December’s 2025 UK-Ireland box office was down by 10% on 2024, with the next instalments in the Avatar and Wicked franchises tracking below their predecessors.
Total revenue for the month is £104.2m, versus £115.6m for 2024. This is still up on £95.5m for 2023, according to Comscore.
| Title (origin) | Distributor | Release date | 5/12/25-1/1/26 total | 2025 total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avatar: Fire And Ash (US) | Disney | 19/12/25 | £27.2m | £27.2m |
| 2 | Zootropolis 2 (US) | Disney | 28/11/25 | £17.9m | £25.4m |
| 3 | Wicked: For Good (US) | Universal | 21/11/25 | £11.4m | £45.9m |
| 4 | The Housemaid (US) | Lionsgate | 26/12/25 | £8.5m | £8.5m |
| 5 | Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 (US) | Universal | 5/12/25 | £6.7m | £6.7m |
| 6 | The SpongeBob Movie: Search For Squarepants (US) | Paramount | 26/12/25 | £4.8m | £4.8m |
| 7 | Marty Supreme (US) | EFD | 26/12/25 | £3.2m | £3.2m |
| 8 | Anaconda (US) | Sony | 26/12/25 | £2.9m | £2.9m |
| 9 | Dhurandhar (Ind) | Moviegoers | 5/12/25 | £2.7m | £2.7m |
| 10 | Fackham Hall (UK) | EFD | 12/12/25 | £1.2m | £1.2m |
Disney’s Avatar: Fire And Ash was the top-performing film for December with £27.2m, after opening with just under £9m two weeks ago. James Cameron’s sequel is the seventh highest-grossing film of the year, ahead of Paramount’s Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (£26.4m) and behind Warner Bros’ Superman (£28.1m). It tracks 27% behind Avatar: The Way Of Water at the same time of release in 2024 (£37.3m).
Zootropolis 2 kept the number two position from last month, adding an additional £17.9m. Disney’s sequel took £25.4m in total in 2025, making it the best-performing animated release of the year, ahead of The Bad Guys 2 (£14.7m) and Dog Man (£13.9m), both released by Universal.
In third place in December was Universal’s Wicked: For Good with £11.4m, bringing its 2025 total up to £45.9m. Jon M. Chu’s sequel is the third highest-grossing 2025 release, 1% behind fellow Universal release Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (£46.4m), but 18% below Wicked at the same time of release (£55.7m).
Lionsgate’s The Housemaid is in fourth place with £8.5m, after opening with £4.4m on Boxing Day. This is the highest opening in the territory for US filmmaker Paul Feig, ahead of the likes of 2016’s Ghostbusters (£4.4m) and Bridesmaids (£3.5m).
Universal’s Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 follows at number five with £6.7m. Emma Tammi’s sequel ranks as the sixth best-performing horror release of the year, ahead of The Black Phone 2 (£3.7m) and behind Final Destination: Bloodlines (£11.6m).
Also making the December top 10 is Indian title Dhurandhar, in ninth place with £2.7m for Moviegoers Entertainment, the second best-performing Indian title of 2025, behind Saiyaara (£3.2m). It is also the fourth-highest-grossing Indian release of all time in the territory.
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