The hype is indeed real as a report from entertainment news website Deadline on Thursday reveals that the Dragon Ball Super: Broly film has topped the box office at #1 on its opening day earning an estimate of USD $7,000,000. It is also projected that earnings will skyrocket to over US$15 million in six days.

The movie was screening on 1,440 venues including Cinemark XD and 180 IMAX screens on Wednesday.

Dragon Ball Super: Broly takes place after the Dragon Ball Super anime. The Dragon Ball Super manga will be skipping the story of the film but will have its own novel adaptation slated for release on December 14.

The film opened on December 14 in Japan sold more than 820,000 tickets in just in the first three days of screening. It immediately earned more than 1,050,000,000 yen and immediately topped the Japanese box office charts.

Its first world premiere event happened at Nippon Budokan last November 14 and premiered in Japan on December 14 (in regular and 4DX screenings.) The English dub premiere happened at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood on December 13.

Source: Anime News Network