Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom Climbs to 4.1 Billion Yen

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom has been in theaters nearly two months, becoming a massive hit at the box office, amassing a cumulative total of 4,107,911,810 yen and selling 2,435,677 tickets. Following its ninth week in theaters, a new key visual has been released for the film.

On its third weekend, the film became the highest grossing Gundam film dethroning the 1982 Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space, which held the franchise box office record for forty-two years with 2.3 billion yen, while the 2021 Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway’s Flash is the third highest performing franchise film at 2.23 billion yen.

The film premiered on January 26, debuting at #1 in the Japanese box office, surpassing competitors such as Spy × Family Code: White, Poor Things, and the live-action Golden Kamuy film.

Bandai Namco Filmworks has announced Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom will have special screenings in Los Angeles and New York City on March 31, 2024, with a planned wide US release to be announced at a later date. A special additional screening only of the English Language Dubbed version will be held at Japan Society on April 1, 2024,

Fandango has uploaded a placeholder listing for a US theatrical screening to be held on Tuesday May 7, 2024, via Fathom Events.

The new tagline of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom is “The wings of freedom to seize the future”. The film is directed by Mitsuo Fukuda, featuring a script by Fukuda, Chiaki Morosawa, and Ryu Goto. Hisashi Hirai returns for character design, while the mechanical design team includes Kunio Okawara, Kimitoshi Yamane, Kazutaka Miyatake, Junichi Akutsu, Manabu Shintani, Zenseava, Takuya Io, and Hiroyuki Taiga. Satoshi Shigeta returns as mechanical animation director. Toshihiko Sahashi is the composer for the film’s music, and the theme song “FREEDOM” is performed by Takanori Nishikawa with Tetsuya Komuro.

Story

In C.E.75, the fighting still continues.

There are independence movements, and aggression by Blue Cosmos… In order to calm the situation, a global peace monitoring agency called COMPASS is established, with Lacus as its first president. As members of COMPASS, Kira and his comrades intervene into various regional battles. Then a newly established nation called Foundation proposes a joint operation against a Blue Cosmos stronghold.