Current Worldwide Total: ~$511,502,000 After 263 Days.

Currently Playing In:
Japan - $383.5 million
United States - $49.25 million
Taiwan - $22.27 million
South Korea - $18.45 million
France - $6.6 million
Thailand - $4.2 million
Hong Kong - $4.167 million
Australia - $3.43 million
Mexico - $3.4 million
United Kingdom: $2 million
Singapore - $1.9 million
Russia - $1.775 million
Saudi Arabia - $1.45 million
Spain - $1.31 million
Malaysia & Brunei - $1.2 million
Indonesia - $1.0 million
Vietnam - $0.8 million
Central America - $0.6 million
New Zealand - $0.55 million
UAE - $0.435 million
Germany - $0.425 million
Rest - $0.36 million
Netherlands: $0.33 million
Brazil - $0.275 million
GCC - $0.25 million
Sweden: $0.22 million
Argentina - $0.2 million
Belgium: $0.19 million
Denmark: $0.175 million
Norway: $0.16 million
Colombia - $0.148 million
Finland - $0.11 million
Austria - $0.1 million
Portugal - $0.1 million
South Africa - $0.075 million
Luxembourg: $0.045 million
Iceland - $0.027 milion
Egypt - $0.025 milion


Upcoming (Announced):
Switzerland - May 20th, 2021
Ireland: Coming Soon!
Italy: Coming Soon!
China - Pending Perpetual Censorship Review Of Unknown Status Forever Unknown.

It's up to you guys to post the international numbers as they come in or are updated, and then I'll update the first post.

I also believe I'm missing some release dates, so let me know and I'll add them. Basically... post your knowledge, and I'll input it!

Good luck getting numbers from Singapore

So it will pass The Eight Hundred eventually, but probably not by the end of the year without Chinese money? Hopefully the history books will give it the W anyways!

“#1 movie of year X” will usually mean release year rather than calendar gross.

A release in France, Belgium and Luxembourg has also been announced, hopefully for the beginning of 2021

Yeah this is a good idea.

@corpse I think Macau numbers are included in Hong Kong.

Japan will most likely go around ¥36Bn i.e. $343mn Approx.

Taiwan is looking at $20mn range.
Hong Kong perhaps $7mn.

These 3 will give it $370mn / ¥38.6Bn.

That leaves about $83mn for taking the top spot of 2020 and about ¥9Bn for beating Spirited Away for Biggest Japanese film worldwide, roughly same amount for both benchmark.

Your Name did around $140mn, outside these three but that had a very big Korea and China ($109mn to be precise).

Taiwan numbers suggest a big China for Demon Slayer, but a Chinese expert said he is expecting $30-40mn, so I will hold my horse. Will depend a lot on Korea.

All release date (they can change)
Japan - 16th October
Singapore: November 7 (Fan Screening) / November 12 (General Screening; uncensored) / February 2021 (General Screening; censored)
Hong Kong: November 12 (General Screening)
Malaysia: December 5 (Fan Screening) / December 10 (General Screening)
Indonesia: December 19 (Fan Screening) / January 2021 (General Screening)
Philippines: November 28 (Fan Screening) / February 2021 (General Screening)
Vietnam: December 26 (Fan Screening) / January 1 (General Screening)
Myanmar: January 2021 (Fan Screening) / February 2021(General Screening)
Brunei - TBA fan screening/4th February general release
China - 2020
Taiwan - October 31
Macao - November
Thailand: November 25-29 (Fan Screening) / December 9 (General Screening)
United States - Early 2021
Canada - Early 2021
Italy: Coming Soon!
Spain: Coming Soon!
Sweden: Coming Soon!
Denmark: Coming Soon!
Norway: Coming Soon!
Netherlands: Coming Soon!
Iceland: Coming Soon!
France: Coming Soon!
Belgium: Coming Soon!
Luxembourg: Coming Soon!
Germany: February 2021

These are all release date for now in future maybe it would release in more countries and since it have said 2020 for China I am thinking about in December and note that it was most popular anime in Bilibili's of 2019 .

I though Your Name was the highest grossing japanese movie worldwide with 358m? Or are all the news wrong.

Also I believe it should make a pretty big number in China. It is by far the most popular anime on Bilibili. Its constantly on the front page and this is a must watch movie for anyone who wants to continue the story. In addition when the movie opened they did a promotion for the movie which included japanese, english and chinese voice actors for Tanjiro.

Yes, remember that the movie is a continuation of the story where season one of the anime concluded last year. It's not an original story that can be seen by non-anime viewers and/or non-manga readers. I mean, sure, someone could go see it blind, but they'd be massively confused I'd imagine.

Demon slayer is highest grossing animated movie of all time in taiwan seem like good sign

Also highest grossing movie in taiwan in 2020

Demon slayer is now third highest grossing anime movie internationally beating howls moving castle

I updated the first post with all the release dates and/or countries where it's been announced for. Let me know if I missed any. Also, no South Korea announcement? I thought I read it was playing there "soon" because of some controversy about them censoring Tanjiro's hanafuda earrings.

I don't really want to go around looking for new totals in all the markets it's playing in now every day, so I'll probably just update the total every Monday/Tuesday. However, if you guys post the most recent daily totals for the countries, I'll update the first post as they come in.

Spirited Away is biggest, I have compiled $395mn Approx or ¥47bn.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... ingle=true
Your Name is around $386mn or ¥40bn, I have information on around $378mn only so far.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... ingle=true

Thank you all so much for your efforts! Just commented so I can easily check the thread!

At end of last week,

Taiwan: Another great week. NT$99mn only down 31%, taking the total to NT$409mn or $14.3mn. 40% drops from here leads to NT$558mn or $19.5mn Approx, which will be straight out historic. A slightly better 35% holds will lead it to NT$592mn or $20.7mn, making it 15th highest grosser of all time beating Life of Pi.

Hong Kong: HK$18.35mn or $2.37mn Approx till Thursday. Okay performance so far but 2nd weekend drops aren't looking great. May be $5mn full run.

The worldwide gross will be $248.5-249mn with subject to estimates in Singapore.

Regarding China,

DS didn't get approval from bureau for a release plan due to bloody stuff

That's rather unfortunate. Do PG13/R films often get rejected by them? I remember way back that it was often an issue, but just figured they'd moved a little past that in the last decade. Does China itself not produce PG13/R equivalent films?

They can censor it

So it is not getting released in China now? Or it would get later or they would censor it

No China release is super fucking lame.

Their random censorship must be frustrating for audiences.

Agreed given the popularity of the anime they could have easily decided to give it a higher rating like they did in Singapore and still release it for mature audience but then again they "think" animation is only for younger audience.