Worldwide box office: August 22-24
| Rank | Film (distributor) | 3-day (world) | Cume (world) | 3-day (int’l) | Cume (int’l) | Territories |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle (various) | $32.5m | $242.5m | $32.5m | $242.5m | 12 |
| 2 | Weapons (Warner Bros) | $28.8m | $199.3m | $13.2m | $83.5m | 75 |
| 3 | The Shadow’s Edge (various) | $25.7m | $79.6m | $25.7m | $79.6m | 7 |
| 4 | Nobody (various) | $18.6m | $174.2m | $18.6m | $174.2m | 1 |
| 5 | The Bad Guys 2 (Universal) | $17m | $149.1m | $11.9m | $82.9m | 69 |
| 6 | Freakier Friday (Disney) | $15.4m | $113.3m | $6.2m | $42.8m | 49 |
| 7 | The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Disney) | $11.7m | $490m | $5.8m | $232.9m | 53 |
| 8 | Dead To Rights (Disney) | $11.1m | $384.7m | $11.1m | $383.6m | 3 |
| 9 | Das Kanu des Manitu (Constantin) | $10.8m | $27.9m | $10.8m | $27.9m | 2 |
| 10 | The Naked Gun (Paramount) | $8.4m | $86.4m | $5.5m | $38.9m | 63 |
Credit: Comscore. All figures are estimates.
‘Demon Slayer’ rises to top of worldwide box office
An expanding international rollout for Japanese anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle saw the film rise from ninth place at the worldwide box office two weeks ago to third place a week ago – and now to the top of the chart for the weekend just ended, knocking aside Weapons.
Comscore reports weekend box office for Haruo Sotozaki’s anime film at an estimated $32.5m, taking the cumulative total to $242.6m.
Sony reports an estimated $10.5m for the weekend from nine Asian territories for the Demon Slayer sequel, and a total of $34.7m for these first-wave Crunchyroll/Sony Pictures markets. This includes an estimated $4.2m in new market the Philippines – making Infinity Castle already the top anime film of all time there.
Among Sony’s eight holdover markets, Hong Kong leads with $7.1m after two sessions, ahead of Indonesia ($6.2m), Thailand ($6.0m) and Malaysia ($5.0m).
Still to come for Sony are a wave of key territories on September 11 or 12 (North America, UK/Ireland, Mexico, Brazil, Spain) with France and Germany following a week later.
Infinity Castle also opened in South Korea at the weekend, grossing a chart-topping $13m, and it continues its run in Japan, where it landed on July 18 via Toho/Aniplex.
Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle is the first original film in the Demon Slayer series since 2020’s Kimetsu No Yaiba Mugen Train, with films compiled from the Demon Slayer anime TV series released in between.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Mugen Train grossed $485.5m worldwide including $365.7m in Japan, according to available data.
‘Weapons’ teeters on edge of $200m
Warner Bros/New Line’s Weapons achieved a strong hold globally in its third weekend of play, dropping just 33% from the previous session, which compares with a 39% drop in its second weekend.
Zach Cregger’s genre melder grossed an estimated $15.6m in North America and $13.2m across 74 international markets. Respective totals are $115.9m and $83.5m, and these combine to yield a $199.4m global total.
UK/Ireland, dropping 28% at the weekend, continues to lead the international pack with $11.6m so far. Mexico, dropping 31%, comes next with $7.5m. Weapons saw very mild drops in key territories France (-13%) and Germany (-16%), and totals there are $5.6m and $3.8m respectively. Other top markets in cumulative are Spain ($5.7m), Australia ($5.1m) and Saudi Arabia ($3.9m).
Weapons has yet to open in key Asian markets Japan and South Korea.
Also for Warner Bros, the distributor’s big two summer releases both pushed past $600m at the weekend: DC Studios’ Superman and Apple Original Films’ F1 aka F1: The Movie.
Superman added an estimated $5.2m globally at the weekend and has now reached $604.5m. F1 added an estimated $7.9m globally, and stands at $603.4m.
The films have taken contrasting paths of global success to reach these numbers. The Superman box office total splits 57%/43% in favour of North America. F1 splits 69%/31% in favour of international, with North America accounting for less than a third of the film’s worldwide total.
Narrowly missing out on a place in Comscore’s top 10 worldwide box office chart for the weekend is Warner Bros’ Final Destination: Bloodlines, which belatedly opened in China, yielding an estimated $8.2m. That takes the worldwide total for the film to $295.5m. This is the first time the Final Destination franchise has played in mainland theatres in China. Warner Bros hails the official release of an R-rated pure horror (without sci-fi elements) as a historic first for China.
‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ releases in key English-speaking markets
Netflix released a sing-along version of animated feature Kpop Demon Hunters in US, Canada, UK/Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on Saturday and Sunday (August 23-34) only.
Netflix does not report box office on its films, and the title does not appear in the worldwide weekend chart above.
However, sources and rival studios put North American box office for Kpop Demon Hunters at $18m – topping the chart ahead of Weapons. In UK and Ireland, the film played chains including Vue, Showcase, The Light, Omniplex and Picturehouse.
Netflix’s The Thursday Murder Club also landed in UK cinemas at the weekend, in a run qualifying the cosy-crime mystery for the 2026 Bafta Film Awards. The film is playing in 19 Everyman and 10 Picturehouse cinemas – and a week-long release in 50 venues is necessary to qualify for Bafta’s best film category. Anecdotally, admissions are strong.
Directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, and produced by Sony Pictures Animation, Kpop Demon Hunters began streaming on Netflix on June 20.
The Thursday Murder Club is directed by Chris Columbus, and adapted from the Richard Osman book series, with a cast led by Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie and David Tennant.
German comedy sequel ‘Das Kanu des Manitu’ hits $28m
Constantin’s release of Das Kanu des Manitu in Germany and Austria added an estimated $10.9m in its second weekend of play, taking the total after 11 days to a powerful $28.0m.
Directed and co-written by and starring Michael Herbig, the parody comedy is a belated sequel to Herbig’s 2001 hit Der Schuh Des Manitu (aka Manitou’s Shoe), which grossed a lifetime $64.2m in Germany and $11.3m in Austria according to available data. It remains the highest-grossing local film of all time in Germany.
Das Kanu Des Manitu is one of four local hits in the current worldwide box office top 10. The others are Chinese titles The Shadow’s Edge, Nobody and Dead To Rights. Larry Yang’s Jackie Chan action film The Shadow’s Edge rose at the box office in its second weekend of play, and has grossed $79.7m since landing in cinemas on August 16.
Among US studio films in the latest top 10 chart, joining Weapons are Universal/DreamWorks’ The Bad Guys 2, Disney’s Freakier Friday and The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Paramount’s The Naked Gun.
The Bad Guys 2 is continuing its international rollout, landing in Italy at the weekend, grossing an estimated $1.7m there. International cumulative total is $82.9m, with $66.2m for North America, and thus $149.1m worldwide.
China leads international markets on the animated animal caper with $16.4m so far. Germany and Australia are among key markets yet to release.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps added an estimated $15.4m worldwide at the weekend, and has now reached $490.1m. The Marvel adventure will be the seventh US studio film to hit $500m worldwide this summer, joining Lilo & Stitch ($1.03bn), Jurassic World Rebirth ($844m), How To Train Your Dragon ($627m), Superman, F1 and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning ($597.9m).
This represents a much wider spread of wealth than was achieved last summer, which boasted only three $500-plus global hits – but the 2025 summer total is expected to show only negligible improvement on a year ago. Last summer, the big hits – led by Inside Out 2 ($1.70bn) – were bigger.