There is a new leader at the top of the Hollywood box office charts in 2025, while the disney remake of “Lilo & Stitch” passed the world theatrical race of Warner Bros./legendary’s “Minecraft Movie” during its seventh weekend in theaters.
The live remake added $ 3.8 million to the national level, bringing its total to $ 408.5 million in the United States and $ 972.7 million worldwide. “A Minecraft film”, which broke out a drought of several weeks which tormented the American box office in April, reported $ 954 million worldwide.
If “Lilo & Stitch” can push a little more, it will become the first hit of $ 1 billion since the lunar release of Chengdu Coco Cartoon “Ne Zha 2”, which has become not only the first Hit of $ 1 billion in China, but has become the first animated film to cross $ 2 billion thanks to almost entirely in the Chinese public. Unless a dazzling race of “Avatar: Fire and Ash” this winter, “Ne Zha 2” should be the first non -Hollywood production to be the most profitable film of a calendar year.
“Lilo & Stitch” was the brilliant place in what was largely a first half of 2025 for Disney. While the year started with Disney’s vacation offer, “Mufasa”, legging at $ 722 Milllion around the world, a pair of Marvel films – “Captain America: Brave New World” and “Thunderbolts *” – had races with global totals of $ 415 million and $ 389 million, respectively.
Then, in the past three weeks, Pixar “Elio” has bombed despite a solid audience word mouth with only $ 96.8 million has been reported worldwide over three weekends, continuing the difficulties of original animation in cinemas.
The second half of 2025 will bring much better fortunes, mainly of the two major Disney vacation offers: “Zootopia 2”, which will try to join “Moana 2” and the first “Zootopia” in the $ 1 billion club; And “Avatar: Fire and Ash”, which is a lock to reach $ 1 billion and will try to make “avatar” the second franchise alongside Marvel’s “Avengers” with three strokes of $ 2 billion.
Later this month, Disney will also have a chance to bring the MCU back to the good graces of fans with “The Fantastic 4: First Steps”, which has so far won the best presale of the first day of Fandango for 2025 and is planned for an opening of $ 120 million. The other theatrical outings on Disney slate include the science fiction thriller “Predator: Badlands” and the dramatic of James L. Brooks “Ella McCay”.
