EXCLUSIVE: Sony/Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle , as we knew all along, is having a great night with preview estimates at $10M at 2,800 sites, maybe a little more by sunrise. Showtimes, boosted by Imax and PLFs, began at 4PM.

That amount of cash is about equal to the pic’s first five days of advance ticket sales, which by the way, repped a record for an anime movi e.

That Thursday night figure is almost as much as Five Nights at Freddy’s previews ($10.3M), it’s $500K less than Oppenheimer ‘s ($10.5M) and higher than last fall’s Joker: Folie a Deus ($7M). Not that those are any hard comps; it’s just interesting to juxtapose the amount of cash this anime pic is racking up. Why are fans rushing to see this movie? Because it’s the first in a tri

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