A 2025 Movie You Had No Idea Was a Monstrous Box

A 2025 Movie You Had No Idea Was a Monstrous Box-Office Hit

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I was wading through the 2025 box-office numbers this morning looking for inspiration, and I always find it surprising when a movie does much better than I’d have guessed. In the U.S., we tend to measure a film’s success by its opening weekend (or maybe two), even though plenty of movies quietly rack up big numbers overseas. And I’m not talking about Chinese blockbusters like Ne Zha 2 , which made $1.9 billion this year (only 1.2 percent of that in North America).

I mean American-made films—or in some cases, UK productions. For example, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy made $0 at the U.S. box office because it went straight to Peacock. But overseas? It grossed $140 million on a $50 m