2025 At The Box Office (1 Viewer)

[Tino]

Here we are again. 2025. Another year of potential blockbusters and bombs.

Which films will bust out and which will fizzle.

Here’s a tentative list of films scheduled for release in 2025.

JANUARY 2025

January 3 (Friday)​

The Damned (Theaters)
Se7en (IMAX Re-Release)
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)

January 10 (Friday)​

Better Man (Expands)
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Hard Truths (Expands)
Birdeater (Theaters)
Diane Warren: Relentless (Theaters)
Every Little Thing (Theaters)
Timestalker (Theaters)

January 16 (Thursday)​

Unstoppable (Prime Video)

January 17 (Friday)​

One of Them Days
September 5 (Expands)
Wolf Man
Back in Action (Netflix)
Grand Theft Hamlet (Theaters)
I'm Still Here (Theaters)
Night Call (Theaters)
Presence (Theaters)
Sing Sing (Re-Release)
Wish You Were Here (Theaters)

January 23 (Thursday)​

Sundance Film Festival (until February 2)

January 24 (Friday)​

The Colors Within (Expands)
Flight Risk
Inheritance (Theaters)
Grafted (Shudder)

January 30 (Thursday)​

You're Cordially Invited (Prime Video)

January 31 (Friday)​

Companion (+ IMAX)
Dog Man
Love Me (Theaters)
Valiant One (Theaters)

FEBRUARY 2025

February 7 (Friday)​

Heart Eyes
Love Hurts
Armand (Theaters)
Becoming Led Zeppelin (IMAX Only)
Bring Them Down (Theaters)
No Other Land (Theaters)
Parthenope (Theaters)

February 13 (Thursday)​

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Peacock)

February 14 (Friday)​

Captain America: Brave New World
Paddington in Peru
Universal Language (Theaters)

February 21 (Friday)​

Cleaner
The Monkey
The Unbreakable Boy
Old Guy (Theaters + VOD)
The Quiet Ones (Theaters)

February 28 (Friday)​

The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Last Breath
The Legend of Ochi
My Dead Friend Zoe
The Gorge (Apple TV+)
In the Lost Lands (Theaters)

MARCH 2025

March 7 (Friday)​

Mickey 17 (+ IMAX)
Night of the Zoopocalypse
Eephus (Theaters)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Theaters)
The Rule of Jenny Pen (Theaters)

March 14 (Friday)​

Black Bag
The Electric State (Netflix)
Novocaine
Opus

March 21 (Friday)​

The Alto Knights
Ash
Disney's Snow White
The Friend (Theaters)
Magazine Dreams (Theaters)

March 28 (Friday)​

The Woman in the Yard
A Working Man

APRIL 2025

April 4 (Friday)​

A Minecraft Movie

April 11 (Friday)​

The Amateur
Drop

April 18 (Friday)​

The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection
The Ritual
Sinners (+ IMAX)
Sneaks
Starbright
The Wedding Banquet (Theaters)

April 25 (Friday)​

The Accountant 2
Until Dawn


Summer 2025

MAY 2025

May 2 (Friday)​

Thunderbolts* (+ IMAX)

May 9 (Friday)​

Atlantis
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Clown in a Cornfield (Theaters)

May 13 (Tuesday)​

Cannes Film Festival (until May 24)

May 16 (Friday)​

Final Destination: Bloodlines (+ IMAX)

May 23 (Friday)​

Lilo & Stitch [Live-Action]
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (+ IMAX)

May 30 (Friday)​

Karate Kid: Legends
The Life of Chuck

JUNE 2025

June 6 (Friday)​

Dirty Dancing 2
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina

June 13 (Friday)​

Pixar's Elio
How to Train Your Dragon [Live-Action] (+ IMAX)

June 20 (Friday)​

28 Years Later

June 27 (Friday)​

F1 Movie
M3GAN 2.0

JULY 2025

July 2 (Wednesday)​

Jurassic World Rebirth (+ IMAX)

