Few could have predicted Disney’s Zootopia 2 would become the top-grossing 2025 film ahead of Avatar: Fire and Ash, collecting $1.86 billion in worldwide ticket sales, or that Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch would place among the three movies to cross $1 billion. This year brought more surprises: Iron Lung, a tiny asteroid of a movie self-released by YouTube star Mark Fischbach (aka Markiplier) that stunned with $40 million, and Paramount’s panned Scream 7, which defied logic in opening to $64 million, a franchise best and $20 million ahead of expectations. On the specialty side, there’s Neon’s foreign-language films A Sentimental Value and A Secret Agent, which are both competing in the Oscar best picture race and are hovering in the $4 million to $6 million range.
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