The film and theater industry of countries that have contained the global coronavirus pandemic continues to show signs of recovery. For instance, in Japan, the anime film Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train continues its record-breaking performance.

Deadline reports that while final weekend numbers have not yet been released, Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train is expected to be either close to $100 million or even past it. The performance is exceptional as it is only the film’s second weekend in theaters.

Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train is also performing exceptionally well on IMAX screens in Japan, with $2.04 million of its expected weekend box office coming from 38 IMAX screens. This amount is six percent higher than Star Wars' debut weekend: The Rise of Skywalker and brings Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train’s total IMAX earnings to $5.6 million.

Comicbook reports that Weekly Shonen Jump, which is where the manga version of Demon Slayer is published, recently released a new trailer and poster for the movie on its Twitter account to celebrate the movie's success.

In the one minute and 30-second trailer, characters Rengoku and Akaza are shown engaging in a fierce battle that eventually leaves Rengoku apparently blinded in one eye. Other characters like Zenitsu, Inosuke, and Tanjiro are also shown engaging in battles of their own.

Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train second blockbuster week comes after an already record-breaking first week. On its first weekend, the film was able to make $44 million, dwarfing Frozen 2’s first weekend earnings of $18.2 million.

The movie was in such high demand that Shinjuku Toho Cinemas had scheduled 42 screenings of the movie on 11 screens on its first weekend. Meanwhile, 39 screenings were scheduled at the Shinjuku Wald 9 cinema. There were 36 screenings scheduled at the Nakagawa Korona Cinema World in Nagoya.

Loosened audience size restrictions also allowed the film to perform as well as it did. With the global coronavirus pandemic largely contained in Japan, the government allowed theaters to let in more audiences last September. Tokyo and Osaka theaters have been able to sell all of their seats over the past few weeks.

Whether other countries will be able to safely reopen theaters like Japan depends on the global coronavirus pandemic state. As of the Oct. 25 World Health Organization COVID-19 dashboard, there are now 42,512,186 confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide. There are now 1,147,301 people worldwide that have died from COVID-19.

In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention update for Oct. 25 puts the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases at 8,553,827 people. Deaths caused by COVID-19 are now at 224,221 people.