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Ghibli's Earthsea Ends U.S. Run with US$48,461
posted on by Egan Loo
The Box Office Mojo website reports that Goro Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's Tales from Earthsea (Gedo Senki) anime film earned an estimated US$48,461 during its three-week run in the United States. The film played in five theaters in the first two weeks after opening on August 13, and it played in just one — New York City's Angelika/Manhattan — during its last week. During its last weekend, the theater made US$589.
Tales from Earthsea adapts Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea fantasy novels with the English dubbing cast of Blaire Restaneo, Matt Levin, Timothy Dalton, Cheech Marin, Mariska Hargitay, and Willem Dafoe. The film opened in Japan and other countries in 2006, and earned US$63,786,538 in Japan and US$68,625,104 in countries outside the United States.