Its legs in SK have been quite good, I believe 10+ bln is basically guaranteed there now.

If someone can provide the updated numbers for non-Japan markets, I can update the original post. It's been over a month since the last update.

And I guess the "rumored" release date for this weekend in the U.S. was technically accurate since it's playing in Miami?

https://www.google.com.ph/amp/s/comicbo ... e-opening/

Demon Slayer was already shown here in the Philippines. In fact I saw it in my province back in January 2. But I can't seem to find the data available for this . It started showing I believe in Nov 28 to only 3 cinemas for fan screening then expanded to more general showing but limited to the same 3 cinemas then expanded to more provinces.

In our province, the cinemas at that time were only open for 3 days Friday, Saturday and Sunday and it is only screened three times to one theatre. You can't book in advance so You have to wait in line. I was there at the opening of the mall and already the first screening was already almost full. My 60 year old mom, me and my sister got the last 3 seats of the first screeing- approximately 30 persons are allowed inside the cinema since you have to be three seats apart. In a span of 30 mins, everything was booked for that day already. It was the No.1 best selling movie despite having Soul and Jackie Chan's latest movie showing at the same time at our province. But I can't seem to find our cinema showing off the sales

South Korea BO this weekend. This is a frontload market in general but quite surprised that DS movie managed to get a bump on its 3rd/4th weekend there.

Korean BO
Weekend : Feb 26-28

1 #DemonSlayer #KimetsuNoYaiba $744k/ $7,61M(+24,8%)
2 #MissionPossible $682k /$2,65M
3 #SoulMovie $662k/$15,46M
(-26.5%)
4 #ChaosWalking $502k/ $732k
5 #TomAndJerry $465k/$681k

(%) Comparing to Last Weekend

The super limited screening in Miami turned out successfully. Since Friday, all screenings were fully booked. If Demon Slayer is as popular as MHA, Mugen Train may earn around $5-$10 million in the U.S.

Till 28th Feb

Japan - $365.2M
Taiwan - $22.15M
Korea - $7.6M
Thailand - $4.2M
Hong Kong - $4M
Singapore - $1.9M
Australia - $1.45M
Indonesia - $1M
Vietnam - $0.75M
New Zealand - $0.25M
Rest - $0.2M

Total - $408.69M (¥42.674B)

Top Japanese Films

1. Spirited Away - ¥47.031B
2. Demon Slayer - ¥42.674B
3. Your Name - ¥41.434B

Thank you, charlie. Original post is updated.

Still 5B to go but I think DS will get there.

And it needs $52.65M worldwide to become the highest grossing movie of 2020.

$20M more in Japan is looking very likely, so depending on how things evolve in Europe and North-America I think it could actually take the crown even without China.

It seems DS movie is developing some good late legs in South Korea.......

It seems DS movie is coming to France

https://twitter.com/CGRCinemas/status/1 ... 8093227010

It seems DS movie is really developing some good late legs in South Korea. It saw a bump on last weekend (4th weekend) and on this weekend it continued to see a bump on Sat, maybe tomorrow Sun too.

Wow thanks for the info Alo!

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train sold out on first day of screening as cinemas reopen in Malaysia

https://www.soyacincau.com/2021/03/07/d ... -malaysia/

I saw a vid of the reactions of the movie goers. I remembered my experience also. I wish I could repeat it again.
https://youtu.be/bwSzxXtjMt4

DS crossed the 1m admissions mark in SK ($8.7m) on Saturday...

There was an ugly cry in that video. I have never seen anyone do that in any of my screening. Would be embarrassing to walk out after that

Released in Malaysia. Probably $100-125k weekend.

It seems small number

Malaysia is not a big market overall.

https://aksiz.com/202155434/

DS movie Malaysia OW RM1.5M = $366k

That's a really good number from Malaysia given the situation there.

Not seeing it from any official source yet, but Gitesh Pandya (@GiteshPandya) is reporting that it'll finally open in the U.S. on April 23rd!



Don't think he'd make up a random date or use an unconfirmed source somewhere, so it's *probably* true. But I'd wait for official word from Funimation or Aniplex, which I'd expect soon, just in case it was incorrect.