Key Takeaways
Total 3-Day Weekend Gross:
$177,231,952 | -0.9% Last Week / +4.2% Weekend 52, 2024
After a long year filled with highs and lows, the 2025 box office ends on a positive note, thanks to the latest Avatar once again defying expectations by holding strong at #1. A24’s quirky ping pong epic Marty Supreme also over-performed, while Sony’s Anaconda failed to make a real impact. Year-over-year, we are ahead of the final frame of 2024 when Sonic the Hedgehog 3 held to the top spot, with Fire and Ash now keeping the home fires burning for exhibitors into 2026.
- Top Title: Avatar: Fire and Ash (20th Century) | $64M / 3,800 Screens / $16,842 PSA | Week 2
- Top Opener: Anaconda (Sony) | $14.55M / 3,509 Screens / $4,146 PSA | Week 1
- Best PSA: No Other Choice (Neon) | $312.6K / 13 Screens / $24,053 PSA | Week 1
1. Avatar: Fire and Ash
20th Century Studios | Week 2
$64M 3-Day Weekend | $217.7M Domestic Total
$760.4M Global Total
Always… always… always bet on James Cameron. While Avatar: Fire and Ash came in below expectations in its debut frame, the new film held remarkably well, with only a -28% drop, for an estimated $64M 3-Day take from 3,800 screens (N/C) for a $16,842 Per Screen Average, while the 4-Day Christmas frame tally was $88M. With PLFs and their accompanying surcharges driving business ($8.7M from domestic IMAX alone), Cameron’s threequel seems well set to crush the box office at the very least until the middle of January with the coming of Sony’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
Here’s how the 4-Day looked…
- Thursday – $24M
- Friday – $22.6M
- Saturday – $22.2M
- Sunday – $19.2M
Avatar 3 is currently rocking a $217.7M domestic total after only 10 days, compared to $261M for The Way of Water at this same point in its run (on 400 more screens). It has deposed Captain America: Brave New World ($200.5M) as the 10th biggest domestic grosser of 2025, and likely to surpass #7 Sinners ($279.65M) by next weekend if it doesn’t fly past $300M, gunning to take down Zootopia 2 ($321.38M).
Internationally Avatar: Fire and Ash continues flexing its muscles with $181.2M from 51 material territories as it continues to post strong holds. The top 3 markets are currently China ($99.6M), France ($54.4M), and Germany ($43.1M). The WW total stands at a mighty $760.4M, blitzing past Mission: Impossible, Superman, F1, and How to Train Your Dragon as the #7 global picture of the year. At this rate Avatar should have no trouble dismantling Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle ($779.8M), Jurassic World Rebirth ($869.1), and A Minecraft Movie ($958.1M) by next frame as it speeds towards $1B.
5. Anaconda
Sony Pictures | NEW
$14.55M 3-Day Opening Weekend | $43.65M Global Total
Sony’s comedic reboot of Anaconda starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd came in below our pre-release expectations at #5 with $14.55 over the 3-Day on 3,509 screens for a $4,146 PSA, and $23.65 for the 4-Day Christmas weekend. This is neither great for the moribund comedy genre in 2025 compared to debuts of fellow IPs The Naked Gun ($16.8M) and Freakier Friday ($28.58M), nor is it positive compared to the opening of 1997’s original Anaconda ($16.6M, unadjusted). For Rudd the opening is on par with 2012’s This is 40 ($11.57M), while a comparative debut for Black would be 2018’s Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween ($15.8M), which he only had a supporting role in.
Here’s how the 4-Day looked, including $2.1M in Wednesday previews…
- Thursday – $9.1M
- Friday – $5.4M
- Saturday – $5.2M
- Sunday – $3.95M
While the studio attempts to reframe the numbers by saying the movie is not technically a reboot but an “an entirely original comedy” inspired by Anaconda, this is nowhere near the $20M+ that our forecasting panel was anticipating. Some of this can be put on the film itself, which earned 50% from Rotten Tomatoes critics and a “B” CinemaScore, while the IP was scraping the bottom of Sony’s barrel in a year when the studio was already raiding their C-list properties (Karate Kid, I Know What You Did Last Summer).
Overseas Anaconda performed better than comedies usually do, earning $20M from 10,900+ screens across 58 international territories, reportedly the biggest debut for a comedy since 2013 in those markets. The Top 3 single markets were Australia ($2.4M), Mexico ($2.1M), and the U.K. ($1.7M). Other major territories will open in the coming weeks, such as France, Italy, China, Japan, and South Korea.
Other Notable Performances
Disney’s Zootopia 2 surged +35% from last frame as the clear family Christmas destination movie with $20M at second place, bringing domestic to $321.38M. That maintains the film’s #6 standing at the 2025 domestic BO, just behind Wicked: For Good’s $331.6M at #5.
