Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron's Alita: Battle Angel

The budget was $170 million, excluding marketing cost

Enjoy a short interview with Kizuna Ai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK1upyDagaI

That Taiwanese box office is impressive.

Well... apparently, this movie is the reason there hasn't been a redone anime series over the past 20 years. James Cameron owns the rights to all adaptations of the work. So I wouldn't get my hopes up.

What? How? Did he just buy all of it with his Avatar money? Is he that much of a fanboy he couldn't just have all the collectables, he had to get the actual rights to adaptations?

I think he bought it with his Titanic money, actually.

Most likely because he wanted to keep control over the franchise he kicked off.

I get that he'd have the rights to the movie franchise, but how can that block an anime adaptation? The series doesn't even have the same title in Japan…

As far as I'm aware, Cameron only owns the film rights to Alita.

So it really shouldn't be an issue if someone in Japan wants to make ovas or a series.

Looking at the latest box office numbers, I'm glad the movie looks to be moving further and further away from the risk of being a financial failure; yet, it still looks like a modest success with little hope for a sequel, unless Cameron manages to get leverage if the future Terminator and Avatars are smash hits, coupled with some openness from the future mouse overlord. Sometimes I think it may have suffered from being released in this transition period for Fox. I wonder how it could have fared, was it produced for a 2020 release: under the Disney umbrella, hot on the heels of a newest, Cameron-backed Terminator while anticipating the new Avatar quadrilogy. Yet, you can consider any factor but there are times movies that may have deserved more success, simply just don't manage to attract enough public no matter what.

At the risk of raising controversy, something that makes me a little sad is that apparently there are many people who only like the movie, as a way to criticize another movie that will not say the name, but you can imagine what it is.

Ah yeah, afirming Alita is not political unlike Captain Marvel.

Because a floating city for the elite, with a dystopic town under its shadow, subservient to it and whose inhabitants long for ascension, lacks any sort of undertone...

At the risk of sounding inflammatory I think the main reasons a lot of the Captain Marvel bashers are latching onto Alita are that it lets them point and say "See? I'm not bashing CM because it stars a woman!"

Not that I'm downplaying any of Alita's qualities, it's a great film, but I've seen at least one semi-famous conservative pundit pull a total 180 on his opinion about Alita purely so that he can bash Brie Larson without being accused of hating movies with female leads.

So basically being an thoughless scumbag.

Don't worry, I think most of us are with you on that one. The bizarre way certain people have latched onto this film just to shit on CM is gross.

I finally got around to seeing Alita and I had a blast with it. It was a ton of fun spotting the scenes that are right out of the manga.

It would be best indeed if this film which is not about a pre-existing film franchise, was not involved in the controversies of big franchises.

Box-office update: the film has now grossed 382M$ worldwide, so it might actually break the 400M threshold (which Captain Marvel shattered in a single weekend, but let's not spit in the soup ).

Interestingly, it grossed more than Wonder Woman in China and almost as much in France.

Edited by Lyendith on Mar 11th 2019 at 4:08:59 PM

What do you expect, it a Marvel movie, they always get profit. I care little about whether a movie is feminist or not but if i have to compare the 3 movies( Captain Marvel, WW and Alita) i think i like Alita more than those other 2 cause it something new compare to standard superhero film.

Marvel movies, plus she's hinted at being a big part of Endgame. Cards are stacked in Captain Marvel's favour when it's an integral part of a decade long cinematic universe.

Why does it have to be a competition?

By all means silence the alt right, but we should be celebrating both films, not putting them against each other. That’s what the trolls want. Fight above their level, not on it.

It's not really a competition, it's just not that odd to compare the two. We have two movies adapted from comics who came out almost at the same time, with super-powered female leads who are related to a military force not from Earth and learn stuff about their past along the way. It's one hell of a coincidence when you think about it. >.>

Now I don't really care about CM, personally, just reading spoilers here and there in case some of it is relevant to Endgame.

I'll go see CM, though I have low expectations since two of the reviewers I follow gave it kinda mediocre/low scores.

And reviewers i follow gave it a rave review and i enjoyed myself, so much so i saw it twice.

Anyway, i loved both Alita and Captain Marvel.

Sounds like excuses, since the haters were going on about how it would flop.

And just being a Marvel film doesn't guarantee being huge at the box office. Captain Marvel already broke a few records over the course of it's debut weekend.

Edited by Cortez on Mar 11th 2019 at 4:26:23 AM

Nope, even greatest haters predicted it will make money beforehand

As for Alita China getting this movie for another month with uncut version.

Edited by Tenzen12 on Mar 11th 2019 at 11:44:53 AM