{"id":244509,"date":"2025-09-21T18:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244509\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T18:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:51:13","slug":"demon-slayer-sets-box-office-record-as-him-big-bold-beautiful-journey-flop-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244509\/","title":{"rendered":"Demon Slayer Sets Box Office Record as Him, Big Bold Beautiful Journey Flop Overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTwo new Hollywood releases, Universal\u2019s sports thriller \u201cHim<\/a>\u201d and Sony\u2019s romantic drama \u201cA Big Bold Beautiful Journey<\/a>,\u201d were outright rejected by overseas audiences.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA Big Bold Beautiful Journey,\u201d starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell as strangers whose meet-cute takes them on the journey of a lifetime, flopped at the international box office with $4.5 million from 45 markets. Meanwhile, the Jordan Peele-produced \u201cHim,\u201d a disturbing mind-bender about a football player with aspirations to be the greatest of all time, fumbled even harder with $400,000 from 25 territories. Both films were saddled with terrible reviews and disappointing audience scores.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHim\u201d at least started stronger at the domestic bo<\/a>x office with $13.5 million, boosting the film\u2019s global tally to $13.86 million. It carries a modest $27 million production budget. Justin Tipping directed \u201cHim,\u201d which stars Marlon Wayans as an aging quarterback who trains a young up-and-coming football player (Tyriq Withers) to chilling consequences.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSports themes do not travel well overseas, and the sport in this film \u2014 American football \u2014 is uniquely American in its popularity,\u201d says analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research. \u201cBut the picture cost a reasonable $27 million to make, so it can cover its costs on domestic business alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA Big Bold Beautiful Journey,\u201d however, crumbled in its North America debut as well, with $3.5 million for a worldwide haul of $8 million. The film has yet to release in major markets like France, Italy and South Korea.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe film should do better in foreign markets, but the production cost was high \u2014 that\u2019s a big number to recoup,\u201d Gross adds of \u201cA Big Bold Beautiful Journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLuckily, Sony is riding high with \u201cDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle,\u201d which just became the highest-grossing anime film ever with $555 million globally. The film is backed by Sony-owned Crunchyroll in North America, the United Kingdom and Brazil, as well as Toho and Aniplex in Japan and other Asian markets. \u201cDemon Slayer\u201d topped overseas charts again with $36 million from markets where Sony\u2019s Crunchyroll is handling the rollout. So far, the film has earned a total of $451 million internationally and $104 million domestically. \u201cInfinity Castle\u201d is the first in a planned three-film series about a boy who becomes a demon slayer to avenge his family and find a cure for his sister, who was turned into a demon.<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal, meanwhile, had slightly better luck overseas with \u201cDownton Abbey: The Grand Finale,\u201d which added $8.3 million from 35 markets in its second weekend of release. The film, a continuation of the popular TV show, has generated $27.9 million overseas and $31.6 million domestically to date, bringing its global total to $59.5 million. The studio says those ticket sales are above 2022\u2019s \u201cDownton Abbey: A New Era\u201d at the same point in its predecessor\u2019s theatrical run. Neither film could reach the box office heights of the first cinematic feature, 2019\u2019s \u201cDownton Abbey,\u201d which became a huge hit to the tune of $194.6 million globally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two new Hollywood releases, Universal\u2019s sports thriller \u201cHim\u201d and Sony\u2019s romantic drama \u201cA Big Bold Beautiful Journey,\u201d were…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":244510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[126232,171,10200,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-244509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-a-big-bold-beautiful-journey","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-him","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115243796724101559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244509","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=244509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}