Demon Slayer: Mugen Train Breaks Japanese Box Office Records Despite COVID-19 Restrictions James O'Connor A new movie in the Demon Slayer anime series, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, released in Japan on October 16, and it's been huge. Crunchyroll is reporting that the film is heading towards an enormous weekend gross, and that it should comfortably have the best opening ever for a film in Japan. The film saw 1.9 million admissions across October 16-17, and is estimated to have earned over $20 million from those two days. However, full figures for the weekend are yet to come in, and Deadline reports that the final number could exceed $40 million. According to Crunchyroll, the highest-grossing opening weekend of all time in Japan previously was The Matrix Reloaded, which opened to ¥2.2 billion (US$20.8 million). However, Japanese opening weekends are more difficult to track than US weekends--Spirited Away is the highest grossing film in Japan's history, bringing in over ¥30 billion ($250 million) across its run, but there's no firm record of its opening. Continue Reading at GameSpot https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

A new movie in the Demon Slayer anime series, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, released in Japan on October 16, and it's been huge. Crunchyroll is reporting that the film is heading towards an enormous weekend gross, and that it should comfortably have the best opening ever for a film in Japan.

The film saw 1.9 million admissions across October 16-17, and is estimated to have earned over $20 million from those two days. However, full figures for the weekend are yet to come in, and Deadline reports that the final number could exceed $40 million.

According to Crunchyroll, the highest-grossing opening weekend of all time in Japan previously was The Matrix Reloaded, which opened to ¥2.2 billion (US$20.8 million). However, Japanese opening weekends are more difficult to track than US weekends--Spirited Away is the highest grossing film in Japan's history, bringing in over ¥30 billion ($250 million) across its run, but there's no firm record of its opening.

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