Box Office: ‘Chainsaw Man’ Is Latest Anime Win With $17 Million Debut, ‘Springsteen’ Underwhelms With $9 Million

Another win for anime.

Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc,” the latest offering from Sony’s Crunchyroll, was No. 1 at the box office with $17.2 million from 3,003 North American theaters. It’s the second consecutive success for Crunchyroll following September’s sleeper hit “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle,” which cemented a genre record with its $70 million debut.

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To a lesser degree, “Chainsaw Man” also eclipsed expectations while managing to outpace a movie about one of the biggest names in music (Disney and 20th Century’s musical biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere“), an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel

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