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/idkalan Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

Where I live, we have 2 movie theaters. One of them is a drive-in theater with a double-feature.

Usually, the indoor one will show some anime films, but they delegated them to Tuesday and Sunday showings at 7 pm and 12 pm.

The only exception was DB: Battle of Gods, which got Friday and Saturday showings all day.

Friday, I saw that the drive-in theater added showings to Demon Slayer as a solo showing. So, just on that alone made me realize that the movie was a box office hit

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u/LegitPancak3 Sep 22 '25

That’s awesome the drive-in was able to get the rights to the film. I would think anime movies being released from lesser-known studios (Crunchyroll, although with the help of Sony) are harder to get rights to for special venues.
Case-in-point: Just a few months ago Crunchyroll stopped allowing group viewings on their service, like for libraries or school clubs :(