The first Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle anime film and the live-action adaptation of Exit 8 have both received nominations for the upcoming Critics Choice Awards. Kazunari Ninomiya, who stars in Exit 8, was nominated for Best Actor in a Superhero Movie. The winners will be announced on August 6.
Crunchyroll will begin streaming the Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle I film on July 28 worldwide outside of Japan and Mainland China. The film will also be available for digital purchase on July 28 through services including Apple TV, Prime Video, Google Play, YouTube, and Fandango.
The film opened in Japan on July 18, 2025, and concluded its theatrical run on April 9 after screening for 266 days. It sold a cumulative total of 27,455,968 million tickets, earning 40,200,019,000 yen (about US$252.5 million) at the Japanese box office. Worldwide, the film has sold 98,520,310 tickets and earned 117,917,539,329 yen (about US$740.5 million).
By September 15, 2025, its 60th day in Japanese theaters, the film had become the second highest-earning film of all time at the Japanese box office, surpassing Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s 2001 film Spirited Away. The film first screened in the United States and Canada on September 12, returned to North American theaters on March 6, and was also brought to SCREENX multi-projection screens in North America for the first time by Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
As of November 16, the film had sold 89,177,796 tickets for 106,370,568,950 yen (about US$685 million) worldwide, making it the first Japanese film to earn over 100 billion yen (about US$644 million) worldwide. According to Box Office Mojo, the film earned US$718,491,762 worldwide in 2025, ranking as the seventh top-grossing film worldwide that year. It was also the second-highest-grossing animated film in the United States in 2025 (ranking eighteenth overall with US$134,487,320) and the third-highest-grossing animated film worldwide.
The Exit 8 live-action film, distributed in North America by NEON, opened in Japan in August 2025 and ranked second in its opening weekend. The film sold 672,000 tickets and earned 960,867,600 yen (about US$6.46 million) in its first three days, marking the highest opening three days for a live-action film in Japan in 2025. It had earned a cumulative total of 4,899,067,900 yen (about US$32.10 million) as of October.
Singer and actor Ninomiya, known for live-action Letters from Iwo Jima, Ōoku, Gantz, and Assassination Classroom, stars in the film in his first collaboration with writer-director Genki Kawamura, who previously produced your name., Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?, and Suzume. Based on the game, the story follows a player trapped in a subway station passageway that loops endlessly, who must escape to “Exit 8” by carefully watching for anomalies that signal danger.
Sources: Critics Choice Awards, Deadline (Erik Pedersen).
