Infinity Castle’ beats Dreamworks’ Live-Action Fantasy 2025 at the box office

It’s been over a month since Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle entered theaters in the United States and recently surpassed one of the biggest fantasy films of 2025. After generating over $659 million at the worldwide box office, it surpassed Dreamworks’ live-action adaptation of How to train your dragonthus becoming the 5th highest grossing film of 2025.

The 2025 adaptation of How to train your dragon first premiered at CinemaCon in April 2025, before hitting theaters on June 13, 2025, grossing over $635 million, approximately $200 million more than its 2010 animated counterpart. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle taking its place in the box office charts makes the animated film the next target Renaissance of the Jurassic worldThat’s $886 million.

Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle marks the first film adaptation of the anime’s Final Battle arc, where the Demon Slayer Corps takes on Muzan and his army of demons. The film stars the series’ beloved voice actors, including Zach Aguilar Tane Police Where, Alex Le like Zenitsu Agatsuma, Bryce Papenbrook like Inosuke Hashibira, and Lucien Dodge like Akaza. It also introduces Channing Tatumwho joins the cast in the role of Keizo.

How successful is “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle”?

Before Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle entered the Western market, it had already made considerable progress in Japan, as it is currently the second highest-grossing film in the country, just behind Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train. It managed to break the domestic box office records of such Japanese heavy hitters, such as Spirited Away And Your nameand international giants like Titanic And Frozen.

Immediately after Infinite Castle entered the United States, the feature became the highest-grossing animated film of all time in the country. Its opening weekend profit of $33 million broke a record previously set by Pokémon: The First Movie in 1999, and surpassed the box office records set by Marvel Studios, James GunnIt is SupermanAnd Mission: Impossible – The final settlement. This feature became a huge hit and Crunchyroll confirmed that it would not hit streaming platforms in 2025. Additionally, the following Demon Slayer films have a speculative release date of 2027 and 2029, so it will take some time for fans to see what happens next.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle is now showing in theaters. Follow Collider to keep up with the latest updates.