Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is grinding XP at the box office like it’s got unlimited lives, and The Conjuring: Last Rites? Well, that franchise just showed up in your nightmares and on the all-time charts. If your group chat is arguing about whether anime sword fights or haunted dolls won the weekend, you’re not alone. Let’s break down the numbers, the drama, and, yes, the memes, minus the migraine.
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The One Where Tanjiro Breaks The Internet
It’s official: Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is the biggest Japanese movie of all time, with over $555 million bagged globally and still counting XP. That’s not just a flex, it’s a world record, with a North American opening weekend pulling in $70M. Fans are dropping memes like “Water Breathing, Eleventh Form: Box Office Cascade” and hyping up the trilogy format. And hey, with “no streaming till 2026 likely”, FOMO is realer than those Monday blues.So, About That $70M Anime Debut…
Infinity Castle’s $70M U.S. opening didn’t just beat old anime records, it yeeted them to another universe. Even Pokémon: The First Movie couldn’t compete. The sheer day-one hype pulled even the “I only watch dub” gang into multiplexes, while TikTok was all cosplay and reaction edits. Fun fact: this movie made more in one weekend than most arthouse films do in a year. Sub vs dub? For $555M+, everyone said, “Ticket de na, bhai.”Horror Girlies, You Won: Last Rites Is THE Conjuring Queen
While swords were slashing records, The Conjuring: Last Rites snuck in with a $400M+ worldwide haul, making it the top-grossing movie in its universe. Despite the anime avalanche, horror held the line with packed screens and viral jump-scare GIFs, especially THAT monstrous grin. Honestly, we paid good money to be traumatised, and yep, we’d queue up again. Thanks for the nightmares, Hollywood.
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- Studio Scoreboard: New Line’s Billion-Dollar Flex
New Line’s flex mode is ON: with Last Rites, their 2025 global box office smashed past $1B. Horror + budget control = every CFO’s dream face (scarier than any ghost, tbh). Meanwhile, anime is out here cosplaying as the new superhero genre, courtesy of Crunchyroll and Sony’s event-scale rollout. Basically, horror is “recession-proof” and anime is “mainstream cool”, memes and receipts both agree.
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- What’s Next: FOMO vs Patience (and Your Watchlist)
If you’re waiting for Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle to drop online, you’d better be patient; streaming isn’t expected till early 2026. Last Rites will haunt cinemas through Halloween, so team horror’s got staying power too. Our pro-tip: Do a back-to-back matinee with Tanjiro, late-night with a demon nun. Hydrate. Scream. Repeat. Jo dekhna hai, abhi dekh lo, because spoilers and nightmares wait for no one.
Cinema 2025 is wild, choose your fighter: katana-wielding anime hero, or spooky haunted house veteran. Infinity Castle didn’t just shatter records; it joined party chats and meme culture. Last Rites reminded us horror’s not leaving the building anytime soon. Which side of viral history are you on?