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Funimation Reveals English Dub Cast, Advance Ticket Sales for One Piece Stampede Film
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Funimation announced on Thursday that advance tickets for the One Piece Stampede anime film will be available on the official film's website on Friday, ahead of the film's premiere in the U.S. on October 24. The company also announced the film's English dub cast.
New cast members include:
- Daman Mills as Bullet
- Mick Wingert as Buena Festa
- Anthony Bowling as Donald
- Macy Anne Johnson as Ann
In addition, Chris Rager will provide the voice for Blackbeard following Cole Brown's passing in 2016.
Mike McFarland is the film's ADR Director, and Clint Bickham is the ADR scriptwriter.
The film will screen in the U.S. in Japanese with English subtitles on October 24, 29, and 31, and it will screen in English on October 26 and 30. In Canada, the film will screen in Japanese with English subtitles on October 25 and November 5, and it will screen in English on October 28 and November 8.
One Piece Stampede marks the 20th anniversary of the anime inspired by Eiichiro Oda's One Piece pirate manga. The film opened in Japan on August 9. The first 3 million theatergoers have received a bonus One Piece Comic -Kan-Banpaku- manga. Funimation describes the film's story:
Monkey D. Luffy and his Straw Hat pirate crew are invited to a massive Pirate Festival that brings many of the most iconic characters from throughout the franchise to participate in competition with the Straw Hats to find Roger's treasure. It also pits the Straw Hats against a new enemy named Bullet, a former member of Roger's crew.
The film ranked at #1 in its opening weekend. The movie sold 356,052 tickets on 429 screens in 352 theaters on its opening day, the largest first-day attendance record at the Japanese box office so far in 2019. The new film eventually sold 1,254,372 tickets for 1,646,321,500 yen (about US$15.64 million) from Friday to Monday in its opening weekend. (That Monday was a holiday in Japan.) The film earned 8.4% more and sold 15.3% more tickets over its first four days than One Piece Film Gold. The film has earned a cumulative total of 5,377,145,700 (about US$50.12 million) as of September 22.
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Source: Press release
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