July 4 (Friday)​

Matt Stone & Trey Parker Musical

July 11 (Friday)​

Superman (+ IMAX)

July 18 (Friday)​

I Know What You Did Last Summer
The Smurfs Musical

July 25 (Friday)​

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

AUGUST 2025

August 1 (Friday)​

The Bad Guys 2
Beneath the Storm
The Naked Gun

August 8 (Friday)​

The Battle of Baktan Cross (+ IMAX)
Freakier Friday

August 15 (Friday)​

Mercy
Nobody 2

August 29 (Friday)​

Thread: An Insidious Tale

SEPTEMBER 2025

September 5 (Friday)​

The Conjuring: Last Rites

September 12 (Friday)​

Downton Abbey 3

September 19 (Friday)​

Him

September 26 (Friday)​

The Bride
Saw XI

OCTOBER 2025

October 3 (Friday)​

Michael
Roofman

October 10 (Friday)​

Animal Friends
Tron: Ares

October 17 (Friday)​

The Black Phone 2
Good Fortune

October 24 (Friday)​

Mortal Kombat 2
Regretting You

NOVEMBER 2025

November 7 (Friday)​

Bugonia
Predator: Badlands
The Running Man

November 14 (Friday)​

Now You See Me 3

November 21 (Friday)​

Wicked: For Good

November 26 (Wednesday – Thanksgiving)​

Zootopia 2

DECEMBER 2025

December 5 (Friday)​

Five Nights at Freddy's 2

December 19 (Friday)​

Avatar: Fire and Ash
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

December 25 (Thursday – Christmas Day)​

The Anaconda
The Housemaid
Marty Supreme
Sarah's Oil

 

[Jake Lipson]

Not about 2025 specifically, but Jeopardy had some fun box office clues last week.

 

[Malcolm R]

Actual number for FDB came in slightly higher at $51.6 million.

 

[Tino]

An interesting analysis of Mission Impossible and franchise films and their revenue steams.

There’s a lot of questions whether this opening (and we haven’t seen the full spectrum of foreign yet) is substantial for a production which cost $300M-$400M. Here’s the thing: For Hollywood studios, the value of franchise properties increases with each subsequent installment and across multiple revenue streams. Where new entries have one waterfall, franchise films benefit from an entire library. Paramount celebrated the Mission: Impossible franchise across Home Entertainment digital platforms and Paramount+, driving a substantial uptick in views of the previous films on Paramount+ and transactions via Digital Retail partners. I’ve heard that the original 1996 movie alone generates $10M a year from all types of media for the Melrose lot. Hence, that $300M+ movie is a lifelong investment that should pay off heads and tails in TV airings and streamings of Final Reckoning. Also remember, Paramount is only on the hook for 50% of the production cost. We’ll keep assessing this as business for the film moves along. Unlike, Dead Reckoning, as we already told you, Final Reckoning has three weeks of Imax.

 

[Tino]

Deadline Estimates.

1.) Lilo & Stitch (Dis) 4,410 theaters, Fri $55M, 3-day $142M-$144M, 4-day $175M-$180M/Wk 1

2.) Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning (Par) 3,857 theaters, Fri $24.8M, 3-day $77M/Wk 1

3.) Final Destination: Bloodlines (NL) 3,523 theaters, Fri $5.5M (-74%), 3-day $19M (-63%), 4-day $24M, Total $94.1M/Wk 2

4.) Thunderbolts* (Dis) 3,180 (-780) theaters, Fri $2.4M (-42%), 3-day $9M (-46%) 4-day $11.5M, Total $173.7M/Wk 4

5.) Sinners (WB) 2,632 (-886) theaters, Fri $2.4M (-45%) 3-day $8.7M (-43%) 4-day $11M Total $258.8M/Wk 6

6.) The Last Rodeo (Angel) 2,205 theatres, Fri $2M 3-day $5M, 4-day $6.4M/Wk 1
A CinemaScore for this Jon Avnet directed title starring Neal McDonough. Blurb: “To save his grandson, a retired rodeo star enters a high-stakes bull-riding competition. Along the way, he confronts his past, discovers faith, and proves that true courage lies in family.” Faith based leaning with 60% women, 43% over 55. Pic is playing the Bible belt with the ICON Cinema Edmond in Oklahoma the title’s best gross in the nation with just under $10k.

