The domestic box office totaled roughly $8.6 billion in 2025—on par with 2024 and still 20–25% smaller than the boom years of the late 2010s. Hollywood’s common post-pandemic refrain of “Survive till 2025” has now…
Box Office Behavior: Hollywood’s Vanishing Middle Class
In 2024, the five major theatrical movie studios — Disney, Universal, Warner Bros., Sony, Paramount — delivered 62 wide releases to cinemas. Just 20 of these films cost less than $100 million to produce. It’s…