Big Movie Battle: Ghost In The Shell vs Power and Beauty

03/30/2017 11:34 am EDT

We here at Comicbook.com have a growing interest in how you, the readers are spending your time and money when it comes to the big new movies releasing each week!

With our new Anticipation Rankings, we can get a sense of how a movie will do with fans before its release date arrives; however, the real measure is what happens when the film is in theaters! With our Big Movie Battle, we will measure how fans are reacting to each new release - and how those movies compare to one another!

This week, Japanese manga/anime tries to achieve Hollywood blockbuster success, with the release of Scarlett Johansson's Ghost In The Shell. However, Ghost is going to have more stiff competition than it may be able to handle, as the Power Rangers movie will ride strong word-of-mouth buzz into its second week of release, and Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast will continue making serious buck in its third week out.

So who is going to win this week's Big Movie Battle? As you can see below:

Ghost In The Shell currently holds a 3.54/5 ranking in our user anticipation ratings - sign that there is a considerable niche audience (manga/anime fans) that are interested in seeing the film. Mainstream interest doesn't really seem to be there right now, so while GITS could come out with a respectable opening this week, early indication is that once the dedicated fans have seen it, this film could quickly wither on the vine, domestically. How a Hollywood "whitewashed" version of a popular Japanese franchise will fare internationally is anyone's guess.

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With the primary fanbase generally happy with director Dean Israelite's new vision of the Rangers mythos, mainstream viewers who were on the fence now have all the reason they need to buy a ticket. If more families and teens turn out to see the film, Power Rangers could have a good second week - even better than fellow Japanese import, Ghost In The Shell. If a cast of young unknowns can defeat ScarJo at the box office, that would be a major upset.