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Your Name UK and Ireland Cinema Box-Office

The website Film News UK reports that the one-day 'expanded' release of Makoto Shinkai's your name. earned £108,372 at the UK and Ireland box-office. The expanded release was on Thursday November 24, when the film played at 104 screens, the most for an anime film in the UK and Ireland. It also broke the record for a single-day gross.

In total, your name. has earned £138,048 in the UK and Ireland, and some venues are continuing to screen it: ticket and venue details at yournamethemovie.co.uk. Viewers can also request cinema screenings in their area through OurScreen.

Film News UK quotes James Dobbin of the cinema National Amusements, which released your name. together with Anime Limited. Dobbin said, “We are thrilled with last night's results particularly as the cinema distribution included a large number of multiplexes in key cities but also plenty of smaller towns across the UK and Ireland. We're committed to bringing a regular strand of anime to the big screen.”