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THE GLOBAL 3D MARKET The format still is going strong (aft er all, even Hansel and Gretel did well), but shift ing demographics and shrinking percentages suggest the honeymoon might be over The Avengers DOMESTIC $623.4M (41.2%) FOREIGN $888.4M (58.8%) TOTAL $1.51B Oz the Great and Powerful DOMESTIC $230M (47.2%) FOREIGN $257M (52.8%) TOTAL $487M G.I. Joe: Retaliation DOMESTIC $119.7M (33.6%) FOREIGN $237.1M (66.4%) TOTAL $356.8M The Croods DOMESTIC $173.2M (32.4%) FOREIGN $363.2M (67.6%) TOTAL $533.8M Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters DOMESTIC $55.7M (25.2%) FOREIGN $168.2M (74.8%) TOTAL $223.9M Iron Man 3 DOMESTIC $284.9M (30%) FOREIGN $664.1M (70%) TOTAL $949M TOP 3D TITLE OF 2012 TOP 3D TITLES SO FAR IN 2013 BY YEAR Domestic 3 D Film Releases 26 2010 21% 2010 36 2012 17% 2012 43 2011 18% 2011 OVERALL, 34% OF THE MOVIEGOING POPULATION ATTENDED A 3D FILM IN 2012 IN NORTH AMERICA 60+ 2-17 12-24 45% 50% 16% DEMOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING … In total, there were 45,545 3D screens worldwide in 2012, a 27% increase from 2011 and 51% of digital screens globally. BUT GROWTH IS SLOWING. The total was up 96% in 2008, 255% in 2009, 149% in 2010 and 60% in 2011. 3D Screens Worldwide PERCENTAGE BY YEAR SO U RC E: I H S S CR EE N D IG ES T Source: Box Offi ce Mojo, as of May 14 Day1.3DFeatureI.indd 24 5/13/13 5:33 PM THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 23 I fi rst arrived in China in August 2002. We landed at midnight in Haikou, on Hainan Island, to oppressive heat and humidity. The boom-and-bust cycle of the past years had created a landscape of unfi nished buildings. It felt — to this boy from Bucks County, Pa. — like a war zone. Then my inter- preter broke the spell by asking, “Do you know Brad Pitt?” The following morning, I woke in my hotel and opened the blinds to see a building across the street being torn down by 150 workers with sledgehammers. They were knocking down all seven fl oors at the same time. The energy and chaos reminded me of the indie fi lm business. I thought to myself, “You could make movies here.” When I fi rst came to China, there were a small number of fi lmmakers — mostly from Hong Kong — but there wasn’t a huge theatergoing audience. Now, when I go past a theater, there is always a line. It doesn’t matter what’s on; the cin- emas are always full. What’s shocking is, this theater boom hasn’t even reached the sec- ond- and third-tier cities — they are still building in the fi rst tier. And half the population isn’t urbanized yet. The growth potential is astounding. But at the same time, I am seeing signs of a bubble in the Chinese fi lm industry. We used to have maybe 100 Chinese fi lms made a year; now it’s more like 700, mostly low-budget comedies. It’s hard to get talent. Margins are razor-thin. The Chinese have even started to make movies in Thailand to save money — see last year’s huge hit Lost in Thailand. But it wasn’t the promise of China’s billion-plus “consumers” that brought me here or keeps me in China; it was the passion and hope of a younger generation that wants to be relevant, yearns to be successful and, more than anything, has a hun- ger to participate in creating media for the world. Christopher Bremble is CEO of Base FX, Asia’s leading visual eff ects studio. Base has won two Emmys (for The Pacifi c and Boardwalk Empire) and has more than 20 U.S. theatrical fi lm credits including G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Super 8 and Mission: Impos- sible — Ghost Protocol. In 2012, the studio signed a strategic alliance agreement with Lucasfi lm and Industrial Light & Magic. Korona World nagoya, japan Billed as Japan’s fi rst “full-body, full- immersive” movie theater, Korona World features 4DX technol- ogy, developed by CJ Group in South Korea, which adds moving seats, squirting water and a system capable of emitting “1,000 unique scents” to the 3D expe- rience. Iron Man 3 was the fi rst movie screened in the cinema, which plans to screen 12 titles a year using the new format. Astor Film Lounge berlin For those who prefer 3D thrills in a more civilized setting, there’s Germany’s most luxuri- ous 3D cinema, part of a growing trend toward high-end movie watch- ing in Europe. Astor Film Lounge aims to make every fi lm feel like a red-carpet premiere: Guests are greeted with champagne cocktails, and a three-course meal is brought directly to them in