Talk:Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

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Why do the Heisei Godzilla films articles on the site say that the films has a budget of 1 billion yen, but there is no reference to this? - K14 (talk) 9:30, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

That's what Toho Kingdom says (example). I dimly recall an American newspaper article which mentioned that each film cost about a billion yen, which is probably what they referenced. I'll try to find it.--Astounding Beyond Belief (talk) 17:18, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Found the source its Steve Ryfle's Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: The Unauthorized Biography of "The Big G" (p. 306) - K14 (talk) 4:30, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Box office return

I found a source that says that this movie likely made more than what we list on the page. I can't read Japanese of any type so I may be wrong. Here's the link: http://www.eiga-ranking.com/movie/11472.html

The infobox should say distributor rentals, which are not the full box office returns, just what was paid to the distributor. That's how films' financial success was measured in Japan before the turn of the century. This source is reporting 3.18 billion in total returns, but I don't know where they're getting that from, because as far as I know it wouldn't have been reported publicly. Kinema Junpo and the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan worked in distributor rentals until 2000. Les (main | talk) 03:45, 4 March 2022 (UTC)