Quincy Forever!

Quincy Forever! (クインシーフォーエバー！) is a 2015 anime film based on the manga series Quincy by Ryotaro Sekizawa. It was produced by and animated at J.C.Staff and directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai. Rather than being adapted from a volume of the manga, the film instead has it's own original story written by Ichirō Ōkouchi and Akihiro Nishino. The film stars the voices of Tomokazu Seki, Yūichi Nakamura, Tōru Furuya, Shizuka Itō, Daisuke Namikawa, Daisuke Ono and Takaya Hashi.

Quincy Forever! premiered on August 14, 2015, in Japan. It received positive reviews from critics and grossed $185.7 million worldwide. In the United States and some international countries, the film was released on August 5, 2016 by Paramount Pictures in a re-edited version titled Once Upon a Quincy. In this version, Shawn Ashmore does the voice of Quincy.

Plot
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Additional Voices

 * Josh Grelle
 * Dave Mallow
 * Robbie Daymond
 * Dorothy Elias-Fahn
 * Christopher Corey Smith
 * Kira Buckland
 * David Wald
 * David Matranga
 * Tia Ballard

Initial
Quincy Forever! had it's theatrical premiere in Shinjuku at the Cinema Square Tōkyū theater, and was released to theaters in Japan on August 14, 2015 by The KlockWorx.

Once Upon a Quincy
A few months before the film was completed, IM Global secured the sales outside of Asia and comissioned an English dub of the film to recording studios Fever Dreams Sound Factory and Sound Cadence Studios, with Howard Wang, Justin Briner, and Matt Shipman re-writing the script into English and Shipman and Robbie Daymond directing the dubbing. After which, they marketed the film at the American Film Market in November 2015. In what was described by the producers of the film and some executives of J.C.Staff as "a deal we hadn't seen before", Paramount Pictures purchased the rights to distribute the film in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Germany Latin America, and other territories. Alex Mateo of Anime News Network reported that "This had been the first time he had seen an anime not licensed by Garrett Fredrickson be distributed by a major film studio in years."

Paramount held several test-screenings for the IM Global dub in January 2016. Following these, and with permission from director Tatsuyuki Nagai, Paramount decided to re-edit the film before release. Paramount's budgest breakdown for Once Upon a Quincy is as follows: $2 million to acquire the distribution rights, $200,000 for filming the new scenes and other revisions, and $4 million for prints and advertising, adding up to a grand total of $6,200,000.

Chris McKay, on loan from his deal with Warner Bros, was hired by Paramount to adapt the film for American audiences. McKay decided to add a framing device in the style of the movie The Princess Bride, in which Fred Savage was told the book as a bedtime story by Peter Falk. William Broyles Jr. and Brandon Sawyer wrote the new scenes for the new version, while they were directed by Adam Rapp. Paramount initially wanted to tap Stacy Keach as the star of these new scenes, but the role was instead cast to Donald Sutherland, while Hayden Rolence played the grandson.

As for the alterations to Quincy Forever!, the film minus the added scenes and end credits runs for 103 minutes, 17 minutes shorter than the Japanese version. McKay stated that the reason why these cuts were made was to hasten the film's pacing as he felt the film dragged in several areas. There were also changes to the original screenplay done by Broyles Jr. and Sawyer, and as such, it became necessary to re-record several lines; despite the film being dubbed using a non-union cast, much of the original actors returned to re-record their lines, though a few actors were re-cast during production. Most notably, Shawn Ashmore replaced Max Mittelman as Quincy and Donald Sutherland replaced Patrick Seitz as the narrator. In total, this new version of the film runs for 114 minutes.

The new version of the film, titled Once Upon a Quincy, was released in theaters by Paramount Pictures on August 5, 2016, almost a year after the film was released in Japan.

Home Media
Quincy Forever! was released on Blu-Ray and a two-disc DVD by King Records on March 8, 2016. The first disc contained the movie and the script, while the second contained music videos, trailers, and several featurettes on the movie's production.

Paramount Home Media Distribution released the Once Upon a Quincy version of the film on Digital HD, Blu-Ray and DVD on December 13, 2016. The DVD release came in two editions, a standard edition, and a three-disc "collector's edition", which contains the film on the first disc, the original Japanese version on the second, and a selection of bonus features on the third disc. DVDTalk considered this to be "one of the finest home video releases of a recently released non-Disney animated film." The DVD and Blu-Ray also contained a sneak peek to The Talisman of A Thousand Powers, a film that Garrett Fredrickson, the creator of The Story of Quincy, was directing for Paramount around that time.

Box Office
Quincy Forever! opened on August 14, 2015 in Japan and during it's theatrical run, grossed ¥5.8 billion at the box office. Internationally, the film opened alongside Suicide Squad and Nine Lives and was projected to gross about $12-15 million during it's opening weekend. It opened at about $11 million at the box office and domestically grossed $30 million and internationally grossed $103 million, bringing for a worldwide title of $185.7 million.

Critical Response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the original version of the film holds an approval rating of 88% based on 24 reviews, with an average rating of 6.48/10. Eiga reported users gave the film "B+". On Rotten Tomatoes, the US version of the film, titled Once Upon a Quincy, has an approval rating of 72% based on 152 reviews, with an average rating of 6.22/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Once Upon a Quincy makes for an enjoyable, if not slightly misguided diversion for Quincy fans and fans of the detective genre." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score 65 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.