Bad Timing, Sony Pictures

Any thoughts, /a/?

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>>160582483
>Linking kotaku

Why should I care?

fuck off nigger

There's another thread up already ass bandit read the fucking catalog

>not using the catalog
>using Kotaku
>posting about Funi to begin with
You're doing literally everything wrong, OP.

>>160582483
>brutally panned
Really?

>>160582483
>The Emoji Movie got brutally panned
>still number 2 behind only Dunkirk
You give the general public too much credit.

>>160582483
How come 95 percent and not 100 percent?

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>>160582483
>Kotaku

>>160582483
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

>>160582483

>Aniplex of America does business in US
>AofA is owned by Aniplex from Japan
>Aniplex is owned by Sony
>Sony Pictures buy most of Funimation

What will happen next?

>>160584024
>acquires horriblesubs
Checkmate

>>160582624
Was at ZERO percent on Rotten Tomatoes for the first day or two. Only just now did it reach SIX percent. Critics and every third rate reviewer was eager as fuck to tear it a new one.

>>160584175
I've only seen the trailer, but it seems to be a really generic "feel good" kid animation movie. It is not The Room. Massively hating on it is pure mob mentality, I'm sure.

>>160584175
Well of course that trash was going to get panned by critics, it was made to make money off of the general public by being an animated kids movie that utilized popular culture to draw lots of people in.

It made money, it did it's job. The critical reception means very little (the only way it's bad is that some more informed people might read movie reviews before they blindly consume then will decide not to see it, but 95 percent of people this movie is targeted at won't do that).

>>160584256
The Room is a cult classic/case study made by a then litterally-who studio.
The Emoji Movie is corporate checklist trash made by a multi million dollar company.
I've read a full plot summary. It's pretty much the WORST version of Wreck-it-Ralph.

>>160584175
internet bandwagon will do that

most likely its just a forgettable movie

>>160584024
More Fate.

>>160584715
It's actually insultingly bad. Give it a go, "forgettable" is likely to be the understatement of the year.

>>160582483
>linking to kotaku
What, you one of those who think that archiving pages is racist?
https://archive.fo/Lktsk

No one gives a shit about film reviews. They're even less relevant than game reviewers which is why the last twenty years of film critique has been poorly crafted op-eds about society and uneducated film theory.

If reviews mattered good movies would still be made and superhero films would have never taken off.

>>160582483
>Reminder: This was announced not long after The Emoji Movie got brutally panned.
Why is this relevant?

>>160582483
Does this mean they'll fuck over the whole voice cast in Texas?

find it funny something thinks they can make money off anime in the west.

>>160584901
90% of people in the west, pirate anime.

>>160582515
what thoughts?
everyone just torrents fansubs and rips anyways

RIP Toonami

>>160584889
Hopefully. Funimation modern dubs are worse than fucking mid 90s dubs.

>>160584658
You know exactly what I mean. Yes, it's a textbook checklist comitee movie, like every other one that hollywood churns out every week.
But this one uses something popular with the young teen generation as a pandering hook, and that makes all the not so young anymore pan it as the worst thing ever

>>160584786
Who the fuck cares

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>>160582537
Karen is not for racist comments

There's a difference between Sony Pictures and Sony Pictures Television.

One makes Emoji's and the other makes Breaking Bad and airs Jeopardy every single day.

does that mean there'll be even more sjw agendas shoehorned into the funimation dubs?

>>160585162
>the other makes Breaking Bad
and they haven't struck gold since.

>>160584901
You are extremely delusional if you don't think there is a market for dubs, streams, and DVDs/BDs in the west

>>160585092
we don't want to give you clicks, kotaku.

>>160585092
Kotaku employees.

>>160585195
Yes all anime subs will have misandric propaganda in every single line. Sorry bucko time to find a new hobby I guess

>>160582483
How does this matter in any way

Does this mean The Boondocks is Anime?

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>>160582483
Sorry, but I'm not clicking a kotaku link.

>>160585291
>watch Persona 5 anime dvd
>"Watch out #ResistancePhantoms! Donald "Shido" Trump is going to cast masukunda!"

