#1 of 3 The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants (2025)
2025 · Animation, Adventure
$169.3M worldwide · 65% of the chart's total
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants (2025) is the highest-grossing family movie released in week 51 of 2025 (Dec 14–20), with $169.3M worldwide, ahead of David (2025) at $91.1M and Mission Santa: Yoyo to the Rescue (2025) at $2M. 3 family films released that week report a worldwide gross, $262.3M in all, 58% of it from the US & Canada. One film crossed $100 million; none reached $1 billion.
#1 of 3 The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants (2025)
2025 · Animation, Adventure
$169.3M worldwide · 65% of the chart's total
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants (2025) leads with $169.3M, 65% of the total. The top 3 together took $262.3M, almost all of what the 3 films earned. Each bar splits a film's gross into the US & Canada and the rest of the world.
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Number 3 US & Canada (domestic) Rest of the world
Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada. Films are grouped by their release date in week 51 of 2025 (Dec 14–20).
Dec 19, 2025 US and Canada: $80.4M Rest of the world: $10.7M Worldwide: $91.1M
Dec 19, 2025 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $2M Week 51 releases took $262.3M. The biggest of these 9 weeks is week 47 (Nov 16–22) with $540.8M, led by Wicked: For Good (2025).
Of these 10 years, Week 51, 2024 earned the most: $1.2B from 3 films, led by Mufasa: The Lion King (2024). Week 51, 2025 took $262.3M.
| Week | Films | Worldwide | Change | Biggest film |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 51, 2016 Dec 11–17 1 film | 1 | $6.9M | – | Survival Family (2016) $6.9M |
| Week 51, 2017 Dec 17–23 5 films · +13949% | 5 | $967M | +13949% | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) $962.5M |
| Week 51, 2018 Dec 16–22 7 films · −98% | 7 | $16.8M | −98% | The Snow Queen: Mirror Lands (2018) $10.1M |
| Week 51, 2019 Dec 15–21 2 films · +351% | 2 | $75.7M | +351% | Cats (2019) $75.6M |
| Week 51, 2020 Dec 13–19 2 films · −100% | 2 | $110.6K | −100% | Family Fox on Expedition (2020) $55.3K |
| Week 51, 2021 Dec 12–18 3 films · +4660% | 3 | $5.3M | +4660% | You Keep the Kids (2021) $3.8M |
| Week 51, 2022 Dec 11–17 No films | 0 | – | – | – |
| Week 51, 2023 Dec 17–23 4 films | 4 | $311.6M | – | Migration (2023) $300.2M |
| Week 51, 2024 Dec 15–21 3 films · +290% | 3 | $1.2B | +290% | Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) $722.6M |
| Week 51, 2025 Dec 14–20 3 films · −78% | 3 | $262.3M | −78% | The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants (2025) $169.3M |
34 weeks of 2025 with reported grosses; the biggest is week 14 (Mar 30–Apr 5) with $960.4M, led by A Minecraft Movie (2025).
The chart's numbers in short: the #1 film, the total, the billion-dollar hits and the US & Canada share, answered from the same 3 films as the chart.
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants (2025) leads with $169.3M worldwide, $71.1M of it in the US & Canada. Next come David (2025) at $91.1M and Mission Santa: Yoyo to the Rescue (2025) at $2M.
3 family films released in week 51 of 2025 (Dec 14–20) report a worldwide gross, $262.3M in all, or $87.4M per film on average.
None. 1 film crossed $100 million, led by The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants (2025) with $169.3M.
Films are ranked by lifetime worldwide gross in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation, and grouped by their release date in week 51 of 2025 (Dec 14–20). The figures are the reported box office grosses in our database. A gross that looks misattributed, such as one figure shared by two unrelated films or a blockbuster total on an obscure title, is left out rather than shown as a fact.
Grosses change while films are in theaters and whenever a new figure is reported; this chart reads the latest numbers in our database, so an older film can still move after a re-release.