2025 box office headed for best post-Covid haul
“Zootopia 2”, “Bad: for good” and “Avatar: Fire and ash.”
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The box office is about to warm up.
After an action -packed, box office record -breaking films, the theater acceleration stopped in autumn. However, according to the latest estimates, it will create a consistent spark in winter ticket sales and take 2025 domestic sales over $ 9 billion and the highest level after the epidemic.
ComSCore Market Trends President Paul Dergararabedian, “domestic box office revenue is about 4 %ahead of last year, and if we can expand this leadership, we can see the biggest year after the pandem for films,” he said.
According to Comscore’s data, while entering the fourth quarter, ticket sales at the domestic box office reached $ 6.5 billion this year; This figure was more than 6.3 billion dollars for the previous year. The entire year record, which the box office aims to exceed, was $ 9.05 billion and this figure was recorded in 2023.
Analysts at Macquarie foresees Disney’s “Tron: Ares” became the first domino stone and created acceleration for the rest of the year. Then comes Universal “Wicked: For Good” and Disney’s “Zootopia 2” is expected to exceed $ 250 million in domestic ticket sales of Macquarie. The year was completed with “Avatar: Fire and ash”.
Fandango Analysis Director and Founder of Box Office Theory, Shawn Robbins, “In the autumn, there are usually ups and downs, but ‘Wicked: For Good’, ‘Zootopia 2’ and ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’s importance in the holiday season,” he said. “Numerous other films will contribute to the total numbers as important counter -programmers and medium -sized support poles.”
Other versions include Universal’s “Black Phone 2”, Disney and 20th Studio’s “Predator: Badlands”. Paramount’s “The Running Man” and Universal’s “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.”
Eric Handler from Roth Capital Partners estimates that the box office revenue in the fourth quarter will reach $ 2.5 billion; This means 7 %increase compared to last year. This will bring all year’s income to 5 %higher than 2024 and close to $ 9.1 billion.
Macquarie’s expectations are even higher with the financial group estimated $ 2.7 billion for the quarter and $ 9.2 billion for the year.
“Avatar: Fire and Ash’in and ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’, ‘The Mandalorian and Grog’, ‘Toy Story 5’, ‘Minions 3’, ‘Moana’, ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’, ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and ‘Dune: Part of the Films and Bit Films and Broken Films We expect the box office to grow further.
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