Released on July 8 was the new anime feature film “Mary to Mahou no Hana” a.k.a. “Mary and the Witch’s Flower”; now 4 days has passed since the film was was released in 365 theaters (458 screens) across Japan.In that span of time, the film featuring the adventures of a young girl and a magic broom has reached a total of 428 million yen from 324,000 admissions and gained the #2 rank in the weekend box office which is as listed:
Weekend box office in Japan (July 8-9, 2017)
1 (1). “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” 2 (new). “Mary and The Witch’s Flower” 3 (2). “Shinobi no Kuni” 4 (3). “Ani ni Aisaresugite Komattemasu” 5 (4). “Nijyuninenme no Kokuhaku – Watashi ga Satsujinhandesu” 6 (new). “John Wick: Chapter 2” 7 (7). “Soreike! Anpanman: Buruburu no Takarasagashi Daibouken” 8 (6). “Hirugao” 9 (5). “Beauty and the Beast” 10 (new). “Life”“Mary and the Witch’s Flower” is the first fantasy film to be produced by Studio Ponoc; the studio which Hiromasa Yonebayashi established on April 15, 2015 following his leave of Studio Ghibli.
Based on the British novelist Mary Stewart’s children novel The Little Broomstick published in 1971, this is the story of a young girl named Mary. To put her tale quite simply, she one day encounters a black cat who leads her to discovering a magic broom and ending up in a mysterious institute where something strange is afoot and she has gotten tangled in it.
Hiromasa Yonebayashi, the director of “The Secret World of Arrietty”, acted as the director for the film. The Studio head himself, Yoshiaki Nishimura, acted as the producer for the film. For the script of the film, two people took charge, Riko Sakaguchi and the director himself.
In comparison to Nishimura’s work when he was still with Studio Ghibli, the film only half of “Kari-gurashi no Arrietty” a.k.a. “The Secret World of Arrietty” which made 900 million yen with 680,000 ticket sales in its opening weekend in July 2010 but did marginally better than “Omoide no Marnie” a.k.a. “When Marnie Was There” did in July 2014, having earned 379 million yen with 285,200 tickets.
Source: Crunchryoll News