Film sold more than 600,000 tickets in 1st 3 days
Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu‘s new Belle (Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime, literally “The Dragon and the Freckled Princess”) anime film earned more than 890 million yen (about US$8.09 million) and sold more than 600,000 tickets in its first three days. The film topped Japan’s box office chart for the weekend of July 17-18. The film opened in Japan last Friday. To celebrate the film’s opening, the film’s staff unveiled a third visual for the film.
The film has IMAX screenings in 38 theaters throughout Japan. This makes Belle the first of Hosoda’s films to have IMAX screenings.
France’s Cannes Film Festival first screened the film in the festival’s Cannes Premiere section last Thursday. It marked the first Official Selection at the festival for Hosoda. (The director’s previous Mirai film screened at the Directors’…
