Dawn of a New Era

>>85767028
god damn it

>Sony

Dear fucking god

>Sony
Jesus H. Christ

>>85767028
>Sony
Hahahahahahah

>>85767233
Sony is Aniplex. They produce anime like Fullmetal Alchemist, Blood: The Last Vampire, Persona 4: The Animation, Birdy the Mighty, Angel Beats!, Rurouni Kenshin, Charlotte, Black Butler, Bleach, DBZ, the list goes on.

That's a nice source you got OP.

>>85767028
>Sony

my lord.

>>85767350
Sony music owns Aniplex not Sony Pictures the division that bought Funimation.

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Cast em

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>Sony Pictures

So does that mean DBZ movies written by Amy Pascal?

Does this mean there will be a changeup in how the One Piece anime is handled? Because it literally cant get any worse.

>>85767608
Idris Elba and Melissa McCarthy

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>>85767028

>SONY

>>85767608

Idris Elba playing both parts.

>>85767608
Idris Elba and Tom Holland

>>85767608
Paul Dano and Dan DeHaan

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We are fucked. We are so fucked.

Why didn't Disney do more with the Ghibli films they had the rights to back in the day? Spirited Away was a massive critical success, borke records in japan, and came out at the height of the US's affair with anime, and Disney buried in until the surprise Oscar win. If they couldn't make anime acceptable for normies at that very moment then nobody can.

>No link

>>85767028
prease no.

>>85767673
I still don't believe this is a real thing.

>>85768184
>>85767673
nvm I thought you meant the forthcoming live action One Piece series

>>85767028
Ah yes, very good.
However, you are a liar.

>>85767511
Sony music is owned by Sony Entertainment

>>85768106
2d doesn't make money outside japan

>>85768479
maybe it would if someone were to put serious money into promotion

>>85768106
>and Disney buried in until the surprise Oscar win.
I don't know. They spent a lot of time and money doing quality dubs with recognizable actors doing the v/o.
But you have to remember studio executives are like a decade behind the times at best and anime was still niche despite a few breakouts.
Ultimately, they also compete against their own brand. The last thing you want to do is advertise how nips are making better animated movies than the godfather of the animation industry, right? That's just my speculation obviously, but I don't think the reasoning is flawed.

>>85768633
Oh that's exactly what they did. I think the success of Pixar and Shrek at Dreamworks really spooked them, and they tried to nip anime in the bud quickly.

>>85768304
>>85768127
>>85767406
http://www.sonypictures.com/corp/press_releases/2017/07_17/073117_funimation.html

>>85768540
Promotion of what? Do you have any idea of how expensive a wide release is? National advertising on television and radio? Viral marketing campaigns online? To advertise a cartoon that's going to alienate a big portion of your general audience for being a cartoon? One that you can't market to little kids because of the subject matter?
Who do you market it to, and how? Maybe a handfull of neckbeards on 4chan would shill it and be legitimately hyped, but those are the kind of basement dwellers that don't go see movies, probably because they already pirated it when it was released in Japan, and just want to complain about how bad the dubs are?
I was a professional artist for a while, and I've always had a soft spot for comics and animation because that's what first sparked my interest in drawing and painting. So I'd love to see a movie with a huge budget and a great animation studio and director behind it get made and do really well, but I'm certainly not representative of the general audience at large.
So how much money do you spend marketing, and to whom?

>>85769075
why not include that in the OP?
also fuck shit goddammit cock cockels cockless spunk spooge ass

>>85767028
>Sony is about to get the head-start on live-action anime adaptations.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it means that at all. Funimation doesn't make shit, they just own the rights to sell that media in the US legally.
Licensing is an entirely different thing, right?

>>85769492
>Funimation doesn't make shit, they just own the rights to sell that media in the US legally. Licensing is an entirely different thing, right?
Correct. Though, unlike Funimation, Sony has the means to produce films and would it really be that difficult to negotiate with the IP owners?

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>>85770086
>Hi, this is Amy Pascall with sony pictures. We're just calling because we wondered if you would let us make a movie of your... Hello?

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>>85767028
>Sony pictures will waste their little remaining money and go bankrupt even quicker, and have less chance of making a gem that saves them

>>85767814
Is he taking after Eddie Murphy?

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>>85767028
>Sony Pictures
Fucking no, please god don't let this happen.

Amy Pascal Strikes Back

>>85767608
any afro american actor
by following the SJW wave