The film opened in Japan on February 18, and sold about 308,376 tickets for 425,762,760 yen (about US$3.76 milion) in its opening weekend.
The film surpassed US$1.35 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend in North American theaters.
The Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale anime has sold over 700,000 tickets for the equivalent of more than 600 million yen (about US$5.32 million) in foreign box office ticket sales outside Japan.
It earned 80 million yen (US$700,000) in South Korea and 50 million yen (US$400,000) in Singapore.