>>160585498
What can't the skeleton jazz wizards corrupt now I can't like video games or anime

Meanwhile, Sony's profits quadrupled in in Q1 FY2017.

>>160585291
>"oh thank god a beach episode! I'll just unzip this and get to fa-"
>[SCENE REDACTED]

The only thing I see happening is they remove anime they already own from Netflix like Father and Kenshin and put it into Funimation. Though it'd be stupid to remove anime off Netflix.

>>160584256
The room sucked ass.

>>160585675
>Father
Fate/Stay

>>160585718
How do you mistype that like that? Get a fucking grip anon.

>>160585628
>beating your meat to a scene broadcast on Japanese TV
u know what a booru is right

>>160585718
Nice freaudian slip anon.

>That movie about n korea with that fat "comedian"
>Ghostbusters remake
>Emoji movie


I dont get it. Why are they trying so hard to make shit movies?

>>160586080
They aren't, they're following statistics like ants running for a sugar cube. They think that by following some in-house study and building entire movies around those numbers will get them the most money.
Box office tends to disagree most of the times. Ghostbusters bombed, but if you thought Japan was fucking retarded for having Love Live or Granblue sell as much as they do, Americans and Chinese are even worse. Emoji movie actually managed to box its expectation which just goes to show how people will buy tickets for even the lowest common denominator of complete garbage.

>>160585735
He is a dumb phone poster.

>>160582483
Why would anyone buy this trash?

>>160585128
Fuck off back to kotaku, faggot.

>>160585549
You're already fucked if you buy funi dvd and watch dubs. You get what you deserve.

>>160586710
Because streaming services make lots of money, and generation X, Y, and Z are becoming purely digital natives.
More and more people just don't bother buying physical discs anymore, simply because there's so fucking much movies, series, cartoons and documentaries around, and with the internet being so widespread and fast, there's practically no need to physically insert a disc inside a playing device.
Best to have an early leg on by acquiring a streaming suite that works.

>>160587168
I don't think associating themselves with Funimation of all things was a better move than just starting from scratch.

>>160586438
>retarded for having Love Live
LL is great though. Fuck you.

>>160587198
Eh, one of the reasons why they bought Funimation is of course because of its already-existing dubbed anime library.

>>160587312
Im@s is like 100x better loser.

>>160587368
Only if you mean the original(765pro). If you don't, you can fuck off and preferably kill yourself.

>>160587536
Fuck off loser all of Im@s is amazing.
Haruka and Uzuki are best girls

>>160587579
I'll give you a pass for knowing about Haruka. You can still redeem yourself in the future by denouncing the inferior and bland non-765 idols.

Sony bought it, not sony pictures.

>>160584901
"Nerd" culture is an all time high currently

I mean there are BnHA and Shingeki posters in the most backwoods walmart now

>>160588025
>feminazi
>cuck
kill yourself

>>160588025
can you just fuck off back to /v/?

>>160584024
Hopefully it means Funimation will have more than enough money to press their Blu-Ray discs in the U.S.

I'm tired of getting a flimsy BD with the signature "Made in Mexico" print on the ring of the disc.

Sony played a smarter game with the Emoji movie where everyone knew it was gonna be fucking awful from the announcement and then made it obvious in the first trailer how much it rips off from other recent and more successful cartoon films.
People knew it was going to be trash, but Sony tickled their morbid curiosity (I want to see how awful it gets and laugh at it) on top of easily reeling in the meme-loving phone addict crowd. And it sorta paid off in that it wasn't a commercial failure and will likely manage to pay for its production if it hasn't already.

Anyway, this doesn't seem like it's a Sony Pictures deal. Sony themselves are somewhat smarter even if every single branch of the company has been a bunch of trend whores for a couple of years now.

>>160588025
It's like I'm reading a post from 2014

>>160589118
Alternately, reading a present day /v/ post.

>>160584175
It's budget was only around $60 million, and its on track to make a profit

>>160588346
feminazi cuck detected

Would you rather see an emoji anime or a fidget spinner anime?

>>160584901
If Funimation didn't make money they would have gone out of business a decade ago.

