Ne Zha 2 Dominates Global Box Office Amid Soft U.S. Sales

Chinese animated film "Ne Zha 2" became the highest-grossing movie of 2025 with $2.2 billion globally as the domestic box office struggled to reach pre-pandemic levels.While titles like "Zootopia 2" and "Avatar: Fire and Ash" performed well, Paul Dergarabedian highlighted that theater attendance in the U.S. and Canada dropped to 760 million tickets.