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‘Mufasa’ Roars On New Year’s Day; ‘Nosferatu’ Already Record For Robert Eggers; ‘A Complete Unknown’ Searchlight’s Best Since Disney-Fox Merger – Box Office Update


New Year's Day Box Office 2025 saw Mufasa stealing No. 1 away from 'Sonic The Hedgehog 3'. 'Nosferatu' at $53M counting is Robert Eggers' highest grossing film ever.

While Thanksgiving holdovers, Moana 2 and Wicked continue to play solid, respectively with$5.1M and$4.6M, the other big headlines this season is the resurgence of auteur-driven adult fare, read Focus Features’ Nosferatu and Searchlight’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. Nosferatu at$53M and counting is easily director Robert Eggers ‘ highest grossing movie at the domestic box office, flying past his 2022’s Viking epic The Northman($34.2M). By this weekend, the Timothee Chalamet title will become the highest grossing Searchlight movie post the 2019 Disney-Fox merger, surpassing the domestic take of 2022’s The Menu($38.5M).

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