Cinemark is listing that The First Slam Dunk, the new anime film of Takehiko Inoue's Slam Dunk basketball manga, will get a release in US theaters this year. The theater chain does not provide exact dates.
The film has earned a cumulative total of 12,943,919,490 yen (about US$96.99 million) in Japan as of April 9, reports Anime News Network.
The film is now the 25th highest-earning film of all time in Japan, as well as the 11th highest-earning anime film. The film ranked at #1 in its opening weekend in December. The film sold 847,000 tickets and earned 1,295,808,780 yen (about US$9.50 million) over its opening weekend.
Inoue personally directed the film at Toei Animation and wrote the script. Among the listed staff members are character designer/animation director Yasuyuki Ebara, and technical directors Katsuhiko, Naoki Miyahara, Toshio Ōhashi, and Yū Kamatani.
