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NEWS: Girls & Panzer Film Expands to 153 Screens, Adds More 4DX Screenings

Will be the biggest late night anime movie ever at this rate.

If all goes well, it may even have a chance of surpassing Love Live

That's just nuts. It'll be out on BD in less than 2 weeks and it's still showing on 150+ screens? Curious to see if it'll have higher first week sales than the Love Live movie. I'm thinking 200k first week sales is quite possible.

It seems that the film of Girls und Panzer was bringing in such huge revenues that they decided to finally go out all. If all goes well, it may even have a chance of surpassing Love Live.

I'm shocked that the discs with very well known stock issues did not hit the first-week sales estimation which did not take into account stock issues. I'm kinda surprised something didn't even remember that. It's not like it was that long ago and he wrote a ton of posts regarding the stock issues.

The only thing that didn't have stock issues was the OVA and that had 36k first week BD sales when the estimate was 40k. That'd be about a 10% overestimation, so not sure where something is getting the 37.8% number. I honestly hope that's just a troll account due to how completely wrong that post is.

Data is easily verified at here for first week sales and here for the OVA BD estimate on stalker (it's the red numbers near the bottom).

Megiddo wrote:

That's just nuts. It'll be out on BD in less than 2 weeks and it's still showing on 150+ screens? Curious to see if it'll have higher first week sales than the Love Live movie. I'm thinking 200k first week sales is quite possible.

Statistically, all GaruPan's BD releases have been massively overestimated by Amazon Stalker despite strong sales at storefront stores such as Animate, gamers, softmap, etc:
https://twitter.com/somekindofthing/status/732292112927076353

Let's say the movie BDs will be overestimated by ~30%, then that would mean a 190,000 Stalker estimate is ~135,000 in reality. However, the event ticket bundled with the BDs, might make the degree of overestimation less than 30%. I agree this could be close, but Bandai Visual wins in the end anyway, as they also distributed the Love Live! movie.

Mr. Oshawott wrote:

It seems that the film of Girls und Panzer was bringing in such huge revenues that they decided to finally go out all. If all goes well, it may even have a chance of surpassing Love Live.

I would love to see Love Live! and GaruPan as #1 and #2 in the highest grossing late-night Anime movies list, but GaruPan's chances of reaching 2.86 billion yen are quite slim unless it stays at the Box Office for another 10~15 weekends. It hasn't even hit 2 billion yen yet after 26 weekends, and it hit 1.9 billion yen around 3 weekends ago. The gross performance severely dropped off from weekend 18 to 23, so my 10~15 weekends estimate might be even too generous. Nevertheless, it is very likely Madoka 3 will be toppled in the coming weekends, as it "only" grossed 2.08 billion yen.

Now, hopefully the KanColle movie (one of my other favourite franchises) can do this well at the Box Office, because its Anime BD sales was a big disappointment. Even KADOKAWA expressed their disappointment in its Anime BD sales in one of their press releases.

Now, hopefully the KanColle movie (one of my other favourite franchises) can do this well at the Box Office, because its Anime BD sales was a big disappointment. Even KADOKAWA expressed their disappointment in its Anime BD sales in one of their press releases.