Demon Slayer Infinity Castle
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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.
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle
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If Demon Slayer gets to $2.1 billion for the Infinity Castle movies, and we add Mugen Train to make a low-end estimate of $2.5 billion, that will put it inside the top 10 highest grossing franchises in movie history, and with the way these are sometimes double counted, on the higher end, and certainly the only one with just four movies hitting that total. Here’s the list:
- Marvel Cinematic Universe – $13 billion
- Star Wars – $5.1 billion
- Disney Live-Action – $3.4 billion
- Spider-Man – $3.3 billion
- JK Rowling Wizarding World – $2.8 billion
- DCEU – $2.7 billion
- Batman – $2.7 billion
- Avengers – $2.6 billion
- X-Men – $2.4 billion
- Harry Potter – $2.3 billion
You can see some of the issues here, with things like Spider-Man, Wizarding World, Avengers and others double-counting movies to reach this total. If you take those out, Demon Slayer would come in at around #5, if the estimated numbers hold. It could go higher, as we’re assuming the sequel numbers wouldn’t go up further.
Other anime have seen what Demon Slayer is doing and are blazing forward with their own projects. We just saw Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc make a respectable $168 million worldwide. We now know there’s going to be an upcoming Solo Leveling movie, which should do very well. But nothing is coming close to Demon Slayer. The catch? We will be waiting until at least 2030 to finish this series out with two more movies, it looks like.
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