Eight Obnoxiously Pretentious Box Office Takes From An Underwhelming $127 Million Weekend

As month six of 2025 crawls to a comparative whimper (with hopes that ‘F1’ and ‘M3GAN 2.0’ break out), behold eight key takeaways from a Fri-Sun frame topped neither by ‘Elio’ nor ’28 Years Later'...

Strong May and April holdovers have covered up an otherwise mediocre June.

The 25th weekend of 2025 cume should total around $127 million, which would be -18% from last year’s respective late-June frame during which Inside Out 2 earned $101 million in its second weekend. As we saw last summer, a mega-opening tentpole could more or less paper over the next weekend if the newbies didn’t quite break out. Think the early-August frame during which Deadpool & Wolverine’s $97 million second weekend meant it barely mattered that Trap only debuted with $16.5 million. In this case, that this past May was such a comparative barnburner has somewhat covered up a thus-far pretty underwhelming June in terms of newbies.

And that won’t change unless M3GAN 2.0 and/or F1 overperform next weekend. At least part of that is due to Disney+-facilitated implosion of what used to be an A+ theatrical, namely the non-sequel Pixar animated feature. As noted yesterday, a Pixar blockbuster like Wall-E could once be expected to thrive right alongside an adult-skewing breakout like Wanted. But in the present tense… the adult-skewing, R-rated horror movie “break out” barely cracks $30 million (or what Bad Teacher earned against the $66 million debut of Cars 2 in 2011) and the Pixar original barely opened above the $19 million initially earned by Angel Studios’ King of Kings.