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The large cinema complex Shinjuku Wald 9, which opened in February 2007, has set a new record high for one day attendance and box office earnings. On Nov. 17, 2012, the release date for Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (Eva Q), the theater sold 15,290 tickets and made a box office earning of 25,675,800 yen. Of this amount, 10,671 tickets and 18,543,400 yen in box office earnings were attributed to Eva Q. All nine of the theaters screens, encompassing 1842 seats, were completely sold out. It was an unprecedented achievement.
Up until now, the box office record holder for one day earnings was the Studio Ghibli film The Borrower Arrietty, which, on its first day of release, sold 11,242 tickets and had a box office earning of 18,672,000 yen. The release of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo broke this record.
Wald 9’s record can be attributed to Evangelion’s dedicated fanbase. The world’s first screening of the movie was held at midnight on Saturday, Nov. 17 at the Shinjuku Wald 9 and took up all of the theater’s nine screens. By 6 a.m., the overnight screenings of the movie had sold 4087 tickets and made a box office earning of 7,115,900 yen. By the end of its first day, the movie had sold 10,671 tickets and made a box office earning of 18,523,400 yen.
This article contains translated excerpts from:
http://animeanime.jp/article/2012/11/18/12099.html (Japanese)