Worldwide field workplace: August 22-24
| Rank | Movie (distributor) | 3-day (world) | Cume (world) | 3-day (int’l) | Cume (int’l) | Territories |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Citadel (numerous) | $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 (numerous) | $25.7m | $79.6m | $25.7m | $79.6m | 7 |
| 4 | No person (numerous) | $18.6m | $174.2m | $18.6m | $174.2m | 1 |
| 5 | The Unhealthy Guys 2 (Common) | $17m | $149.1m | $11.9m | $82.9m | 69 |
| 6 | Freakier Friday (Disney) | $15.4m | $113.3m | $6.2m | $42.8m | 49 |
| 7 | The Unbelievable 4: First Steps (Disney) | $11.7m | $490m | $5.8m | $232.9m | 53 |
| 8 | Lifeless 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 Bare Gun (Paramount) | $8.4m | $86.4m | $5.5m | $38.9m | 63 |
Credit score: Comscore. All figures are estimates.
‘Demon Slayer’ rises to high of worldwide field workplace
An increasing worldwide rollout for Japanese anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Citadel noticed the movie rise from ninth place on the worldwide field workplace two weeks in the past to 3rd place every week in the past – and now to the highest of the chart for the weekend simply ended, knocking apart Weapons.
Comscore reviews weekend field workplace for Haruo Sotozaki’s anime movie at an estimated $32.5m, taking the cumulative whole to $242.6m.
Sony reviews an estimated $10.5m for the weekend from 9 Asian territories for the Demon Slayer sequel, and a complete of $34.7m for these first-wave Crunchyroll/Sony Photos markets. This contains an estimated $4.2m in new market the Philippines – making Infinity Citadel already the highest anime movie of all time there.
Amongst Sony’s eight holdover markets, Hong Kong leads with $7.1m after two classes, forward of Indonesia ($6.2m), Thailand ($6.0m) and Malaysia ($5.0m).
Nonetheless to come back for Sony are a wave of key territories on September 11 or 12 (North America, UK/Eire, Mexico, Brazil, Spain) with France and Germany following every week later.
Infinity Citadel additionally opened in South Korea on the weekend, grossing a chart-topping $13m, and it continues its run in Japan, the place it landed on July 18 by way of Toho/Aniplex.
Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Citadel is the primary authentic movie within the Demon Slayer collection since 2020’s Kimetsu No Yaiba Mugen Practice, with movies compiled from the Demon Slayer anime TV collection launched in between.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Mugen Practice grossed $485.5m worldwide together with $365.7m in Japan, based on out there knowledge.
‘Weapons’ teeters on fringe of $200m
Warner Bros/New Line’s Weapons achieved a robust maintain globally in its third weekend of play, dropping simply 33% from the earlier session, which compares with a 39% drop in its second weekend.
Zach Cregger’s style melder grossed an estimated $15.6m in North America and $13.2m throughout 74 worldwide markets. Respective totals are $115.9m and $83.5m, and these mix to yield a $199.4m world whole.
UK/Eire, dropping 28% on the weekend, continues to guide the worldwide pack with $11.6m to date. Mexico, dropping 31%, comes subsequent with $7.5m. Weapons noticed very delicate drops in key territories France (-13%) and Germany (-16%), and totals there are $5.6m and $3.8m respectively. Different high markets in cumulative are Spain ($5.7m), Australia ($5.1m) and Saudi Arabia ($3.9m).
Weapons has but to open in key Asian markets Japan and South Korea.
Additionally for Warner Bros, the distributor’s large two summer time releases each pushed previous $600m on the weekend: DC Studios’ Superman and Apple Authentic Movies’ F1 aka F1: The Film.
Superman added an estimated $5.2m globally on the weekend and has now reached $604.5m. F1 added an estimated $7.9m globally, and stands at $603.4m.
The movies have taken contrasting paths of world success to succeed in these numbers. The Superman field workplace whole splits 57%/43% in favour of North America. F1 splits 69%/31% in favour of worldwide, with North America accounting for lower than a 3rd of the movie’s worldwide whole.
Narrowly lacking out on a spot in Comscore’s high 10 worldwide field workplace chart for the weekend is Warner Bros’ Closing Vacation spot: Bloodlines, which belatedly opened in China, yielding an estimated $8.2m. That takes the worldwide whole for the movie to $295.5m. That is the primary time the Closing Vacation spot franchise has performed in mainland theatres in China. Warner Bros hails the official launch of an R-rated pure horror (with out sci-fi parts) as a historic first for China.
‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ releases in key English-speaking markets
Netflix launched a sing-along model of animated function Kpop Demon Hunters in US, Canada, UK/Eire, Australia and New Zealand on Saturday and Sunday (August 23-34) solely.
Netflix doesn’t report field workplace on its movies, and the title doesn’t seem within the worldwide weekend chart above.
Nonetheless, sources and rival studios put North American field workplace for Kpop Demon Hunters at $18m – topping the chart forward of Weapons. In UK and Eire, the movie performed chains together with Vue, Showcase, The Mild, Omniplex and Picturehouse.
Netflix’s The Thursday Homicide Membership additionally landed in UK cinemas on the weekend, in a run qualifying the cosy-crime thriller for the 2026 Bafta Movie Awards. The movie is enjoying in 19 Everyman and 10 Picturehouse cinemas – and a week-long launch in 50 venues is important to qualify for Bafta’s finest movie class. Anecdotally, admissions are robust.
Directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, and produced by Sony Photos Animation, Kpop Demon Hunters started streaming on Netflix on June 20.
The Thursday Homicide Membership is directed by Chris Columbus, and tailored from the Richard Osman guide collection, with a forged led by Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie and David Tennant.
German comedy sequel ‘Das Kanu des Manitu’ hits $28m
Constantin’s launch of Das Kanu des Manitu in Germany and Austria added an estimated $10.9m in its second weekend of play, taking the whole after 11 days to a robust $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 based on out there knowledge. It stays the highest-grossing native movie of all time in Germany.
Das Kanu Des Manitu is one in every of 4 native hits within the present worldwide field workplace high 10. The others are Chinese language titles The Shadow’s Edge, No person and Lifeless To Rights. Larry Yang’s Jackie Chan motion movie The Shadow’s Edge rose on the field workplace in its second weekend of play, and has grossed $79.7m since touchdown in cinemas on August 16.
Amongst US studio movies within the newest high 10 chart, becoming a member of Weapons are Common/DreamWorks’ The Unhealthy Guys 2, Disney’s Freakier Friday and The Unbelievable 4: First Steps and Paramount’s The Bare Gun.
The Unhealthy Guys 2 is continuous its worldwide rollout, touchdown in Italy on the weekend, grossing an estimated $1.7m there. Worldwide cumulative whole is $82.9m, with $66.2m for North America, and thus $149.1m worldwide.
China leads worldwide markets on the animated animal caper with $16.4m to date. Germany and Australia are amongst key markets but to launch.
The Unbelievable 4: First Steps added an estimated $15.4m worldwide on the weekend, and has now reached $490.1m. The Marvel journey would be the seventh US studio movie to hit $500m worldwide this summer time, becoming a member of Lilo & Sew ($1.03bn), Jurassic World Rebirth ($844m), How To Practice Your Dragon ($627m), Superman, F1 and Mission: Unattainable – The Closing Reckoning ($597.9m).
This represents a a lot wider unfold of wealth than was achieved final summer time, which boasted solely three $500-plus world hits – however the 2025 summer time whole is predicted to indicate solely negligible enchancment on a 12 months in the past. Final summer time, the large hits – led by Inside Out 2 ($1.70bn) – had been greater.
