Anime rides again atop the domestic box office, as “Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc” looks to open ahead of fellow new releases, the Bruce Springsteen biopic “Deliver Me From Nowhere” and the Colleen Hoover adaptation “ Regretting You .”

The R-rated “Chainsaw Man” went brrr with $8.5 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,003 locations. The feature, which serves as a big-screen continuation of the manga adaptation’s first season, is headed to an opening bow of $15.5 million. It’s available in both subtitled and dubbed versions, and gets a boost from playing Imax and other premium large format auditoriums, which carry higher ticket prices.

It’s another win for Sony’s anime label Crunchyroll, which delivered its parent studio’s biggest opening of the year in September w

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