{"id":2063399,"date":"2025-10-02T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2063399"},"modified":"2025-10-02T01:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:53:00","slug":"infinity-castle-passes-superman-at-global-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/infinity-castle-passes-superman-at-global-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinity Castle\u2019 Passes \u2018Superman\u2019 at Global Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here\u2019s another box office surprise in a year that has had plenty of them: \u201cDemon Slayer: Infinity Castle\u201d has surpassed the DC blockbuster \u201cSuperman\u201d at the global box office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Released by Aniplex and Toho in Japan and Sony Pictures\u2019 Crunchyroll internationally, the latest film from Ufotable\u2019s acclaimed anime action series has become the first in history not produced in the English or Mandarin languages to gross more than $600 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_5at56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_9at56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Tuesday, the film reached $617 million, passing the $615 global total of \u201cSuperman\u201d to become the seventh highest grossing film this year. It needs roughly $18 million to pass Apple\/Warner Bros.\u2019 \u201cF1\u201d and Universal\u2019s \u201cHow to Train Your Dragon\u201d remake to crack the top 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the United States, \u201cInfinity Castle\u201d has passed \u201cPokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back\u201d as the highest grossing anime film of all time with more than $120 million grossed. That\u2019s higher than animated releases like \u201cBad Guys 2\u201d and \u201cElio\u201d and stands as Sony\u2019s highest grossing film this year.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/powerwomensummit2025.splashthat.com\/Announcement\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"247\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/SXQ1lrAOEDZK7HPL5gfNzA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTI0NztjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/thewrap.com\/887c87a5990c7cd46b8b28e438d4f75c\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While a very unique case of a wildly popular anime series getting a theatrical release that is a direct continuation of the story arc playing out on TV, \u201cDemon Slayer: Infinity Castle\u201d shows how anime has become a global force at the box office. That has been aided by Sony\u2019s commitment to releasing anime films on a regular basis in theaters and promoting those releases to subscribers of Crunchyroll\u2019s streaming service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sony and Crunchyroll\u2019s next anime release will be a film from the series \u201cChainsaw Man\u201d on October 24, followed by Mamoru Hosoda\u2019s fantasy film \u201cScarlet\u201d in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/demon-slayer-infinity-castle-passes-superman-global-box-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u2018Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle\u2019 Passes \u2018Superman\u2019 at Global Box Office;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u2018Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle\u2019 Passes \u2018Superman\u2019 at Global Box Office<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TheWrap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\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 ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s another box office surprise in a year that has had plenty of them: \u201cDemon Slayer: Infinity Castle\u201d has surpassed the DC blockbuster \u201cSuperman\u201d at the global box office. Released by Aniplex and Toho in Japan and Sony Pictures\u2019 Crunchyroll internationally, the latest film from Ufotable\u2019s acclaimed anime action series has become the first in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2063400,"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":[25173],"tags":[385136,34204,327173,343324,328021,343643,314133,31353],"class_list":["post-2063399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-aniplex","tag-box-office","tag-crunchyroll","tag-demon-slayer","tag-global-box-office","tag-infinity-castle","tag-sony-pictures","tag-superman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Infinity-Castle-Passes-\u2018Superman-at-Global-Box-Office.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063399","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=2063399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063401,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063399\/revisions\/2063401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2063400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}