Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | September 22, 2025
We’re midway through September, and the year is disappearing like smoke through our fingers. It never stops being terrifying to experience the speedy passage of time. The Oscar movies are still a couple of weeks away, so this month has been a period of, if not abandoned critical failures, then at least those in need of a liminal space.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie - Infinity Castle, the latest movie from the record-breaking anime franchise, is still in the top spot despite a sharp 75% drop from its opening week. It’s now easily bypassed its own franchise predecessor to become the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time, with a $555 million intake. To put that in perspective, it now has a higher worldwide gross than The Fantastic Four: First Steps and is only about $43 million away from taking over Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.
Him, the (American) football-themed horror film, opened to pretty paltry reviews but still earned a $13.5 million opening weekend. That may be the power of good marketing — this thing had incredible advertising — or the presence of producer Jordan Peele’s name on every dang poster. Whatever the case, it’s a touchdown for Him. Is that how that works? I do not understand this sport.
News wasn’t so positive for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. Despite the presence of two massive stars, Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, bad reviews couldn’t help this one rise higher than number six on the box office chart. It brought in a meagre $3.5 million.
There was another football movie in theatres this past weekend, courtesy of Angel Studios. The Senior is a biopic of Mike Flynt, who became a college football player in his late 50s. Reviews seem to have been more positive than those of Him, but it didn’t feature Julia Fox, so it only grossed $2,773,021.
At number nine is Sight & Sound Presents: NOAH Live, which seems to be a pro-shoot of a stage show about Noah’s ark, with $1,386,408 from 933 locations.
Did you know that Apollo 13 just turned 30? See, time makes fools of us all. Anyhow, this one also got an anniversary re-release, which brought in $600,000 from 200 theatres. Not too shabby.
In limited release news: Predators, a documentary about the rise and fall of To Catch a Predator, grossed $7,250; and the Austrian comedy Peacock took in $5,220 from one location.
This coming week sees the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, the horror sequel The Strangers: Chapter 2, the children’s movie Gabby’s Dollhouse, and Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut Eleanor the Great.
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.
