KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's popular pre-teen superhero has closed the weekend in cinemas collecting a whopping RM15 million at the box office.
The movie has been screening in cinemas for 25 days.
As of yesterday, Boboiboy The Movie has been watched by 1.4 million audiences nationwide.
A statement from distributor Primeworks Studios today said the RM15 million raked in at the box office, however, was RM800,000 short of Astro Shaw's football movie Ola Bola, which has been screened for two months.
The animated movie's director and creator Nizam Razak of Animonsta Studios recently announced that the strong support of RM5 million Boboiboy The Movie by viewers has inspired them to create a sequel, and Animonsta will begin work on it soon.
The movie is based on the successful TV series Boboiboy and sees the superhero and his friends go on an adventure to a mysterious floating island that houses a mysterious sphere with untold powers.
The movie will screen in Singapore and Brunei on April 13, and in Indonesia on April 16.