Pokemon 5 greenlighted

[Hollywood53]

check out www.pojo.com/pokemon.html and go down to Sunday 7-8-01 for more details.

[James Harvey]

A fifth Pokemon? Ugh. Thankfully, due to the recent poor box office of the last movie over here, we may not get to see them, unless KWB airs them. I thought the franchise was flindering in Japan...

[Hollywood53]

There might be a chance of Pokemon 4 coming to theaters, Pokemon 3 has been doing good overseas. The total box office for Pokemon 3 (excluding Asia) is over 50 million, so if the international box office dirves Pokemon 3's final worldwide gross to over 70 million, WB might have a theatrical incentive to release Pokemon 4.

Also a Nintendo spokesperson at the New York toy fair (I heard this somewhere, I will find out about this later) said to expect Pokemon 4 in the US by December. And there is a trailer for Pokemon 4 in the Pokemon 3 video/DVD release.

[James Harvey]

So they're giving the franchise another go? I'm suprised at this, since WB wasn't pleased with the box office returns of #3. Question, how far behind is US in POkemon. I'm not a pokefan, but I always here how the US is so behind in episodes. Any idea?

[Tim Drake]

Not sure but I've noticed that anime shows are always at least 2 seasons behind in America. Look at Dragonball they're showing episodes from the early 90's still!!!