In 2025, domestic box office revenue was $8.87 billion. 780 million people actually went to the cinema.
That's about two visits per year for every U.S. resident; The country's population is estimated at 347.3 million.
However, admissions were down from EntTelligence's 2024 figure of 820 million by -4.9%, with the previous 12 months seeing a sharp jump in ticket prices across the board, with total admission price at $13.29, +5.7% from 2024, while large format premium ticket prices were $17.69, +4.9%.
The latest data comes from entertainment statistics organization EntTelligence's annual report, which also found that moviegoers watched more than 95 billion minutes of big-screen movies in the 2025 calendar year.
Before the pandemic, the industry averaged more than 1 billion tickets sold annually between 2005 and 2019.
The annual report also provides some insight into window traffic: 35.6% of all moviegoers went to see films in the first three days of their release. Compare this to 73.2% of all moviegoers watching movies within the first 14 days of their release, and 90.7% of all moviegoers heading to theaters within the first 30 days of a movie's release.
Disney led all film studios (of course) in admissions, accounting for about 26% of the 780 million, or 202.9 million; The studio's domestic total is $2.49 billion. Warner Bros received 20.15% admissions, or 157.1 million, after $1.9 billion at the BO Universal North American Film Festival. Film attendance was 17.96% ($140 million, $1.78 billion), Sony 6.4% ($49.9 million, $610.5 million), Paramount 6.4% ($49.9 million, $554 million), Lionsgate 3.9%. (30.4 million, $331 million) and 2.77% for A24 (21.6 million visits). Disney's revenue numbers don't include Searchlight, Sony doesn't include Sony Classics, and Uni doesn't count Focus Features in its EntTelligence calculations.
Among genres, the most people watched action movies at 39.2%, which actually had the highest ticket average at $13.88, with horror ($13.07, 11.56% attendance), drama ($12.85, 10.3% attendance), animation ($12.67, 14.4% attendance) and comedy ($12.50, 5.6% attendance).
Family films rated PG were very popular and received the lion's share of views (34.4%), followed by films rated PG-13 (31.5%) and films rated R (28.3%).
Among the cities, Los Angeles had the highest footfall at 8.97%, followed by New York at 6.48%, Dallas at 3.69%, Chicago at 3.28% and Houston at 3.13%.
Blue voting zones attracted more moviegoers than red ones, from 56.5% to 34.6%, and that's because most movie theaters are located in Democratic-leaning zip codes (as of the 2024 presidential election).
During the demonstrations, men and women were roughly equal in acceptance, ranging from 50.15% to 49.85%. Children under 13 years old made up 10.76% of the attendance, and children over 60 years old made up 11.1% of the attendance.
Domestic box office revenue is hoped to reach $9 billion in 2026, according to industry sources. The last time box office revenue reached this threshold post-Covid was in 2023, the year Barbie And Oppenheimer.
