Final week at Annecy 2023, Piece of Magic Leisure (POM) launched its new subsidiary, POM Anime – coinciding with the acquisition of distribution rights to the anime movie, The First Slam Dunk, which screened on the competition. The movie, to be launched below the POM Anime banner, is slated for theatrical launch throughout Scandinavia, Poland, Baltics, Greece, and the Central European area late Summer time 2023.
In recent times, POM has distributed widespread anime titles, together with Demon Slayer: Mugen Practice, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, and One-Piece Movie: Pink. With the launch of POM Anime, the corporate plans to carry the style to a bigger international viewers. Further anime title bulletins are anticipated within the coming weeks.
POM Anime’s first launch, The First Slam Dunk, in accordance with POM, has already achieved box-office success, grossing over $260 million worldwide in Asian markets to this point, making it the fifth highest-grossing anime movie of all time. The movie relies on the Takehiko Inoue Slam Dunk manga collection and is written and directed by Inoue and produced by Toei Animation.
“We’re thrilled to be launching POM Anime at Annecy, which has turn out to be a world reference for Animation,” commented POM CEO & founder Caspar Nadaud. “At Piece of Magic, we’re a cinema-first enterprise; we’re pushed by tasks that carry folks of all generations collectively to expertise distinctive content material collectively on the massive display, as we imagine there’s nothing prefer it. Whether or not that be anime, music and dwell gaming occasions, status characteristic movies or documentaries –we imagine it may be loved essentially the most on the massive display. We’re excited to increase upon our distribution portfolio additional with POM Anime and we’re wanting ahead to bringing this massively adored style to much more cinema screens and wider audiences around the globe.”
Supply: Piece of Magic Leisure
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
