{"id":103782,"date":"2025-08-23T07:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/103782\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:59:11","slug":"kimetsu-no-yaiba-infinity-castle-eyes-20m-box-office-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/103782\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle&#8217; Eyes $20M Box Office Bow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSony <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/crunchyroll\/\" id=\"auto-tag_crunchyroll\" data-tag=\"crunchyroll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crunchyroll<\/a>\u2018s anime title <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-infinity-castle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-infinity-castle\" data-tag=\"demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-infinity-castle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle<\/a> hit three week tracking yesterday and the outlook for the Sept. 12 theatrical release stands between a solid $20M-$29M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe news comes at a time as Sony Pictures Animation\/Netflix\u2019s Kpop Demon Hunters Singalong is expected to post a surprise $15M+ opening, potentially unseating New Line\u2019s third weekend of Weapons for No. 1. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUnaided awareness and first choice are strong on Infinity Castle with men under 25. If the pic hits anything north of Demon\u00a0Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2013 The Movie: Mugen Train\u2018s $21.2M opening from 2021, it\u2019s arguably a record start for an anime movie stateside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe already told you that after tickets went on sale a week ago for Infinity Castle, the top three chains were already reaping around $10M in presales, which in Fandango\u2019s books, is an anime movie advance tickets sales record. The assumption is that most of that money is allocated for the fan screening on Sept. 9 at 7 PM local time in Imax on PLFs. Still that cash will roll up into the movie\u2019s opening weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tInfinity Castle is opening after New Line\u2019s post-Labor Day title Conjuring: Last Rites which is expected to do around $35M. The outlook for the September 2025 box office is bleak since there\u2019s no mega-tentpole movie ala years past, i.e. It, Shang-Chi or Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Currently, Infinity Castle is closing in on a foreign take of $200M, a majority of that coming from Japan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Infinity Castle, the Demon Slayer Corps are drawn into the Infinity Castle, where Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the Hashira face terrifying Upper Rank demons in a desperate fight as the final battle against Muzan Kibutsuji begins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tInfinity Castle will open against Focus Features\u2019 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Bleecker Street\u2019s Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, and the Lionsgate feature take of Stephen King\u2019s The Long Walk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMugen Train\u00a0currently holds the record as the highest-grossing Japanese anime movie of all time and the highest-grossing Japanese film at the worldwide B.O., minting over $500 million. The movie ranks as the second-highest grossing Japanese anime film in U.S. box office history with close to $50M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony Crunchyroll\u2018s anime title Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle hit three week tracking yesterday and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[64402,61711,88,206],"class_list":["post-103782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-crunchyroll","tag-demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-infinity-castle","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}