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Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children Revealed
poshul the hyper puppy writes "Is Square Enix planning on doing a follow up to its best-selling game of all time? Nearing press time at this year's Tokyo Game Show 2003 - it appears a scan from the upcoming V-Jump magazine has given away Square's surprise by revealing Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Leaked by Japanese site Quiter the details say it takes two years after the original, should be released on some form of DVD media (looks like this could this be a movie, not a game?), and involves our legendary hero Cloud. So either bust out Babelfish to read the details directly at Quiter or get the news from SquareAMP: Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children." Update: 09/25 18:54 GMT by S : IGN PS2 are pretty sure that this is a direct-to-DVD CG movie, as the poster suggested above, not a videogame.
FF : The spirits within, made 62 millions according to IMDB. Don't forget those worldwide sales. Sites like Yahoo only mention domestic sales. Movies that seem like a failure because they generated only a couple of millions (Like Johnny English) in the US sometimes are big successes overseas, making over one hundred million. Still, they didn't make enough money to cover the cost of the movie, they still made a whopping 79 million dollars on the DVD sales of FF:TSW, and then you have 149 million, so the movie must not have lost that much money.
The reason behind that is simple. When Square released Final Fantasy 1, they were in deep financial troubles and they thought it would be their last game, so they called it Final Fantasy. The rest is history.