Our wild card pick of the week, A24’s table tennis biopic Marty Supreme, performed like a wild card by lapping expectations as it expanded nationwide at #3 to the tune of $17.5M for the 3-Day on 2,668 screens for a $6,568 PSA, and $27.1M for the 4-Day ($28.29M total). Timothée Chalamet has been working the promo circuit like a pro, including a stunt where he stood on top of the Sphere in Las Vegas. Director Josh Safdie’s previous film Uncut Gems opened wide during the same corridor in 2019 with $9.57M.
Focus Features’ Neil Diamond tribute band biopic Song Sung Blue opened on 2,578 screens at #8 with an undistinguished $7.6M, $2,948 PSA, and $12M 4-Day total. Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson helped elevate the obscure subject matter, with a 75% fresh RT critical rating alongside an “A” CinemaScore.
Next Weekend
The New Year of 2026 begins with a whimper as two low-profile films launch against the mighty holiday holdovers. First up is Vertical’s genre mashup We Bury the Dead headed by Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley as a woman trying to find her missing husband during a zombie apocalypse. The film earned positive reviews (89% on RT) coming out of SXSW. Another SXSW entry finding theatrical release is Rogue Pictures’ thriller The Dutchman starring André Holland, Kate Mara, and Zazie Beetz, which has earned more middling reviews (69% on RT).
Sunday Studio Estimates | Weekend 52 – 2025
Total 3-Day Domestic Gross: $177,231,952 | (+4.2% vs 2024)
| Title | Weekend Estimate | % Change | Locations | Location Change | PSA | Domestic Total | Week | Distributor |
| Avatar: Fire and Ash | $64,000,000 | -28% | 3,800 | n/c | $16,842 | 217,693,465 | 2 | 20th Century |
| Zootopia 2 | $20,000,000 | 35% | 3,370 | -170 | $5,935 | 321,381,406 | 5 | Walt Disney |
| Marty Supreme | $17,522,628 | +1,903% | 2,668 | +2,662 | $6,568 | 28,291,996 | 2 | A24 |
| The Housemaid | $15,400,000 | -19% | 3,042 | 27 | $5,062 | 46,460,000 | 2 | Lionsgate |
| Anaconda | $14,550,000 | 3,509 | $4,146 | 23,650,000 | 1 | Sony Pictures | ||
| David | $12,691,811 | -42% | 3,118 | n/c | $4,070 | 49,753,130 | 2 | Angel Studios |
| The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants | $11,200,000 | -28% | 3,570 | 13 | $3,137 | 38,171,000 | 2 | Paramount |
| Song Sung Blue | $7,600,000 | 2,578 | $2,948 | 12,025,000 | 1 | Focus Features | ||
| Wicked: For Good | $5,260,000 | 8% | 2,008 | -905 | $2,620 | 331,623,000 | 6 | Universal |
| Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 | $4,400,000 | -43% | 2,280 | -732 | $1,930 | 118,969,000 | 4 | Universal |
| Hamnet | $700,000 | -24% | 391 | -226 | $1,790 | 10,346,000 | 5 | Focus Features |
| No Other Choice | $312,687 | 13 | $24,053 | 625,656 | 1 | Neon | ||
| Eternity | $244,131 | -60% | 203 | -311 | $1,203 | 15,512,475 | 5 | A24 |
| The Secret Agent | $221,212 | -38% | 136 | 3 | $1,627 | 1,430,744 | 5 | Neon |
| Is This Thing On? | $203,000 | 49% | 33 | 27 | $6,152 | 511,240 | 2 | Searchlight |
| Predator: Badlands | $105,000 | -57% | 170 | -210 | $618 | 90,907,751 | 8 | 20th Century |
| Ella McCay | $85,000 | -79% | 450 | -2,050 | $189 | 3,891,774 | 3 | 20th Century |
| Sentimental Value | $77,234 | -48% | 82 | -40 | $942 | 3,849,914 | 8 | Neon |
| The Testament of Ann Lee | $71,000 | 4 | $17,750 | 111,000 | 1 | Searchlight | ||
| Father, Mother, Sister, Brother | $48,395 | 4 | $12,099 | 94,971 | 1 | MUBI | ||
| The Plague | $21,232 | 2 | $10,616 | 36,500 | 1 | IFC | ||
| It Was Just an Accident | $13,000 | -57% | 15 | -16 | $867 | 1,610,020 | 11 | Neon |
| Mistress Dispeller | $1,147 | -60% | 3 | -5 | $382 | 86,596 | 10 | Oscilloscope |
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