The ‘Chainsaw Man’ movie eats up Bruce Springsteen at the box office and confirms the anime as life insurance for Sony

Someone at Sony may continue to tear their hair out – and rightly so – for having let ‘The K-Pop Warriors’ slip away after selling the distribution rights to Netflix for what has been, without a doubt, one of the biggest hits of the film season. But of course, not everything is going to be misfortune, and it is to be hoped that the company will be celebrating after checking once again the overwhelming force and ability to mobilize the fandom that anime has.

The hegemony of anime

Of course, the purchase of Crunchyroll and Fumination and their strong commitment to Japanese animation is turning out to be the most profitable, because ‘Chainsaw Man – The Movie: The Arc of Reze’ has started its journey in American movie theaters with great authority, debuting on Friday with 8.5 million dollars that are estimated to grow until a range located between 15 and 17 million once the weekend is over.

The new romantic drama by Josh Boone, who already left our hearts warm with his charming ‘A Summer at the Beach’, has attracted 83% of female audiences to the theaters, projecting an estimated final collection of 13 million of dollars that ‘Black Phone 2’ has not been able to surpass, whose dreamlike terrors would end on Sunday with about 12 million in the pocket – things are tight, so there could be a dance of last-minute figures.

For its part, ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’, the other powerful release of the week, has relatively failed after obtaining a Cinemascore of B- and staying in fourth position with an estimate of between 9 and 10 million dollars once the weekend ends. After all, having Jeremy Allen White does not seem synonymous with success when we talk about the umpteenth musical biopic.

Beyond the data with the most viewed in the United States, if there is something to rescue from the dance of figures it is the following fact: The ‘Chainsaw Man’ feature film is the ninth anime to exceed 10 million in its premiere in the country of stars and stripes, and joins other Sony hits such as ‘Night Watch: Infinity Train’ – which opened with 21.2 million in the US and surpassed 500 million worldwide – or ‘Jujutsu Kaisen 0’ – with 18 million in its debut in the US and almost 200 worldwide.

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