{"id":2021313,"date":"2025-09-14T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2021313"},"modified":"2025-09-14T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:10:01","slug":"demon-slayer-infinity-castle-breaks-anime-box-office-records-beating-hollywood-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/demon-slayer-infinity-castle-breaks-anime-box-office-records-beating-hollywood-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ breaks anime box office records, beating Hollywood movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An anime film slayed its Hollywood competition at the box office this weekend. <\/p>\n

\u201cDemon 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

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. <\/p>\n

Its global weekend for Sony, which owns the Crunchyroll anime brand and streaming service, totaled of $132.1 million, which includes 49 international markets. <\/p>\n

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

The success of \u201cDemon Slayer\u201d is a relief to theater owners at a time when other genres are struggling, including superheroes, comedies and original animation. Its the latest evidence of anime\u2019s growing global clout. <\/p>\n

The new \u201cDemon Slayer: Infinity Castle\u201d is part of a larger popular anime franchise. <\/p>\n

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, \u201cDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2014 The Movie: Mugen Train<\/a>,\u201d was a box office hit in 2020.<\/p>\n

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

\u201cSpinal Tap II,\u201d a sequel to the 1984 mockumentary comedy classic, opened with a weak $1.7 million. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An anime film slayed its Hollywood competition at the box office this weekend. \u201cDemon Slayer: 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 The film distributed by Sony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2021314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Demon-Slayer-Infinity-Castle-breaks-anime-box-office-records-beating.com2F1c2Fd52Ffeea314043b0b34d5c09ee59.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}