Anime at the cinema

Bought my weekend pass for SLA 2024 in Glasgow! Does anyone know how the seating arrangements work? Is it a free-for-all on the day, or can you select seats in advance at some point?
 
RaeDra said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1847190423082537463

Look Back will be out in UK cinemas from October 25th, from K-Movie Entertainment

if I hadn't seen someone mention the Australian release (which is also this group), I wouldn't have heard of this company before.
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That's brilliant news, I was really sad that I wouldn't be able to make it at the London SLA showing (it got booked out in no time anyway heh) and now there's a general release even before the film festival release!
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K-Movie have announced which cinemas will be showing Look Back:

London

Cineworld cinemas - Leicester Square / O2 / Wembley / Feltham / Wandsworth / Hounslow / South Ruislip

Vue cinemas - West End / Westfield Stratford / Westfield / Finchley Road / Finchley North / Shepherds Bush / Fulham Broadway / Islington / Harrow / Romford / Croydon Grants

Odeon cinemas - Haymarket / Kingston / Greenwich / Action / Wimbledon / Holloway / Epsom / Lee Valley / Uxbridge

Picturehouse cinemas - Picturehouse Central / Brixton / Finsbury Park / West Norwood / Hackney

Outside London

BIRMINGHAM - CINEWORLD Birmingham Broad Street / ODEON Birmingham New St. / Birmingham Broadway Plaza

MANCHESTER - VUE Manchester Printworks / ODEON Manchester Great Northern / Trafford Centre

EDINBURGH - VUE Edinburgh Omni / CINEWORLD Edinburgh / PICTUREHOUSE Edinburgh

CARDIFF - CINEWORLD Cardiff / ODEON Cardiff

SHEFFIELD - CINEWORLD Sheffield / ODEON Sheffield

GLASGOW - CINEWORLD Glasgow RS / VUE Glasgow St Enoch / ODEON Glasgow Quay

LEEDS - VUE Leeds Light / ODEON Leeds Bradford

LIVERPOOL - ODEON Liverpool One

LEICESTER - ODEON Leicester

PORTSMOUTH - VUE Portsmouth

YORK - VUE York / PICTUREHOUSE York

MILTON KEYNES - CINEWORLD Milton Keynes / ODEON Milton Keynes Stadium

NEWCASTLE - CINEWORLD Newcastle

WOLVERHAMPTON - CINEWORLD Wolverhampton

WATFORD - VUE Watford

EASTBOURNE - CINEWORLD Eastbourne

ENFIELD - CINEWORLD Enfield

LUTON - CINEWORLD Luton

NOTTINGHAM - CINEWORLD Nottingham

STEVENAGE - CINEWORLD Stevenage

BATH - ODEON Bath

BRIGHTON - ODEON Brighton

BASINGSTOKE - VUE Basingstoke Festival Place

BLACKBURN - VUE Blackburn

BRISTOL - VUE Bristol Cribbs / ODEON Bristol

BOURNEMOUTH - ODEON Bournemouth

COLCHESTER - ODEON Colchester

ELLESMERE PORT - VUE Cheshire Oaks

CHESTER - PICTUREHOUSE Chester

COVENTRY - ODEON Coventry

DERBY - ODEON Derby

DURHAM - ODEON Durham

EXETER - VUE Exeter

GUILDFORD - ODEON Guildford

HATFIELD - ODEON Hatfield

HULL - ODEON Hull

LINCOLN - ODEON Lincoln

MANSFIELD - ODEON Mansfield

MEDWAY - ODEON Chatham

NORWICH -ODEON Norwich

OXFORD - ODEON Oxford George St

SOUTHEND - ODEON Southend

TAMWORTH - ODEON Tamworth

TELFORD - ODEON Telford

TUNBRIDGE WELLS - ODEON Tunbridge Wells

GATESHEAD - VUE Gateshead, ODEON Metrocentre

NORTHAMPTON - VUE Northampton

READING - VUE Reading

SWANSEA - VUE Swansea

LETCHWORTH - PICTUREHOUSE Letchworth

WELWYN - PICTUREHOUSE Welwyn

SCOTLAND - ODEON Luxe Dundee, ODEON Dunfermline

IRELAND - - VUE Dublin / CINEWORLD Dublin / ODEON Belfast / ODEON Limerick / ODEON Blanchardstown
 
