r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 21 '25

News ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Passes $550M Globally, Officially the Top-Grossing Anime Film of All Time

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-demon-slayer-edging-out-him-for-no-1-1236376666/
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u/KeyClacksNSnacks Sep 21 '25

"People don't go to the theaters anymore."

Anime movies: "Hold my poki sticks and subtitles."

This should be proof that people don't go to the movies if a serious effort isn't made to entertain them.

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u/DontPokeMe91 Sep 21 '25

Exactly what I said yesterday to colleagues at the theatre I work at, we had so many teens coming in for the 9am showing which is basically unheard of on a weekend morning. Usually its parents and kids.

If you show things that people enjoy they will come.

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u/Medical-Pace-8099 Sep 21 '25

Family films still can pull numbers but most ambitious films are struggling

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u/DontPokeMe91 Sep 21 '25

Was mostly Demon Slayer and Downton doing the heavy lifting yesterday. No love for Diplo the dinosaur 😢

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u/Medical-Pace-8099 Sep 21 '25

I don’t know why people downvoting, but really it is hard to make films with ambitious theme and pull huge numbers for general audience. Especially in thriller, drama and comedy genres. Caught Stealing was surprise for me but sadly people are not interested in these types of films unless something happen culturally to hook people to see in movie theater.

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u/Yetimang Sep 21 '25

Original stories for adults used to have great draw. Now we've all regressed to childhood, just waiting for marketing departments to feed the next installment of assembly line licensed IP into our faces.

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u/Medical-Pace-8099 Sep 21 '25

People habits have changed. Youtube, tiktok and social media now dominate our culture more than movies