Disney Leads With $1.1B; Warner Bros Soon To Hit $1B

As we near the half year point of 2025 for the domestic box office, which is currently running at $3.7 billion (+23% over 2024) for Jan. 1-June 15 frame, Disney Studios is leading all majors with $1.1 billion.

That’s not a surprise with a string of mass-appealing movies, i.e. Lilo & Stitch ($371.7M) and Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Brave New World ($200.5M). Even the ones that didn’t work to the top of their potential are providing a lot of cushion, read Marvel’s Thunderbolts* ($188.9M) and Snow White ($87.2M).

But the big pom pom worth waving is for Warner Bros. which stands at $906.9M through yesterday from eight titles. With F1, James Gunn’s Superman and Weapons on deck in the next month and half, the Burbank, CA lot is destined for $1 billion-plus at the domestic box office before Labor Day. For all the cry-cry about how the pressure is on the motion picture side in a divided entertainment conglom future, the Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy run studio, along with the Gunn and Safran run DC Studios, is on terra firma with plenty of downstream cash in store for Max from premium fare. Warners can currently boast the highest grossing movie at the domestic (and global) box office with the Legendary co-production, A Minecraft Movie ($423.8M U.S./Canada; $953.5M WW).

The latest U.S./Canada marketshare data comes from Comscore.

Disney, Warners Bros, Paramount, A24 and Angel Studios are the only five studios to date to post gains over the Jan. 1-June 15 time frame a year ago.

Disney combined with 20th Century Studios is +222% over 2024. You’ll remember there wasn’t that much product going on with the Mouse House last year until Inside Out 2 bowed to $154.2M in mid-June. Deadpool & Wolverine, 2024’s biggest opener at $211.4M, and a record start for a R-rated movie, didn’t arrive until late July.

Warners is +29% over last year to date, while Paramount is +5%, A24 at 13% (despite a string of single digit openings) with Angel Studios +232%.

Universal and Focus with 17 new and previous year release stands at $411.4M in third fueled by How To Train Your Dragon for Universal ($84.6M opening, $113.8M through yesterday) and DreamWorks Animation’s Dog Man ($97.9M), while the top grossing titles for Focus remains the carryover success of Nosferatu ($47.4M this year alone for lifetime of $95.6M) and Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag which did $21.4M stateside ($42.9M worldwide) off a relatively high production cost of $50M-$60M. On deck for Uni this summer is Jurassic World: Rebirth, Nobody 2 and DreamWorks Animation’s Bad Guys 2.

Paramount in fourth place has collected $283.1M from six movies, 90% of that from Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning and Sonic the Hedgehog 3‘s calendar year cash ($84.5M for a lifetime total of $236.1M). Upcoming for the Melrose lot as they await a finalization of their merger is the Smurfs animated reboot on July 18, and their revitalization of Zucker, Zucker and Abrahams’ The Naked Gun starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson on Aug. 1.

Sony with seven titles stands at $193.9M, -55% from a year ago, when they had Bad Boys: Ride or Die and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Hope abounds for an overperformance from their Danny Boyle title 28 Years Later which stands at 92% certified fresh which is higher than the director’s original 2002 movie (87% certified fresh) and its 2009 sequel, 28 Weeks Later (72% fresh). With $46.3M to date, Karate Kid: Legends wasn’t exactly the summer tentpole that was expected. Sony’s tally doesn’t include Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Classics which are broken out separately in Comscore.

A24 from a combined 14 movies, both new and 2024 carryovers (+2 from a year ago), counts $125.4M. Their Celine Song directed romcom Materialists wound up as their third highest opener in the distrib’s history at $10.97M per Comscore. Their top three movies so far this year are Warfare ($26M), the Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd genre comedy, Death of a Unicorn ($21.3M) and 2024’s Nicole Kidman-Harris Dickinson kinky romance Babygirl which did $19M during the current calendar year for a lifetime of $28.1M.

Lionsgate from ten releases is seeing $123.8M through Sunday, -19% versus the same Jan-June period in 2024. Their top titles YTD are Ballerina: From the World of John Wick ($45.4M), Den of Thieves: Pantera ($36M) and the Mel Gibson directed, Mark Wahlberg starring Flight Risk ($29.7M).

Amazon MGM Studios, the streamer that embraces theatrical, counts six movies contributing $108.5M, just -9% off from a year ago. Big titles to date are The Accountant 2 ($65.5M) and Working Man ($37M). Next is Luca Guadagnino’s Julia Roberts-Andrew Garfield-Ayo Edebiri thriller After the Hunt on Oct. 10. The best is yet to come in 2026 with the sci-fi Chris Pratt Mercy on Jan. 23, the Ryan Gosling astronaut movie Project Hail Mary on March 20 and the Nicholas Galitzine Masters of the Universe roaring on June 5.

Angels Studios at $88.9M from six movies is seeing 68% of that gross coming from their Easter animated movie, King of Kings. They have the Tony Hale adventure family movie, Sketch, on Aug. 6.