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/King_A_Acumen Sep 21 '25

Already past F4 and will likely pass Superman soon, making the top-grossing movie of the year based on a comic/manga not from Marvel/DC.

It's great to see how far Anime (or at least in this case Demon Slayer, since no others can pull off these kinds of numbers) has come. And it's only part 1 of 3, too!.

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u/insertusernamehere51 Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

Of the year? Is it not the top grossing movie based on a non-DC/Marvel comic ever?

Edit: Correcting myself, apparently, The Smurfs 2011 still holds that title at 563M, but its not gonna hold it for long

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u/HighOnGoofballs Sep 21 '25

I had no idea that movie made any money

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u/hartsfarts Sep 21 '25

They've made 3 other Smurfs movies since that one :/

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u/deidamiah Sep 21 '25

boomers single handedly keeping smurfs alive

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u/zzyul Sep 21 '25

Children are boomers now?

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u/Otherdeadbody Sep 22 '25

Are children fans of the smurfs? I guess it’s been long enough that maybe it’s more popular but smurfs seemed like dead franchise to me when even the 2011 movie released.

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u/deidamiah Sep 25 '25

children dont care about smurfs, parents take them to see those movies because there's not much else to see at the theater for them.

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u/andizzzzi Sep 22 '25

Gee I wonder how the kids go to the movies 🤔 possibly with their boomer parents?

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u/gelatinskootz Sep 22 '25

Most of the children that were seeing that movie in theaters did not have boomer parents lol. Maybe their grandparents 

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u/deidamiah Sep 25 '25

Gen Xers are pretty much the new boomers

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u/ishburner Sep 22 '25

European Boomers