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Fire and Ash has become the fourth James Cameron movie to earn more than $1 billion at the global box office after Avatar, Avatar: Way of Water and Titanic. The global cume is $1.08 billion with $306.
Deadline has compiled a list of the highest-grossing movies at the North American box office for each since 1960, including the most recent winner, 2024’s A Minecraft Movie. With a few noted exceptions,
Fire and Ash is catching up with it, Zootopia 2 is still the highest-grossing Hollywood film of 2025. The two movies played an instrumental role in turning things around for Disney at the end of the year,
Hollywood didn't get as large a payday in 2025 as it hoped for, but the top 10 hits domestically — many of them aimed at kids — did better than OK.
Artistic integrity and financial success don't always go hand-in-hand, as exemplified by these box office hits that performed poorly with critics.
In what has become a trend, Nigerian "Queen of the Box Office" Funke Akindele led again in commercial success at the cinema in 2025.
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Global box office estimated at $33.5B; anime explodes in up-and-down year: Studio report cards
The global box office in 2025 is estimated to close out at $33.5B, per Gower Street Analytics, repping a nearly 12% increase on 2024, but that's including a unique phenomenon in China where one local production did over $2B.