{"id":95065,"date":"2025-08-19T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/95065\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:42:08","slug":"kimetsu-no-yaiba-infinity-castle-breaking-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/95065\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle’ Breaking Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSeptember this year at the box office isn\u2019t going to be a blockbuster like last year\u2019s when Warner Bros Beetlejuice Beetlejuice snapped up a $111M opening and $294M domestic take, so the industry will have to take respectable openings as they happen instead. Following the $35M+ expected opening of New Line\u2019s The Conjuring: Last Rites, exhibitors have Crunchyroll<\/a>\u2018s Demon\u00a0Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle to look forward to the following weekend on Sept. 12. The movie based on the manga series by Koyoharu Gotouge is racking up record-breaking advance ticket sales for an anime movie since going on sale Friday, estimated to be near $10M for the AMC, Regal and Cinemark combined, per sources.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeparately, Fandango<\/a> is reporting that they saw the best first-day presales for an anime film of all time, ahead of Funimation\u2019s\u00a0Demon\u00a0Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2013 The Movie: Mugen Train\u00a0(2021) and Crunchyroll\u2019s\u00a0Jujutsu Kaisen 0\u00a0(2022).\u00a0Those movies posted very notable starts for anime pics with Mugen Train debuting to a whopping $21.2M back in late April 2021 as movie theaters were trying to get back on track post Covid. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 wasn\u2019t too shabby with an $18M opening in May 2022. It wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if Infinity Castle emulates or bests those domestic starts. <\/p>\n

\n\tInfinity Castle\u00a0will have early screenings in the U.S. for Crunchyroll Mega and Ultimate Fan tiers starting on Sept. 9 at 7 PM local time in Imax on PLFs. So, keep this in mind about those presales figures before forecasting an opening weekend: This is a narrow, devoted fanbase who shows up very early for Demon Slayer. It\u2019s quite possible this movie\u2019s weekend is quite frontloaded. Anime films stateside are also about their opening weekend pop with the audience receding rapidly in subsequent weekends. That\u2019s just their nature. Jujutsu Kaisen 0\u00a0ended its domestic run at $34.5M, however, Mugen Train had a great 2.4x multiple for the genre at $49.9M U.S.\/Canada. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlso, the momentum here for Infinity Castle isn\u2019t shocking for Demon Slayer fans as it\u2019s the first movie that\u2019s part of a trilogy representing the final battle of the popular shonen series from animation studio ufotable. Already, Infinity Castle has collected close to $193M at the international box office, 75% of that coming from Japan. Infinity Castle opened to $17.5M at No. 1 in eight Southeast Asian markets last weekend. Infinity Castle not only surpassed the entire regional lifetime for\u00a0Mugen Train but also Frozen II\u00a0as the highest all-time animated opening for this group of markets at current exchange rates. The opening was over twice as large as other blockbuster animated titles\u00a0Inside Out 2, Super Mario Bros. Movie, Moana 2, and\u00a0Ne Zha 2. <\/p>\n

\n\tBlurb for 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

\n\tInfinity Castle will have prints in Japanese with English subtitles and dubbed in English.<\/p>\n

\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 global box office, garnering over a half billion. It currently ranks as the second-highest grossing Japanese anime film in U.S. box office history. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are blown away by the sheer excitement for the arrival of\u00a0Demon\u00a0Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle\u00a0through the number of tickets sold in its first day,\u201d said Jerramy Hainline, EVP of Fandango. \u201cThe overwhelming response is a true testament to the power of the anime community, and we are so proud to help bring anime into theaters so fans can experience it on the big screen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September this year at the box office isn\u2019t going to be a blockbuster like last year\u2019s when Warner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[64402,61711,88,64403,206],"class_list":["post-95065","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-fandango","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95065","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=95065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}