The Box Office Mojo website has reported that Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You anime film has earned an estimated US$2,007,523 from January 17, 2020 to January 20, 2020 (including the estimated US$276,151 gross for January 20, 2020) in 486 theaters, and has earned an estimated total of US$5,053,773 in its first six days.

The film ranked at #2 in its first two days on January 15, 2020 and January 16, 2020, but fell to #12 on January 17, 2020, and to #14 on January 18 and 19, 2020. Box Office Mojo projected that the film will rank #15 on January 20, 2020 and #14 for the extended January 17-20, 2020 holiday weekend. It has an estimated per-screen average of US$4,130 for the extended weekend, the fourth highest among films now playing.

Weathering With You became the highest-grossing release from the distributor GKIDS after its first two days in event screenings, topping Mary and The Witch’s Flower‘s US$2,418,404.

Fathom Events screened the film in theaters in the United States on January 15 and 16, 2020. The screenings were a “Special Fan Preview” with exclusive bonus content before GKIDS opened the film in North America on January 17, 2020. The screenings that started on January 17, 2020 had both English-subtitled screenings and English-dubbed screenings.

Source: ANN

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