Shimajiro film opens at #9
Shin Evangelion Gekijō-ban :||), the final
Evangelion film, ranked #1 in its opening weekend. The film sold 760,000 tickets for 1,177,445,400 yen (about US$10.8 million) on Saturday and Sunday. Specifically, it sold 401,723 tickets for 649,071,800 yen (about US$5.9 million) on Saturday, and 359,159 tickets for 528,373,600 yen (about US$4.8 million) on Sunday.
The film sold 2,194,533 tickets for 3,338,422,400 yen (about US$30.6 million) in its first seven days in 466 theaters in Japan. The film sold 33.6% more tickets for 45.1% more yen than the previous
Evangelion film during their respective first seven days.
Entertainment news website Deadline reported on Sunday that the film earned the equivalent of US$3.4 million in 38 IMAX theaters during its first seven days the second-highest opening week for IMAX screenings of a domestic title in Japan, behind only last year s
franchise began streaming a new trailer for the
Shimajirō to Sora Tobu Fune (Shimajirō and the Flying Ship) 3D CG anime film on Monday. The trailer previews the film s theme song Egao no Sora (Smiling Sky) by
Yūma Uchida, and also reveals the film s new opening date of March 12, 2021.
The film was postponed from its February 28, 2020 opening due to concerns about the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The film is billed as the
franchise s first 3D CG anime film.
The film s story centers on Jin, an inventor squirrel who lives in Greenwood, a land far beyond the sea. Rain has not come to Greenwood in a long while. To solve the land s problem, Jin decides to build a flying ship to make the rain fall, and he enlists Shimajirō s help.