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Demon Slayer: Mugen Train Passes £1M in U.K.
posted on by Andrew Osmond
According to the latest BFI Weekend Box-Office Report, downloadable here, Demon Slayer Mugen Train had earned £1,001,786 as of June 6.
The film's box-office fell 89% from the first weekend to the second. According to the British Salty Popcorn film database, previous anime U.K. cinema releases Digimon: The Movie (2000) earned £1.1 million and Pokémon 2000 - The Movie (1999) earned £2 million. For comparison, according to Salty Popcorn, Dragon Ball Super: Broly earned £851,500; Weathering With You earned £506,800; and Howl's Moving Castle earned £489,600.
Funimation describes the story:
"Set after the events of the television anime series, Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train has Tanjiro, Nezuko, Zenitsu, and Inosuke embark on a new mission. Together with one of the most powerful swordsmen of the Demon Slayer Corps, Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku, they investigate the mysterious disappearance of over 40 people aboard the Mugen Train."
The film is the blockbusting cinema sequel to the Demon Hunter anime series, and is the highest-earning anime film in Japan ever. It ranked #1 in Japan for 12 consecutive weekends at the box office, in terms of number of tickets sold. As of December 27, it had sold over 24 million tickets to earn about US$314 million. The film has surpassed Hayao Miyazaki's 2002 Spirited Away, its last rival for all-time highest earnings in Japanese box office history. In Japan, it began holding immersive MX4D and 4DX screenings on December 26.
The main staff members of the previous television anime returned for the sequel film. TOHO and Aniplex are handling the film's distribution in Japan. Funimation and Aniplex of America will screen the film in cinemas in North America in early 2021.
