2025 box office revenue in the US and Canada is expected to total $8.87bn, up 1.5% on 2024’s $8.74bn.
The projected tally, from measurement company Comscore (which plans to release a final figure next week), is 22% down on the 2019 pre-pandemic figure of $11.4bn. It also falls short of the $9bn that had been widely predicted for 2025 after a disappointing 2024, when grosses were limited by a sparse release schedule.
Domestic cinema attendance for 2025 is estimated by data company Entelligence at 780m, down 4.9% on 2024’s more than 820m.
The highest grossing releases in the domestic market, according to boxofficemojo.com, were Warner Bros’ A Minecraft Movie, with $423.9m, Disney’s Lilo & Stitch, with $423.8m, and Warner’s Superman, with $354.2m.
Among studios, Disney led the field with a US/Canada haul (estimated by the studio as of December 31) of $2.49bn. Disney is also expected to lead internationally, with a total of $4.08bn, and globally, with $6.58bn, though at time of writing not all studios had reported their end-of-year figures.
Commenting on the 2025 total, Comscore head of marketplace trends Paul Dergarabedian, highlighted the strength of PG-rated releases, which generated $2.93bn in box office during the year.
Dergarabedian was optimistic about the prospects for the domestic box office in the coming year: “2026 has the potential to deliver the biggest box office year since the pandemic,” he said. “The $9bn domestic revenue threshold not quite reached this year with $8.87bn (and only achieved once post-pandemic in 2023, the ‘Barbenheimer’ year) will be an easier target in ’26.”
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