The new anime movie in Monkey Punch's Lupin III franchise named Lupin III THE FIRST from Friday to Sunday the movie vended 220000 tickets and generated 307,395,900 yen. From Saturday to Sunday it vended 177,000 tickets and generated 244,827,850 yen and got the 2nd position in its starting week. The movie was only able to generate 37.7% of the starting week gross of the 2013 crossover movie Lupin III vs. Detective Conan The Movie but according to the website Eiga. Com the movie will ultimately generate more than 1.5 billion yen.