7. Friendship (A24) 1055 (+995) theaters Fri $1.75M (+173%) 3-day $4M 4-day $5M Total $7.6M/Wk 3

8. Minecraft (WB) 2087 (-1270) theaters, Fri $550K (-59%), 3-day $2M (-66%) 4-day $2.6M Total $421.2M/ Wk 8

9. The Accountant 2 (AMZ) 2002 (-1227) theaters, Fri $486K (-61%), 3-day $1.85M (-61%) 4-day $2.39M Total $63.2M/Wk 5

10. Hurry Up Tomorrow (LG) 1,508 (-512) theaters, Fri $230K (-90%) 3-day $790K (-76%) 4-day $1M Total $5.1M/Wk 2

 

[Wayne_j]

The $77 million for Mission Impossible is for the 4 day. The 3 day is $63 million.

 

[Tino]

The $77 million for Mission Impossible is for the 4 day. The 3 day is $63 million.

Correct.

 

[Tino]

Sunday Numbers

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%YD	%LW	Theaters	Per Theater	Total Gross	Days In Release
1	(1)	Lilo & Stitch	Walt Disney	$43,000,000	-9%		4,410	$9,751	$145,500,000	3
2	(2)	Mission: Impossible—The F…	Paramount Pi…	$18,000,000	-11%		3,857	$4,667	$63,000,000	3
3	(3)	Final Destination: Bloodl…	Warner Bros.	$6,910,000	-5%	-45%	3,523	$1,961	$89,782,000	10
4	(4)	Thunderbolts*	Walt Disney	$3,364,000	-1%	-33%	3,180	$1,058	$171,371,728	24
5	(5)	Sinners	Warner Bros.	$3,100,000	-5%	-29%	2,632	$1,178	$256,551,000	38
6	(6)	The Last Rodeo	Angel Studios	$1,433,715	-18%		2,205	$650	$5,266,330	3
7	(7)	Friendship	A24	$1,396,339	-3%	+328%	1,055	$1,324	$6,634,820	17
8	(8)	A Minecraft Movie	Warner Bros.	$800,000	-9%	-56%	2,087	$383	$420,843,000	52
9	(9)	The Accountant 2	Amazon MGM S…	$723,000	-5%	-49%	2,002	$361	$62,871,750	31
10	(10)	Hurry Up Tomorrow	Lionsgate	$245,000	-8%	-39%	1,508	$162	$4,813,964	10
-	(-)	Disney’s Snow White	Walt Disney	$86,000	n/c	+115%	50	$1,720	$87,165,762	66
-	(11)	Jane Austen Wrecked My Life	Sony Picture…	$81,000	-9%		61	$1,328	$269,000	3
-	(-)	The Amateur	20th Century…	$52,000	-5%	-75%	265	$196	$40,615,208	45
-	(-)	Shadow Force	Lionsgate	$9,000	-10%	-95%	2,114	$4	$3,917,613	17

 

[Malcolm R]

Anyone know what's up with Snow White this weekend? Could just be an error, I suppose, but The Numbers has it dropping over 66% of its screens, but also making a boost of 137% over the 3-day weekend. On a per-screen basis ranking, that would make it #4 for the weekend behind Final Destination: Bloodlines. Seems odd.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Anyone know what's up with Snow White this weekend?

