SATURDAY AM: Refresh for chart and more analysis After two weekends of overperforming, the September box office steps on the brakes, down -49% from last weekend to $76.9M. Sony/Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and Universal/Monkeypaw’s Him are in a dead heat with $15M-$16M apiece — it’s still too early to call which one is No. 1. We’re waiting on Sony’s figures.
Infinity Castle is playing exactly like an anime movie, completely front-loaded, with a second weekend drop around -78%, but as we told you, the highest grossing anime movie at the domestic box office is expected to cross $100M today.
Him won Friday with $6.47M and a C- CinemaScore, with Rotten Tomatoes ratings at 28% Critics, 58% audience score. Universal is calling the Jordan Peele produced movie a