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U.S. Box Office Heads For $9 Billion In 2025, Still Far From Pre-Covid Records: What’s An Industry To Do?
The domestic box office is expected to gross about $9 billion in 2025, roughly $300 million more than 2024 but still behind pre-Covid numbers.
Furthermore, he says, “Ever since that silent film won Best Picture at the Oscars [ The Artist in 2012], I don’t know how the people in Hollywood determine what’s good nowadays.” Macaluso watched this season’s awards contender Anora on PVOD over the holidays, and he’s glad he did from the comfort of his couch. A recent example: One of the year’s shortest theatrical windows for a major studio is Warner Bros/New Line’s animated Lord of the Rings: The War of Rohirrim, which landed in homes on PVOD after 14 days in cinemas following the $30M production’s paltry opening of $4.5M. The unexpected success of Longlegs with frosh leading lady Maika Monroe and hidden star Nicolas Cage (opening $22.4M) and the feature adaptation of Coleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us($50M) remain takeaways of 2024 heading into 2025.
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