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He's just standing there...... MENACINGLY!!!
(Brownie points to who gets this one :P )
Anyway, this is a cool looking statue, although I wish they made the rest of the head.
Son Of Godzilla? What the heck is that? Is that a fanmade movie?
Dud, It was meant to be a joke.
Wow this is going to be the least attended film in the series. As a Godzilla fan since 1978 even I wasn't interested ins seeing this so I'm not surprised. Toho would have been better off putting this straight to video or direct TV.
I mean, there are soo many movies I wanted to see in theaters, but knowing they will be ready to rent in 3 or 4 months I usually just wait to see them in that way. there are only soo many movies I will go out and see in theaters. this would have been one, but since Netflix will have it at the comfort of my TV and its free already to watch, I can understand about waiting to see a movie like this.
I imagine some are just waiting to watch it on Netflix.
Yikes. I guess the goodwill from Shin Godzilla did not carry over to this one. I know a lot of factors contributed to the low numbers, but I think people in Japan just weren't interested in an anime Godzilla film. At least not one so soon after Shin, people would've found a way to see it if they really wanted to by this point.
^That's incorrect, stupid troll.
That's Biollante, stupid click bait.
UPDATE (12/04/17):
Once again World of KJ, via Kogyotsushin, reports that Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters has fallen from #5 to #7 in its third weekend. It was originally predicted to fall to #9. The movie fell 45% from its second weekend, with just $228,000 over the third. Its current total is now $3 Million with an estimated attendance of 164,300.
Unless its legs are unusually strong in the next few weeks, it may struggle to even hit $4 Million at this point.
It kind of reminds me of a an old dogs head.. resting on your lap.. just gazing in a direction.. and I can just see it.. a hand petting it's head as it rests there.. that is what I see.. when I look at this image longer.
It looks very peaceful and calm.. not scary at all.
It's been up since mid November. Not sure what's so "exceedingly unusual" about it; Japan has a giant Godzilla head on a hotel, at least two bronze Godzilla statues, a giant Godzilla slide in a park... A giant inflatable head is about as "exceedingly ususual" as the giant Santa on the roof of the car dealership down the street from my apartment.
But it is pretty awesome.
thanks guys. even though he didn't want to back down from his original "opinion" about Godzilla movies, he now takes back what he said on a geographic stand. what ever he was trying to cover his ass with.
but I was able to prove a point to a non-Godzilla fan. thanks to you guys.
huh? interesting I guess. I would be excited to see that around my city!
Legion is gonna kick there ass.
Legion is way more powerful than the megalon and gigan. ghidorah might put up a good fight. but these monsters don't hold up any chance againt Legion and Irys.
so this shows up on Starz? I hafta check it out.
If you replaced either Gigan or Megalon with MechaGodzilla I would say the showa Godzilla monsters but with the monsters being used probably Legion and Irys.
Why are they fighting? What is the human plot?
Sci-Fi King25,
No information was given about which language the audio would be in.
Are they dubbed or subtitled?
Saw some concept art the Humanoids start looking more human female and sexy as time goes by...Japanese in a movie what a shock... How much you want to bet they need human mates...
Another new chapter. Godzilla fights a monster.
Thank you for the updates on this.
I still think Toho's already made up whatever budget this project had simply through making a worldwide deal with Netflix. That just can't be a cheap deal, especially if the movie is going to be streamed in every territory.
Netflix is deploying an $8 billion programming plan next year and Godzilla is one of 30 anime projects (read: projects not simply movies) involved. Do you really think Toho isn't going to milk whatever cut of that they can?
I paired Godzilla vs King Ghidorah with Rebirth of Mothra 3. A double Ghidorah mash. I like that Rebirth 3 reminds us that originally King Ghidorah wasn't just Godzilla's worst enemy, he was Mothra's as well.
Which leads me to ask a legit question, is Rebirth of Mothra in canon with the Heisei Godzilla series in anyway? If it is, I have way more questions.
So upon watching Godzilla, Mothra Battle for Earth, I realize that in the ending Mothra goes out into outer space to stop an asteroid from hitting Earth. Battra wanted to stop it but Mothra kept her promise and went out to stop it.
My fan theory is that that asteroid is Spacegodzilla coming to Earth. Mothra realizes that she cant stop Spacegodzilla and turns herself into Fairy Mothra to go back to Earth to warn Miki of the on coming space monster. The series never comments on Mothra stopping the asteroid so I assume we know its Spacegodzilla. Therefore my theory is that Biollante is the culprit for creating Spacegodzilla, not Mothra.
Just throwing this out there for discussion.
I think Netflix will make up for this bad box office numbers. Unless the douchebags at the FCC get their way with stabbing away at net neutrality. hopefully that never happens and we still have Netflix in this mix.
The long game as far as budget is concerned was also something I was curious about. I imagine that since most of the models for characters/monsters have already been made, the budget for the next film will be considerably smaller since half of the work is already done as far as making the models and animations.
I would guess that this movies theatrical release was meant to offset any sort of cost from changing the entire production from a television series to a trilogy. Or Toho knew that along with Netflix, they could get away with a limited theatrical release.
That would actually make a lot of sense that the deal with Legendary makes it difficult for Toho to make the release wider. That may be why they decided to go with Netflix in the first place.
Well, if many of those theaters had already booked other movies further in advance then they can't replace them with Planet of the Monsters for contractual reasons--And my theory is that the theatrical release was a late decision.
