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Geek Culture
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Culture
‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle' Took Just 25 Days To Become Japan's 6th Highest Grossing Film Ever
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle continues its meteoric rise at the Japanese box office, earning 4.44 billion yen (US$30.11 million) over the past week to secure the position of the country's sixth highest-grossing film of all time. The latest instalment in the hit anime franchise also premiered in Taiwan over the weekend, its first international stop, where it topped charts and shattered records. This comes after smashing several box office milestones since its debut in Japan, including earning an all-time high for opening numbers and becoming the fastest movie to gross 10 billion yen domestically. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle As of 11 August, Infinity Castle has amassed 22.07 billion yen (US$149.17 million) in just 25 days, selling 15.69 million tickets, according to the series' official accounts. It overtook ONE PIECE FILM: RED for the sixth spot and now trails Your Name by just over 3 billion yen. It is also the fourth-highest-grossing anime film ever released in Japan, and continues to hold the No.1 spot for the fourth consecutive week. Taiwan's 8 August debut, reported by The Liberty Times as the first outside Japan, earned NT$46.9 million (US$1.56 million) on opening day, the seventh-largest opening across all films in the country's history. Distributor Muse announced on Instagram that the film has since grossed over NT$170 million (US$5.67 million), surpassing Mugen Train's NT$117 million to achieve the highest-grossing opening weekend for an animated film in Taiwan. Directed by Haruo Sotozaki at anime studio Ufotable, with Akira Matsushima as chief animation director and character designer, and music by Yuki Kajiura and Go Shiina, Infinity Castle opened in Japan on 18 July. The film will arrive in U.S. and Canadian theatres on 12 September. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Crunchyroll, which streams the TV anime, Mugen Train , and the Hashira Training Arc in sub and dub formats, describes Infinity Castle as follows: 'Tanjiro Kamado – a boy who joined an organisation dedicated to hunting down demons called the Demon Slayer Corps after his younger sister Nezuko, was turned into a demon. While growing stronger and deepening his friendships and bonds with fellow corps members, Tanjiro has battled many demons with his comrades – Zenitsu Agatsuma and Inosuke Hashibira… The destination of where Tanjiro and the Demon Slayer Corps have fallen is the demons' stronghold – the Infinity Castle. And so, the battleground is set as the final battle between the Demon Slayer Corps and the demons ignites.' With record-breaking momentum in both Japan and Taiwan, Infinity Castle is poised to make an even greater impact as it expands worldwide, with news of a star-studded vocal cast for its English dub, as Channing Tatum ( Deadpool & Wolverine ) and Rebecca Wang ( Blue Eye Samurai ) are added to its ranks. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle storms into Singapore theatres on 14 August 2025. Conversation with Ting Wei is like chatting with a weird AI bot programmed only with One Piece lore and theories, sitcom quotes and other miscellaneous pop culture references. When he's not sleeping, he's highly likely reading manga. In fact, the only thing he reads more than manga is the Bible, and it's honestly pretty close.
Times of Oman
05-08-2025
- Sport
- Times of Oman
Records tumble as Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy ends in historic 2-2 draw
London: The 2025 Test series between India and England will go down in the history books as one of the most riveting and record-breaking five-match contests ever played. Ending in a 2-2 draw, the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy had everything, drama, resilience, high-quality performances, and above all, a flurry of statistical milestones that underlined just how extraordinary the cricket was over the past few weeks, as per Wisden. India's series-levelling win at The Oval was more than just a hard-fought result, it was historic. The six-run victory became India's narrowest win in Test cricket in terms of runs, surpassing their 13-run triumph over Australia in Mumbai in 2004-05 season. The Oval Test also marked the first time India managed to win either the fifth or sixth Test of a series away from home. It had taken them 17 attempts to get there. Their only other experience of playing a sixth Test overseas was back in 1982-83, at Karachi, and even that had ended in a draw. The match was defined by the brilliance of Mohammed Siraj, who picked up the final wicket of the game and was the leading wicket taker of the series with 23 wickets, the joint-most by an Indian bowler in a Test series in England, a record he now shares with Jasprit Bumrah, who achieved the same across the 2021 and 2022 legs. Siraj's match figures of 9/190 at The Oval were the best ever by an Indian at the venue, eclipsing the legendary Bhagwat Chandrasekhar's 