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27th Detective Conan Film Opens in Vietnam on August 2
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Case Closed: The Million-dollar Pentagram is the 27th film in the Detective Conan franchise. It opened in Japan on April 12. AIKO performs the film's theme song "Sōshi Sōai" (Mutual Love).
The film ranked at #1 in its opening weekend, selling 2,274,333 tickets and earning 3,352,494,500 (about US$21.7 million) yen in its first three days. The new film has exceeded the opening weekend of Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine (Iron Submarine), the 26th film that opened last year, making it the new best three-day opening for the franchise. The new film also has the biggest opening weekend for a film so far this year in Japan.
The film has sold a total of 10.06 million tickets and earned a cumulative total of 14,408,089,360 yen (about US$92.79 million), making the film the highest-grossing film in the franchise, beating last year's Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine (Iron Submarine) film's 13.83 billion yen (about US$88.23 million in current conversion) earnings.
The film is the second film in the franchise to have earned 10 billion yen, but Case Closed: The Million-dollar Pentagram earned it two days faster than Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine did. Detective Conan is now the first Japanese-animated film franchise to have two consecutive films pass 10 billion yen in earnings in Japan.
