After years of being on the cusp of going completely mainstream, the latest anime film in the Detective Conan/Case Closed franchise, The Million-Dollar Pentagram, has finally put all the pieces together and in just 18 days has made over 9 billion yen at the Japanese box office. Not only that, the latest film has pushed the entire movie series past 100 million tickets sold, making it the third franchise in Japan to do so.
As of Monday, April 29, Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram has brought in 9.29 billion yen (US$59.51 million) on the back of 6.44 million tickets sold. This makes it the 61st highest-grossing film in Japan of all time and the 19th highest-grossing anime film in Japan ever, passing Studio Ghibli’s Arrietty. The Million-Dollar Pentagram is currently outpacing Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine’s box office gross by a wide margin, likely to overtake the highest-grossing film in the franchise at 13.73 billion yen very soon.With 6.44 million tickets sold for The Million-Dollar Pentagram, over 100 million have been purchased for the entire Detective Conan/Case Closed film franchise. Conan is the third film franchise to do so in Japan ever, after Doraemon and Godzilla, and the fastest to do so, passing the milestone in 27 films.
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram released in Japan on April 12, 2024. Chika Nagaoka, who worked on the 23rd film, The Fist of Blue Sapphire (2019), and the 24th film, The Scarlet Bullet (2021), again serves as director on a screenplay by Takahiro Okura, who worked on the 21st film, The Crimson Love Letter (2017), the 23rd film, The Fist of Blue Sapphire, and the 25th film, The Bride of Halloween (2022).
Sources: Kogyo Tsushin, Mantan Web
