{"id":6604,"date":"2019-10-05T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T21:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2024-10-17T00:29:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T07:29:06","slug":"gkids-promare-surpasses-1-million-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2019\/10\/05\/gkids-promare-surpasses-1-million-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"GKIDS\u2019 Promare Surpasses $1 Million Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">GKIDS announced big box office success for Studio TRIGGER&#8217;s <em>Promare<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New theater reports show that GKIDS\u2019 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Promare<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has earned an estimated $1,068,806 after only two weekends in theaters. The film premiered in select U.S. theaters on September 17th (English dubbed) and September 19th (English subbed) in partnership with Fathom Events, and opened 30 more screenings on the 20th. GKIDS and Fathom Events screened the film in Canadaian cinemas on September 22nd and 23rd through Cineplex Events.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This box office milestone marks <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Promare<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as the highest-grossing original anime title in 2019, and the second highest theatrical gross for GKIDS just behind <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mary and the Witch\u2019s Flower <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Promare<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is Studio TRIGGER\u2019s first feature-length film, directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gurren Lagann<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kill la Kill<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). The film has been lauded as a spiritual successor to Imaishi\u2019s previous works, using bold visuals to tell an action-packed story.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Synopsis:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thirty years have passed since the appearance of Burnish, a race of flame-wielding mutant beings who destroyed half of the world with fire. When a new group of aggressive mutants calling themselves &#8220;Mad Burnish&#8221; appears, the epic battle between Galo Thymos, a new member of the anti-Burnish rescue team \u201cBurning Rescue,\u201d and Lio Fotia, the leader of \u201cMad Burnish&#8221; begins. Featuring the voices of Billy Kametz, Johnny Yong Bosch, Crispin Freeman, and Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld. (111 minutes, rated PG-13).<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The film is still screening at additional select theaters in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source: E-mail correspondence<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GKIDS announced big box office success for Studio TRIGGER&#8217;s Promare. New theater reports show that GKIDS\u2019 Promare has earned an estimated $1,068,806 after only two weekends in theaters. The film premiered in select U.S. theaters on September 17th (English dubbed) and September 19th (English subbed) in partnership with Fathom Events, and opened 30 more screenings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":6483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[474,14,97,635,222,701],"class_list":["post-6604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-2019-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-movie","tag-movie","tag-press-release","tag-promare"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sub05.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-1Iw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6609,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions\/6609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}