Publisher Kadokawa announced on Monday that the Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale anime film ”will be simultaneously released worldwide on February 18, 2017.”
Tomohiko Ito is returning from the two TV anime series and the anime special to direct the film at A-1 Pictures.
The announcement notes that the novel series has sold 19 million copies worldwide, with overseas sales accounting for 6.5 million of that number.
The novels have sold 12.5 million copies in Japan, 3.73 million copies in China, 1.45 million copies in Taiwan, 770,000 copies in South Korea, and 370,000 copies in North America and the United Kingdom.