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ABS-CBN's your name. TV Screening Earns 9.2% Ratings Average

ABS-CBN's airing of the Filipino-dubbed version of Makoto Shinkai's your name. (Kimi no Na wa.) anime film during the channel's "Kapamilya Blockbuster Family Weekend" block on Sunday earned a ratings average of 9.2%, and ranked #18 in the ratings on Sunday.

The screening was the film's television premiere in the Philippines.

ABS-CBN's TAG channel was originally slated to air the Filipino-dubbed version of the film, but the channel recently shut down without airing the film.

your name. centers on Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo who works part-time at a restaurant, and Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a town in rural Japan who wants to live in the city. One day, they begin switching bodies every time they sleep, and have to find a way to communicate with each other to manage each other's lives. Later, when they try to meet up physically for the first time, Taki discovers a secret that will lead to a race against time to try and save each other.

The film opened in Japan in August 2016, and has become the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the second highest-grossing Japanese film, and the second highest-grossing anime film, with earnings of more than 25 billion yen (about US$225 million). The film opened in 92 countries and territories, and earned box-office achievements in South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Taiwan, in addition to Japan.

your name. opened in the Philippines in December 2016.

A live-action Hollywood adaptation of the film by Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions is in the works. Eric Heisserer (Arrival, Final Destination 5) is penning the script.

[Via AnimePH]