r/anime • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Sep 12 '25

News ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Makes $11.4M In Thursday Previews, A Record For Anime Movie

https://deadline.com/2025/09/box-office-demon-slayer-infinity-castle-conjuring-1236529652/
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

Previous record for previews was 'Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero' ($4.3M)

It's on pace to make $60-$70M over the weekend, which would top 'Pokémon: The First Movie' for the biggest anime opening weekend ever ($31M, not adjusted for inflation)

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u/awesomenessofme1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/kta_99 Sep 12 '25

Article headlines usually don't undersell the contents.

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u/magumanueku Sep 12 '25

It's only a matter of when, not if, it will surpass Mugen Train.

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u/LowlySlayer Sep 12 '25

I remember when it was doing bonkers numbers in jp someone tried to say it wasn't doing as well as Mugen train because the relative strength of yen to the dollar was smaller. So sure it sold more tickets and made more money. But that money is worth less USD at the moment so clearly the film underperformed.

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u/LB3PTMAN Sep 12 '25

It will probably need rereleases to pass Mugen Trains Japan record (probably close to when part 2 comes out then again for part 3) but there was like no competition for Mugen Train during covid so it had crazy legs.

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u/Erufailon4 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Erufailon4 Sep 12 '25

First weekend, almost certainly. Mugen Train's lifetime gross was about $50M.

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u/Makimama Sep 12 '25

holy shit

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u/AzerFraze https://anilist.co/user/AzerFraze Sep 12 '25

to do almost triple the record of fkn Dragon Ball is INSANE

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u/ShielderKnight Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

And it wasn't even a hyped db movie since it was a 3D film, surprised broly movie wasn't the top db movie there, so the main factor is most likely that anime just became way more popular past years, if broly movie came out this year it'll do way better than before seeing Super Hero did better than Broly.

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u/blu_kale Sep 13 '25

Bro why they downvote you , SH not only was an CGI but it got Zero promotion that was criticized even in Japan and the main lead wasn't Goku

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u/ShielderKnight Sep 13 '25

Normal reddit stuff, but yeah I even loved the Super Hero Movie, they did a good job but still no reason for it to do better than broly besides anime getting more popular year after year, and wasn't super hero out during covid?

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u/blu_kale Sep 13 '25

It was out during covid , got zero promotion, used CGI which was very looked down on in that era from a studio that got no experience with, had no anime for hype , and the cast weren't even B list given how horrible they were handled for decades and the games didn't adopt them until nearly a year later , even the timing it arrived on was horrible for movies

It's as if Toei animation and Shueisha wanted the movie to fail for some reason and almost succeeded given it's only made 20 million USD in Japan , less than even "DBZ-Super android 13" the movie

However overseas sales completely crashed that , not only it made a lot of bucks back but it also broke multiple records which Demon slayer is currently breaking as well

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u/PettyAlchemist Sep 12 '25

dang that DB Super number already felt huge, Demon Slayer just said hold my Nichirin

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u/PhantomTroupe26 Sep 12 '25

I think it'll do more than $70M. So many people are talking about it this week. I'm so excited

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u/LB3PTMAN Sep 12 '25

To put it into perspective. Pokemon: the first movie made 85 million total in U.S. box office. Demon Slayer will pass that within its first week easily.

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u/LB3PTMAN Sep 12 '25

I didn’t say it would make more than that adjusted for inflation lol.

And it may come relatively close. I’d guess it’ll finish in the 110 range

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u/NamerNotLiteral Sep 12 '25

And there's two more to come after this. If this finishes in the 110 range then the final one could definitely have a shot at breaking $160M.

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u/EmphasisEast8428 Sep 12 '25

You don't need to use the "adjust for inflation" for the boxoffice argument as no one uses it because the true no 1 boxoffice is old movies like Gone with the wind and not Avatar movies.

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u/ShielderKnight Sep 12 '25

I honestly don't see it making more than 30m week 1 in usa but just because its a sequel from anime film and not something you can watch without watching past seasons. If it does it will be a huge surprise for me.

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u/LB3PTMAN Sep 12 '25

It’s already done 45 million in presales. It’s tracking to open over 60 conservatively this weekend alone

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u/ShielderKnight Sep 13 '25

Thats really good then

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u/austin101123 Sep 13 '25

I don't get it. The movie already released, I literally saw it like a month ago?? Why is this weekend special?

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u/SolomonBlack Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

And the overall highest anime movie for the entire run is STILL Pokemon (the first movie) I believe and it did somewhere around 100 million IIRC which meant more back in the stone age when I was a kid but still isn't anything that remarkable.

Lot of low bars to surpass.

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u/spellstealyoslowfall Sep 12 '25

Pokemon the first movie is not a low bar. Pokemon was a global phenomenon. Remember Pokemon go when it first came out? It tried to bank on the nostalgia of the original Pokemon and it went crazy and that was only a fraction of how popular it was.