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Deadline: Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Film Earns US$2.88 Million from N. American Preview Screenings
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Entertainment news website Deadline reported on Thursday that the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 anime film earned about US$2.88 million at the North American box office from preview screenings in 2,003 theaters on Thursday.
The film opened with English subtitles and with an English dub in the U.S. and Canada on Friday.
The film has sold a total of 9.07 million tickets for over 12.7 billion yen (about US$107 million) since it opened on December 24, and is currently the 21st highest-grossing film in Japan of all time, surpassing Disney's Aladdin and Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises.
The film is now the #1 highest-earning film at the Japanese box office from the 2021 calendar year, after surpassing Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, according to the Mainichi Shimbun paper's Mantan Web.
The film earned 2,694,128,150 yen (about US$23.5 million) in its first three days, and topped the box office chart for its opening weekend. The film also has IMAX, 4D, and Dolby Cinema screenings. The movie opened in theaters in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg on March 16, and it will open in Germany, Austria, Switzerland on March 29.
The film is based on Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Tokyo Toritsu Jujutsu Kōtō Senmon Gakkō (Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School) manga prequel story, with MAPPA animating again and TOHO distributing. Viz Media released the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 manga in January 2021, and it describes the story:
Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a Curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary Curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a teacher at Jujutsu High, a school where fledgling exorcists learn how to combat Curses. Gojo convinces Yuta to enroll, but can he learn enough in time to confront the Curse that haunts him?
Megumi Ogata voiced the main character Yuta Okkotsu, and Kana Hanazawa voiced the character Rika Orimoto.
Source: Deadline (Anthony D'Alessandro)
