Dragon Ball Evolution tops Box Office in Asia!
March 16, 2009 by Toonleap
Filed under Live Action, News
Dragon ball Evolution opens in Asia with good Box Office Results! Considering the novelty quality of the movie and heavy marketing campaign made by FOX, expectations from thousand of fans and that the Dragon Ball franchise is well known around the world, it is not a surprise at all.
Live-Action Dragonball Opens at #1 in 5 Asian Markets
The Hollywood Reporter newspaper reports that the live-action Dragonball: Evolution film opened as the #1 movie in five of the eight Asian markets in which it opened this past weekend. James Wong and 20th Century Fox’s adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s fighting manga made US$10.106 million on 2,118 screens to rank as the #4 film outside North America for the weekend. (According to Box Office Mojo, two of the three higher grossing films, Marley and Me and Gran Torino, opened in 34 and 27 markets, respectively.)
It was the top-grossing film in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. According to the Screen International magazine’s website, the US$3.4 million box office take in 855 theaters in China was Fox’s fourth highest opening weekend in that market. It also delivered Fox’s third highest opening weekend in Malaysia with US$731,441 on 110 screens.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the film opened at #2 in Japan with US$3.3 million on 540 screens, but Kogyo Tsushinsha reports the film was #3 in Japan, below the live-action Yatterman film and the Doraemon: Shin Nobita no Uchū Kaitakushi (Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s How Space Was Won, New Edition) anime. Similarly, Screen International reports that it opened at #2 in South Korea with US$1.2 million on 280 screens, but The Korea Times newspaper reports it was #1. The movie opened in South Korea on March 12, two days before the actual start of the weekend. It will open in the United Kingdom on April 3 and then open in the United States on April 8.
Source: ANN
One thing is getting there at the Box Office and another thing is to remain there enough time to make lots of cash and make a sequel with it´s success. There are already some reviews (watch out for spoilers) and unfortunately it seems, according for what I read, that this movie is terrible in its adaptation and performance. I can´t do an objective criticism until I watch it myself or read more reviews before doing a final statement but it seems the fans were right long way before the movie opened. This movie sure will make tons of cash but Kami sama help us if they do a sequel with a terrible product.
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Hm.. Very quiet in here, but awesome news!!
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Dragonball Evolution is a horrible movie. They spent 100 million dollars to make this movie and it’s worse then a 10 thousand dollar movie.
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Gary Reply:
April 18th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Do you think that there is a chance for a sequel?
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Even thought it is suppose to suck should I go and see it just to try to pitch in? I know it takes more than just one person to help with a sequel I just dont want to waste my money and there won’t be one.
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If they needed to make a sequel because the first movie didn’t do so good then there is no point in making the movie at all. There is plenty of movies that did very good before they made a sequel. Starwars episode 4 is a good example it was a great movie it didn’t need a sequel to be good because it was great on it’s on. Honestly do you think a dragonball sequel would do well? The first one is full of plot holes and mistakes and they turned piccolo into some vampire darth vader type monster.
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