New Year’s Day 2025 rang in an estimated $42.9M for all movies, the best result for the holiday post-Covid.
New Year’s Day 2022 grossed $40.2M, led by Spider-Man: No Way Home ($23.1M). January 1 did 33% more than the first day of 2024 — a great new beginning to a box office year that is expected to clear $9 billion.
This New Year’s Day also was up 38% over New Year’s Eve’s business. Another day, another day that Mufasa: The Lion King beat Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for No.
1, $10.3M to $8.95M. While the Paramount/Sega toon feature won the last two weekends, the Disney prequel has won six days at the daily box office since Christmas.
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