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Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale Film Fan Screening in Philippines Rescheduled to April 29
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Southeast Asian film distributor Odex announced on Friday that it has rescheduled its fan screening of the Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale anime film in the Philippines from April 22 to April 29 due to "logistical difficulties." The premium items offered to moviegoers for the fan screening will still be available at the April 29 screening.
The fan screening will be a one-day screening, with viewers also receiving the movie premiums that some screenings in Japan distributed, including post cards, illustration boards, 35mm filmstrips, and the Sword Art Online: Hopeful Chant novella that was distributed to moviegoers in Japan in the film's third week of screening. Moviegoers will also receive autograph cards and paper bags.
Aside from the Philippines, Odex is also holding fan screenings of the film in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia.
Odex noted that this new fan screening will have certain scenes re-drawn to a higher resolution, and that countries that had the film's Asuna's "bathroom scene" censored in the previous screenings will now have the full scene.
The film opened in Japan on February 18. Odex screened the film with a one-day screening in various Southeast Asian territories on the same day as the Japan opening. In some territories, the film screenings continued past the one-day screening schedule due to full theater bookings. These same territories then screened a regular wide opening for the film in late March.
