Last numbers I saw had the movie at just over 19 million dollars and still short of the 2 million admissions mark. It even fell out the top ten at the box office this past week, which means it only made a couple of hundred thousand dollars more at most. I think it's run is pretty much over until it gets released overseas.
Thanks! Assuming the number is correct, let's try to derive the number of admissions based on the average ticket price.
A movie ticket in Japan costs somewhere between JPY 1000 - JPY 2000. Using the figure from DBZ movie I mentioned above, we'll get an average ticket price of JPY 1400-ish. Let's then apply this number against that USD 19 million gross, include also the exchange rate, you will then get a figure of.... roughly 1.6 million viewers --someone with calculator, please help this auntie's lousy math;)
1.6 million viewers after a month plus, and no longer in top 10. A very far number from the 2 million free/giveaway copies.
I bet they are currently thinking how to finish up the freebies;)
Don't be fooled with the top grossing claims. It is entirely pointless if you *gross* a lot, but can't even break even. They can't even give away all the freebies, let's not talk about profit...
I'm not sure who has the idea to get such amount of freebies (indicating the minimum numbers they need to meet). 2 million viewers is a lot for Naruto franchise. Even a single volume of manga didn't sold that much... And no single Naruto movie ever garners such ticket sales.
Unless of course, they needed to cover the financial lost that previous movie made (the last).
Which explains why Gaiden's plot was pointless and poorly written. Which also explain why the main canon pairings are hardly shown in the movie or in the short chapter. Not to mention the recent attempt to bait ns fans on RTN in the anime...
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