{"id":2032507,"date":"2025-09-18T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2032507"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:43:08","slug":"infinity-castle-shatters-anime-box-office-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/infinity-castle-shatters-anime-box-office-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinity Castle Shatters Anime Box Office Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The first film of the trilogy takes over the box office<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><span class=\"media-credit\">Credit: \u00a9Copyright_ \u00a9Koyoharu Gotoge _ SHUEISHA, Aniplex, ufotable<\/span><\/figure>\n<p>As anticipated, <em>Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2013 Infinity Castle<\/em> is a huge hit with fans, not only meeting hopeful expectations, but completely slaying them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With its premiere last Friday, the anime film garnered roughly $70 million during its initial release weekend, towering at #1 in current U.S. box office standings and beating out other new releases such as <em>The Long Walk<\/em> and <em>The Conjuring: Last Rites<\/em>. This momentous opening also now holds the record for biggest opening weekend for an anime film, dethroning the classic <em>Pokemon: The First Movie<\/em> from 1999. The film is projected to reach $100 million during its full theatrical cycle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"849\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/lamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mai-performance-images\/2025\/09\/Demon-Slayer_-Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-Infinity-Castle-Theatrical-Date-Poster-US-scaled-400xauto.webp\" alt=\"Demon Slayer_ Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle - Theatrical Date Poster (US)\" class=\"wp-image-82740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mai-performance-images\/2025\/09\/Demon-Slayer_-Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-Infinity-Castle-Theatrical-Date-Poster-US-scaled-400xauto.webp 400w, https:\/\/lamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mai-performance-images\/2025\/09\/Demon-Slayer_-Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-Infinity-Castle-Theatrical-Date-Poster-US-scaled-800xauto.webp 800w, https:\/\/lamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mai-performance-images\/2025\/09\/Demon-Slayer_-Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-Infinity-Castle-Theatrical-Date-Poster-US-scaled-1200xauto.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 90vw, (min-width: 782px) 90vw, (min-width: 960px) 782px\"\/><span class=\"media-credit\">Credit: Crunchyroll<\/span><\/figure>\n<p>It was also received gracefully by critics, scoring a staggering 98% positive reception on Rotten Tomatoes, which is extremely rare for any anime film to achieve in general.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2013 Infinity Castle<\/em> will continue to flourish at the box office for a while, and thankfully, anime fans won\u2019t need to wait much longer for the next film spectacle landing in theaters next month: <em>Chainsaw Man \u2013 The Movie: Reze Arc<\/em> comes October 24th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.beehiiv.com\/640ac268-a85a-41d9-b6d7-8b29040eca0f\" data-test-id=\"beehiiv-embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border-radius: 4px; border: 2px solid #E5E7EB; margin: 0; background-color: transparent;\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source lamag.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first film of the trilogy takes over the box office Credit: \u00a9Copyright_ \u00a9Koyoharu Gotoge _ SHUEISHA, Aniplex, ufotable As anticipated, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2013 Infinity Castle is a huge hit with fans, not only meeting hopeful expectations, but completely slaying them.\u00a0 With its premiere last Friday, the anime film garnered roughly $70 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2032508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[333492,34204,347224,320249],"class_list":["post-2032507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-anime","tag-box-office","tag-opening","tag-rotten-tomatoes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Infinity-Castle-Shatters-Anime-Box-Office-Records.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032507","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=2032507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2032508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}