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Box Office Mojo errors - "re-releases"
I have noticed some films being listed in the annual box office charts at boxofficemojo.com as "re-releases" when those films had not previously been released. One of the more egregious examples is Knight and Day (2010) starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1013743/). The film is listed by BOM as having its original release in South Korea in 2008, then a major re-release in 2010. However, the movie was not even filmed until 2009. (See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013743/locations/ .) Another example is Footloose (2011), the version starring Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough (not the 1984 film starring Kevin Bacon of which it is a remake), at https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1068242/. The film supposedly had its original release in Europe/Middle East/Africa starting April 9, 2010, followed by a re-release in 2011. But the movie wasn't even filmed until September 2010 (see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068242/locations/ ). The 2023 "re-release" of Spirited Away designated as "Live on Stage" (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl284984065/) should not be listed as a re-release of the 2001 film by that name; it was actually a broadcast to theaters of the live stage production based on the film. See https://www.fathomentertainment.com/releases/spirited-away-live-on-stage-studio-ghibli-fest-2023/ for details and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26678995/ for the IMDb title page for the relevant title page. I would also say that if, for example, a foreign film opened in its home country in 2024, but did not premiere in the U.S. until 2025, that 2025 release in the U.S. should not be considered a "re-release", just part of the original release, which, as with some movies, stretched out over a year or more. I see an unusual example with Water (2005), a Hindi-language Canadian film (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0240200/). The original release began on Nov. 4, 2005 in Canada, and continued in several other markets until its debut in Switzerland on April 27, 2006. Then the alleged re-release began in the U.S. the very next day, April 28, 2006. It doesn't make sense to say that a release on April 27, 2006 was part of the original release and a release on April 28, 2006 was part of a re-release. (This may have been the result of confusion because Canada is usually considered part of the domestic market for the U.S., but in this case the film was a Canadian production and released there before it came to the U.S.) I would appreciate it if the staff would check the lists of re-releases to make sure that they are legitimate re-releases rather than errors.
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