Box Office August 1-3, 2025
The theatrical movie box office results for August 1, 2025 through August 3, 2025 have been released.
The Box Office
The Fantastic Four: First Steps was Number One at the United States box office for the second week in a row with $38.6 Million (a 67% drop from last weekend) with $197.1 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $367.4 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $200+ Million.
The Bad Guys 2 premiered in Second Place at the United States box office with $21.9 Million. Worldwide, the film has made $44.4 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $80 Million.
The Naked Gun premiered in Third Place at the United States box office with $16.8 Million. Worldwide, the film has made $28.3 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $42 Million.
Superman was Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $13.7 Million (a 45% drop from last weekend) for $316 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $551 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $225 Million.
Jurassic World Rebirth was Fifth at the United States box office with $8.7 Million (a 34% drop from last weekend) for $317.6 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $766.8 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $180 Million.
These films: Together, F1: The Movie, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Smurfs, and How to Train Your Dragon rounded out the top ten respectively.
Movies That Opened This Weekend
The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:
The Bad Guys 2 is a 2025 American animated heist comedy film based on the children’s book series of the same name by Aaron Blabey, produced by DreamWorks Animation. The sequel to The Bad Guys (2022), it was directed by Pierre Perifel, co-directed by JP Sans, and written by Yoni Brenner and Etan Cohen. The film stars Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Awkwafina, Zazie Beetz, Richard Ayoade, Lilly Singh, and Alex Borstein, reprising their roles from the first film, with Danielle Brooks, Maria Bakalova and Natasha Lyonne joining the cast. The film sees the Bad Guys come out of retirement and join forces with an all-female criminal squad to perform one last heist.
The Naked Gun is a 2025 American crime action comedy film directed by Akiva Schaffer and written by Schaffer, Dan Gregor and Doug Mand. The fourth film in The Naked Gun franchise, it stars Liam Neeson in the main role, with Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand, and Danny Huston starring in supporting roles. It follows the son of Lt. Frank Drebin who must succeed in his father’s footsteps to prevent the closure of Police Squad.
Together is a 2025 supernatural body horror film written and directed by Michael Shanks, in his directorial debut. The film stars real-life married actors Dave Franco and Alison Brie as a couple who move to the countryside and find themselves encountering a mysterious force that horrifically causes changes in their bodies.
Next week sees the release of Freakier Friday, Weapons, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be the Number One film at the box office.
The History of Box Office (and Profit Measurement)
“A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket.
By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a metonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show, receives. The term is also used to refer to a ticket office at an arena or a stadium.
Box office business can be measured in the terms of the number of tickets sold or the amount of money raised by ticket sales (revenue). The projection and analysis of these earnings is greatly important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry.
To determine if a movie made a profit, it is not correct to directly compare the box office gross with the production budget, because the movie theater keeps nearly half of the gross on average. The split varies from movie to movie, and the percentage for the distributor is generally higher in early weeks.
Usually the distributor gets a percentage of the revenue after first deducting a “house allowance” or “house nut”. It is also common that the distributor gets either a percentage of the gross revenue, or a higher percentage of the revenue after deducting the nut, whichever is larger. The distributor’s share of the box office gross is often referred to as the “distributor rentals”, especially for box office reporting of older films.”
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