Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Godzilla in popular culture" in English language version.
The Toho Co. of Tokyo, which made all 21 Godzilla films going back to the original 1954 classic, " Godzilla, King of the Monsters," announced last week that it had decided to make just one last movie (...) Henry J. Saperstein, whose company, UPA Productions of America, has distributed the films in the United States (...) Toho says 85 million Japanese have seen the films. Saperstein said that in the United States, a Godzilla film has been aired on some television station every week since 1960. In the past nine months alone, he said, he sold 3 million Godzilla toys.
Toho's American agent, Henry Saperstein (...) The films cost about $1.2 million each to make, and gross about $20 million worldwide, he says; about $5 million of that gets back to Toho, which has been releasing two films a year recently. (...) Marvel says its first Godzilla comic book sold 200,000 copies, and that future monthly press runs are being increased. Mattell says it will show its Godzilla toys next February, buoyed by a recent survey showing that 80 per cent of the male population of Los Angeles between the ages of four and nine are Godzilla fans.