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Southampton has become a wasteland for anime films! Used have 4 different cinemas plus the one in Eastleigh nearby and at least one would have at least one showing when an anime film came out. The Odeon and the Cineworld shut and it seems Showcase (none in the list) have shied away from showing them and in this case neither the Picturehouse nor the Vue (Eastleigh) have picked up the slack!
 
Quite a considerable amount of screenings of Look Back at my local Odeon in Colchester. All daytime screenings. But I'm probably going to wait until the SLA Glasgow screening.
 
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This has been a rollercoaster. I was really excited to get SLA tickets, then the mainstream cinema release was announced (which is the first time ever an anime film has actually been showing at a cinema within an hour of me!) and now Prime. I'll still go to the SLA screening but what a bizarre series of choices on the part of the distributors. The really annoying thing is that I don't want to see it twice but I'd like to support my local screening. Why couldn't they be in the opposite order?

R
 
This surely must be the all-time record year for most anime releases in 12 months, right? It feels like there's been anime/tonokatsu at the cinema almost every other week for the past year.
  • 15 Dec (2023) - Godzilla Minus One
  • 26 Dec (2023) - Boy & The Heron
  • 31 Jan - Blue Giant
  • 23 Feb - Demon Slayer: to the Hashira Training
  • 23 March - Gundam Seed Freedom
  • 26 April - Spy x Family Code White
  • 31 May - Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle
  • 3 July - Blue Lock The Movie
  • 2 Aug - My Neighbour Totoro (re-release)
  • 20 Sept - Macross Plus (re-release)
  • 27 Sept - Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram
  • 7 Oct - Bocchi The Rock Recap
  • 18 Oct - My Hero Academia: You're Next
  • 26 Oct - Look Back
  • 1 Nov - Godzilla Minus One (re-release, with Godzilla Minus Colour)
  • 7 Nov - Overlord
  • 10 Dec - Solo Leveling
  • 26 Dec - Spirited Away (re-release)
I think that's everything (excluding festivals and maybe a few I'm forgetting?). If I could be bothered I'd be curious to crunch the numbers from all the weekly BFI reports to see just how much anime has grossed over the past year.
 
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I was looking at this a week or 2 ago.

for the first week/weekend, the BFI numbers are like this

December 2023:
Godzilla Minus One £816,891
The Boy And The Heron £1,640,667

2024:
Blue Giant £21,819
Demon Slayer: To the Hashira Training £641,878
Gundam Seed Freedom £37,580
Spy x Family: Code White £280,729
Haikyu!!: The Dumpster Battle £270,095
Blue Lock The Movie - Episode Nagi £118,115
Dan Da Dan - The First Encounter £40,518
My Neighbour Totaro £69,996
Macross Plus £10,806
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram £35,133

(Bocchi wasn't mentioned on the BFI numbers, not sure why)

Though, those numbers do miss out several things and aren't perfect. Is also just the first week, but for many thats more or less it. The Boy and The Heron made more money this year (thats not the 1.6 million here, since that was last year) than anything else though.
 
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I was looking at this a week or 2 ago.

for the first week/weekend, the BFI numbers are like this

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Though, those numbers do miss out several things and aren't perfect. Is also just the first week, but for many thats more or less it. The Boy and The Heron made more money this year (thats not the 1.6 million here, since that was last year) than anything else though.
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Dang, interesting stuff.

Thanks for putting that together. Can't believe I forgot both mecha releases.... 😅
 
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