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2025 Box Office Failed to Meet Even Hollywood’s Lowered Expectations

2025 Box Office Failed to Meet Even Hollywood’s Lowered Expectations

Hollywood entered 2025 with modest hopes for theatrical box office recovery — and still came up short.

According to year-end domestic ticket sales data reported by Variety, the 2025 box office closed at $8.87 billion, narrowly missing the already-reduced $9 billion projection that analysts had framed as a realistic benchmark. While the industry has attempted to spin the result as progress, the numbers tell a far less flattering story.