Legal methods of getting new shows to audiences in a reasonable timeframe (aka streaming) has created a market. Sure a lot of people pirate or bootleg, but apparently there are others who do pay for it.

>>160585019
>RIP Toonami
Oh please, that shit should have stayed dead. If you honestly believe that staying up until 1 AM once a week to watch an episode of an anime that most likely aired 3-5 years ago is a great idea in 2017 then you're dumb

>>160582483
>Sony Pictures Television coasts by on syndication and stream deals for Seinfeld and Breaking Bad and just bought a big NA anime distributor
>Meanwhile their movie branch is run by old people who literally sent emails demanding Spider-Man should be listening to an MP3 player because "kids are into that"
>This is on top of their foolishly-concocted idea of trying to get Tobey Maguire back to do "Spider-Man vs. The Amazing Spider-Man" because they believed it would make "Over 2 billion" at the box office

>>160585217
Nigga they made preacher, one of the only non /a/ tv shows i actually give a shit about

>>160582868
The rest is retained by the founder of Funi.

>>160584024
Aniplex is owned by Sony Music, not Sony Pictures.

>>160592615
>Founder of Funi
I actually met him once when he gave a talk at Texas A&M. Seemed like an ok guy

>>160592482
K we've established that this isn't Sony's film division. So really, whats the purpose of this acquisition for television of all things? Original anime content? Streaming?

>>160592668
>Sony Pictures Television, Inc. (abbreviated as SPT, formerly known as Columbia TriStar Television) is an American television production and distribution studio. Based in Culver City, California, it is a division of Sony Pictures
>it is a division of Sony Pictures
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Television

>>160592668
To make money of course. That's what businesses care about.
>b-but f-fu-funi?
They make money, so if a big business like Sony which wants to make more money wants to make more money, they buy that smaller business, which then will help them make even more money.

>>160592668
I can't be sure. One crackpot theory of mine is that sony wants to start a premium tv channel with funimation content, mixed in with anime sony already owns like the marvel anime and blood+. Simuldubs could come on TV either the same day or before hitting streaming sites. Of course its all speculation but i'm not sure why they want it otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_nfdzMhmrA

looks like a fun movie
also the shit emoji look and act like Indians, nice

>>160592668
Sony has been out of the game compared to everyone else when it comes to the NA anime scene. They tried to sell a few shows for syndication back around the turn of century (most notably Rurouni Kenshin of course with the alternative title 'Samurai X' which would later be redone by Media Blasters and air on Cartoon Network)

Then they tried to launch Animax as a channel in the US, which they gave a date for years ago but nothing ever materialized.

>whats the purpose of this acquisition for television of all things?
Most anime are TV series. Probably just trying to expand their offerings.

>>160588025
>kys
You were fine until this point. Go fuck off, underage faggot.

>>160592668
Well they've been trying to break into streaming for a while with Crackle and PS Vue. Funimation probably makes more than those 2 as it already has an audience.

>everyone shits on Planes
>it's great
>everyone shits on GITS
>it's great
>everyone shits on Emoji
I know what I'm torrenting next

>>160593120
People who have seen it after reading reviews just say it's boring to watch.

>>160593509
yeah but those retards also think Transformers movies or the piece of shit that was Interstellar are good

>>160592897
Samurai X tho made it to Ibero-America, where it was a big success in Cartoon Network with almost no cuts. Later SPTN released it in the Ibero-American chapter of Animax.

>>160582483
NONONONONONONONO

You thought funis SJW shit was bad now then it's going to be 10 times fucking worse.

Fucking hell this will be horrible. It always gets worse god damn. They'll find ways to fuck this up in ways we can't even imagine.

Now that I think so...

SPTN owns what's left of what used to be the global empire of Animax. They have the English dub of Tokyo Godfathers... This could mean than that dub finally makes it to America?

>https://youtu.be/XL-OHdLIw_I

>>160594120
>funis SJW shit
like? making a GG joke?

>>160594248
That and puting feminism into maid dragon.
There's also an interview with Colleen Clinkbeard where she essentially says that ouran is great because social justice.

