The film was the first anime film to rank #1 in both weekend attendance and weekend box office receipt totals since Makoto Shinkai’s your name.
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 had earned 2 billion yen in Japan as of March 20.
The Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale anime has sold more than 1.6 million tickets to earn more than 2.3 billion yen (about US$20.8 million) at the Japanese box office as of Thursday.