{"id":424512,"date":"2025-09-14T20:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424512\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:18:11","slug":"demon-slayer-global-box-office-conjuring-downton-abbey-grand-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424512\/","title":{"rendered":"Demon Slayer Global Box Office, Conjuring & Downton Abbey: Grand Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRefresh for latest\u2026 <\/strong>It was only a matter of time, and what a time it is. After making record-breaking<\/a> waves in Japan this summer, and rolling out in staggered fashion elsewhere, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle<\/a> finally reached a big suite of overseas markets, and the U.S., this weekend via Sony\/Crunchyroll.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe latter are reporting a new high for the biggest anime opening of all time with a $132.1M global weekend. That breaks down to $70M in North America, plus $29M from Latin America, $17.4M from Europe, $6M from Middle East, $5.2M from India and $3.2M from Australia as well as some smaller markets.<\/p>\n

\n\tNote that, along with Japan, Sony does not have Korea, Taiwan or China. In Korea<\/strong>, Infinity Castle is already at $34.7M through today, and is the No. 3 movie of the year in the market.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe saw a phenomenon with Demon Slayer: Mugen Train in 2021, and this continuation just drives home how popular the genre has become.<\/p>\n

\n\tBreaking down the results via Sony,\u00a0Latin America scored the No. 1 anime opening of all time in multiple markets including Mexico ($9.8M), Brazil ($4.4M), Peru ($2.8M), Central America ($2.4M),\u00a0Argentina ($2.2M), and Chile ($2.2M).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Europe and the Middle East, key markets that opened as the top anime film ever include: UK ($4.6M), Spain ($3.7M), Italy ($3.M), Saudi Arabia ($2.8M) and the UAE ($1.4M).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere, India launched to $5.2M for the biggest opening weekend of any anime or animation film. Australia kicked off with $3.2M, the highest opening for an anime movie.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Japan, this is a Toho\/Aniplex release from Ufotable. By last weekend\u2019s count, it had already exceeded $282M in the home market and a handful of others. With Sony\u2019s reported take this frame, that would lift the movie well above the four-century mark.<\/p>\n

\n\tI need to codicil, as per usual, that official numbers out of Japan are not reliable until the Monday, but we are certainly in the ballpark here.<\/p>\n

\n\tEither way, what a great result that expands theatrical audiences.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Top 5 for Sony\/Crunchyroll markets overseas are: Hong Kong ($11.7M), Indonesia ($7.2M), Thailand ($7M), Malaysia ($6.5M), #1 all-time anime) and Philippines ($6.4M). Many of those are all-timers for anime.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill to come are French-speaking and German-speaking markets next weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter last weekend\u2019s divine opening, New Line\/Warner Bros\u2019 The Conjuring: Last Rites<\/a> added a big\u00a0$60.5M in 76 markets during the sophomore session. The international running cume has crossed the $200M mark at\u00a0$201.8M. Global is $332.9M\u00a0through Sunday.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew starts this frame included France and Belgium as the top openings ever for the franchise, while the Miiddle East opened as the biggest opening weekend ever for a horror title.<\/p>\n

\n\tOverall, holds were strong. Among\u00a0 Latin America markets, Last Rites has already become the biggest industry horror movie in Peru, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Uruguay. Asia also leaned in with Last Rites the No. 1 movie again in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tJapan is still to open, on October 17.<\/p>\n

\n\tUniveral\/Focus\u2019 return\/goodbye to Highclere Castle has stuck a chord with audiences. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale<\/a> released in just 31 international box office<\/a> markets and grossed $12.3M; abovet the last entry in the feature series,\u00a0Downton Abbey: A New Era,\u00a0and in line with\u00a0Ticket to Paradise\u00a0at the same point. The global start was $30.4Mx.<\/p>\n

\n\tNatch, the UK<\/strong> was the biggest Downton market this weekend at at clear\u00a0No.1and with $6.3M; it\u00a0outgrossed the three-day opening weekend of\u00a0Downton Abbey: A New Era\u00a0in just its first two days of release.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrance\u00a0<\/strong>has a terrific $1.4M bow across 423 screens at\u00a0No.2in the market, behind fellow opener\u00a0Conjuring: Last Rites. Performance is above\u00a0Downton Abbey: A New Era\u00a0and\u00a0Ticket to Paradise\u00a0at the same point, and play is seen in commercial and arthouse cinemas.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn\u00a0Australia<\/strong>,\u00a0Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale\u00a0added $1.2M in its opening weekend, across 314 screens at No.3 in the market, behind\u00a0Demon Slayer\u00a0and\u00a0The Conjuring: Last Rites.\u00a0An opening of this level is in line with\u00a0Downton Abbey: A New Era. Reviews in the market have been overwhelmingly positive.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe\u00a0Netherlands\u00a0<\/strong>achieved the\u00a0highest opening weekend of the franchise, as well asthe\u00a0biggest day in the franchise\u2019s history on Saturday. The weekend grossed $900K, above both\u00a0Downton Abbey\u00a0and\u00a0Downton Abbey: A New Era\u00a0and in line with\u00a0Ticket to Paradise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tItaly\u00a0<\/strong>grossed $500K in its opening weekend across 350 screens at No.4 in the market, behind\u00a0Demon Slayer, Conjuring: Last Rites\u00a0and\u00a0Materialists.\u00a0Performance is above\u00a0Downton Abbey: A New Era\u00a0at the same point.<\/p>\n

\n\tNext markets ahead include Germany, Mexico, Span and Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Refresh for latest\u2026 It was only a matter of time, and what a time it is. After making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[144980,64917,77,1615,3943,38874,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-424512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-infinity-castle","9":"tag-downton-abbey-the-grand-finale","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-international-box-office","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-the-conjuring-last-rites","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115204502577828677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}