Film sold 36,000 tickets in its opening weekend

The first Digimon Adventure tri. chapter sold 36,000 tickets for 59 million yen (about US$480,000) in 10 Japanese theaters, in the first two days since it opened on Saturday. To mark the occasion, the cast will appear at a stage greeting at the Sapporo Cinema Frontier this coming Saturday, November 28.

This same past weekend, the Girls und Panzer movie sold 84,752 tickets for 128,438,980 yen (about US$1.05 million) on 77 screens. It opened at #2, while the live-action film of the My Love Story!! (Ore Monogatari!!) manga dropped from #5 to #8 in its fourth weekend.