Box-Office Weekend: Demon Slayer Defeats Him

For the second consecutive weekend, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle held the top spot of the box-office weekend top ten.

Although it only retained first place by a $3.8 million margin – a far cry from the $43.9 million difference a week ago – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle did, in fact, finish in first place with $17.3 million. This gives the Sony Pictures product a two-week total of $104.7 million. Meanwhile, Universal Pictures International saw Him debut in second place with $13.5 million. Last weekend’s second-place film, The Conjuring: Last Rites was dropped to third place where it took in $12.9 million to bring the Warner Bros. film’s three-week total to $151.2 million. Focus Features saw its Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale fall from third to fourth where it brought in $6.3 million to raise its two-week total to $31.6 million for the studio. Lionsgate saw The Long Walk drop only one spot this weekend as it landed in fifth place with $6.3 million, giving it a two-week total of $22.7 million.

Sony Pictures Releasing saw its A Big Bold Beautiful Journey claim sixth place in its debut as it took in $3.5 million for the studio. In seventh place, The Senior debuted with $2.8 million taken in for Angel. Falling three spots to land in eighth place this weekend, the 2025 re-release of Toy Story added $1.40 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures to bring its two-week total to $5.9 million. In ninth place, Sight & Sound Presents: NOAH Live debuted with $1.38 million over the weekend, giving the film a cumulative total of $1.6 million. Finaly, after seven weeks in release, Warner Bros. saw Weapons drop four spots to claim tenth place this weekend with $1.3 million, giving the film an overall total of $149.7 million.

This weekend saw four films fall from the top ten. After three weeks in theaters, the 2025 re-release of Hamilton by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures brought in a total of $16.5 million before failing to repeat its seventh-place finish from last weekend. Similarly, the same studio’s offering of Freakier Friday took in a total of $92.9 million over seven weeks before being pushed out of the top ten. After debuting in ninth place last weekend, Bleecker Street Media’s Spinal Tap II: The End Continues could not crack the top ten again this weekend and had to settle for a two-week total of $2.5 million. Finally, the Fathom Event release honoring the sixtieth anniversary of The Sound of Music managed to earn a total of $1.6 million.

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Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com

An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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