“Avatar: Fire and Ash” dominated the Christmas corridor and carried the domestic box office into the final stretch of 2025, collecting an estimated $64 million from Dec. 26–28 and $88 million across the four-day holiday frame. The sequel has reached about $217.7 million in North America after two weekends, powered by a notably steady second-weekend drop.
The weekend’s other headline came from A24’s “Marty Supreme,” which turned a platform rollout into a wide break that validated Timothée Chalamet’s Christmas-week drawing power. The film earned $15.6 million on the three-day weekend after expanding to 2,668 theaters, and about $27.1 million across the four-day holiday period. Early box-office reporting also placed Christmas Day at roughly $9.7 million for the title.
That performance extends a recent holiday run for Chalamet that began with 2023’s “Wonka,” which finished at about $634.5 million worldwide, and continued with the Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” released on Dec. 25, 2024 and closing at about $140.5 million worldwide. “Marty Supreme,” a table-tennis drama directed by Josh Safdie, now gives the actor another year-end launchpad—this time with an original story carrying a reported $70 million price tag.
Disney held a strong second pillar in the marketplace with “Zootopia 2,” which added about $20 million on the weekend, bringing its domestic total to about $321 million while remaining a global juggernaut. The weekend also delivered a useful signal for exhibitors: a star-driven original film can still break through during peak traffic, even while franchise product commands premium screens.
Comscore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian called the holiday finish “a really solid end to a tumultuous year,” as domestic ticket sales sat at about $8.76 billion with only days left on the calendar.