their plush, go-all-the-way-back leather seats. PVR Director’s Cut new delhi Located in the Ambi- ence shopping mall in upscale south Delhi, this state-of-the-art 3D cinema is a cut above anything else on the subcontinent. It starts with the marbled lobby, the walls of which are adorned with signed portraits of directors ranging from Martin Scorsese to the late Bollywood legend Yash Chopra. Patrons are greeted with a welcome fruit juice and a warm face towel to freshen up. Other perks include a complimentary blanket and an extra cushion for comfort. Producer Jon Landau was noticeably impressed with the venue when he visited for a special screening of Titanic 3D in 2012. Secret Cinema london Britain’s Secret Cinema organizes immersive urban events around screenings. In 2012, it transformed a vast abandoned warehouse into a spacecraft for a 3D screening of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Radiohead created a soundtrack specifi cally for the event. Organiz- ers have since added a dining element to the Secret Cinema experience, designing restaurants based around a fi lm’s set- ting and characters. After becoming wildly successful in the U.K., Secret Cinema is set to arrive in New York by year’s end. The Best (and Strangest) 3D Cinemas Around the World 3D SCREENS Where and how many? U.S./CANADA 14,734 OF 42,803 TOTAL SCREENS, OR 34.4% OF ALL SCREENS LATIN AMERICA 2,629 OF 10,315 TOTAL SCREENS, OR 25.5% OF ALL SCREENS ASIA-PACIFIC 14,219 OF 37,151 TOTAL SCREENS, OR 38.3% OF ALL SCREENS 13,963 OF 39,597 TOTAL SCREENS, OR 35.3% OF ALL SCREENS EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA CI N EM AS , F RO M L EF T: C O U RT ES Y O F P VR C IN EM AS ; C O U RT ES Y O F S EC RE T C IN EM A India’s PVR cinema (left) off ers fruit juice and warm towels; London’s Secret Cinema turned a screening venue into a spaceship for Prometheus. 2012 3D box- offi ce revenue $1.76B Percentage of total box offi ce 18% Number of 3D screens 13,559 Percentage of digital screens 40.4% U.S. 2012 3D box- offi ce revenue $322.3M Percentage of total box offi ce 18.3% Number of 3D screens 1,564 Percentage of digital screens 44.2% U.K. 2012 3D box- offi ce revenue $503.8M Percentage of total box offi ce 28.7% Number of 3D screens 2,595 Percentage of digital screens 51.4% FRANCE 2012 3D box- offi ce revenue $375.1M Percentage of total box offi ce 27.2% Number of 3D screens 1,747 Percentage of digital screens 58.1% GERMANY 2012 3D box- offi ce revenue $1.03B Percentage of total box offi ce 38% Number of 3D screens 9,062 Percentage of digital screens 73% CHINA 2012 3D box- offi ce revenue $469.5M Percentage of total box offi ce 36.8% Number of 3D screens 1,759 Percentage of digital screens 83.2% RUSSIA 2012 3D box- offi ce revenue $266.9M Percentage of total box offi ce 29.7% Number of 3D screens 703 Percentage of digital screens 85.3% BRAZIL KEY % OF 3D SCREENS TOTAL SCREENS WHY I MOVED TO CHINA An American expat discusses his experience setting up his own eff ects shop in Beijing seven years ago by Christopher Bremble Day1.3DFeatureI.indd 25 5/13/13 5:33 PM ADVERTISEMENT TBS Television D1 051513.indd 1 5/13/13 10:58 AM TBS Television D1 051513.indd 2 5/13/13 10:58 AM Lightning Entertainment D1 051513.indd 1 5/13/13 12:20 PM THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 27 JAPAN SPECIAL FEATURE J APAN IS ALREADY THE MOST AGED society that mankind has ever seen — and it’s getting older. Almost a quarter of its 127 million citizens are over 65, a percentage that is set to nearly double in the coming decades. With a birthrate of only 1.39 children per woman — one of the world’s lowest — no signifi cant immigration, and an average life expectancy of nearly 84 years, the graying trend looks unstoppable. (Germany and Italy have the oldest citizenry on earth, and though China is far down the list, its demographics will skew older than Japan’s in the next 20 years, thanks to the one-child-per-couple policy begun in 1979.) How Japan’s entertainment industry copes with this seismic shift should provide lessons and solutions for other countries to learn from. At fi rst glance, the demographic statistics do not make happy reading for many Japanese business sec- tors besides elder care and pharmaceuticals. And yet all is not doom and gloom. Japan’s seniors famously are Illustration by KYLE HILTON JAPAN’S AGING MOVIEGOER PROBLEM A quarter of its population is over 65 and it slid to second place aft er China in foreign box offi