UPDATE: Updated with Friday numbers.
EARLIER: Here are the official Thursday numbers, which set up what to expect this coming weekend. A handful of titles to look out for, most of which are the holiday releases.
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” is set to drop 51% in its fourth weekend, having earned $2.5M on Thursday, with a $22M three-day tally. Its domestic tally will hit $345M, and globally it’s looking at $1.2 billion by Sunday evening.
It’s become very clear that “Fire and Ash” won’t be reaching “Way of Water” numbers, which hit $2.3 billion globally. There’s still no reason for Disney not to greenlight a fourth film — maybe with a slightly smaller budget, at least not $400M — but it looks like “Fire and Ash” will end its run at around $1.6 billion, and that’s good enough to make it the second-highest-grossing 2025 film, behind the China-crazed “Zootopia 2.”
Meanwhile, “The Housemaid” isn’t letting up. It barely had a 1% dip last week, taking in $15M, and is headed toward a 3-day $13M weekend, which would barely be a drop. This movie’s got legs, and $250M worldwide by the end of its run is not out of the question. With a measly budget of $35M, no wonder a sequel was greenlit this past week, ready to shoot this year.
And how about “Marty Supreme”? $1M on Thursday, possibly $9M for the upcoming weekend, which could potentially result in a 5% drop. It could very well hit the $75M domestic mark by the end of the weekend.
More good news: “Marty” was released in the UK last week and has already earned an impressive $10M over there, some of it due to Timothée Chalamet’s steroid-infused marketing push, which included his public infatuation with Susan Boyle — the Scottish singer who became famous on Britain’s Got Talent — citing her as one of the people he admires for “dreaming big and inspiring him.” Chalamet even gave Boyle a “Marty Supreme” jacket as a gift during his press tour.