8/114 from the famous 1971 victory. Those figures are now also the fifth-best match figures by any Indian in England. Prasidh Krishna is at the tenth spot with 8/188. Among visiting bowlers, no one has managed such figures at The Oval since Shane Warne's 12/246 back in 2005 and when it comes to visiting fast bowlers, Siraj became the first since Pakistan's Wasim Akram, who had taken 9/103 in 1992, to pick up nine wickets in a Test at the venue. Siraj's 46 wickets in England are the third-most for an Indian, after Bumrah and Ishant Sharma, as both of them have 51. In fact, Siraj wasn't alone in making history in this Test. Gus Atkinson, Josh Tongue, and Prasidh Krishna also made their mark with eight wickets apiece. Together with Siraj, their efforts created a unique moment, the first time in history that four bowlers took eight or more wickets in a single Test at The Oval. India's pace attack was relentless and clinical. Siraj, along with Prasidh and Akash Deep, shared all ten English wickets in the fourth innings, only the fifth instance in Indian Test history where fast bowlers took all the wickets in the final innings. The Indian trio bowled 463 deliveries in that innings, which stands as the fourth-highest number of balls delivered by Indian pacers in the fourth innings of a Test. It is also the second-most when only three bowlers were used. The only time Indian pacers delivered more in such a scenario was in 2002 at Port of Spain, when Javagal Srinath, Ashish Nehra, and Zaheer Khan combined for 505 deliveries. Young wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel quietly extended his own unique streak. Having started his Test career with four straight wins, Jurel added a fifth, continuing his perfect record. He now holds the Indian record for the longest unbeaten start to a Test career, although the global mark still belongs to West Indies' Eldine Baptiste, who won all 10 of the Tests he played in. For England, Joe Root made his 39th Test hundred in the final innings. That innings took him past Kumar Sangakkara's tally of 38 centuries, leaving only Sachin Tendulkar (51), Jacques Kallis (45), and Ricky Ponting (41) ahead of him in the all-time list. Root combined with Harry Brook for a 195-run partnership, which is now the second-highest fourth-innings partnership ever in a losing cause, just behind KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant's 204-run stand at The Oval in 2018. Their double-hundred stand couldn't save England, and despite a strong position at 332/4, they suffered a collapse that saw them fall just short. Root and Brook set the seventh instance of two batters scoring hundreds in the final innings of a Test but their tea(England against Australia at Sydney in 1924-25, India against England at Old Trafford in 1959) did another batter score a fifty in the same innings, as Ben Duckett did here. This was only the third time in Test history that a team lost after scoring over 300 runs for the loss of just three wickets in the fourth innings. The previous two such instances were Australia's collapse from 305/3 to 310 all out against Pakistan in 1978-79, and the West Indies' fall from 303/3 to 387 all out against Australia in 2007-08 while chasing 475. England's collapse from 332/4 to defeat places them second on the list of the highest four-wicket down totals in a failed chase, the only one ahead of them was their own 346/4 turned 417 all out at Melbourne in 1976-77. At the heart of India's batting effort was Shubman Gill, who had a golden series with the bat. He went past the legendary Garry Sobers' tally of 722 runs to set a new record for the most runs by a touring captain in a Test series. Gill's 754 runs is now also the second-highest by a captain in any series, behind only Don Bradman's astonishing 810 runs in the home Ashes of 1936-37. For India, only Sunil Gavaskar has ever scored more runs in a single series, with his 774 in the West Indies in 1970-71 still sitting at the top. Ravindra Jadeja too continued his love affair with English conditions. His aggregate of 1,158 runs in England now puts him third among Indians, trailing only Sachin Tendulkar (1,575) and Rahul Dravid (1,376). Jadeja's ten scores of fifty or more are the joint second-most for India in England, again behind Tendulkar's 12. Remarkably, among touring cricketers in any country, only Garry Sobers, with 1,820 runs and 62 wickets, has more runs and wickets than Jadeja's 1,158 and 34 in England. The 2025 England-India Test series wasn't just about individual brilliance, the series itself broke multiple records for volume of runs and centuries. A total of 7,187 runs were scored across the five matches, setting a new record for the most runs in any Test series of five or fewer matches, surpassing the 6,826 runs scored in the 1928-29 Ashes. The only series in Test history to produce more runs was the six-Test Ashes of 1993 in England, which saw 7,221 runs. There were 21 hundreds scored during the series, matching the all-time record set in the West Indies-Australia series of 1955. The series also equalled the record for most fifty-plus scores in a series, with 50 such scores, tying with the 1993 Ashes.
