In today's Box Office Breakdown, we analyze seven new releases:
Sony’s Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Infinity Castle
Focus Features’ Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Lionsgate’s The Long Walk
Bleecker Street’s Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
Mubi’s The History of Sound
Purdie Distribution’s Women in Christ
Vertigo Releasing’s Bang Bang
Plus, a full breakdown of the top-grossing anime film of all time.
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Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Infinity Castle took #1 at the Box Office with $70M domestic. This brings its worldwide total to $386.3M.
For those unfamiliar with the “Demon Slayer” animated films, here is the synopsis of the latest entry:
The Demon Slayer Corps are drawn into the Infinity Castle, where Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the Hashira face terrifying Upper Rank demons in a desperate fight as the final battle against Muzan Kibutsuji begins.
This is the second film in the Demon Slayer series to be released theatrically and marks the beginning of a new trilogy.
It is the highest-grossing opening domestically for an anime film by a wide margin, beating out:
Pokémon: The First Movie (1999)
$31M domestic opening ($60M w/ inflation)
$163.6M worldwide total ($318M w/ inflation)
The distributor, Crunchroll (owner: Sony), controls much of the market here for popularizing Japanese anime, and they have built tremendously off the previous installment:
Demon Slayer 1: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train (Crunchyroll, 2020)
$21.2M domestic opening
$49.9M domestic total
$486.5M worldwide
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle had the highest per-screen average of any film in the top 10 with a massive $21.1K/screen across 3315 theaters.
It ranks at 97% on RT.
Here is the trailer. Channing Tatum is part of the English-language cast.
Here’s the breakdown of the rest of the top 10:
$26.1M - The Conjuring: Last Rites (Warner Bros.)
$131.1M domestic total
$332.9M worldwide
$55M production budget
RT: 56%
Week 2
After its second week, it is now the highest-grossing film in the series:
The Conjuring (2013)
$41.9M opening
$137.4M domestic total
$320.4M worldwide total
86% RT
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
$40.4M opening
$102.5M domestic total
$321.4M worldwide total
80% RT
The Conjuring 3 (2021)
$24.1M opening
$65.6M domestic total
$206.4M worldwide total
56% RT
Critically, the current The Conjuring film is the lowest-rated of any in the pack. But the zealot-like resurgence of horror fans has catapulted this film to the highest earnings.
The Conjuring: Last Rites took a 69% week 2 drop. This is larger than Warner Bros.' previous horror release, Weapons, which only dipped 44% week 2. The film's quality appears to have a greater impact on the second weekend than on the first.
$18.1M - Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (Focus Features)
$30.4M worldwide
$50M budget
RT: 90%
Week 1
This is the third theatrical Downton Abbey film. It opened below the first film but above the latest installment:
Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)
$16M opening (vs. $18M)
$44.1M domestic total
$92.7M worldwide ($16.9M UK)
Downton Abbey (2019)
$31M opening (vs. $18M)
$96.9M domestic total
$194.7M worldwide ($34.5M UK)
These films over-index in the UK as they focus on the British Aristocracy and their servants.
Few properties that began as TV series other than this and Mission: Impossible have enjoyed so many sequels in their theatrical run.
$11.5M - The Long Walk (Lionsgate)
$20M budget
RT: 90%
Week 1
This is the 4th film based on a Stephen King book to open in the past two years:
The Monkey (2025, Neon)
$14M opening
$39.7M domestic total
$68.9M worldwide
The Life of Chuck (2024, Neon)
$224K opening
$6.7M domestic total
$16.9M worldwide
The Boogeyman (2023)
$12.4M opening
$42.2M domestic total
$67.3M worldwide
It opened lower than 2 out of these three Stephen King films. But it was the largest box office opening for star Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza).
$3.5M - Toy Story (Disney)
$196M domestic total
$370.5M worldwide
Week 1556 (30 years)
This is the third re-release of Toy Story (1995):
2009 re-release
$12.5M opening
$30.7M domestic total
$41.3M worldwide
2020 re-release
$505K opening
$727K domestic total
$767.8K worldwide
While it surpassed the pandemic 25-year re-release by a wide margin, it was nowhere near the 15-year anniversary re-release.
The original release opened at $29.1M. As the series continues to endure with the 5th installment slated for June 19, 2026.
$2.7M - Weapons (Warner Bros.)
$147.5M domestic total
$259.6M worldwide
$38M budget
RT: 94%
Week 6
Weapons has crossed the $250M mark and now ranks as the 23rd highest-grossing horror film of all time and 11th highest-grossing domestically.
It is the fourth-highest-grossing original horror of all time. After Split (2017, $278.8M WW), A Quiet Place (2018, $334.9M WW), and Sinners (2025, $336.7M WW). Every other horror property is either based on a book, a newspaper article, or is a sequel/spinoff.
Director Zach Cregger is a master comedian-turned-horror-filmmaker. Putting him in a rare category with Jordan Peele.
The film has fully recouped.
$2.2M - Hamilton (Disney)
$15M domestic total
RT: 98%
Week 2
This is the 5-year anniversary of the film premiering on Disney+. It is the filmed version of the Broadway production, which in and of itself has grossed $1.06bn. That puts the stage production as the 4th highest grossing Broadway musical of all time.
$2.1M - Freakier Friday (Disney)
$91.1M domestic total
$146.2M worldwide
$42M budget
RT: 73%
Week 6
Although it opened higher (sans inflation), this may top out before it reaches the first film:
Freaky Friday (2003)
$22.2M opening (vs. Freakier Friday’s $28.6M opening)
$13.4M week 2 - 39% drop (vs. Freakier Friday’s 49% drop)
$9.3M week 3 -31% drop (vs. Freakier Friday’s 36% drop)
$110.2M domestic total
$160.8M worldwide
$20M budget
It is now fully recouped, as it has benefitted from its iconic Disney brand recognition.
$1.7M - Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (Bleecker Street)
$22.6M budget (before tax incentives)
RT: 67%
Week 1
This is a smaller opening than the cult classic deserved and had the lowest per-screen average ($872) for any film that opened this weekend.
It did slightly more business than This Is Spinal Tap (41st Anniversary re-release) from earlier this summer:
This Is Spinal Tap - 41st Anniversary
$1.07M domestic 3-day total
The original grossed $4.5M domestically after being in theaters for months.
$1.5M - The Sound of Music (20th Century)
$164.7M domestic total
$286.2M worldwide
$8.2M budget
RT: 83%
Week 3159 (60 years)
This did much better than the 2018 re-release that grossed $616K.
Here are the lowest-grossing films of the week:
$16.1K - Women in Christ (Purdie Distribution)
$1.2K /screen average
Week 1
$14.2K - CatVideoFest 2025 (Oscilloscope)
$982.8K domestic total
$1.2M worldwide
$2.4K /screen average
Week 7
$12K - Bang Bang (Vertigo Releasing)
$3K/screen average
Premiere: Tribeca 2024
Star: Tim Blake Nelson
Week 1
Mubi’s The History of Sound earned $85.8K in its opening weekend on 4 screens. This gives it the highest per-screen average of the week with $21.4K/screen. The film premiered at Cannes and stars Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor.