{"id":2039130,"date":"2025-09-21T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2039130"},"modified":"2025-09-21T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T15:19:08","slug":"demon-slayer-infinity-castle-becomes-biggest-anime-film-ever-at-u-s-box-office-with-17-3-million-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/demon-slayer-infinity-castle-becomes-biggest-anime-film-ever-at-u-s-box-office-with-17-3-million-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle\u2019 Becomes Biggest Anime Film Ever at U.S. Box Office With $17.3 Million Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the first time ever, an anime film has topped the U.S. box office for two weekends as Sony<\/a>\/Crunchyroll<\/a>\u2019s \u201cDemon Slayer: Infinity Castle<\/a>\u201d has stayed No.1 with $16 million in its second weekend.<\/p>\n

Despite a 76% drop from its record $70 million domestic opening \u2014 highest ever for an anime film \u2014 \u201cDemon Slayer<\/a>\u201d is holding on against Universal<\/a>\/Monkeypaw\u2019s \u201cHim<\/a>,\u201d which is No. 2 with a $13.5 million opening from 3,168 theaters.<\/p>\n

While Crunchyroll\u2019s latest film is proving to be as frontloaded as all of the anime distributor\u2019s offerings \u2014 two-thirds of the opening weekend tickets for \u201cDemon Slayer<\/a>\u201d came from presales \u2014 the fanbase for this shonen franchise is so massive that…<\/p>\n<\/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.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time ever, an anime film has topped the U.S. box office for two weekends as Sony\/Crunchyroll\u2019s \u201cDemon Slayer: Infinity Castle\u201d has stayed No.1 with $16 million in its second weekend. Despite a 76% drop from its record $70 million domestic opening \u2014 highest ever for an anime film \u2014 \u201cDemon Slayer\u201d is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2039131,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2039130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Demon-Slayer-Infinity-Castle-Becomes-Biggest-Anime-Film-Ever-at.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039130","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=2039130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2039131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}