{"id":2216566,"date":"2025-12-30T12:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2216566"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:27:30","slug":"the-movies-that-were-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-movies-that-were-top\/","title":{"rendered":"The movies that were top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The big screen took us everywhere from the Emerald City of Oz to the sparkling stage of a <strong>HUNTR\/X<\/strong> concert this year. Here&#8217;s a look at the films that defined 2025:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was the romantic comedy-drama film <em>Anora<\/em> that took many of the top prizes at the Oscars this year. The independent film that was directed, edited, produced and written by <strong>Sean Baker<\/strong> won five statues at the 97th Academy Awards, including best picture. <strong>Brady Corbet<\/strong>&#8216;s epic period drama <em>The Brutalist<\/em> won three awards, including best actor for <strong>Adrien Brody<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As for the movies that topped the domestic box office chart this year, they were led by the <strong>Jack Black<\/strong>-starring <em>A Minecraft Movie<\/em>. That video game adaptation is followed by the live-action remake of <em>Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/em>, which landed in second place. <strong>James Gunn<\/strong>&#8216;s fresh take on <em>Superman<\/em> flies onto the list at #3, while <em>Jurassic World<\/em> <em>Rebirth<\/em> and <em>Wicked: For Good<\/em> became the fourth and fifth highest-grossing domestic films, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Pedro Pascal<\/strong> established himself as a bona fide movie star this year as he had three feature films in vastly different genres release theatrically in two months. First it was the A24 romantic drama film <em>Materialists<\/em>, where he played a millionaire bachelor looking for love. Then it was the neo-Western thriller <em>Eddington<\/em>\u00a0in which he played a small-town mayor. Finally, he took on the role of Mister Fantastic in the Marvel Cinematic Universe&#8217;s <em>The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were many films that captured the cultural zeitgeist in 2025, but perhaps none more than <em>KPop Demon Hunter<\/em>s. The animated movie musical became Netflix&#8217;s most popular film of all time, taking over the top spot on the Most Popular English Films list with over 236 million total views. Other movies that started conversations were <strong>Ryan Coogler<\/strong>&#8216;s epic vampire film <em>Sinners<\/em>, <strong>Paul Thomas Anderson<\/strong>&#8216;s newest drama <em>One Battle After<\/em> <em>Another<\/em> and the surprise horror hit\u00a0<em>Weapons<\/em>\u00a0from director <strong>Zach Cregger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big screen took us everywhere from the Emerald City of Oz to the sparkling stage of a HUNTR\/X concert this year. Here&#8217;s a look at the films that defined 2025: It was the romantic comedy-drama film Anora that took many of the top prizes at the Oscars this year. 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