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MediaLink Opens Live-Action The Promised Neverland Film in Hong Kong in March
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited announced on Thursday that it will open the live-action film of Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu's The Promised Neverland manga in Hong Kong in March.
The film opened in Japan on December 18. The film earned 373,372,850 yen (about US$3.6 million) in its first three days. The film has earned a cumulative total of 1,862,403,250 yen (about US$17.70 million) as of February 7.
Yūichirō Hirakawa (live-action ERASED film, live-action Rookies series) directed the film. Noriko Gotou penned the film's script. Hirakawa and Gotou worked together previously on the live-action ERASED film.
Shirai and Demizu launched The Promised Neverland manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in August 2016, and ended it in June 2020.
An anime adaptation premiered in January 2019. Aniplus-Asia aired a simulcast of the anime in Southeast Asia.
The second season of the anime premiered on January 8 and is currently airing. Aniplus-Asia is also simulcasting the second season. The season was scheduled to premiere in October, but it was delayed to January 2021 due to the effect of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the production.
Entertainment news websites reported last June that Amazon is developing a separate, English-language live-action series adaptation of the manga.