Khaleej Times
29-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Khaleej Times
Beyonce's 'Cowboy Carter' becomes highest-grossing country tour ever
Beyonce's Cowboy Carter tour is now the highest-grossing country tour of all time with over $400 million (Dh1.47 billion) in revenue, Live Nation said in a statement, citing a Billboard story. The Cuff It singer has also become the highest-grossing Black artist of all time and the highest-grossing RB artist of all time, Live Nation added. Additionally, the 43-year-old performer has made history as the first woman and American act to have two different tours earn over $400 million. In late April, the singer launched the Cowboy Carter tour in Los Angeles, rolling through Texas Hold 'Em and other country hits while sharing the stage with her two daughters. Last Saturday, Beyonce finished the record-breaking tour in Las Vegas with special appearances from her husband, rapper Jay-Z, her former RB girl group, Destiny's Child, and country singer Shaboozey. Throughout her tour, the 16 Carriages vocalist has paid homage to Black American contributions to country music, specifically honouring Black performers, some of whom are featured in the Cowboy Carter album. Beyonce has spoken candidly about not feeling welcomed in the country genre despite her Texas roots, after she became the first Black woman to win Best Country Album at the 2025 Grammy Awards. Her performance at the Country Music Association Awards in 2016 received notable backlash, including racist comments across social media from those saying her songs were not real country music. There were 32 sold-out stadium shows across North America, the UK, and Europe that grossed over $400 million, according to Live Nation. By contrast, pop singer Taylor Swift earned over $2 billion for her Eras tour that spanned from March 2023 to December 2024, becoming the highest-grossing tour ever.
Yahoo
14-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
'Greatest in history': Starc stuns with feat never seen before in 148 years
Mitchell Starc has taken the fastest five-wicket haul in 148 years of Test cricket history, decimating the West Indies in a stunning spell in Jamaica. Australia were bowled out for 121 early on day three of the day-night Test, setting the Windies 204 for victory. But Starc put any thought of a West Indies victory to bed in the very first over. The superstar paceman dismissed John Campbell on the first delivery of the innings, and also sent Kevlon Anderson and Brandon King packing in a triple-wicket maiden first over. The hosts were 3-0 after the first six deliveries, and it only got worse. They were reduced to 5-7 when Starc got Shai Hope (2) and Mikyle Louis (4) in his third over, completing a five-wicket haul in just 2.3 overs (15 balls). It marked the fewest deliveries to complete a five-wicket haul in Test cricket history, breaking the previous record of 19 balls. Ernie Toshack achieved the feat in 19 balls in 1947, as did Stuart Broad in 2015 and Scott Boland in 2021 on debut at the MCG. Starc's fourth wicket of the innings took him to 400 for his career, and it came in his 100th match. Aussie great Brad Haddin described it as "ridiculous" bowling in commentary for ESPN, while Greg Blewett said it was the best he'd ever seen Starc bowl. Social media was also abuzz, with cricket writer Bharat Sundaresan commenting at the ground: "We've seen the Mitch Starc takes a wicket in his first over movie dozens of times over 100 Tests now but that was probably the most dramatic and incredible version of it. Three wickets and each one of them a Starc classic." When Josh Hazlewood got Roston Chase for a duck, the Windies were 6-11 in disastrous scenes. Starc has joined Shane Warne (708), Glenn McGrath (563) and Nathan Lyon (562) as the only Australians in Test cricket history with 400-plus wickets. Starc became the 18th player from all countries to achieve the staggering feat, and just the third left-armer. With 100 Tests and 400 wickets in the bag, Mitchell Starc went on to set a new record ⚡#WIvAUS — ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) July 14, 2025 Mitchell Starc has just produced the greatest opening spell in Test history.