Box Office Mojo has revealed the live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s cyberpunk post-apocalyptic manga Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita) has earned over $40 million in 5 days at the box office.
The live-action adaptation movie ranked #1 in the US in its opening weekend with an estimated $8,716,232 earnings on the opening day last Thursday, with a per-screen average of $2,300 in over 3,790 theaters.
The film is currently listed with an estimated foreign gross of $94,369,663, with an estimated worldwide total of $130,885,895.
It actually isn’t that bad, compared to other anime Live Action adaptions.
A good deal is faithful to the original manga and I wouldn’t mind seeing more.
Plus they had full Alita nudity. You could see all her bits and bolts. 🙂
I thought it was ok but a bit disappointing. It’s main problems was no real character development and there was too many plot threads going on in the beginning and way too fast.
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She meets Hugo the day after she’s switched on and it just kept jumping from one scene to another with too many characters being thrown at you I think if they pushed the Hugo arc to a bit later in the movie it might’ve been better. Honestly Hugo and his street chums annoyed me. Why were they all so good looking and clean while living in the slums, plus they were oddly well informed on Historical events that happened 200 years before. In the manga Hugo is younger, more immature and naive plus doesn’t really have strong feelings for Alita. It’s more a silly one sided crush from Alita who’s impressed with Hugo and his big dreams which are born from a dark obsession. In the movie it’s never really explained why Hugo wants to see the floating city so badly that he’s just about throw away his life. There’s other stuff that annoyed me such as the boring villains who are way more interesting and less black and white in the manga.
No, it’s an awful movie that spits on the original.
No, your problem, Chen, is you’re incapable of enjoying anything outside of cartoons made in Japan and like to revel in your own path-etic and sad existence.
Battle Angel Alita is not only good, is by far the absolute best anime to live action adaptation ever made.
Actually chen doesnt enjoy anything, he is the sasuke of this site, but still cant accept that nintendo owns the pokemon company
y,know chen-04 can’t appreciate anything sometimes huh way too cynical my friend.
What’s more cancerous than a hipster? An otaku hipster.
I like you, you can call me chen. Nintendo doesn’t own Pokémon the way they own Mario and Zelda. Saying Nintendo owns Pokémon is therefore wrong.
For you, that is Chen-04. And you’re welcome to pronounce the number in Japanese. I’m also perfectly capable of enjoying things outside of chinese cartoons. One of my favorite movies is Falling Down with Michael Douglas.
Saying such and such is the best anime to live-action adaption isn’t saying much. I could even agree with you on that part. It’s still s♥♥t, though. It’s like saying such and such movie has the best story out of all porn movies ever made. The competition isn’t all that noteworthy.
Hey chen. Can I call you chen? I will call you chen regardless.
So you didn’t like that movie. And that anon above you liked that movie. But it seems that you think your opinion is the only correct opinion here. That you is the only rightful, and therefore the better human being around here? Because no worthy human could ever like that piece of s♥♥t movie, right?
Congratulations, chen. You are part of the biggest world’s problem. And that anon too. Oh, and don’t bother replying, since Sancom “update” I can’t check if I have replies to my comment so I won’t ever return to this thread to check on you.
Bye chen. Nice knowing ya chen.
Never seen Falling down starring michael douglas but the low 73% Rotten Tomatoes and 56% Metacritic scores doesn’t help.
Definitely did better than the pundits predicted initially. Hoping it continues to defy the odds, I’d like to see sequels happen.
I see the same it wasn’t a bad movie at all.
Pundits? s♥♥t realized it was going to bomb horribly so spent 50+++ million on advertising including “PEOPLE BEHIND AVATAR MADE THIS, LOOK AT IT, IT’S BEAUTIFUL!” commercials non stop and a long Super Bowl ad that probably cost them 10 million alone.
10 seconds of god’s talent actor best of the best of actor in humanity ENorton was 20 million salary from the budget… 10 fckng seconds. f♥♥k you NORTON, and all those tv starz who ripoff peasant poor directors with cool ideas for their movie adaptations !!!
Awesome news, loved the movie glad to see many others did too.
Loved it as well. Best fight scenes I have ever seen in any movie so far.
f♥♥k me, you need to see some more films.
That’s really impressive
With the reported budget & marketing expenses for a movie of this size it will need at least double its production budget to break even. Not to mention studios only receive a tiny fraction back from ticket sales in China, so if it does really well there Fox won’t see a huge benefit.
That’s why I can’t see it breaking even or producing a profit during its run. But James Cameron won’t care as he has his Avatar sequels.
I know some people may think if the movie with its $170 million budget makes $170 million it has broken even, well thats not true! Anyone remember 47 Ronin? It came out in 2013 and had a budget of $175 million. It grossed $152 million at the boxoffice and lost the studio $152 million. It was noted as one of the biggest box office bombs ever.