I don't know, but I have a theory. Disney could have paired it with Lilo & Stitch as a double feature in some locations. I've heard of drive-ins doing this with movies from time to time, although I've never actually been to a drive-in so can't confirm with personal experience. But in situations like that, the studio splits the cost of tickets between the grosses of the two movies. So if places are showing a double feature of Lilo & Stitch and Snow White, then Snow White would get a boost in its grosses from that even if the buyers only stayed for Lilo & Stitch. I've heard of this happening every once in a while. This would certainly be a way for Disney to boost the Snow White number a bit artificially. But of course it's still a huge bomb regardless.

It is worth noting that if the Monday estimates are correct, Lio & Stitch will have made more in its opening weekend than Thunderbolts has in its entire run so far. I'm not at all surprised that Lilo is going to come out on top between the two. But the speed with which it has been able to do that really speaks to Thunderbolts not really being able to catch on significantly after its opening. That's too bad -- I think Thunderbolts is easily Marvel's best movie to release after Wakanda Forever. But even though Thunderbolts is actually good, people seem to care less than they used to because so many of Marvel's recent projects have been well below their previous quality standard. It is a cumulative effect of making bad movies that is now burning one that is actually good.

Also: the original Lilo & Stitch opened second behind Minority Report back in 2002. Now, the chart position has changed and Tom Cruise is in second.

 

[Tino]

3 day

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	Lilo & Stitch	Walt Disney	$145,500,000		4,410		$32,993	$145,500,000	1
2	N	Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning	Paramount Pi…	$64,000,000		3,857		$16,593	$64,000,000	1
3	(1)	Final Destination: Bloodlines	Warner Bros.	$24,000,000	-53%	3,523	n/c	$6,812	$94,132,000	2
4	(3)	Sinners	Warner Bros.	$11,000,000	-28%	2,632	-886	$4,179	$258,801,000	6
5	(2)	Thunderbolts*	Walt Disney	$9,100,000	-45%	3,180	-780	$2,862	$171,307,728	4
6	N	The Last Rodeo	Angel Studios	$5,266,330		2,205		$2,388	$5,266,330	1
7	(7)	Friendship	A24	$4,591,384	+228%	1,055	+995	$4,352	$6,634,820	3
8	(4)	A Minecraft Movie	Warner Bros.	$2,800,000	-53%	2,087	-1,270	$1,342	$421,433,000	8
9	(5)	The Accountant 2	Amazon MGM S…	$1,970,000	-59%	2,002	-1,227	$984	$62,871,750	5
10	(6)	Hurry Up Tomorrow	Lionsgate	$715,000	-78%	1,508	-512	$474	$4,788,964	2
11	N	Jane Austen Wrecked My Life	Sony Picture…	$259,000		61		$4,246	$259,000	1
12	(-)	Disney’s Snow White	Walt Disney	$246,000	+131%	50	-130	$4,920	$87,159,762	10
13	(-)	The Amateur	20th Century…	$139,000	-81%	265	-585	$525	$40,612,208	7
14	(-)	Caught by the Tides	Janus Films	$35,250	-27%	29	+13	$1,216	$158,100	3
15	(-)	Shadow Force	Lionsgate	$26,000	-96%	2,114	-56	$12	$3,916,613	3
16	(-)	Pavements	Utopia	$16,000	-20%	5	+1	$3,200	$99,032	4
-	(-)	Holy Cow	Zeitgeist	$5,766	-12%	10	-1	$577	$90,274	9
-	(-)	L’Attachement	Mongrel Media	$3,476	-70%	5	-6	$695	$66,172	5
-	(-)	Northern Lights	Kino Lorber	$3,305		1		$3,305	$15,025	2,428
-	(-)	The Penguin Lessons	Sony Picture…	$3,143	-94%	9	-129	$349	$3,238,793	9
-	(-)	Every Little Thing	Kino Lorber	$2,594	-34%	3	n/c	$865	$177,725	20
-	(-)	Killer of Sheep	Kino Lorber	$2,405	+14%	5	+1	$481	$68,489	2,396
-	(-)	The Friend	Bleecker Street	$1,566	-92%	12	-35	$131	$3,942,783	9
-	(-)	The Annihilation of Fish	Kino Lorber	$768	-15%	2	n/c	$384	$61,794	1,230
-	(-)	Being Maria	Kino Lorber	$244	+47%	2	+1	$122	$20,024	10
		25		$269,687,231

