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Box Office 2025 Takeaways: PG Movies Score, Superheroes Remain Shaky and Budgets Are Just Too High
As 2025 hits the halfway point, here are five takeaways from a year that’s already been filled with blockbusters and busts.
The latter’s failure was particularly telling about the moldering state of the genre because “Thunderbolts” received the strongest critical reception for a Marvel joint in some time, and yet will end its theatrical run as one of the franchise’s lowest-grossing movies. “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” is tapping out with $576 million globally — a decent tally for cinema operators who gets to keep half of those returns, but a poor result for the studio behind the $300 million-budgeted film. The latest “Mission: Impossible” cost upwards of $300 million on production alone, which meant the tentpole needed to sell tickets like “Titanic” to get out of the red (spoiler alert: it didn’t).
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