{"id":226540,"date":"2025-09-14T16:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/226540\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:19:10","slug":"demon-slayer-infinity-castle-breaks-anime-box-office-records-beating-hollywood-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/226540\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle&#8217; breaks anime box office records, beating Hollywood movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An anime film slayed its Hollywood competition at the box office this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2025-09-11\/anime-is-surging-in-popularity-this-streaming-app-is-reaping-the-rewards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Demon Slayer<\/a>: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle,\u201d already a big hit in Japan, was the highest grossing movie domestically, beating new films \u201cDownton Abbey: The Grand Finale,\u201d \u201cThe Long Walk\u201d and \u201cSpinal Tap II: The End Continues.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The film distributed by Sony Pictures and Crunchyroll opened with a better-than-expected $70 million in ticket sales from the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates, making it the biggest anime opening ever. It\u2019s also the highest grossing domestic debut of the year so far for an animated film. <\/p>\n<p>Its global weekend for Sony, which owns the Crunchyroll anime brand and streaming service, totaled $132.1 million, which includes 49 international markets. <\/p>\n<p>Globally, \u201cDemon Slayer\u201d had already made more than $272 million in box office revenue, with $213 million in Japan alone, according to data from Box Office Mojo.<\/p>\n<p>The success of \u201cDemon Slayer\u201d is a relief to theater owners at a time when other genres are <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/newsletter\/2025-09-09\/wide-shot-lessons-from-another-summer-bummer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggling<\/a>, including superheroes, comedies and original animation. Its the latest evidence of anime\u2019s growing global clout. <\/p>\n<p>The new \u201cDemon Slayer: Infinity Castle\u201d is part of a larger popular anime franchise. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first installment of a planned trilogy that will span the final showdown between the Demon Slayer Corps and the monstrous creatures the secret organization was created to defeat. A previous theatrical film, \u201c<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2021-04-21\/review-demon-slayer-anime-kimetsu-no-yaiba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2014 The Movie: Mugen Train<\/a>,\u201d was a box office hit in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The new \u201cDownton Abbey\u201d film from Focus Features launched with $18.1 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada, which was good enough for third place behind the second weekend of New Line\u2019s \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites.\u201d Lionsgate\u2019s \u201cThe Long Walk,\u201d based on a Stephen King novel, opened in fourth with $11.5 million domestically. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpinal Tap II,\u201d a sequel to the 1984 mockumentary comedy classic, opened with a weak $1.7 million. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An anime film slayed its Hollywood competition at the box office this weekend. \u201cDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":226541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[122483,207,1582,276,2147,121474,110053,122480,122479,170,122482,2961,224,5337,122481,122485,14936,122484,1439,9953],"class_list":{"0":"post-226540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-anime-film","9":"tag-box-office","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-demon-slayer","14":"tag-downton-abbey","15":"tag-hollywood-movie","16":"tag-infinity-castle","17":"tag-japan","18":"tag-kimetsu","19":"tag-la","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-losangeles","22":"tag-new-film","23":"tag-original-animation","24":"tag-sony-pictures","25":"tag-ticket-sale","26":"tag-u-s","27":"tag-weekend"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115203562865623365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}