Mugen Train steam over 32.48 billion yen with 24 million tickets sold
O Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train anime sold 24,049,907 tickets to win 32,478,895,850 yen (about $ 314 million) on Sunday, its 73rd day of Japanese box office. The film has already passed Hayao Miyazakifrom 2002 Spirited Away, its last highest-profit rival of all time in Japanese box office history. (Spirited Away won 30.8 billion yen in its original run, but has since won a total of 31.68 billion yen after this summer’s revival displays.)
Mugen Train started performing immersive MX4D and 4DX exhibits on Saturday, December 26th.
Mugen Train is the first film since Hayao Miyazakifrom 2002 Spirited Away film to earn more than 30 billion yen at the Japanese box office. Mugen Train it is also the fastest to reach the milestone, Spirited Away it took 253 days to reach it.
Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train started airing at 38 IMAX cinemas in Japan on October 16th. The film had the biggest world premiere on the weekend of October 16-18. The film sold 3,424,930 tickets and grossed 4,623,117,450 yen (about $ 43.85 million) in Japan in the first three days. The movie sold 910,507 tickets and grossed more than 1,268,724,700 yen (about $ 12.03 million) on opening day alone, making it the biggest opening day in Japan of all time.
The main members of the team from the previous anime returned to the sequel to the film. TOHO and Aniplex are taking care of the distribution of the film in Japan. Funimation and Aniplex of America will show the film in North American theaters in early 2021.
Source: Mantan Web