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Final Evangelion Film Breaks IMAX Opening Day Record in Japan
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Entertainment website Deadline reported on Wednesday that Evangelion film, has set a record for highest IMAX earnings on opening day in Japan, with the equivalent of US$740,000 in IMAX tickets. It has also set a record for the highest percentage of IMAX opening day gross for a local film in Japan, with IMAX ing for 10% of the film's opening day gross on only 1%-2% of the total screens.
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time opened on Monday. IMAX, MX4D, and 4DX screenings of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 also started on Monday alongside regular screenings.
The film Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo film in 2012. Evangelion: 3.0 opened on a Saturday. while Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 opened on a Monday.
The staff had delayed the film from January 23 to March 8, after careful consideration due to the new state of emergency extended to a total of 11 prefectures.
The film had an earlier scheduled to open in Japan on June 27, 2020.
The first three films in the tetralogy, screenings in Japan that opened on December 4, 11, and 18, respectively.
Source: Deadline (Nancy Tartaglione)