 

[mskaye]

3 day

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	Lilo & Stitch	Walt Disney	$145,500,000		4,410		$32,993	$145,500,000	1
2	N	Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning	Paramount Pi…	$64,000,000		3,857		$16,593	$64,000,000	1
3	(1)	Final Destination: Bloodlines	Warner Bros.	$24,000,000	-53%	3,523	n/c	$6,812	$94,132,000	2
4	(3)	Sinners	Warner Bros.	$11,000,000	-28%	2,632	-886	$4,179	$258,801,000	6
5	(2)	Thunderbolts*	Walt Disney	$9,100,000	-45%	3,180	-780	$2,862	$171,307,728	4
6	N	The Last Rodeo	Angel Studios	$5,266,330		2,205		$2,388	$5,266,330	1
7	(7)	Friendship	A24	$4,591,384	+228%	1,055	+995	$4,352	$6,634,820	3
8	(4)	A Minecraft Movie	Warner Bros.	$2,800,000	-53%	2,087	-1,270	$1,342	$421,433,000	8
9	(5)	The Accountant 2	Amazon MGM S…	$1,970,000	-59%	2,002	-1,227	$984	$62,871,750	5
10	(6)	Hurry Up Tomorrow	Lionsgate	$715,000	-78%	1,508	-512	$474	$4,788,964	2
11	N	Jane Austen Wrecked My Life	Sony Picture…	$259,000		61		$4,246	$259,000	1
12	(-)	Disney’s Snow White	Walt Disney	$246,000	+131%	50	-130	$4,920	$87,159,762	10
13	(-)	The Amateur	20th Century…	$139,000	-81%	265	-585	$525	$40,612,208	7
14	(-)	Caught by the Tides	Janus Films	$35,250	-27%	29	+13	$1,216	$158,100	3
15	(-)	Shadow Force	Lionsgate	$26,000	-96%	2,114	-56	$12	$3,916,613	3
16	(-)	Pavements	Utopia	$16,000	-20%	5	+1	$3,200	$99,032	4
-	(-)	Holy Cow	Zeitgeist	$5,766	-12%	10	-1	$577	$90,274	9
-	(-)	L’Attachement	Mongrel Media	$3,476	-70%	5	-6	$695	$66,172	5
-	(-)	Northern Lights	Kino Lorber	$3,305		1		$3,305	$15,025	2,428
-	(-)	The Penguin Lessons	Sony Picture…	$3,143	-94%	9	-129	$349	$3,238,793	9
-	(-)	Every Little Thing	Kino Lorber	$2,594	-34%	3	n/c	$865	$177,725	20
-	(-)	Killer of Sheep	Kino Lorber	$2,405	+14%	5	+1	$481	$68,489	2,396
-	(-)	The Friend	Bleecker Street	$1,566	-92%	12	-35	$131	$3,942,783	9
-	(-)	The Annihilation of Fish	Kino Lorber	$768	-15%	2	n/c	$384	$61,794	1,230
-	(-)	Being Maria	Kino Lorber	$244	+47%	2	+1	$122	$20,024	10
		25		$269,687,231

The simple truth is that Mission was body slammed by LILO.

 

[Robert Crawford]

The simple truth is that Mission was body slammed by LILO.

I'm not so sure about that as I view Mission more of an adult movie than entertainment for children. Also, with an almost 3-hour runtime, no way kids will want to sit through it.

