Film earned US$722,836 at screenings on Tuesday, Thursday

Box Office Mojo reports that Fathom Events ' Thursday's screening of Trigger and XFlag 's original anime film Promare in the United States on Thursday earned US$467,007 to rank at #3 for the day. The film earned US$255,829 on its Tuesday screening, and has earned US$722,836 total as of Thursday. The film ranked at #21 for the week of September 13-19.

The film opened in 200 theaters in Japan on May 24, and ranked at #8 in its opening weekend. The film has earned more than 1.2 billion yen (about US$11.11 million) as of Friday.

Aside from Fathom Events ' screenings on Tuesday and Thursday, GKIDS also began screening the movie starting on Friday in select theaters. Cineplex is also listing screenings for the film in Canada on September 22-24. The screening on September 22 will have an English dub, and the screenings on September 23-24 will have English subtitles.

GKIDS describes the film:

Thirty years has passed since the appearance of Burnish, a race of flame-wielding mutant beings, who destroyed half of the world with fire. When a new group of aggressive mutants calling themselves “Mad Burnish” appears, the epic battle between Galo Thymos, a new member of the anti-Burnish rescue team “Burning Rescue,” and Lio Fotia, the leader of “Mad Burnish” begins.

Director Hiroyuki Imaishi and scriptwriter Kazuki Nakashima teamed up again for the new project at Trigger . Trigger and Nakashima are credited with the original work. Shigeto Koyama was in charge of character design and mechanical design , and Sushio ( Kill la Kill ) was involved as an animator. Tomotaka Kubo ( Mary and The Witch's Flower ) was the art director, and Saishi Ichiko was in charge of logo design. Hiroyuki Sawano ( Attack on Titan , Kill la Kill ) composed the music. SANZIGEN Animation Studio handled the 3DCG animation. XFlag is credited with production, and TOHO is distributing the film.

Thanks to Daniel Zelter for the news tip.

Source: Box Office Mojo (link 2) via WTK