This year, moviegoers have completely changed.
With several blockbuster sequels working their magic on theater audiences in 2025, you won’t be surprised to learn that the year’s top 15 box office films include Zootopia 2, Jurassic World: Rebirth, Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning, Fantastic Four: First Steps, The Conjuring: The Last Rites, Captain America: Brave New World, and Wicked: For Good, each grossing over $440. 1 million worldwide.
Live-action adaptations of popular series such as Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Warner Bros. were also popular. ” The Minecraft movies grossed about $1 billion each, making them the third and fourth highest-grossing films of the year.
However, the sequel, which hit No. 1 worldwide, is a movie that many Americans have yet to see, considering it grossed just $23 million in the United States.
So which movie took the crown as the highest-grossing film of 2025? It’s the Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2, which grossed around $2.2 billion worldwide (almost twice as much as runner-up Zootopia 2, which brought in around $1.3 billion).
