2007 stats

[Eija Niskanen]

It was also interesting to see the effect of star power in the light
of those stats. Kimura Takya stars in two of the top ten box office
Japanese films, Hero and Bushi no ichibun.
Eija

On Feb 1, 2008 10:18 AM, Oscar Perez <oscar.asianaffairs at gmail.com> wrote:
> First, I should apologie for my english,
>
>  I´m just a japanese cinema "aficionado" from Spain, but seeing those
> numbers form the MPPA of Japan I can only think of being looking just a part
> of the picture. With the new distribution channels, movies don´t relay as
> much as they used to in the theather run. Does the MPPA of Japan release any
> number regarding DVD sales and rentals, VOD, TV runs, cable, etc?
>
>  If I recall correctly the USA box office has remain revereal year now in
> the sub 10 billon mark (9,8 was 2007 number I think). Also the DVD
> sales/rentals slowly declined (23 billions). In the other hand downloadeable
> market experimented a healthy growth (0,6 bill to a estmation of 1,6 in
> 2008), also the HD movies market appeared in the radar (a mere 0,3 bill).It
> would be interesting to see the trend in those and other new areas in Japan.
>
>  The figures realeased shouldn´t worry the MPPA. Toho just missed 4 bill in
> one of their top 5 movies. 15 movies in both years above 2 bill and 29
> (2007) vs 28 (2006) movies above 1 bill. Good health and good trend to
> continue.
>
>  Once again, excuse my english.
>
>  Óscar Pérez Alba
>  Madrid, Spain
>
>
>
> 2008/1/31, Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>:
> > Just a quick note, but the Motion Picture Producers Association of
> > Japan released their statistics for the film industry for 2007.
> >
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