Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle - Akaza Sairai has earned a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Superhero Movie at the sixth annual ceremony, organisers announced Wednesday. The live-action adaptation of the horror game Exit 8 also earned a nomination in the same category, and actor Kazunari Ninomiya was nominated for Best Actor in a Superhero Movie. Winners will be announced August 6.

The Demon Slayer film is coming to Crunchyroll and digital platforms including Apple TV, Prime Video, Google Play, YouTube, and Fandango on July 28 worldwide outside Japan and Mainland China.

The film has been a global juggernaut since opening in Japan on July 18, 2025. It screened for 266 days in Japanese theaters, closing on April 9, and sold 27.5 million tickets domestically for 40.2 billion yen (about US$252.5 million). Globally, it has sold 98.5 million tickets and earned 117.9 billion yen (roughly US$740.5 million).

By mid-September, the film had become the second highest-earning film of all time at the Japanese box office, surpassing Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away. It premiered in North America on September 12 and returned to theaters there on March 6, with screenings on SCREENX multi-projection screens marking the anime's first time on that format in North America.

According to Box Office Mojo, Infinity Castle earned US$718.5 million worldwide in 2025, making it the seventh highest-grossing film globally that year. In the U.S., it ranked #2 among animated films with US$134.5 million, placing #18 overall domestically. Worldwide, it finished as the #3 animated film of 2025.

The live-action Exit 8 film, distributed in North America by NEON, opened in Japan in August 2025 and ranked #2 in its opening weekend with 672,000 tickets sold and 960.9 million yen (about US$6.46 million) earned in its first three days. NEON began North American screenings on April 10, with the film earning about US$1.4 million in its opening three days stateside.