One Piece Film Red rocketed to the top of the box office chart in Saudi Arabia over the weekend, achieving the biggest-ever opening for a Japanese anime in the territory and dislodging Black Adam f…
, which holds all rights to the film in the region, said its opening weekend in Saudi Arabia, including previews, drew 61,000 admissions for a box office of $1.04m.
The weekend runs across Friday and Saturday in the territory so the figures are calculated from Wednesday previews through to end-Saturday.is the third feature in the genre to top the box office in the territory over the past 18 months. This is an exceptional result, nonetheless. The opening admissions figure is 14% higher than that achieved by previous record holder, which broke out in May 2021.
Front Row said the film had also achieved one of the biggest-ever opening days for a PG-12 movie in Saudia Arabia and the second biggest-ever opening day for an animated film behind Universal’sThe distributor also noted, for context, that the opening day figures forSonic: The Hedgehog 2The film, produced by Toei Animation and One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda, is the 15th instalment in the hit franchise.
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