'One Piece Film: Gold' to be Screened in North America Next Year!

Good news One Piece fans! The website Fandango has been offering pre-sale tickets to the One Piece Gold anime movie which is set to be screened in the United States as well as in Canada for one week (January 10-17). A partial list of US theaters were mentioned during The One Piece podcast.

The movie premiered in Japanese on July 23 and earned around 5,007,520,000 yen (as of September 8) in the Japanese box office. When it was screened in China on November 11, it earned around 69,630,000 yuan in the Chinese Box Office in just three days!

Check out the video about the movie below uploaded by IGN.

Funimation will release the film in English Dub and there’s still no word if there will be screenings with the original Japanese dub and English subtitles.

Here’s a description about the film as Funimation describe it:

The Straw Hat pirates are hitting the big screen once again in an all-new high-flying adventure! The popular series that has captivated fans all over the world unfolds a new saga in the highly anticipated movie, One Piece Film Gold.

The glittering Gran Tesoro, a city of entertainment beyond the laws of the government, is a sanctuary for the world’s most infamous pirates, Marines, and filthy rich millionaires. Drawn by dreams of hitting the jackpot, Captain Luffy and his crew sail straight for the gold. But behind the gilded curtains lies a powerful king whose deep pockets and deeper ambitions spell disaster for the Straw Hats and the New World alike.

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