Competition & Competitor analysis: My Favorite Film

"Spirited Away" was released in America on the 20th of April 2002., which is a time where not many movies were made, but it still had some competition that same week, as 3 other films were released such as "Enigma", "The Scorpion King" and  "Murderous Maids".

ENIGMA

"Enigma" got $4,298,329 in box office while "Spirited Away" did better, since it got $10,049,886 in box office. The reason why "Spirited Away" did better than this movie is because mainly it was made by the famous Japanese voice actors/actresses such as "Rumi Hiiragi" who played "Chihiro", and they had "Miyu Irino",this movie was made by the iconic Japanese studio "Studio Ghibli" and was directed by "Hayao Miyazaki", these people are very famous in the anime culture, so fans of anime movies would be attracted to watch this movie. "Enigma" had cast members such as "Nikolaj Coster-Waldau" and "Donald Sumpter" who are not as well known as the cast members for "Spirited Away" so it would make sense for people to chose "Spirited Away" over "Enigma" if they mainly focus on the cast. Even though "Enigma" was made in America and "Spirited Away" wasn't somehow they still were not mot successful as them. Another reason why "Enigma" was not as successful as "Spirited Away", they had a lower budget for the movie, than "Spirited Away" had. "Spirited Away" had a budget of $17M, where "Enigma" had a budget of $14M, which is $3M less, so clearly "Spirited Away" had more money to look more professional, and a better movie to watch, so people would rather chose to watch that movie rather than "Enigma". The story behind Enigma is based on an actual event in WW2, which may seem interesting to some people. The film starts off with our main character "Jericho" as he returns to Bletchley after a month of recovering from his nervous breakdown from bis failed love affair with a character named "Claire", when he went to see her, he finds out that she is missing and she has been missing for a few days. He finds out that she has been murdered in a massacre in her own home. Years later he married a woman and had a child, and ends up mysteriously seeing "Claire" on the other side of the road. The movie has a lot of action and mystery in it, but does not have that certain edge, and mix of "cute and terrifying" that "Spirited Away" had, with its unique style and disturbing secret behind it, "Spirited Away" seemed like the more interesting movie to watch when it came to the story. When it came to reviews on the movie .rogerebert.com said for those who dont know much about history, the movie would be very confusing since it contained a lot of references and coding that related to WW2, and for a movie set in WW2. it does not give any reference to anything important that could of related to the movie, such as"Alan Turing" which made the movie not worth watching to some people. This showed that the movie could have been better if they included more things related to WW2, but they didn't. When it comes to box office, Enigma is winning in competition for movies that came out in the same week such as "Murderous Maids" which got $225,390, but it is losing in box office to movies such as "The Scorpion King" which got $90,580,000.

THE SCORPION KING 

"The Scorpion King" got $90,580,000 in box office which is $80,530,114 than what "Spirited Away" "Chuck Russell" They have a lot of people in their cast that would attract people to watch the movie by looking at who is in it, they would want to see their favorite actors in the movie. This movie was made in America, which is where the majority of the cast and crew are from, so people who also like the actors would be aware of this movie, and want to see it. The budget for "The Scorpion King" was $60M, which is $46M more than what "Spirited Away" had for their movie. By having a much larger budget, their movie would seem much more detailed and professional, this would lead to it being better to watch for the audience, which would make sense why people would chose to watch "The Scorpion King" instead of "Spirited Away". The story behind "The Scorpion King" is set in "the time before the pyramids" there was a horde coming from the East, and they invaded the ancient world that was led by "the ruthless Memnon" who by the law, is the king for being the greatest warrior, and no one seems to oppose him. "Mathayus", his half brother "Jesup" and his friend "Rama" are the only three true Akkadians left. They are hired by "King Pheron" of the last three tribes to kill "Memnon's" sorcerer for twenty blood rubies, there is many action packed and suspenseful moments in the movie that will leave people want to watch the movie over and over again. There has been many reviews on this movie, one of them made by "empireonline.com" said it was very risky for them to make a sequal to "The Mummy" with a minor character of that film, but said the film was very enjoyable and had an interesting beginning". By seeing that there was nothing wrong with the movie itself, people would be influenced into watching. expecting a good movie. When it comes to box office, it is winning in competition with movies that were released in the same week, such as "Enigma" got $4,298,329, and "Murderous Maids" which got $225,390, so people would rather want to see "The Scorpion King" due to the fact that it is winning in box office compared to others, they think it would be a good movie.
got $10,049,886 in box office which is $70,480,228 more than what "Spirited Away" got. The reason why "The Scorpion King" was more successful than "Spirited Away" would be that it had a lot of better sellable elements than "Spirited Away", such as it had much more well known actors/actresses in its cast, such as "Dwayne Johnson", and "Kelly Hu".It was also directed by the famous director

MURDEROUS MAIDS

"Murderous Maids" got $225,390 in box office, which is $9,824,496 less than what "Spirited Away" got which was $10,049,886, The reason why it was not as successful as "Spirited Away" is that it did not really have many people in the making of the movie that were well known, like"Sylvie Testud" and "Julie-Marie Parmentier", who are not as well known as the people in spirited away, such as "Rumi Hiiragi" and "Hayao Miyazaki" the cast and crew members in "Murderous Maids" were not as well known as the cast and crew members of "Spirited Away". When it comes to comparing the plot, "Spirited Away" had a better one, since "Murderous Maids" was about two woman named "Christine Papin" and "Lea Papin" who were sisters that had a troubled past. they worked as maids in France and ends up committing  gruesome crimes, such as gouging peoples eyes out. "Spirited Away" had a more unique story about  a girl who had her parents turned into pigs, and then went on an adventure to get t em back. it had a mixture of good plot/characters/detail so people would rather want to watch that. "Murderous Maids" got a couple of reviews, one of them by "metacritic.com" saying it was a troubling movie and had some scenes that were a bit much, and had some scenes where they tried too hard with the deaths. so there was not that much positive about the movie but some others said it had a couple of good scenes. The competition in box office was very tough for "Murderous Maids" since it did not do that well compared to others such as "The Scorpion King" which is a movie that got $90,580,000 in box office, and that is a movie that was released on the same day, so it had some competition.