<P> At the Dengeki Bunko Autumn Festival 2015 on October 4, 2015, it was announced that the light novel series would be adapted into an animated film, with the main staff returning from the anime series . The film takes place after the anime series' second season, Sword Art Online II . It was then revealed at the Dengeki Bunko Haru no Saiten 2016 event on March 13, 2016 that the film is titled Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale . The voice cast from the anime series returned to reprise their roles in the film . </P> <P> The film's soundtrack is composed by Yuki Kajiura, who also composed the music for the anime series . The soundtrack features 50 tracks, including 5 insert songs performed by Sayaka Kanda . It was released by Aniplex on February 22, 2017 . LiSA performed the film's theme song, titled "Catch the Moment". Sayaka Kanda perfroms five songs as Yuna: "Ubiquitous dB", "Longing", "Delete", "Break Beat Bark!" and "Smile For You". </P> <P> The film premiered in Japan, Southeast Asia and Germany on February 18, 2017 . The Asian premieres were distributed by Aniplex and Odex, respectively . There was a premiere event in the United States on March 1, 2017; Eleven Arts distributed and released the film in U.S. theaters on March 9, 2017 . Madman Entertainment also released the film at theaters in Australia and New Zealand on March 9, 2017 . Aniplex of America released the film at theaters in Canada between March 17 and March 19, 2017 . The English dub premiered at Anime Boston 2017, with a national release on April 22 . Anime Limited brought the film to cinemas in the United Kingdom and Ireland on April 19, 2017 . The film was set to play in about 1,000 theaters worldwide . </P> <P> A few days after the world premiere, a leak of the film was found online, tracing the source back to Malaysia and Singapore . </P>

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