The eye-popping visual effects of Avatar: Fire and Ash and the charms of Disney’s Zootopia 2 proved irresistible to family audiences during the final weekend of the year. James Cameron’s third visit to Pandora planet had a $64 million three-day weekend in U.S. theaters, bringing its two-weekend cume to $217.6 million from $3,800 theaters. The movie is also packing theaters worldwide, with a $760.4 million total tickets sales.
Meanwhile, Jared Bush and Byron Howard’s Zootopia 2 continued its box office domination with a $20 million three-day weekend and a cume of $321.3 million at the No. 2 spot. Worldwide the movie has collected $1.420 billion worldwide, making it the No. 2 most popular movie of the year, right behind Ne Zha, which stands tall in the No. 1 position with $2.150 billion global cume.
Angel’s animated biblical take on the story of David held up strong during its second weekend of release at No. 6 with another $12.6 million, bringing its total to $49,073 million Stateside. Paramount’s optimistic yellow hero’s new movie, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, kept swimming at No. 7 with an $11.2 million three-day weekend, and a total of $38.1 million cume in its second weekend at the box office, and a $52.275 million total worldwide ticket sales.
In related movie business news, Disney became the first studio to cross the $6 billion worldwide ticket sales threshold this past week. The global success of Avatar: Fire and Ash and Zootopia 2 helped put the Mouse House over the $6 billion line with $2.3 billion domestic and a $6.65 billion worldwide ticket sales. 2025 proved to be Disney’s biggest post-Covid year at the box office. (The studio’s most profitable year was 2019 with a $13.1 billion in global ticket sales).
Sources: Boxofficemojo.com, Deadline.com
