Weekend Box Office Results: ‘Demon Slayer’ Shatters Anime Records With $70M Debut, Sony’s Biggest YTD
All of this bodes well for moviegoing. No one was expecting September to overperform the way it is now with record openings for a Conjuring movie last weekend with Last Rites ($84M) and now the crazy start to Infinity Castle.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle had quite the robust Saturday yesterday north of M+ which will get the Crunchyroll movie to a massive M opening. That’s the sixth biggest opening of September, in addition to the best ever for an anime movie, best ever for Crunchyroll, and best for Sony over the last two years.
EntTelligence says that 4.5 million people went to see Infinity Castle, shelling out an average ticket price of $14.56 for general and $17.91 for PLF.
While some sources were calling Infinity Castle at these high echelon numbers, the ongoing concern was that the anime-narrow audience would reach its limit in attendance this weekend. Read, per Screen Engine/Comscore’s PostTrak, there was very little walk-up business at 33% with 67% of the audience buying tickets in advance (within the last week or more) as of EOD Friday.
Read more at Deadline
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