The prelude story of Ash and Pikachu’s iconic friendship topped the box office charts in its opening weekend where the Pokémon franchise first began – in Japan last summer. Now, The Pokémon Company International and Fathom Events are bringing the new animated feature film Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! to US movie theaters on Sunday, November 5th, at 12:55 P.M., and Monday, November 6th, at 7 P.M. (all local times). More information on theatre locations and tickets, click here. Check out the trailer:

Directed by Kunihiko Yuyamait, the film acts as a loose retelling of the original Indigo League saga of the show, released to commemorate the Pokemon’s twentieth anniversary.

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Writer, cartoon producer and author of more than 15 books on animation history. A former studio exec with Nickelodeon and Disney; currently on the faculty at both CalArts in Valencia and Woodbury University in Burbank, California.

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