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Lang said that "Godzilla 2000" outgrossed both "Shall We Dance?" and
"Pokemon: The First Movie." Right on the first count, wrong on the second.
The Godzilla film grossed about $10 million in the US, the Pokemon film,
about $85 million -- ain't no comparison. Total US gross for "Shall We
Dance?," BTW, was $9.6 million.

Mark Schilling

> >I remember all the hype a couple years ago over "Princess Mononoke," when
> >not a few people (including yours truly) were predicting that it would
> >replace "Shall We Dance?" as the most successful Japanese film ever
released
> >in the US box office. Didn't happen, unfortunately -- but no one then
> >suggested that PM might not qualify for this distinction because most
prints
> >were dubbed. Something to do, perhaps, with PM being regarded as a
> >masterpiece -- while the Pokemon films are regarded as being critically
> >beneath contempt?
>
>
> In the US "Godzilla 2000" outgrossed "Shall We Dance" and "Pokemon the
> First Movies" far more than those two combined but that's one reason
> there's a distinction between foreign-language and foreign films.  They're
> marketed and perceived differently (meaning Pokemon is barely considered
> foreign and Godzilla quaintly so).  Not a hard and fast distinction except
> for Oscar eligibility but just a way to approach some of the way this
works
> in various markets.
>
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