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Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale Film's Screening in Vietnam Rescheduled to May 23
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Southeast Asian film distributor Odex announced on Tuesday that its general screening of the Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale anime film in Vietnam has been rescheduled to May 23. The film was originally scheduled to open on May 16.
Aside from Vietnam, Odex also held regular and fan screenings of the film in Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia.
The film opened in Japan on February 18, and sold about 308,376 tickets for 425,762,760 yen (about US$3.76 milion) in its opening weekend. The film was the first anime film to rank #1 in both weekend attendance and weekend box office receipt totals since Makoto Shinkai's your name. The film also set the opening-weekend record among films distributed by Aniplex.
Odex screened the film with a one-day screening in various Southeast Asian territories on the same day as the Japan opening. In some territories, the film screenings continued past the one-day screening schedule due to full theater bookings. These same territories then screened a regular wide opening for the film in late March.
Original light novel author Reki Kawahara wrote the new story for the film. Tomohiko Ito returned from the two TV anime series and the anime special to direct the film at A-1 Pictures. Shingo Adachi also returned from the TV anime to design the characters based on abec's original character designs, and Yuki Kajiura returned to score the music.
Kawahara's light novel series has more than 20 million copies in print.