This is just me hypothesizing, but I'm pretty sure the anime trilogy was produced all as one project--It was initially supposed to be a TV series anyway, so that would make sense. Planet of the Monsters opened in 158 theaters. That's barely a wide release as most blockbusters in Japan are released in about 450 theaters. (Shin Godzilla opened in 448.) So it looks like they never intended for this to be a major blockbuster. The real takeway from this is that Toho probably saw the theatrical release as an afterthought compared to the Netflix release.
I have little to nothing to base this on, but I think Toho has probably already made their money back (or close to it) for the entire trilogy through the world wide Netflix deal. Toho is not cheap when it comes to distributing Godzilla and a deal with Netflix for every territory is bound to be expensive. So the domestic theatrical release could merely be an icing-on-the cake scenario.
Still, without any sort of context or background it looks like a very disappointing release on paper--And it is. Toho should have found a way to go all-out in my opinion, especially considering animated features usually do better in Japan.
Another part of me wonders if the contract with Legendary hinders them from making it too wide of release, since Godzilla 2 is in post-production. But I have nothing to go on for that theory either.
Yikes that’s a harsh drop. Let’s hope the Netflix deal is able to make up for this. I still am very curious what the budget for the movie was. Will this affect how the next two films are released? If this one fails to gain any steam, I wouldn’t be surprised if the sequels go straight to streaming.
Thank you sooo much The King Of The Monsters! This will help prove a small point.
Besides the fact that every movie has different monsters in them, I just want to prove to my friend that Godzilla does not in fact attack the same cities all the freaking time. So for 14 out of 30 movies Godzilla attack’s or saves Tokyo.
I mean it is fair to say that a certain formula is followed in most Godzilla films. That doesn't mean that this formula doesn't allows for a lot of fun ideas to be experimented with. I would say that both Godzilla vs. Megalon/Hedorah for example have distinct structural similarities, but both work at being wildly different films from one another.
I can give a brief summary of some of the various real and fictional locations that the monsters visit in each film. It's definitely nowhere near complete:
Godzilla (1954) - Odo Island, Tokyo, Tokyo Bay
Godzilla Raids Again - Iwato Island, Osaka, Mikojima / Kuril Islands
King Kong vs. Godzilla - Faro Island, Hokkaido, Tokyo, Mount Fuji
Mothra vs. Godzilla - Nagoya, Infant Island, Iwa Island
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster - Kurobe Valley, Mount Aso, Mount Fuji
Invasion of Astro-Monster - Planet X, Lake Myojin
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep - Letchi Island, Infant Island
Son of Godzilla - Solgell Island
Destroy All Monsters - Monsterland, Moscow, Beijing, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Mount Fuji
All Monsters Attack - Monster Island (since this film's monster scenes are imaginary, I've seen some official media refer to this version of Monster Island as "Dream Monster Island")
Godzilla vs. Hedorah - Suruga Bay, Fuji City, Mount Fuji
Godzilla vs. Gigan - Tokyo, World Children's Land
Godzilla vs. Megalon - (not sure actually, will have to check)
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla - Mount Fuji, Tokyo, Okinawa
Terror of Mechagodzilla - Mount Amagi, Tokyo
The Return of Godzilla - Mihama, Tokyo, Oshima Island
Godzilla vs. Biollante - Lake Ashinoko, Osaka, Wakasa Bay
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah - Fukuoka, Hokkaido, Sapporo, Tokyo
Godzilla vs. Mothra - Infant Island, Philippine Trench, Tokyo, Yokohama
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II - Adonoa Island, Yokkaichi, Kyoto, Sendai, Makuhari
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla - Birth Island, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kagoshima, Kumamoto
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah - Hong Kong, Okinawa, Ikata, Tokyo
Godzilla 2000: Millennium - Nemuro, Tokai, Tokyo
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus - Tokyo, Tokai, Osaka, Kiganjima
GMK - Bonin Islands, Yaizu, Mount Myoko, Lake Ikeda, Aokigahara, Yokohama
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla - Tateyama, Yokohama, Tokyo
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. - Tokyo
Godzilla: Final Wars - Antarctica, English Channel, New York, Shanghai, Sydney, Paris, Tokai, Okinawa, Arizona, New Guinea, Manazuru, Mount Fuji, Tokyo
Shin Godzilla - Tokyo
Like I said, not comprehensive or complete, just a list of some of the key locations in each film. For an extremely detailed rundown of every location in the Godzilla franchise, I'd recommend this section on Japanese Wikipedia's page for the franchise.
I always assumed that it was Monster Island, it's probably just any old island probably.
If Ebirah's island in Ebirah Horror Of The Deep was soo close to Infant Island then where is Infant Island and that will give us at least a clue to where the Red Bamboo hid on what island.
Son of Godzilla wasn't on Monster Island was it? they froze that island and put Godzilla and Minya somewhere else. I agree with all of your other statements but I don't agree with Son Of Godzilla. I think they are 2 different islands.
Thank you The Legend Of Brian
I know Godzilla Raids Again was in Osaka. The finales of Ghidorah The Three Headed Monster and Destroy All Monsters happpened at the base of Mt. Fuji. Son of Godzilla took place on Monster Island and Godzilla vs. Ebirah happened on whatever island that was. Godzilla's Revenge happened in that kids dream. I think Godzilla vs. Megaguirus ended in Osaka as well.
