ByPaul Tassi,
Senior Contributor.
While we’re always talking about superheroes and Tom Cruise blockbusters and Disney live-action remakes, one of the biggest stories in the entire year of cinema is the wild success of Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, the new movie continuing the storyline of the anime into its final arc.
After just releasing in China, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle has made $730 million worldwide. That makes it the fifth-highest-grossing movie of the year, ahead of the live-action How to Train Your Dragon, F1, Mission Impossible and every Marvel and DC superhero movie that was released in 2025. Stunning.
But what some covering this story may not realize is that this is just Infinity Castle Part 1. This is the first movie in what’s going to be a trilogy of films that will close out the famed anime. The indication here is that if these numbers hold, and they might even increase, Demon Slayer will end its run with probably over $2 billion in box office receipts, not counting the previously released Mugen Train movie from 2020 that made $486 million.