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With the Nakano sisters set to return to the big screen in the advance screenings of The Quintessential Quintuplets ＊ TV broadcast, the franchise announced last night that the final chapter anime film of the series, The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie , will be returning to Japanese theaters for one night only ahead of the theatrical screenings of the newest story. The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie screenings will held on September 10 at 7 Pm at Shinjuku Wald 9, T-Joy Umeda, T-Joy Hakata, United Cinemas Sapporo and 109 Cinemas Nagoya. A special set of 5 badges featuring all the Nakano siblings will be given out to everyone who attends the screenings. Tickets for the screenings go on sale on the theater’s websites on September 7 at midnight Jst. Related: The Quintessential Quintuplets Honeymoon Arc Anime Premieres on September 20 The Quintessential Quintuplets ＊ will have a three-week run in Japanese theaters on September 20 before being screened on TV. The newest anime...

Look Back ’s anime film adaptation continues to draw praise from critics and viewers while more and more theaters across Japan pick up the movie. This has pushed the adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga to over 1 billion yen on Monday, July 16, – a standout amount for such a theatrically limited release – with nearly 600,000 tickets sold! In just 18 days, Look Back has made 1,017,961,780 yen (US$6.41 million) on the back of 599,731 tickets purchased, making it one of the fastest films to reach that number with such a limited number of theaters showing the movie. Since opening in 119 theaters, that number has increased to over 165 with more planning to show the 59-minute flick over the next few weeks. Look Back ’s Japanese theatrical run could be compared with 2022’s The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie , which opened in one less theater than Look Back and continued to collect more screens throughout the year. The Nakano...

The Quintessential Quintuplets‘ new anime special, titled The Quintessential Quintuplets*, will be released in theatres for three weeks starting Sep 20, 2024, ahead of its TV broadcast.

A new visual, opening and ending theme song, and staff details were also revealed along with the new announcement.

The anime’s opening theme song ‘Gotobun no Egao’ and ending theme song ‘Memories’ will be performed by the voice actors of the Nakano quintuplets.

Masato Jinbo will serve as the director at Bibury Animation Studio as well as handle the scripts. Masato Katsumata will be in charge of character designs.

It was previously revealed that the anime special will be overseen directly by the mangaka, Negi Haruba. Haruba not only drafted the original story concept for the anime, but will also be supervising all aspects of its production.

The new special will be an original story not seen in the manga, following Futaro Uesugi’s...

A new anime original film for The Quintessential Quintuplets was announced during the series’ 5th Anniversary Event in Yokohama Arena on April 28, 2024. The new film will be an original story not seen in the manga, following Futaro Uesugi’s honeymoon adventure with all five Nakano quintuplets.

The film will be overseen directly by the mangaka, Negi Haruba. Haruba not only drafted the original story concept for the anime, but will also be supervising all aspects of its production.

A visual and a Pv were revealed to commemorate the announcement.

The Quintessential Quintuplets is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Negi Haruba. It was serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine from August 2017 to February 2020, with its chapters collected into fourteen tankobon volumes.

An anime television series adaptation produced by Tezuka Productions aired from January to March 2019 on TBS and other channels. A second season produced by Bibury Animation Studios...

Crunchyroll is continuing to expand its cinematic offerings on its streaming service with the addition of more titles it has recently released theatrically, including That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime The Movie: Scarlet Bond, The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie, and Mobile Suit Gundam Cucuruz Doan’s Island. Additionally, a few titles that have never been available to stream outside of Japan will also be available on Crunchyroll, including Free! -the Final Stroke- Part 1 and 2, To Every You I’ve Loved Before, and To Me, The One Who Loved You.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond is a stand-alone story that takes place after the second season of the popular fantasy adventure anime series it is based on, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, which is adapted from the best-selling light novel of the same name. The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie...

Slow weekend for new titles as cinemas await ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’.

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Dec 9-11)Total gross to date Week 1. Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (Sony) £2.1m £10.8m 3 2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Disney) £802,106 £30.8m 5 3. Violent Night (Universal) £567,351 £1.9m 2 4. Strange World (Disney) £305,802 £1.8m 3 5. The Menu (Disney) £192,742 £3m 4

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Sony’s Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical held first place at the UK-Ireland box office for a third consecutive weekend, as cinemas await the arrival of Avatar: The Way Of Water.

On its third weekend in cinemas, Matilda dropped just 16 on its previous session...

“Spoiler Alert” (Universal), based on Michael Ausiello’s poignant memoir, debuted in six theaters and provided a spark for the specialized market. It took in 85,000 — at the higher end for this season. That’s enough to justify the brief platform before it expands to a multi-hundred theater run this Friday.

Among traditional specialized titles, we’re confronting a discomfiting reality: This once-vibrant adult audience isn’t showing up, but non-traditional releases are thriving. Fathom Events now boasts two out-of-nowhere successes in three weeks. “I Heard the Bells,” about composer of the classic Christmas carol took in nearly 2.6 million for four days on 474 theaters for #7 overall. And its presentation of two episodes of “The Chosen Season 3” has taken in over 14 million. That’s more than any of the plethora of awards-contenders and others we list below, most of which had wider releases.

Compare that to “The Fabelmans” (Universal). Steven Spielberg’s...