{"id":369204,"date":"2025-12-25T11:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369204\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:14:15","slug":"avatar-3-propels-disney-global-box-office-revenue-to-6-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369204\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Avatar 3’ Propels Disney Global Box Office Revenue to $6 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhile overall box office<\/a> revenue won\u2019t make any gains in 2025, the same can\u2019t be said of Disney.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe studios sprawling film empire on Wednesday will cross the $6 billion mark in global box office revenue for the year, having earned\u00a0$5.967\u00a0billion\u00a0globally through Tuesday, including $2.310\u00a0billion\u00a0domestically and\u00a0$3.656 billion internationally. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis marks the first time Disney has hit $6 billion since 2019, just before the pandemic struck and decimated moviegoing. Even before COVID, clearing $6 billion was no easy feat. No other studio has done so since 2015, while Disney is a now a five-time multiple offender (2016-2019, 2025).<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney\u2019s success this year has been fueled by 16 wide releases, led by the only two titles that have crossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office: Zootopia 2<\/a>, which has earned $1.311 billion to date, and Lilo & Stitch, which topped out at $1.038 billion earlier this year. Thanks to some nifty math, Disney is also reporting that three Marvel Studios\u2019 titles have collectively grossed more than $1.3 billion worldwide, even if not one title did so on its own; The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Thunderbolts* and Captain America: Brave New World.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther titles helping to propel Disney past $6 billion were Predator: Badlands, Freakier Friday and Elio, albeit at much smaller numbers.<\/p>\n

\n\tJames Cameron<\/a>\u2018s Avatar<\/a>: Fire and Ash is the icing on the cake, grossing $450.1 million at the global box office after only seven days in release, including worldwide earnings of $51 million on Tuesday. In North America, it topped Tuesday\u2019s chart with $16.5 million for a domestic tally of $119 million. Overseas, it finished the day with a foreign tally of $331.1 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tAvatar 3 is easily expected to dominate the long Christmas weekend (Thursday-Sunday) with a four-day gross of $70 million to $75 million, if not more. Sony\u2019s comedic adventure Anaconda<\/a>, teaming Jack Black<\/a> and Paul Rudd<\/a>, opens nationwide on Dec. 25 alongside Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a>\u2018s Marty Supreme<\/a> and Focus Features\u2019 music-infused Song Sing Blue, starring Hugh Jackman<\/a> and Kate Hudson<\/a>. They join a crop of films opening last weekend that wanted to a jump on the holiday. In addition to Avatar, these include Lionsgate\u2019s femme-skewing The Housemaid, starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried; Angel Studios\u2019 faith-based David; and Paramount\u2019s The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, which still hopes to hunt down families after a soft debut.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnaconda, Song Sing Blue, and Marty Supreme \u2014 which is expanding nationwide after opening in New York and L.A. last weekend to supremely impressive numbers after a massive marketing blitz by its leading man \u2014 will all hold Wednesday previews before opening everywhere on Christmas Day, which can be a busy day for moviegoing once presents are unwrapped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While overall box office revenue won\u2019t make any gains in 2025, the same can\u2019t be said of Disney.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[71914,35154,34531,2642,88,29335,12625,20380,25488,7572,56102,85073,56103,77793],"class_list":["post-369204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-anaconda","tag-avatar","tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","tag-box-office","tag-entertainment","tag-hugh-jackman","tag-jack-black","tag-james-cameron","tag-kate-hudson","tag-lilo-and-stitch","tag-marty-supreme","tag-paul-rudd","tag-timothu00e9e-chalamet","tag-zootopia-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}