This year was supposed to cement the great box office reset. Instead, 2025 has fallen far short of that promise. Winter was bleak, and although spring surged and summer was decent, the fall season has been tragic.

No, Thanksgiving isn’t a holiday in the rest of the world, but you’d think it would be as we’re in for another box office stretch for the record books as the opening Disney’s Zootopia 2 and the second weekend combined of Universal’s Wicked: For Good are bound to send the domestic box office to arguably

Jonathan Bailey is the year's highest-grossing star at the box office so far after Wicked: For Good made $150 million at the domestic box office and $226 million worldwide in its opening weekend. PEOPLE named Bailey this year's Sexiest Man Alive on Nov.

Despite mixed reviews, Colleen Hoover's adaptation Regretting You has now outperformed David Fincher's acclaimed thriller Zodiac at the box office.

Wicked: For Good shows Hollywood box office records can be smashed by a familiar melody sung loudly, together, in the dark.