>>160582483
>Reminder: This was announced not long after The Emoji Movie got brutally panned.
i'm sorry did anyone ever though that movie was not going to be total shit and be brutally panned?
what kind of retardation do you have to have to think that?

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>>160592890

>>160582483
>Reminder: This was announced not long after The Emoji Movie got brutally panned.
Which Emoji movie, what is that and how is this related? Sounds like atrocious meme shit.

>>160593685
Yeah, but if those people hate emoji but love transformers, then what does that say about emoji?

>>160594294
Who cares? It's just a mediocre anime, you disgusting gamergate creep.

>>160594388
If normalfags hate it there's still at least a good chance it's a nice movie.
Those retards also like some super boring movies, so the movie being boring for them doesn't say anything.

>>160594301
yes. Sony

>>160594539
No. Chaika.

>>160594450
Do you mean ouran? Becuase maidragon is awesome, I agree with the rest tho

But Crunchyroll is leading the way

Maybe Sony will finally try to sell anime to gaijin

>>160595322
I mean exaclty what I said. She said Ouran was good because social justice.
They also put feminism into maid dragon.
Was that not clear?

>>160595406
I seriously hope they don't.

>>160595406
I seriously hope they do.

>>160584581
>>160592046
It made below half of it's budget, it's not going to be considered a success, sorry to say.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=theemojimovie.htm

>>160596043
>>160596102
They will when there is a profit, but you don't need to worry about it

>>160582483
>tfw have sony stocks
Well thanks for the good news anon.

>>160585031
>like every other one that hollywood churns out every week.
Nope, you don't know what's in the movie if you're actually saying this

>>160582483
Means absolutely nothing for people who don't buy anime or watch dubs.

How is this even news?

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I'm surprised Funi makes a profit at all honestly, They seem very unprofessional. Even when they did subs they were the worst.

>>160597518
It just is.

>>160597583
They were better than the alternative.

>>160584822
>If reviews mattered good movies would still be made and superhero films would have never taken off.
Has anyone that ever said shit like this not been showed to be an idiot by history?are you that dumb?

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>>160584155
Was this his real ultimate plan? To destroy everything else, wait for some megacorp to buy HS up, and make out like a bandit while everyone else suffers?

>>160598152
>make out like a bandit while everyone else suffers
It's called pundit.

>>160594294
I like how the people who cry about Funi being an SJW company always fall back on the same two examples because that's all they know. Meanwhile the same person who wrote the Dragon Maid dub also turned Hetalia into a /pol/ meme but no one cares.

>>160598606
Bored teenagers are just looking for something to be angry about.

>>160598606
Yes because those were released at the same time.

>>160596320
>what are overseas markets
Not saying it's good or anything, but at the end of the day it's not as big as a disaster as it looks on paper when there's a solid chance it will at least break even.

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So does this mean that Bloodborne anime is still possible?

>>160598751
No one cared when it came out either, but that's probably because they didn't have someone on /r/anime to tell them to be mad about it, like with Dragon Maid.

>>160582483
>>160584175
Emoji movie got half of its budget during its first weekend ($26m/$50m). Angry Birds movie which was also supposed to flop got $38m/$73m it's first weekend. Angry Birds eventually got $107m domestic gross and $349m worldwide. I'd say Sony Pictures has a knack to make shit movies that make money.

Also movie "critics" don't influence millennials or children.

>>160582483
Sony should've amputated Sony Pictures instead and then bought Funimation.

>>160599183
If you are 30 years old you are a millenial.

>>160599114
>/r/anime
Sounds like you should go back

>>160584921
I wish that were true... I really really wish that were true.

>>160582483
>95%

What the fucking shit?
Did Funi just beg them to buy as much as they can?

>>160584901
Well, Amazon just launched their anime streaming service so there probably is.

>>160600338
Sure anon. Let's go with that.

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>Whole thread
>8 images

At least dump some random pics to make this look like something other than reddit for fucks sake.

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>"You can't make money off anime"
>This sad clown just made $150 million selling a licensing company
Things are only going to go downhill from here.

