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The First Slam Dunk Film Has Earned US$1 Million in N. America

The Box Office Mojo website is estimating Slam Dunk basketball manga, with earning US$98,710 in North America in its second weekend. The Numbers website reported a marginally different US$88,000 earning for the film. Box Office Mojo lists that the film ranked at #18 in its second weekend. The film has earned a cumulative total of US$1,050,647 according to Box Office Mojo, and US$1,033,000 according to The Numbers.

The film earned US$662,211 in its first weekend in North America.

dub and with Japanese audio and English subtitles on July 28.

The film received this year's general award for Eiga Engeki Bunka Kyōkai's (Film Theater Culture Association) 42nd annual Fujimoto Awards.

As of July 23, the film had sold a cumulative total of 10.33 million tickets to earn 14,900,403,870 yen ($105.3 million). The film is now the 14th highest-earning film of all time in Japan, and is also now the eighth highest-earning anime film in Japan.

The film will end its run in Japanese theaters on August 31.

Inoue personally directed the film at Kōji Kasamatsu.

Sources: Box Office Mojo (link 2), The Numbers