Box Office – December 12-14, 2025: ZOOTOPIA 2, FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2, WICKED: FOR GOOD, & More

Box Office December 12-14, 2025

The theatrical movie box office results for December 12, 2025 through December 14, 2025 have been released.

The Box Office

Zootopia 2 was First for the second time in three weeks at the United States box office with $26.3 Million (a 39% drop from last weekend) for $258.9 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $1.13 Billion, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $150 Million.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 was Second at the United States box office over the weekend with $19.5 Million (a 70% drop from last weekend) for $95.4 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $173.7 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $36-51 Million.

Wicked: For Good was Third at the United States box office over the weekend with $8.5 Million (a 51% drop from last weekend) for $312.1 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $467.9 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $150 Million.

Dhurandhar was Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $3.5 Million (a +65% increase from last weekend) for $7.8 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $8.6 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $27.6 million to $31.0 million.

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $2.3 Million (a 32% drop from last weekend) for $59.3 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $207.7 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $90 Million.

These films: Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution, Ella McCay (which premiered this weekend), How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Eternity, and Hamnet rounded out the top ten respectively.

Movies That Opened This Weekend

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

Ella McCay is a 2025 American political comedy-drama film written and directed by James L. Brooks. The film stars Emma Mackey in the title role with Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Lowden, Kumail Nanjiani, Ayo Edebiri, Spike Fearn, Julie Kavner, Rebecca Hall, Albert Brooks, and Woody Harrelson.

Next week sees the release of Avatar: Fire and Ash, David, The Housemaid, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Avatar: Fire and Ash will be the Number One film at the box office.

The History of Box Office (and Profit Measurement)

“A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket.

By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a metonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show, receives. The term is also used to refer to a ticket office at an arena or a stadium.

Box office business can be measured in the terms of the number of tickets sold or the amount of money raised by ticket sales (revenue). The projection and analysis of these earnings is greatly important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry.

To determine if a movie made a profit, it is not correct to directly compare the box office gross with the production budget, because the movie theater keeps nearly half of the gross on average. The split varies from movie to movie, and the percentage for the distributor is generally higher in early weeks.

Usually the distributor gets a percentage of the revenue after first deducting a “house allowance” or “house nut”. It is also common that the distributor gets either a percentage of the gross revenue, or a higher percentage of the revenue after deducting the nut, whichever is larger. The distributor’s share of the box office gross is often referred to as the “distributor rentals”, especially for box office reporting of older films.”

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