Receipts: ‘Fire And Ash’ Sets Domestic And International Box Offices Ablaze

Domestic: Avatar: Fire and Ash blazed through the 52nd weekend of 2025 at the domestic box office—which tracked from Friday, December 26, 2025, to Sunday, December 28, 2025—easily holding the number one spot in its second weekend. The blockbuster grossed $63.088 million over the weekend, just an impressive 29.2% drop from its opening. Its domestic total now stands at a whopping $216.915 million, accounting for just 28.5% of its worldwide earnings.

The third entry in James Cameron’s smash hit Avatar franchise—whose 2009 original still holds the record for the highest-grossing film of all time—has continued the series’ one-of-a-kind run. While critics have been somewhat less favorable, giving the film a 76% on Rotten Tomatoes, audiences have loved the epic, awarding it a 92%.

Fire and Ash continues the saga of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their family as they navigate rising conflict on Pandora. This time, they face a new, aggressive threat: a Na’vi clan known as the Ash People.

“Popular” movie musical Wicked: For Good remains in the domestic top 10 for its sixth weekend at the box office, falling two spots to ninth place. Benefiting from the holidays, the sequel earned 9.5% more than the previous weekend, grossing $5.322 million. Its total domestic gross has now soared to $331.685 million, or 65.8% of its worldwide earnings—certainly something to rejoicify.

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice began its limited U.S. theatrical run on Thursday, December 25, 2025, opening in 13 theaters. The South Korean black comedy thriller debuted in 12th place, raking in $332,653 over the holiday weekend. Its domestic total now sits at $645,622, just 3% of its worldwide gross. The film has been universally acclaimed, earning a near-perfect 99% critic score and a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Adapted from Donald Westlake's novel The Ax, No Other Choice follows You Man-soo (Lee Byung-hun), a longtime paper industry worker who has been abruptly laid off after 25 years with the same company. Desperate for a new position, Man-soo devises a sinister plan to take out his competitors and secure a job—no matter the cost.

International: Following the performance of its predecessors, Avatar: Fire and Ash has dominated international markets. The blockbuster has earned $544.708 million internationally after just two weeks of theatrical release—71.5% of its worldwide gross of $761.623 million. As the sequel rapidly approaches $1 billion, key markets including China ($99.563 million), France ($54.354 million), and South Korea ($31.983 million) have been crucial in the film’s success.

Streaming: On Netflix’s Global Top 10 Movies List, which tracked from Monday, December 22, 2025, to Sunday, December 28, 2025, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery landed in second. In the murder mystery’s third week in the Top 10, it pulled in 11.8 million views across 28.7 million hours of viewing time.

KPop Demon Hunters secured another podium finish, earning third place for its 28th consecutive week in the Top 10. The animated musical drew in 9.1 million views and 15.1 million hours of viewing time over the holiday.

In ninth place is 2018’s Tomb Raider reboot, earning 4.2 million views and 8.2 million hours streamed in its second week in the Top 10. This film adaptation of the iconic video game franchise is the third entry in the series, and received a lackluster 52% critic score and a similar 55% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

On the Global Top 10 Non-English Movies List, South Korean sci-fi disaster film The Great Flood held the first position strongly. Following a global Netflix release on Friday, December 19, 2025, the film earned 33.1 million views with 60.1 million hours viewed in its second week in the Top 10. Despite strong engagement, responses to the film have been mixed, with a 50% critic score and an unfavorable 34% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Great Flood follows researcher Koo An Na (Kim Da-mi), as she fights for survival alongside her young son after a humanity-threatening flood sweeps the planet and traps her within a rapidly submerging apartment complex.

A Time for Bravery (La hora de los valientes) landed in second on the list. Also debuting globally via Netflix on Friday, December 19, 2025, the Mexican action-comedy earned 8.2 million views and 14.7 million hours streamed.

A remake of the 2005 Argentine film On Probation (Tiempo de valientes), the newly released version follows a psychoanalyst, Silverstein (Luis Gerardo Méndez), who is sentenced to community service and assigned to provide therapeutic support to a police agent, Diaz (Memo Villegas), who is struggling to keep himself together. The two shortly find themselves falling headfirst into a dangerous, comedy-filled adventure of a lifetime.

Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders, the sequel to 2020’s Raat Akeli Hai, earned third place in its second week in the Top 10. Another Friday, December 19, 2025, debut on Netflix, the Indian Hindi-language film earned 3.7 million views and 8.5 million hours of watch time. The film has been met with primarily positive reviews, holding a 77% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The sequel once again follows small-town inspector Jatil Yadav (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), this time on a new case: the murder of the Bansal family. As the inspector dives deeper into the mystery, the web he has uncovered unfolds into a much larger conspiracy.

Japanese romance 10DANCE earned the fifth spot on the list following its Netflix debut on Thursday, December 18, 2025. The film earned 1.6 million views and 3.5 million hours streamed in its second week in the Top 10.

Based on the manga of the same name, the LGBTQ+ love story follows two professional dancers who share the same name: Shinya Sugiki (Keita Machida) and Shinya Suzuki (Ryoma Takeuchi). To prepare for an upcoming competition, the two must learn one another’s contrasting dance styles—leading to more than they bargained for as their partnership turns romantic.

The highly anticipated sci-fi fantasy anime, Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, is scheduled to premiere via Netflix on Thursday, January 22, 2026. The musical reimagines the Japanese folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, following high schooler Iroha Sakayori after she discovers a mysterious baby that crash-landed from the Moon. Iroha’s world turns even more upside down as the baby rapidly grows into the legendary Princess Kaguya, marking the beginning of a music-filled journey for the two.

The Smashing Machine arrives on HBO Max on Friday, January 23, 2026. The biopic follows MMA fighter Mark Kerr (Dwayne Johnson), also known as “The Smashing Machine,” through the peak of his career. The film chronicles his life inside and outside of the cage, including his tumultuous marriage to Dawn Staples (Emily Blunt).