spend a lot of money marketing the movie over in China. It's like how The Mummy 3 and Transformers 4 was mainly market for China. DBE had a lot of marketing in the US too, but I do remember China got a good promotion of DBE over there in late 2008-early 2009.

[Bullza]

Was he still the producer in the end? I remember he was involved but then I thought he dropped out of it.

Was the actress who played Mai the only Japanese person involved then? Jamie Chung is Korean American, Joon Park is Korean American, Randall Duk Kim is Korean American and James Wong is from Hong Kong.

They went about that all wrong.

[Sora Saiyan]

Is Naruto supposed to be more popular than DB in China? If numbers like that are possible for DB I have no idea why it wouldn't be given a theatrical release over there. Hopefully if/when we get another movie it will have a theatrical release in China.

[Araki]

So it's probably too late for RoF to get a Chinese release now

It probably isn't. Saint Seiya Legend of Sanctuary is from 2014 and it just got released in China 2 weeks ago. In fact it made a lot of money, too. Pretty much everything does there.

Maybe Toei will take RoF there next.

[Bullza]

Oh yeah I see it, looks like it made $5.7 million in 2 weeks. And you're right that's another Toei movie which came out all the way back in July 2014.

So I suppose there's a real possibility that it could happen. I don't know how these series compare in popularity, is DBZ more popular than Saint Seiya in China? I have no idea.

[emperior]

I don't know the numbers for Italy, but being Italian I can tell you guys it could have made a lot more money.
That's because it was dubbed by different people from those who dubbed DBZ (DBZ dubbers were based in Milan while BoG and RoF dub was made in Rome)
I know many more people would have seen it if it had the original dub, even though our Goku and Freeza died, but unfortunately the guy who dubbed Goku in BoG and RoF doesn't sound like Goku at all. New Freeza dubber was great though.

Plus the movie was in cinemas only for 3 days.

[Bullza]

I have it at making $870,000 in Italy whereas Battle of Gods made $1.285 million.

The exchange rate was part of the problem because the dollar was much stronger. Worldwide RoF did do a lot better when compared to BoG than what it appears when comparing the grosses in US dollars.

However even in local currency it was down quite a big chunk in Italy when compared to BoG for some reason.

[emperior]

I have it at making $870,000 in Italy whereas Battle of Gods made $1.285 million.

The exchange rate was part of the problem because the dollar was much stronger. Worldwide RoF did do a lot better when compared to BoG than what it appears when comparing the grosses in US dollars.

However even in local currency it was down quite a big chunk in Italy when compared to BoG for some reason.

I told you, people who saw Battle of Gods obviously noticed the dub wasn't the one we are used to, even if you could hear from the short trailer we got AND we also got this video of Vegeta's dubber who wasn't very happy with the fact he and DBZ dubbers were not chosen to dub BoG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPpPLOGDwBY


But almost no one watches trailers, people just saw a new DBZ movie and went to see it. It's like if Funimation replaced Sabat and Schmell with two new guys who don't sound like Goku and Vegeta people are used to hear AT ALL. You wouldn't expect the movie after that to be watched by many people except for die-hard fans like myself and kids who never saw DBZ.
We still have hope for Super though as it should be dubbed at Milan were all DBZ dubbers we had still work.

[Bullza]

So, I suppose a lot of people may have forgotten about this, Resurrection F came out in Germany on the 8th.

http://www.insidekino.de/DTop10/16/DTop16SEP8.htm

It sold 19,892 tickets and made €267,954. That ranks it as #12 in amount of tickets sold and #7 in gross which isn't bad considering it had far less theatres and showings compared to any of the other movies in the top 20.

If Google is right that translates to $301,000 which is more than it made in UK and Spain.

It also puts the movie at $63.18 million worldwide as well. Now we just need to see if it comes out in China or not which rumour has it would be in October if true.

[nickzambuto]

So basically, the movie was incredibly successful, even moreso than the incredibly successful BoG, right?

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

So basically, the movie was incredibly successful, even moreso than the incredibly successful BoG, right?

Indeed it was, highest grossing Dragon Ball film to date.

[nickzambuto]

So basically, the movie was incredibly successful, even moreso than the incredibly successful BoG, right?

Indeed it was, highest grossing Dragon Ball film to date.

But is that impressive overall? Like, did it bring Toei a lot of profit? How does it compare to other films in the genre?

[Bullza]

It was more successful than Battle of Gods and by a bigger margin than people think. Resurrection F had a real disadvantage when it came to exchange rate which kept the overall worldwide gross down when you look at in dollars.

Battle of Gods and Resurrection F both made $31 million in Japan even though the latter made 25% more in Yen. In Brazil the movie made more in local currency but less in US dollars. That's what's important, as long as the movie makes more in local gross then they'll push the next one more.

Had the exchange rate been the exact for Resurrection F as it was for Battle of Gods it would have made a good amount more than $63 million. For starters it would have made about $39 million Japan instead of just $31 million.

But is that impressive overall? Like, did it bring Toei a lot of profit? How does it compare to other films in the genre?

The movie supposedly cost $5 million so for it to make over 12 and half times that much, someone is gonna profit. As for how it compares to other movies, very well.

Resurrection F made ¥3.74 billion. The Bleach movies all made between ¥550-760 million. The non canon Naruto movies made roughly around ¥1 billion while the last two canon movies made about ¥2-2.5 billion. The Toriko, Fairy Tail and Hunter x Hunter movies made less than what the Bleach movies made. The Pokémon movies nowadays make between ¥2-3 billion.

Only the Detective Conan and One Piece movies make more money. Film Gold just passed ¥5 billion though it is significantly down from Film Z which made about ¥6.9 billion.

[Bullza]

It was previously mentioned a couple months ago that China was getting a Resurrection F theatre release slated for October. I found this posted by the same user on the same Chinese forum posted only yesterday with the subject heading translated as "New theatre version of the Dragon Ball z to the Mainland".

I don't know if this is fully legit or what the writing on the poster says though it does look like it's related to Resurrection F so if anyone who understands it can confirm or translate it that'd be helpful.

But it if is legit then the movie is apparently coming out in 10 days and it has some potential there.

[Bullza]

Yeah it's official. Got a confirmation from a Chinese (?) user on here and it's also listed in the upcoming release schedule on this Chinese movie site.

https://movie.douban.com/subject/25931246/

The big question now is just how much will it make. This could be the second or third biggest market for the movie.

As a comparisonSaint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary made $5.7 million there this year and Boruto the Movie made $15.4 million.

They've had to wait much longer for the movie compared to Boruto though it's a similar time for Saint Seiya. I don't know how popular DBZ is in China but you'd think it'd make more than Saint Seiya.

Hopefully it'll be enough to push the movie over $70 million worldwide.