Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] Tops Japanese Weekend Box Office With 413 Million Yen

Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] THE MOVIE I. presage flower, the first chapter of the trilogy anime film adaptation based on the third route of Type-Moon’s visual novel Fate/stay night featuring Sakura Matou, opened in 128 theaters across Japan on October 14. Distributor Aniplex confirmed on Monday that the Ufotable-animated film earned a massive 413,030,840 yen (about 3.68 million US dollars) on 247,509 admissions in its first weekend, becoming the top-grossing film of the week.

The film’s first weekend gross surpassed that of Love Live! The School Idol Movie, which opened in 121 theaters in June 2015 with 400,235,800 yen. And its per-screen average of 3,226,802 yen was six times more than that of War for the Planet of the Apes in second place, also opened in 374 theaters this weekend. In addition, it ranked No.1 both in Pia (92.2 rating) and Filmarks (4.16 rating)’ first day satisfaction rankings.

The first chapter presage flower is expected make over 2 billion yen from its domestic run. Then the
second chapter Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] II.lost butterfly is scheduled to be released in 2018.

10/14(土)に公開をした劇場版「Fate [HF]」がFilmarks「初日満足度ランキング」にて第1位を獲得しました！皆様ありがとうございます！https://t.co/oNEp5PBT25　#fate_sn_anime pic.twitter.com/C0ho8U4jQj

— Fate/stay night (@Fate_SN_Anime) 2017年10月16日

Weekend box office in Japan  (October 14-15, 2017)

– ticket sales basis

1 (new). “Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] THE MOVIE I. presage flower”

2 (new). “War for the Planet of the Apes”

3 (1). “Outrage Coda”

4 (2). “Narratage”

5 (3). “Ajin”

6 (4). “A Dog’s Purpose”

7 (5). “Namiya Zakkaten no Kiseki”

8 (new). “Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love: Pure Love Chapter”

9 (6). “Hidden Figures”

10 (new). “Love and Lies”

“Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] THE MOVIE I. presage flower” trailer

Source: Aniplex press release, Eiga.com

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