New
#DemonSlayer ready for a record tomorrow at
#China’s
#BoxOffice!
Ahead of its NOV 14 Opening (previews on NOV 13) anime
#DemonSlayerInfinityCastle aka
#鬼滅の刃 #無限城編 ends 6th pre-sales day on SUN with a $15.9M 6-day cume for the NOV 13-16 period, with 3 days yet to go.
It should beat both previous anime total pre-sales records
#TheFirstSLAMDUNK’s $16.7M &
#Suzume’s $17.1M
by TUE to become the biggest pre-Sales ever for a non-Chinese animation.
Pre-sales breakdown:
$1.5M NOV 13 THU Previews
$7M NOV 14 FRI Opening Day
$5.3M NOV 15 SAT
$2.1M NOV 16 SUN
Exhibitors ALL IN, now with 110k screenings already open for pre-sales, a record for non-Chinese films that early in pre-sales period.
Pre-sales’ pacing leading to a 20M+ range final, spectacular new record for anime films.
As I’ve been saying from day one, Pre-sales for anime films are extremely frontloaded in China, but even so an opening weekend way above
#Suzume’s $49.9M debut seems locked.
Could even dream of beating
#AvatarTheWayOfWater’s $57.1M &
#GodzillavsKong’s $69.2M, right now looking at a 60M-95M 3-day opening weekend depending on how frontloaded by pre-sales the weekend is, what could potentially be the #2 biggest opening weekend for non-Chinese film Post-COVID, only below
#F9’s $136.1M, if it ends up on the higher range.