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‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Tops Box Office With $70 Million  The New York Times ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ slashes 26-year box office record and tops weekend box office  CNN Demon Slayer Slays Downton Abbey 3 to Sit on Infinity Castle Box Office Throne  yahoo.com Box Office: Anime ‘Demon Slayer Infinity Castle’ Makes History With Record $70M U.S. Opening  The Hollywood Reporter ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle” carved out a place in box-office history this weekend as the Japanese anime film sliced straight to No. 1 — outpacing the horror sequel “The Conjuring: Last Rites.” The Sony-owned Crunchyroll release shattered expectations with a mighty $70 million debut in North America, according to Sunday estimates from …

“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle” ruled over the box office, debuting to a mighty $70 million and setting a record for the biggest opening ever for an anime film. Its haul more than doubled the $31 million benchmark that had been set by 1999’s “Pokémon: The First Movie – Mewtwo Strikes Back.” “Infinity Castle,” the first installment in …

SATURDAY AM: Forget about the biggest anime opening of all-time stateside, that’s easy. What Sony has is their biggest opening of not just 2025 to date, but also arguably bigger than any of its hits last year in Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle which stands to open to $56M-$60M+ after a massive $33M Friday. Given the front-loaded …

Talk about an unexpected September bloom at the box office that continues this weekend with a cornucopia of new offerings, led by the record-smashing U.S. debut of the Japanese anime sequel Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – the Movie Infinity Castle. The Sony-owned Crunchyroll is handling the movie. Based on a huge Friday haul of $33 million, including $11.4 million …

Anime is back on top of the box office, with “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle” earning $33 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,315 locations. That’s the biggest opening day domestic gross ever for an anime film, crushing the previous $10.9 million high-mark set by “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” in 2022. Not only that, it’s also …

Do not underestimate Japan’s hit “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” franchise, in which a small group of trained fighters have reached the beginning of a multiyear, three-movie “final battle.” But also, do not get it confused with “KPop Demon Hunters,” the animated one-off that became a monster success for Netflix this summer, but is something else entirely — so different …

FRIDAY AM, AFTER EXCLUSIVE: Previews for Demon Slayer: Kimetus no Yaiba Infinity Castle came in at $11.4M. That’s a record for an anime movie, beating 2022’s Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero which did $4.3M in previews before a $10.9M Friday, and $21.1M opening. By the way that figure for Infinity Castle is for both Tuesday fan and Thursday night shows. …

The big horror news of the week was that Halloween: The Game, an official video game based on John Carpenter’s original horror classic, is headed our way next year from Illfonic, and it will feature online multiplayer, offline bots, and a single-player story mode! The news gets even more exciting as we head into the weekend, as the team announced …

September this year at the box office isn’t going to be a blockbuster like last year’s 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’s The Conjuring: Last Rites, exhibitors have Crunchyroll‘s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu …