2025 At The Box Office

[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

 

[Tino]

Chart Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	(1)	Lilo & Stitch	Walt Disney	$32,500,000	-47%	4,185	-225	$7,766	$335,796,345	3
2	N	From the World of John Wick: Ballerina	Lionsgate	$25,000,000		3,409		$7,334	$25,000,000	1
3	(2)	Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning	Paramount Pi…	$15,000,047	-45%	3,496	-365	$4,291	$149,217,047	3
4	(3)	Karate Kid: Legends	Sony Pictures	$8,700,000	-57%	3,859	+50	$2,254	$35,441,000	2
5	(4)	Final Destination: Bloodlines	Warner Bros.	$6,500,000	-40%	2,867	-267	$2,267	$123,565,000	4
6	(-)	The Phoenician Scheme	Focus Features	$6,250,000	+1,015%	1,678	+1,672	$3,725	$6,982,000	2
7	(5)	Bring Her Back	A24	$3,526,295	-50%	2,425	-24	$1,454	$14,112,796	2
8	N	Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye	GKIDS	$3,096,000		1,085		$2,853	$3,096,000	1
9	(6)	Sinners	Warner Bros.	$2,910,000	-45%	1,518	-620	$1,917	$272,631,000	8
10	(7)	Thunderbolts*	Walt Disney	$2,500,000	-48%	1,955	-565	$1,279	$186,492,793	6
11	N	Dangerous Animals	IFC Films	$1,533,333		1,636		$937	$1,533,333	1
-	(8)	Friendship	A24	$1,081,974	-58%	1,072	-221	$1,009	$14,737,642	5
-	(9)	The Last Rodeo	Angel Studios	$1,022,838	-53%	1,235	-760	$828	$12,957,088	3
-	(-)	DOGMA: Resurrected! A 25th Anniversary Celebration	Iconic Relea…	$978,492		700		$1,398	$31,629,914	1,335
-	(12)	A Minecraft Movie	Warner Bros.	$290,000	-62%	346	-478	$838	$423,579,000	10
-	N	The Life of Chuck	Neon	$216,031		16		$13,502	$216,031	1
-	N	I Don’t Understand You	Vertical Ent…	$164,213		253		$649	$164,213	1
-	(-)	The Amateur	20th Century…	$25,000	-51%	20	-100	$1,250	$40,747,225	9
-	N	We Are Guardians	Area 23a	$6,300		1		$6,300	$6,300	1
-	(-)	Vulcanizadora	Oscilloscope…	$682	-19%	2	-2	$341	$25,306	6
		20		$111,301,205

 

[benbess]

Last I heard, MI Final Reckoning was looking like it might exceed the $571 million dollar box office of Dead Reckoning. But as we all know, because of a production cost of around $400 million + maybe $200 million for advertising, studio overhead, and Cruise first-dollar gross pay, the total negative cost of the movie is probably around $600 million. Since theaters keep almost half of the box office, even even if the movie makes $700 million it would still be on track to lose maybe around $200 million. As that article posted in the previous page said, costs have gotten out of control for some movies, and this one is another example where even good box office leads to a deluge of red ink. Where next for Tom Cruise? I'm sure studios will still want to work with him, but I'm guessing they might say something along the lines of: "What's the best movie you can make for maybe around $175 million?"

A big success has been Final Destination: Bloodlines, which so far has made $257 million worldwide on a production budget of about $50 million. That might even be even an all-time best for the series.

 

[Tino]

Last I heard, MI Final Reckoning was looking like it might exceed the $571 million dollar box office of Dead Reckoning. But as we all know, because of a production cost of around $400 million + maybe $200 million for advertising, studio overhead, and Cruise first-dollar gross pay, the total negative cost of the movie is probably around $600 million. Since theaters keep almost half of the box office, even even if the movie makes $700 million it would still be on track to lose maybe around $200 million. As that article posted in the previous page said, costs have gotten out of control for some movies, and this one is another example where even good box office leads to a deluge of red ink. Where next for Tom Cruise? I'm sure studios will still want to work with him, but I'm guessing they might say something along the lines of: "What's the best movie you can make for maybe around $175 million?"

A big success has been Final Destination: Bloodlines, which so far has made $257 million worldwide on a production budget of about $50 million. That might even be even an all-time best for the series.

Yeah I doubt Final Reckoning will reach that breakeven amount of $1.2 billion. Seriously what were they thinking?

 

[TravisR]

Yeah I doubt Final Reckoning will reach that breakeven amount of $1.2 billion. Seriously what were they thinking?

They must have wanted to keep Tom Cruise happy/working at Paramount. I know there was talk about Paramount playing a long game of making money from streaming but they can't think that they can make up hundreds of millions from one movie or series on Paramount +.

 

[mskaye]

Last I heard, MI Final Reckoning was looking like it might exceed the $571 million dollar box office of Dead Reckoning. But as we all know, because of a production cost of around $400 million + maybe $200 million for advertising, studio overhead, and Cruise first-dollar gross pay, the total negative cost of the movie is probably around $600 million. Since theaters keep almost half of the box office, even even if the movie makes $700 million it would still be on track to lose maybe around $200 million. As that article posted in the previous page said, costs have gotten out of control for some movies, and this one is another example where even good box office leads to a deluge of red ink. Where next for Tom Cruise? I'm sure studios will still want to work with him, but I'm guessing they might say something along the lines of: "What's the best movie you can make for maybe around $175 million?"

A big success has been Final Destination: Bloodlines, which so far has made $257 million worldwide on a production budget of about $50 million. That might even be even an all-time best

Yeah I doubt Final Reckoning will reach that breakeven amount of $1.2 billion. Seriously what were they thinking?

Creative accounting.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Seriously what were they thinking?

They were thinking that Fallout was the highest-grossing film in the franchise and was rapturously received by fans and critics. In 2018, when the deals were made for Cruise and McQuarrie to do two more, it made all the sense in the world. They had no way of knowing that Covid would massively inflate the budget while changing the entire theatrical landscape.

 

[Tino]

They were thinking that Fallout was the highest-grossing film in the franchise and was rapturously received by fans and critics. In 2018, when the deals were made for Cruise and McQuarrie to do two more, it made all the sense in the world. They had no way of knowing that Covid would massively inflate the budget while changing the entire theatrical landscape.

I know. It’s a rhetorical question.

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	How to Train Your Dragon	Universal	$83,700,000		4,356		$19,215	$83,700,000	1
2	(1)	Lilo & Stitch	Walt Disney	$15,500,000	-52%	3,675	-510	$4,218	$366,371,809	4
3	N	Materialists	A24	$12,000,424		2,844		$4,220	$12,000,424	1
4	(3)	Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning	Paramount Pi…	$10,300,000	-31%	2,942	-554	$3,501	$166,316,000	4
5	(2)	From the World of John Wick: Ballerina	Lionsgate	$9,400,000	-62%	3,409	n/c	$2,757	$41,832,000	2
6	(4)	Karate Kid: Legends	Sony Pictures	$5,000,000	-42%	3,008	-851	$1,662	$44,153,000	3
7	(5)	Final Destination: Bloodlines	Warner Bros.	$3,900,000	-40%	2,138	-729	$1,824	$130,648,000	5
8	(6)	The Phoenician Scheme	Focus Features	$3,050,000	-51%	1,731	+53	$1,762	$12,777,000	3
9	(-)	The Life of Chuck	Neon	$2,144,250	+855%	1,072	+1,056	$2,000	$2,441,423	2
10	(9)	Sinners	Warner Bros.	$1,470,000	-48%	951	-567	$1,546	$275,484,000	9
11	(7)	Bring Her Back	A24	$1,415,578	-60%	1,250	-1,175	$1,132	$17,654,275	3
12	(10)	Thunderbolts*	Walt Disney	$1,200,000	-50%	910	-1,045	$1,319	$188,752,653	7
13	(8)	Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye	GKIDS	$673,174	-79%	820	-265	$821	$5,065,415	2
14	(-)	The Last Rodeo	Angel Studios	$575,287	-46%	617	-618	$932	$14,205,804	4
-	(-)	Friendship	A24	$315,956	-71%	355	-717	$890	$15,686,382	6
-	N	Tatami	XYZ Films	$16,200		1		$16,200	$16,200	1
-	(-)	Vulcanizadora	Oscilloscope…	$261	-62%	1	-1	$261	$25,369	7
		17		$150,661,130

 

[Wayne_j]

Good showing for Universal. I wish Life of Chuck had done better, it is an excellent movie.

 

[Jake Lipson]

In a weird coincidence, It's worth noting that the top two are both live-action remakes of animated films originally written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois.

Sanders is involved as an executive producer on the new How to Train Your Dragon. He is also an actor doing the voice of Stitch in Lilo & Stitch even though he didn't write or direct the new one. So Sanders has his hand in both of the top two this weekend.

DeBlois, of course, directed his own remake for Universal after doing the same on the entire animated How to Train Your Dragon trilogy. The first film was co-directed with Sanders and DeBlois did the sequels as sole director.

 

[Tino]

Chart Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	(1)	How to Train Your Dragon	Universal	$37,000,000	-56%	4,373	+17	$8,461	$160,485,000	2
2	N	28 Years Later	Sony Pictures	$30,000,000		3,444		$8,711	$30,000,000	1
3	N	Elio	Walt Disney	$21,000,000		3,750		$5,600	$21,000,000	1
4	(2)	Lilo & Stitch	Walt Disney	$9,700,000	-38%	3,375	-300	$2,874	$386,749,181	5
5	(4)	Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning	Paramount Pi…	$6,550,000	-38%	2,603	-339	$2,516	$178,379,000	5
6	(3)	Materialists	A24	$5,815,506	-52%	2,844	n/c	$2,045	$23,920,137	2
7	(5)	From the World of John Wick: Ballerina	Lionsgate	$4,535,000	-54%	2,537	-872	$1,788	$51,118,000	3
8	(6)	Karate Kid: Legends	Sony Pictures	$2,400,000	-54%	2,006	-1,002	$1,196	$49,376,000	4
9	(7)	Final Destination: Bloodlines	Warner Bros.	$1,885,000	-53%	1,342	-796	$1,405	$134,804,000	6
10	N	Kuberaa	Prathyangira…	$1,750,000		500		$3,500	$1,750,000	1
11	(8)	The Phoenician Scheme	Focus Features	$1,400,000	-56%	1,101	-630	$1,272	$16,216,000	4
-	(9)	The Life of Chuck	Neon	$1,005,000	-57%	1,072	n/c	$938	$4,675,268	3
-	(10)	Sinners	Warner Bros.	$820,000	-46%	536	-415	$1,530	$277,259,000	10
-	(12)	Thunderbolts*	Walt Disney	$440,000	-57%	420	-490	$1,048	$189,513,761	8
-	(11)	Bring Her Back	A24	$387,831	-73%	406	-844	$955	$18,916,588	4
-	(14)	The Last Rodeo	Angel Studios	$292,731	-51%	305	-312	$960	$14,819,302	5
-	(-)	Friendship	A24	$109,164	-65%	141	-214	$774	$16,065,495	7
-	N	Familiar Touch	Music Box Films	$11,600		1		$11,600	$11,600	1
-	(-)	Dogtooth	Kino Lorber	$10,126		4		$2,532	$120,374	783
-	N	Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore	Kino Lorber	$6,020		1		$6,020	$6,020	1
		20		$125,117,978

 

[Jake Lipson]

Most U.S. Exhibition Execs Think Traditional Moviegoing Has Less Than 20 Years as ‘Viable Business Model,’ According to New Survey

More than 50% of U.S. movie theater exhibition executives say they believe "traditional moviegoing" has less than 20 years as a viable business model.

variety.com

 

[Patrick Sun]

Did they even market Elio? I barely saw one trailer for it. Saw incessantly marketing for 28 Years Later for the past month or two.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Did they even market Elio?

I saw trailers and posters for it multiple times. I didn't see trailers for 28 Years Later. I guess it just depends on what movies you are going to see. 28YL was probably on a lot of other horror movies which I deliberately avoid.

I also believe Disney would have trailered Elio with Lilo & Stitch. I didn't see L&S to confirm that, but it makes sense that they would have used one big family film to market another one.

 

[Malcolm R]

I saw tons of TV spots for 28 Years Later and How to Train Your Dragon, including the incessant Burger King tie-in ads. I saw far fewer for Elio.

 

[Jake Lipson]

From ‘Lilo & Stitch’ to ‘Mission: Impossible 8’: The Good, the Bad and the Meh of the 2025 Box Office (So Far)

Here's a look at the movies that scored, struck out, or fell somewhere in the middle, during the first half of 2025.

variety.com

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	F1: The Movie	Warner Bros.	$55,600,000		3,661		$15,187	$55,600,000	1
2	(1)	How to Train Your Dragon	Universal	$19,400,000	-47%	4,127	-246	$4,701	$200,057,000	3
3	(3)	Elio	Walt Disney	$10,700,000	-49%	3,750	n/c	$2,853	$42,225,747	2
4	N	M3GAN 2.0	Universal	$10,200,000		3,112		$3,278	$10,200,000	1
5	(2)	28 Years Later	Sony Pictures	$9,700,000	-68%	3,444	n/c	$2,816	$50,354,000	2
6	(4)	Lilo & Stitch	Walt Disney	$6,900,000	-29%	2,900	-475	$2,379	$400,070,904	6
7	(5)	Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning	Paramount Pi…	$4,150,000	-36%	2,157	-446	$1,924	$185,996,000	6
8	(6)	Materialists	A24	$2,999,423	-53%	1,931	-913	$1,553	$30,401,382	3
9	(7)	From the World of John Wick: Ballerina	Lionsgate	$2,130,000	-53%	1,796	-741	$1,186	$55,473,000	4
10	(8)	Karate Kid: Legends	Sony Pictures	$1,000,000	-58%	925	-1,081	$1,081	$51,592,000	5
11	(9)	Final Destination: Bloodlines	Warner Bros.	$905,000	-52%	742	-600	$1,220	$136,689,000	7
12	(11)	The Phoenician Scheme	Focus Features	$700,000	-52%	508	-593	$1,378	$17,815,000	5
-	(-)	The Life of Chuck	Neon	$375,120	-62%	455	-617	$824	$5,667,694	4
-	(-)	Sinners	Warner Bros.	$365,000	-56%	293	-243	$1,246	$278,031,000	11
-	(-)	The Last Rodeo	Angel Studios	$124,174	-54%	202	-103	$615	$15,055,252	6
-	(-)	Thunderbolts*	Walt Disney	$120,000	-68%	145	-275	$828	$189,777,989	9
-	(-)	Bring Her Back	A24	$97,727	-75%	126	-280	$776	$19,254,505	5
-	N	Sorry, Baby	A24	$86,492		4		$21,623	$86,492	1
-	(-)	In the Mood for Love	Janus Films	$52,000		2		$26,000	$52,000	1,274
-	N	Hot Milk	IFC Films	$40,500		375		$108	$40,500	1
-	(-)	Friendship	A24	$35,738	-67%	28	-113	$1,276	$16,178,616	8
-	(-)	Familiar Touch	Music Box Films	$21,060	+94%	15	+14	$1,404	$36,773	2
		22		$125,702,234

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

I bet Universal is wishing they'd held M3GAN 2.0 for the fall instead of trying to compete in the busy summer season.

 

[TravisR]

I bet Universal is wishing they'd held M3GAN 2.0 for the fall instead of trying to compete in the busy summer season.

It seems like Universal was just burning it off since they released it within five(!) days of their own Jurassic World movie. I understand counterprogramming but that close just seems like they were getting rid of it.

 

[mskaye]