 

[Malcolm R]

Final Reckoning was the biggest opening weekend ever for the Mission: Impossible franchise, so it was well within expectations and really didn't have the potential to go much higher. Franchises don't usually broadly expand their audiences with the eighth entry. By that point the audience is usually well-established, and often shrinking. This was a great opening for MIFR.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I think it did very well all things considered. The audience can’t be held responsible for Paramount spending more on the last two entries than anything in the series’ history would justify.

On the other hand, one of the trades reported that Paramount makes over $10 million each year just on licensing deals and home media revenue on the first movie alone, and that each new film in the series causes the previous entries to make an above average dollar amount despite years in release. So I’m sure their thinking wasn’t just today’s box office but maintaining and adding to the value of the franchise as a whole.

 

[Jake Lipson]

The Final Reckoning made more than enough to have opened #1 with the same gross on an ordinary weekend. The fact that Lilo & Stitch opened on top of it does not make this a bad opening. I don't think Paramount could have reasonably expected much more from it than they got.

Lilo & Stitch and The Final Reckoning are a perfect example of counterprogramming that worked very well. They are two very different films targeting two (largely) different segments of the audience. Both of them connected with the audience their respective studio intended to reach.

 

[Tino]

Deadline

1. Lilo & Stitch (Dis) 4,410 theaters, Fri $17M (-70%) Sat $25.6M Sun $20.4M 3-day $63M(-57%), Total $280.1M/Wk 2

2. Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning (Par) 3,861 (+4) Fri $7.5M (-70%) Sat $11.7M Sun $8.2M 3-day $27.3M (-57%), Total $122.6M/Wk 2
Imax North American screens brought in $5.6M with a running cume just under $25M.

3. Karate Kid: Legends (Sony) 3,809 theaters, Fri $7.7M, Sat $7.3M Sun $6M 3-day $21M/Wk 1

4. Final Destination: Bloodlines (NL) 3,134 (-389) Fri $3.2M (-43%) Sat $4.4M Sun $3.1M 3-day $10.8M (-43%), Total $111.7M/Wk 3

5. Bring Her Back (A24) 2,449 theaters, Fri $3.1M Sat $2.2M Sun $1.67M 3-day $7.08M/Wk 1

6.) Sinners (WB) 2,138 (-494) theaters Fri $1.55M (-35%) Sat $2.1M Sun $1.5M 3-day $5.22M(-39%), Total $267M/Wk 7

7.) Thunderbolts (Dis) 2,520 (-660) theaters Fri $1.3M (-48%) Sat $2M Sun $1.5M 3-day $4.8M(-50%), Total $181.8M/Wk 5

8.) Friendship (A24) 1,293 (+238) theaters, Fri $780K (-56%) Sat $1M Sun $766K 3-day $2.5M(-44%), Total $12.3M/Wk 4












9.) Last Rodeo (Angel) 1995 (-210) theaters, Fri $642K Sat $876,5K Sun $620K 3-day $2.14M(-60%), Total $10.75M/Wk 2

‘J-Hope Tour: Hope on Stage’
10.) J-Hope Tour: Hope on Stage (TRAF) 631 theaters Sat $789K Sun $150K, 2-day $939K/Wk

 

[Wayne_j]

A good sign for The Karate Kid is that I don't think the budget would have been huge for it.

 

[Malcolm R]

A good sign for The Karate Kid is that I don't think the budget would have been huge for it.

I think I read it was around $45 million.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Box office money lists just don't do it for me. Most of what is on them are films I'll never see and films I enjoy really have a hard time getting on them. I still judge things by directors and which ones have a picture coming out this year. This is a good year for me because there is a P.T. Anderson film, a Wes Anderson film, a Coen film, an Aronofsky film, a Mission Impossible film, a del Toro film, etc.

So, if I get some films I am interested in, I'm happy. I don't much expect to see most of them on a box office money list, just the sad truth, but 2025 stacks up as a good year for me.

 

[Jake Lipson]

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