Pascal called for opening roles so that they can be cast by actors of different racial or gender identities than how the character was originally portrayed.
Pascal called for opening roles so that they can be cast by actors of different racial or gender identities than how the character was originally portrayed.
Is it though? Until the pandemic, almost every year was more successful than the previous year, with pretty much steady gains since 2000. (Domestic box office revenues were under 7.5 billion in 2000, and had climbed, pretty evenly, too 11.4 in 2019, a more than 50% increase in 20 years! A quite healthy growth rate!) Internationally, while I can’t find growth rates, International revenue as a share has been increasing and if domestic box office numbers are increasing then the total value of international revenue must be as well.
And, as much as we dislike it, Marvel, sequels and reboots are crushing it in the box office. Which just keeps growing.
I’d chalk this up mostly to how we disaggregate comics vs manga. Manga entities together sold some 1.31 trillion yen (a little over 9 billion) https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093754/japan-animation-industry-revenue-by-segment/ but that includes all sources, movies, merchandise etc. Whereas Marvel is all mixed up in its multi billion dollar movies (like Endgame, which earned almost a third of the entire Manga industry) comics, Disney + (which itself earns some 20 billion, obviously not all Marvel but not all NOT Marvel) etc. For a tiny country, that’s super impressive. But I wouldn’t call it the cultural behemoth that the MCU has become. (But may not remain!)
Sure, and I enjoyed M3gan but in terms of cultural success, it made almost 30 million less than the DC League of Super Pets and less than a fifth of the Doctor Strange movie.