Warner Bros has officially become the first Hollywood studio in 2025 to surpass $4 billion at the global box office.
Just as Warner Bros is opening its seventh original movie this year with Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, the motion picture studio of Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack can celebrate being the first to cross $4 billion at the global box office this year.
It’s the first time that Warner Bros has crossed $4 billion since 2019. This time the studio pulled it off with 11 theatrical releases versus 20 titles six years ago. Broken out, Warners has grossed $1.795 billion at the domestic B.O. and another $2.2B abroad. This weekend, the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring One Battle After Another is expected to post a $45M global bow.
Superman proved to fire off the new DC under chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran, while the original gambles that Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy have made at the larger Warner Bros Motion Picture Group with Sinners and F1, as well as new IP A Minecraft Movie, have been smashing successes.
Nine Warner Bros. movies opened to No. 1 this year. So far, the studio counts 15 weekends at No. 1 both stateside and worldwide. No other studio has pulled off those feats year-to-date. Seven consecutive films opened to north of $40M, the first for any studio. (Disney had five titles do so last year.)
Warners’ genre label, New Line, achieved five consecutive weekends at No. 1, setting a record for the label. Don’t say horror didn’t work because the Richard Brener-run New Line minted more than $1 billion this year from scary movies alone, delivering franchise highs with the latest installments of Final Destination and The Conjuring.
Warners pulled off some other unique box office records. For example, for the first time since 2009, its the only studio to have two movies gross over $40M on the same weekend with Sinners and Minecraft.
Warners was the top distributor for April ($1 billion WW), July ($898M WW) and August ($438M WW). At the September B.O. so far, it’s commanding 36% of the domestic gross.
Here are Warner Bros’ top theatrical releases at the global box office for 2025 YTD, all of which have cleared $100M+:
A Minecraft Movie – $957.8M
F1: The Movie (Apple Original Films) – $624.3M
Superman – $615.3M
The Conjuring: Last Rites — $403.2M
Sinners – $366.6M
Final Destination Bloodlines – $313M
Weapons – $263.9M
Mickey 17 – $133.3M
Note that Disney ultimately will hit $4B global as well with Tron: Ares, Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash on the horizon.