ce, but the industry is battling back by courting seniors with discounts and movies about ‘death instead of sex’ healthy and active and have a huge pool of savings. The Government Pension Investment Fund, the largest in the world, alone has assets of $1.12 trillion (¥111 trillion), making it larger than the economies of Canada or Spain. Total household assets weigh in at a whopping $16 tril- lion (¥1,547 trillion), with much of it in the hands of the older population that saved hard during Japan’s boom years. That generation grew up during the golden years of Japanese cinema, when moviegoing was an integral leisure activity. And the industry already is registering some success in tempting them back to theaters. “The generation that is now around retirement age is made up of people who went to the movies fi ve times or more a year when they were young but were oft en too busy working to go while in their 30s and 40s. They now have the time and money to go and see fi lms,” says Kazuya Hamana, president of TBS Pictures, the movie production unit of Japan’s TBS TV. Since 2009, three fi lm industry groups — the movie producers association, the distributors of foreign fi lms and theater owners — have been running an “Eigakan ni Ikou” (Let’s Go to the Movies) campaign, off ering a $10 (¥1,000) price for couples aged 50 and over, on top of the regular discounts for those 60 and over. Standard adult admission price in Japan is $18 (¥1,800). “Discounted screenings of remastered classic foreign fi lms at 10 a.m. on weekday mornings have been a big success in getting that generation back into cinemas,” says Hamana. “Another way that theaters are appealing to the senior market is through digital screenings of live concerts, opera as well as traditional Japanese enter- tainment such as Kabuki. Though this is really at the trial-and-error stage now.” Meanwhile, Hollywood faces a double challenge in appealing to younger movie audiences: There are fewer of them, and they have become distinctly more parochial in their taste in recent years. The number of children in Japan has been falling for more than 30 years, with under 15s now making up a record low of less than 13 percent of the overall population, which has begun to shrink. Mirroring a decline in sales for foreign music and interest in the world beyond Japan’s shores in general, BY GAVIN J. BLAIR DAY1_JapanH.indd 27 5/13/13 6:54 PM Nippon TV D1 051513.indd 1 5/13/13 12:25 PM Nippon TV D1 051513.indd 2 5/13/13 12:24 PM THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 30 JAPAN SPECIAL FEATURE imported films accounted for only 34.3 percent of 2012 box-office takings, the lowest proportion since 1965. “The moviegoing rate in Japan averages to about 1.2 a year, but actually older people go to see Hollywood films more. Younger people are even less interested in imported movies,” says Yosuke Horiuchi of Toho-Towa, the Toho subsidiary that has been distributing foreign fare in Japan for more than 80 years. Horiuchi notes that youth-oriented titles such as The Hunger Games or Twilight failed to replicate their global success in Japan, while Les Miserables, with its appeal to older audiences, did disproportionately well. The demand for heartwarming dramas is up, says Gaga head of acquisitions Satomi Odake, citing Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet as a film that resonates with oldsters. Since its Japanese release April 19, it has performed strongly on weekdays, a sign it’s doing well with retirees. “Foreign comedies and horror aren’t selling anymore, and the young people those genres should be popular with don’t seem to watch them at theaters anymore,” says Odake. The only significant comedy import success recently was Ted, which appealed to the particularly Japanese love of all things cute. The domestic industry, having captured a growing share of Japan’s $2 billion (¥200 billion) annual box office in recent years, hasn’t yet been forced to fully face the changing demographics of the market. “A lot of Japanese films are based on existing proper- ties, particularly manga, and most of those are going to be watched almost exclusively by young people,” says Osamu Kubota, producer of The Floating Castle (Nobu no Shiro). Manga is the wildly popular Japanese comic- book genre that has a broad appeal to young people. CAN JAPAN’S MOST EXPENSIVE CG FILM EVER WORK ABROAD? The animated Space Pirate Captain Harlock has plans to conquer the world by Gavin J. Blair With an ambitious 