The box office gasped for breath in lowest-grossing weekend of the year thus far

Undersea thriller Last Breath couldn't float above Captain America: Brave New World.

By Emma Keates  |  March 3, 2025 | 9:31am
Photo: Mark Cassar/Focus Features
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The box office gasped for breath in lowest-grossing weekend of the year thus far

Award season 2024 is officially over, which means awards junkies and cinephiles can finally look ahead to some fresh new titles instead of zeroing in on the same handful from last year. People weren’t quite ready to do that this past weekend, though; whether they were at home squeezing in some last minute rewatches of Anora and The Brutalist or coming up with punny food for their Oscar parties, they weren’t at the movie theater. This weekend’s films earned a total of $51 million across the board, per Box Office Mojo—the lowest-grossing weekend of 2025 to date. That’s even lower than the weekend of the Super Bowl, which is typically a quiet time, but saw $54 million this year. As Deadline points out, newly-minted Oscar winner Dune: Part Two opened this time last year, spicing up its opening frame to $114.6 million overall. Hopefully Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 will revive the proceedings just like its protagonist when it opens (at long last) next weekend. 

For now, Captain America: Brave New World is still leading the pack. The MCU film isn’t the hero the box office needed, though; it dropped 46.8% in its third weekend to add a mere $15 million to its pot. It still beat Last Breath, the undersea thriller starring Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu. There was no hidden treasure for Focus Features there; the film only opened to $7.8 million. Below those two was the same army of animals—that’s The Monkey, Paddington In Peru, Dog Man, and Mufasa: The Lion King in that order—that chased Cap last weekend. Likely no future Oscar-winners among the pack, but awards watch 2025 starts with Mickey 17 next weekend.

You can check out the rest of the top 10, courtesy of Box Office Mojo, below:

  1. Captain America: Brave New World, $15,000,000
  2. Last Breath, $7,800,000
  3. The Monkey, $6,350,000
  4. Paddington in Peru, $4,500,228
  5. Dog Man, $4,200,035
  6. Mufasa: The Lion King, $1,900,000
  7. Heart Eyes, $1,325,069
  8. The Unbreakable Boy, $1,200,000
  9. One of Them Days, $925,000
  10. Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: Beginning, $916,664

 
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