Anime earns US$17 million as of its 30th day; new poster celebrates New Year's

The official website for the K-ON! anime franchise confirmed on Friday that the K-ON! film has sold over one million tickets, five weeks into its theatrical run. The entertainment news source Variety had already reported earlier this week that the film had earned the equivalent of US$17,002,351 (about 1.3 billion yen) as of its 30th day at the box office (January 1), thus indicating that about one million tickets had been sold.

Participating theaters have been displaying an exclusive K-ON! New Year's poster as of January 1.

[Via Yaraon!]

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