{"id":337632,"date":"2025-12-27T04:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337632\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T04:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:28:06","slug":"christmas-2025-box-office-draws-big-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337632\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2025 Box-Office Draws Big Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas-2025-box-office-draws-big-numbers.jpg\" data-caption=\"A24\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas-2025-box-office-draws-big-numbers.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"christmas-2025-box-office-draws-big-numbers\"\/><\/a>A24<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Day this year saw the box office draw its best post-COVID numbers, multiple titles delivering a combined domestic total of $68.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d was on top with $24 million, down 18% from the $29.1 million that \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water\u201d earned on Christmas Day 2022, with the film hitting a total of $153.6 million domestically as of the end of it first week.<\/p>\n<p>In second was \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d which pulled in $9.5 million on Christmas Day. The A24 title has multiple similarities to \u201cUncut Gems\u201d (co-director, release date, distributor, tone, etc.), and going into the weekend projections suggested it would do similar opening business \u2013 not good considering it cost over three times as much.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the good news is its numbers beat expectations \u2013 the title took in $9.5 million on Christmas Day, which beat the $7.2 million Christmas Day start of star Timothee Chalamet\u2019s Bob Dylan biopic \u201cA Complete Unknown\u201d last year.  The film is looking to be on track for an over $20 million debut over its four-day Thursday-Sunday haul. <\/p>\n<p>Sony\u2019s meta \u201cAnaconda\u201d reboot comedy took in $9 million on Christmas Day and is heading for a $20 million four day start \u2013 in line with the $16.6 million three-day opening weekend the 1997 original \u201cAnaconda\u201d did.<\/p>\n<p>Disney\u2019s \u201cZootopia 2\u201d was fourth with $5.3 million, wihle \u201cDavid\u201d was fifth with $4.6 million.  \u201cSong Sung Blue,\u201d which landed a stellar A Cinema Score, debuted with $4.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/box-office-christmas-avatar-fire-and-ash-marty-supreme-anaconda-1236656840\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A24 Christmas Day this year saw the box office draw its best post-COVID numbers, multiple titles delivering a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-337632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}