Industry News
by saidiontheside

saidi’s take – 9/3/2025

Hello everyone,

BOX OFFICE: The summer movie season came crawling to a close with “Weapons” jumping back to #1 and the 50th anniversary re-release of “Jaws” beating all the new movie releases.  “Weapons” is the only move to make over $10 million.  It made $10.47 million for the 3-day and $13 million for the 4-day holiday weekend.  The re-release of “Jaws” made almost $10 million – actually $9.89 million – over 4 days and $8.2 million over 3-days.  The new release “Caught Stealing” was #3 with $7.85 million 3-day but went down to #4 with $7.85 for the 4-day (“Freakier Friday” made $8.74 million for 3rd on the 4-day and $6.7 million for 4th on for the 3-day weekend).  The new release “The Roses” was 5th with $6.26 million for 3-day and $7.758 million for the 4-day.

The overall summer box office limped to a close with a domestic total of just $63.6 million.  That’s the 5th lowest total domestic box office of 2025.  It hasn’t been lower than that since March.  The 4-day weekend was $79.1 million.

WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: It was also a pretty slow weekend worldwide.  “Fantastic Four: First Steps” rose above a $500 million worldwide total.  “Superman” was slightly ahead of “F1” until this weekend.  “F1” worldwide total box office is now almost $614 million, and “Superman” worldwide box office total is now $611.6 million.  Unlike the domestic totals, the worldwide box office for “The Roses” was $17.2 million which was higher than the worldwide gross of  “Caught Stealing” which was $14.9 million.

OTHER NEWS:

The movie “Mortal Kombat 2” which was previously scheduled for next month (Oct 2025) has just been postponed until May 15, 2026. 

They just announced that the next “Knives Out” movie  “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” will have a limited theatrical run starting on Nov 26 before premiering on Netflix a couple weeks later on Dec 12.

Disney just announced that in fall next year they will release a new original animated movie called “Hexed”.  It premieres Nov 2026.

Disney also announced that “Ice Age 6 – Boiling Point” – the first “Ice Age” movie since Disney took over the franchise when it acquired 20th Century Fox Studios – will be released Feb 5, 2027.

LITTLE BIT OF HUMOR: 

Not only that but there would probably be a live stream from the boat.