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GSC Movies Hosts Free Screening of Sword Art Online, Love Live! Films
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Malaysian film chain GSC Movies announced on Monday that it will host free film screenings of the Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale, Love Live! The School Idol Movie, Gekijōban Kuroko no Basuke Last Game, and Detective Conan: The Crimson Love Letter films on January 19-21. The screenings will take place at the GSC Paradigm JB in Selangor.
Odex screened the Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale film in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Brunei last February, alongside the Japanese premiere.
The film sold about 308,376 tickets for 425,762,760 yen (about US$3.76 milion) to top the Japanese box office during the its opening weekend. The film has set an opening-weekend record among films distributed by Aniplex.
The Love Live! The School Idol Movie anime film opened in Malaysia in October 2015. The film is the conclusion to the original Love Live! School idol project anime. The film was the eighth highest-grossing domestic Japanese film of 2015.
Odex and GSC Movies opened the Gekijōban Kuroko no Basuke Last Game anime film in Malaysia last May, and also screened the film in Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The film opened in Japan last March on 91 screens, and ranked #6 in attendance and #1 in its per-screen average in its opening weekend. The film sold 170,000 tickets for 250 million yen during its opening weekend.
Odex and GSC Movies opened the Detective Conan: The Crimson Love Letter in Malaysia last June, and also screened the film in Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The film is the 21st film in the franchise. Kobun Shizuno, the director of the last six Detective Conan films, returned to direct the film at TMS and V1 Studio. Takeharu Sakurai also returned from earlier films to write the script based on Gōshō Aoyama's story, and franchise composer Katsuo Ono again provided the music. The film earned more than 6.5 billion yen, a new record for the Detective Conan film series, beating the 20th film in the franchise, Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare, which earned 6.33 billion yen.
