3 sequels could save 2025 box office after summer films failed the threshold of $ 4 billion: comic films and news of superhero movies
2025 Ticket offices Mounting pressure faces after summer The season closed below the reference point of $ 4 billion. Three upcoming sequelae Now it carries the weight of reliving the theatrical impulse while the studies seek to finish the year with a stronger note.
Avatar 3 and two more sequelae are the last hope of 2025 at the box office
The 2025 summer box office closed to $ 3.67 billion, almost even with the $ 3,677 billion last year, according to Comscore.
May registered an increase of 76% year after year, but June, July and August decreased, for a total of $ 2.68 billion, 13% less than 2024. Since 2012, a reference point of $ 4 billion May-Labor Deadline).
Warner Bros. ‘Weapons led work day with $ 12.4 million for four days, which raised its total to $ 134.6 million. The relaunch of the 50th anniversary of Universal de Jaws continued with $ 9.8 million, while Sony’s Cattting Robó opened at $ 9.5 million.
Disney’s strangest Friday won $ 8.3 million in his fourth weekend, and The Roses of Searchlight debuted with $ 8 million. The summer count, rounded at $ 3.64 billion, is 1% lower than the $ 3.67 billion last year.
Until August 30, 2025, the national box office reached $ 5.99 billion, 4% before the same point in 2024. However, without a tentpole in September such as Beetlejuice de Beetlejuice of 2024, industry analysts expect lead to decrease. Before the pandemic, the summers of $ 4 billion were routine, which underlines the pressure for the end of the year launches to offer important results.
Three films stand out as the strongest 2025 contenders: Avatar: Fire and Ash, Zootopia 2, and Wicked: for Good. The James Cameron Avatar franchise established records, with the 2009 original winning $ 2.9 billion and its 2022 sequel, The Way of Water, raising $ 2.3 billion. If Fire and Ash reach similar numbers, 2025 will mark the first year with two releases of $ 2 billion, joining Ne Zha 2, which has already exceeded $ 2.15 billion worldwide.
Disney positions Zootopia 2 to follow the success of one billion dollars of his predecessor of 2016, while Wicked: For Good generates an impulse from the yield of $ 700 million last year of Wicked Part Uno. These launches are aimed at delivering the final impulse to the theater market of 2025.