Receipts: ‘Infinity Castle’ Finds Success In The U.S.; ‘Him’ Flounders With Critics And Audiences
Domestic: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie - Infinity Castle remained in first at the box office for the weekend of Friday, September 19, 2025, to Sunday, September 21, 2025. Following a majorly successful overseas run, the film had its U.S. release on Friday, September 12, 2025, which cemented the film as the highest-grossing anime feature of all time. Infinity Castle earned $17.304 million domestically in its second week of release, down a sharp 75.5% from its debut weekend, but still impressive, raising its total to $104.734 million in the U.S. alone. Along with financial success, the film has been praised universally, now holding a 98% approval rating from both critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.
After its debut on Friday, September 19, 2025, Him landed in second place at the box office, earning $13.252 million in its debut weekend. While in second place on the charts, the film’s opening has been lackluster, proving that it has a long way to go before making back its $27 million budget. Not helping this fact is the film’s reception, which currently sits at a disappointing 29% critic score and somewhat more favorable 58% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Him follows football star Cameron Cade (Tyriq Withers), whose career is put on hold after an attack from a deranged fan. A silver lining appears when Cam’s hero, Isaiah White (Marlon Wayans), reaches out with an offer to train him. Cam, however, has no idea how sinister this offer may actually be.
In fifth place is the survival-thriller film The Long Walk, which earned $6.223 million in its second week of release. Even though it may be down 46.8% from last week and a spot on the charts, the film’s estimated budget of $20 million has already been made back, with the film’s total domestic gross now sitting at $22.642 million.
Set under an unforgiving military dictatorship, The Long Walk follows a deadly winner-takes-all competition between a group of teenage boys, who must continuously walk at a fixed speed or risk being shot and killed. The film has been positively received, earning an 89% critic and 85% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
International: Park Chan-wook’s black comedy thriller, No Other Choice, premiered theatrically in South Korea on Wednesday, September 24, 2025. The film has been in the festival circuit, making appearances at the Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the International People's Choice Award.
Adapted from the novel The Ax, written by Donald Westlake, the film tells the story of You Man-soo (Lee Byung-hun), a long-time paper industry worker who has suddenly found himself fired. Desperate for a new position, Man-soo devises a sinister new plan: take out his competitors to secure a new job.
Japanese anime film Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc hit theaters in Japan on Friday, September 19, 2025, dethroning Infinity Castle’s nine-week reign at the top of the box office. Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc earned $2.8 million on its opening day alone and went on to make $8.45 million overall across its debut weekend. The film is being released globally by Crunchyroll and will eventually make its way to the U.S. on Friday, October 24, 2025.
Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc is a direct sequel to the first season of Chainsaw Man, the anime television series that inspired the movie. In the series’s first film, Denji (Kikunosuke Toya), a Devil Hunter for Public Safety, finds himself in an all-out war between allies, devils, and the unknown, all of which has been kick-started by the appearance of a mysterious girl named Reze, whom he meets at a coffee shop.
Streaming: In second this week on Netflix’s Global Top 10 English Movies List (Monday, September 15, 2025, to Sunday, September 21, 2025) is KPop Demon Hunters. This is the film’s 14th week straight in the top 10, and it shows no signs of stopping, earning a whopping 21.2 million views and 35.4 million hours of viewing time across the week alone.
In 10th place is Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story, in its first week in the top 10, where it accrued 2.8 million views across 4 million hours viewed. The film initially premiered on Lifetime on Saturday, January 11, 2025, and arrived on Netflix on Monday, September 15, 2025. Based on a true story, the film follows Marcela Borges, a pregnant woman who, alongside her husband and young child, finds their lives at risk when a violent intruder breaks into their home, demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In second place on the Global Top 10 Non-English Movies is the Indian-Hindi language film Saiyaara, which was released via Netflix on Friday, September 12, 2025, following its theatrical release on Friday, July 18, 2025, in India. The film accrued 4.8 million views and 11.9 million hours of viewing time. It follows a young couple’s trials and tribulations as they do everything they can to keep their relationship alive. The film currently holds a 67% critic score and a significantly higher 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Fourth on the list is Anaconda: Cursed Jungle (also known simply as Anaconda), which slithered onto Netflix after its initial release in China on Friday, March 1, 2024. This is the film’s first week in the top 10, earning 2.6 million views over 3.7 million hours of viewing time. A Chinese remake of the 1997 American film of the same name, Anaconda follows the members of a circus company, whose new boss leads them to Thailand. Soon after they arrive in the tropical rainforest, things go awry when an anaconda strikes.