3D CG motion- capture reimagining of Leiji Matsu- moto’s seminal manga and anime series Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Toei Animation is aiming to break the genre out of its fanboy base and onto the global stage. Directed by Shinji Aramaki (Apple- seed) from a screenplay by Harutoshi Fukui (Gundam) and with CGI from Sega-Sammy subsidiary Marza, the $30 million Harlock is the costliest project in Toei’s history, 10 times pricier than an average Japanese anime feature. “With the population in Japan beginning to shrink, the entertain- ment industry has no choice but to aim at the global market,” says Toei’s Joseph Chou. “And with the budget on this project, we have no choice but to take it overseas.” “The film was built to be in stereo- scopic 3D from the beginning, and that’s expensive, though there will be a 2D version released, too,” explains executive producer Yoshi Ikezawa. Futuristic Captain Harlock first appeared in a manga story by Leiji Matsumoto in 1953, and became the star of his own manga stories a quarter century later. Soon after came a TV anime series and a 1982 animated feature, Arcadia of My Youth. Iconic in Japan, Harlock is cel- ebrated in Europe, particularly France, which honored Matsumoto with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres award in October for the buccaneer’s influence on French popular culture. But no manga or anime adapta- tion has been a hit globally. Harlock producer Chou, who has worked with many Japanese properties in Hollywood, says the cultural gap has been close to unbridgeable. Nonethe- less, Korea-born Chou, who worked behind its calls for an increase in “soft power” cultural exports to replace formerly dominant, now-struggling manufacturing industries. Harlock has secured financial support to woo big- name voice actors to help the produc- tion in overseas markets. Japanese A-lister Shun Oguri will voice Harlock, and notable English voice talents are in negotations with Toei. Harlock will target the U.S. market, possibly launching at ComicCon, though no release date is set. The posters boast a quote from James Cameron, who’s seen footage. “We want to make this work in America and Asia, but on our terms.” Kubota says Japan’s film sector would be wise to make movies with adult themes and subject matter. “Some people assume that films have to be about serious topics or human dramas to do well with older audiences, but that’s not true. Of course, they can’t be childish, but that generation also enjoys entertainment movies,” he adds. According to TBS’ Hamana, the industry is thinking about how to produce more films for older audiences, but “inevitably, short-term box-office results are still the focus from a business perspective.” Released in mid-April, The Great Passage (Fune o Amu), a Japanese production, has managed to succeed across a wide age range at the box office through the combination of a young cast and director but with a decidedly adult- oriented storyline about a dictionary compiler. While elder audiences might want to get nostalgic about their youth through films, they don’t want to watch productions that obviously have targeted “old peo- ple,” according to Yuko Shiomaki, producer and head of Pictures Dept. The change in Japan’s “show business ecosystem” (as Shiomaki puts it) already is visible, with more older, married actors onscreen along with shifting themes, according to Fuji TV’s Taka Hayakawa, producer on the Japan in a Day project with Ridley Scott. Producers are now open to dealing with topics such as “death instead of sex, resilience instead of strength and diversity instead of simplicity,” suggests Hayakawa. Adds Toho-Towa’s Horiuchi: “There’s going to be a tendency to rely more on good old bankable Hollywood stars such as Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp. But they’re not getting any younger either.” Space Pirate Captain Harlock on Warner Bros. The Matrix spinoff animation project The Animatrix, aims to continue trying to cross that chasm with Ikezawa and Toei. It hasn’t been easy. “The motion capture and face capture used in the production represents a merger of anime and live action,” says Chou. “It’s something of a new genre, and we inevitably faced some resistance because of that.” Chou and Ikezawa plan to use Harlock to create a business model with distinctly Japanese-flavored animation features that can thrive in the global marketplace. 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