Current Theatrical Anime Releases Winding Down

Spirited Away has now become the fourth highest grossing anime movie ever released to American theaters, pulling ahead of the Digimon movie, outperformed by only the first 3 Pokemon movies. Spirited Away has earned nearly $10 million in America since its theatrical premiere last fall. But the film is currently only playing in 47 theaters nationwide and earned only $25,972 last weekend, signifying that the film will soon be out of American theaters completely.

The Cowboy Bebop movie pulled ahead of Spirited Away, taking in roughly $30,000 last weekend on only 22 screens nationwide, but even that box office result is down from its initial receipts, suggesting that the Cowboy Bebop movie will not receive any greater theatrical release in America than it’s already had.

Source: ICv2 News