Sword Art Online Radical Film Rank #10 at the US Box Office

The highly anticipated film had a strong opening week in US theaters.
Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night grossed $1.05 million in its opening weekend, peaking at number 10 at the US box office. The figures were first revealed by the Box Office Mojo website.
The The movie was released in Japan on October 30, was at number 1 at the box office in its first weekend. The film has grossed a total of 1,277,033,413 yen since its premiere in Japanese theaters.
Funimation screened the movie in Canada and the United States on December 3, with screenings in Australia and New Zealand then on December 9. The film is also slated for a release in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Latin America, and will open in Australia. More than 40 countries and regions.
Aria of a Starless Night is the first installment of a new series based on Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online: Progressive light novels. The series is a retelling of the Aincrad arc from the original light novel and the second film, Scherzo of a Dark Dusk, will open sometime in 2022.
The movie is produced by A-1 Pictures. The studio handled all three Sword Art Online animated series as well as 2017 Normal scale movie. Ayako Kohno is directing the film, with the music by Yuki Kajiura and Kento Toya serving as character designers.
Kohno is best known for her work Bleach, Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic, and Movie Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoner of the Sky. Kajiura was once the composer for everyone Sword Art Online animation project and have also done a lot of work for Fate / stay night and Puella Magi Madoka Magica series. Toya has been handling the character designs since the beginning of the animated series and most recently contributed to Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway movies and The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitors Section cartoon.
Yen Press publishes the light novels and manga in English. The anime can be streamed on Crunchyroll and Funimation and is licensed by Aniplex USA.
The source: Anime News Network
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