🐐 — Rafi (@rafi4999) July 14, 2025 Mitchell Starc is living proof that a bowler's legacy isn't defined by stats. Even those with better averages couldn't pull off what he does — ` (@chixxsays) July 14, 2025 Earlier, Australia had slumped to their lowest total against the West Indies since Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose were wreaking havoc in 1995. But even after being skittled for 121, you had the sense the 204-run target would be out of reach for the Windies. It was Alzarri and Shamar Joseph who did the damage with the ball for the hosts, with the former claiming 5-27 after dominating under lights on day two. It then took just eight overs for the West Indies' quicks to take the final four wickets on Monday afternoon (Tuesday Aussie time), with Shamar Joseph finishing with 4-34. RELATED: Pat Cummins makes call on Sam Konstas after struggles continue Marnus Labuschagne spotted in strange moment amid Aussie win Alex Carey was unable to keep wicket for Australia in the fourth innings after he was diagnosed with a concussion after being struck in the head by Alzarri Joseph on day two. Carey passed an on-field tests after the initial blow, but was dismissed two balls later when he charged the West Indies quick and edged him to slip. Josh Inglis came in as Carey's substitute, and took two early catches on day three. Carey was spotted at the ground in Jamaica on Monday, and appeared to be in good spirits. with AAP
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
What a night as Luke Littler heads to Premier League Play-Offs in top form
RECORD-BREAKING Luke 'The Luke' Littler will go into the Premier League Play-Offs at the O2 Arena in London next week in top gear. This is after storming to a record-extending sixth nightly victory of the 2025 BetMGM Premier League season in Sheffield last night. Warrington's 18-year-old world champion overcame Stephen Bunting, Nathan Aspinall and Luke Humphries to finish top of the table with a new Premier League record 45 points. Luke Littler shakes hands with Luke Humphries after the final at the Utilita Arena in Sheffield (Image: Nigel French/PA Wire) 'I'm very happy to finish top of the table and break more records once again,' reflected Littler, who landed seven ton-plus checkouts across the evening. 'The finishing wasn't too bad tonight, so hopefully I can continue that at The O2 next week.' Littler kicked off the evening's action with a mesmerising display against Bunting, averaging 114.37, pinning all six of his attempts at double and achieved checkouts of 101, 107 and 127 to complete a thumping 6-1 victory. LITTLER OFF TO A FLYER! Luke Littler lands back-to-back ton-plus finishes to race into a commanding early lead against Stephen Bunting! 📺 #PLDarts25 | QF1 — PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) May 22, 2025 THE NUKE WINS IT IN STYLE! ☢️ Luke Littler wraps up a 6-1 win over Stephen Bunting with a 127 checkout! That win sees Littler break the record for points in a PL season! 📺 #PLDarts25 | QF1 — PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) May 22, 2025 He then maintained his remarkable winning streak against Aspinall in the last four, before running out a 6-3 winner against world number one Humphries to triumph in South Yorkshire. The stare down from Aspinall 👀 It's fair to say Nathan Aspinall was left bemused by Luke Littler's latest ton-plus checkout! 🤣 📺 #PLDarts | SF1 — PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) May 22, 2025 In the final, Littler converted sensational 155 and 170 checkouts in successive legs to lead 5-2, before thwarting any prospect of a Humphries fightback to pocket the £10,000 nightly bonus and add Sheffield to Birmingham, Newcastle, Cardiff, Brighton and Glasgow on his list of winning Premier League venues in 2025. "That one was in!" 🤣 A bizarre moment as Luke Humphries busts 120, before taking it out again in the following visit! 📺 #PLDarts | Final — PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) May 22, 2025 "LUKE LITTLER, YOU ARE A STAR!" 🌟 Luke Littler lands a 155 - his SEVENTH ton-plus checkout of the night! 📺 #PLDarts | Final — PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) May 22, 2025 LITTLER REELS IN THE BIG FISH! 🎣 Luke Littler takes the roof off the Utilita Arena with a 170 checkout! 📺 #PLDarts | Final — PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) May 22, 2025 SIX OF THE BEST FOR LITTLER! ☢️ Luke Littler caps off a record-breaking campaign with his sixth nightly win of the season! The World Champ defeats Luke Humphries 6-3 to claim the Night 16 spoils in Sheffield! 📺 #PLDarts | Final — PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) May 22, 2025 Gerwyn Price gave up leads of 4-0 and 5-1 to lose his quarter-final contest 6-5 against Chris Dobey, leaving him fourth in the table which means the Welshman will square up to Littler in the first semi-final at the O2. Earlier in the night, Aspinall confirmed his place at The O2 with a 6-2 win in his decisive quarter-final showdown against seven-time champion Michael van Gerwen. Aspinall finished third on the ladder and will face Humphries in next week's second semi-final. More: I went to watch Luke Littler at the darts and this is what it was like Results: Quarter-finals Luke Littler 6-1 Stephen Bunting Nathan Aspinall 6-2 Michael van Gerwen Luke Humphries 6-4 Rob Cross Chris Dobey 6-5 Gerwyn Price Semi-finals Luke Littler 6-4 Nathan Aspinall Luke Humphries 6-2 Chris Dobey Final Luke Littler 6-3 Luke Humphries
