Sony and Crunchyroll’s anime juggernaut Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle has continued its historic run at the global box office with the film’s release in China. The popular shonen epic opened strong in Mainland, pulling in an impressive $52.4 million haul during its opening weekend.
Distributed locally by Maoyan, the film is benefiting from exceptional word-of-mouth, even as geopolitical tensions between Beijing and Tokyo, amplified in Chinese state media, dominate headlines.
Infinity Castle held firmly in second place with an additional $15.6 million during its second weekend, raising its cumulative China total to $79.3 million.
Following its second weekend at the Chinese box office, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle has now surpassed the international haul of $614 million from Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch, becoming the first non-Chinese film in history to outgross every English-language title internationally within a single calendar year, signaling a monumental achievement for anime and Japan on the world stage.
The film has grossed over $770 million worldwide, including $134 million from the US market and the remainder of $637 million from international territories.
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle has been rewriting box office history ever since it was released in Japan in July. In North America, the film scored a record-breaking $70M debut weekend, including a monumental $33M opening day. During its first full week, Infinity Castle also became the highest-grossing anime film in US box office history, surpassing Pokémon: The First Movie, which had held the record for more than two decades with its $85.7 million total.
Tracking had suggested that Demon Slayer would open somewhere around $35 million to $40 million domestically, but the film’s opening defied expectations, surpassing Mugen Train’s $21.2M 2021 debut and Jujutsu Kaisen 0’s $18M in 2022.
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Box Office By Country:
Asia & Pacific
- Japan – $259.30M
- China – $79.3M
- South Korea – $43.47M
- Taiwan – $27.91M
- Hong Kong – $12.45M
- Thailand – $9.58M
- Philippines – $8.50M
- India – $10.04M
- Indonesia – $7.30M
- Malaysia – $6.80M
- Vietnam – $5.31M
- Australia – $6.85M
- Singapore – $4.16M
Middle East & Africa
- Saudi Arabia – $2.80M
- UAE – $2.90M
- Turkey – $1.32M
- South Africa – $0.973M
- Israel – $0.720M
- Nigeria – $0.609M
Europe
- France – $18.10M
- Germany – $16.10M
- UK – $9.30M
- Spain – $7.60M
- Italy – $5.15M
- Switzerland – $1.88M
- Netherlands – $1.83M
- Austria – $2.07M
- Nordics – $4.99M
- (Sweden $1.39M + Denmark $0.980M + Norway $0.790M + Finland $0.561M + Iceland assumed negligible)
- CIS – $2.41M
- (Russia + Ukraine $0.610M included only if counted in CIS; if not, CIS = $2.41M)
North America
- US & Canada – $134.09M
Latin America
- Mexico – $18.20M
- Brazil – $9.10M
- Peru – $2.80M
- Colombia – $5.16M
- Chile – $3.33M
- Argentina – $2.59M
- Central America – $2.50M