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>>160600499
Is that Mogudan

Oh my, what a long thread

WOW, really /a/? I didn't see you bitch and moan When Sony already owned like half and showed like 60% aniplex shit since 2013. What next?, complain about own stakes from other OEMs like Nikon or Toshiba?

>>160593120
Planes was boring and predictable. GiTS was a hollow shell of the original with no soul. By your own reasoning if I watch Emoji I'm just going to be disappointed again.

>>160601000
I'm not sure. I forget who it is, used to have a bunch back before i became a non-archiving peasant.

Did chinkmoot turn down the quality of the thumbnails recently? They were never quite as bad as they look now.

Mind you, we all already had a full discussion about this.

>>160561416

>>160602441
Sony Music isn't Sony Pictures.

>>160603464
Without linking to fucking kotaku too

>>160585024
they'll all be hired by Sentai.

>>160584256
I mean, yes it is mob mentality, but it's not as though it's invalid because of that. The entire reason the mob mentality got turned against it is because they blatantly took a public domain image they thought was popular with kids, ripped off Wreck-it Ralph, and put it through the most bland checklist of corporate cliches, all while shoving in a bunch of ads for apps (don't forget to get dropbox! It's so secure!). The whole thing reeks of being a corporate cash grab with no heart or originality put into it whatsoever and no redeeming values, so naturally everyone ganged up against it. Doesn't help that the lead actor explained in an interview that he doesn't think children deserve to laugh.

>>160587705
LL is trash because doujins nowhere.

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Just got this

>>160603600
>they blatantly took a public domain image
Emojis aren't in fully public domain.

>http://www.emoji.com/

>>160603108
let's roll

>>160603796
I don't know who you are but you suck.

>>160585128
Why did someone make this into a GGG reference?
Does it actually have references in the show or something?

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>>160603041
Ah shit. Time to take a nap.

But aren't they in contract with Universal right now?

>>160603108
Replied

>>160600499
>those fucking books
Christ. My balls hurt just thinking about it.

>>160604265
For disc distribution, yes. Sony probably wants them only for their streaming.

>>160604698
Still kind of weird, since they're not changing their partnership with Crunchyroll

>>160598606

They're both retarded, and if you watch dubs, so are you.

>>160604977
He was retarded from the moment he watched anime or posted anything at all on 4chan in the first place, just like you and me.

>>160592834
Of course they're out to make money.
That's literally every company. But even if you're out to make money you still have to provide something in return worth said money.
However this doesn't stop companies from trying to deliver that something in the lowest form legally possible.

>>160582541
Copyright enforcement

>>160584901
I go to anime movies now and during the writers strike, anime was on TV and of course there's CR too with streaming rights.

>>160584921
Yet japs traffic our trackers more than we do.

>>160582727
I legit wonder how much irony-watching makes up its ticket sales, you'd think the kids would just be seeing Despicable Me 3 or something.

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First they came for the classic literature, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a man/lit/.

Then they came for the comic books, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a /co/cksucker.

Then they came for the videogames, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a /v/irgin.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

We let this happen. We let Hollywood weasel its way in. You will realize the mistake when anime studios and mangakas start actively trying to appeal to Hollywood by making easier to adapt series or one-offs. When studio heads start taking photos with "famous actors".

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I don't give a shit, they can all go bankrupt for what I care.

>unironically reading kotaku

>>160607720
Speak for yourself faggot, I don't watched homogenized garbage

>>160603796
Well, that explains why we have dub shills around

>>160607720
It's just one company in Japan. Stop the fearmongering.

>>160607906
To be fair, I was defending dubs here before I ever got any work

Who cares? If you watch dubs you deserve everything you get. Wake me up when Marvel buys the rights to One Punch Man. Then we can start the anxiety.

>>160607720
>implying Sony Studios isn't already on the verge of dying
>implying Sony owning a western distribution and dubbing company will have any effect whatsoever on the japanese animation industry
>implying the last high budget anime film didn't already flop horribly
How about being worried about the many actual problems the anime industry is facing rather than made-up ones.

>>160608103
>How about being worried about the many actual problems the anime industry is facing rather than made-up ones.
but that's all of them

>>160607973
Dub shiller and shit taste. What a surprise.