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During the weekend ending on June 15, 2025, the live action remake "How to Train Your Dragon " was the highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada, collectively known as the North American movie market. Its box office revenue amounted to **** million U.S. dollars.

The North American box office after the pandemic

The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak persists in the arguably most influential market worldwide. Box office revenue in the U.S. and Canada stood slightly below nine billion dollars in 2024 – more than three billion less than the value recorded in 2019. Perhaps unsurprisingly, cinema attendance experienced a very similar trajectory. The number of movie tickets sold in Canada and the U.S. amounted to little more than 762 million in 2024. Between 1980 and 2019, it had always surpassed a billion.

The struggle of Canada's cinema

When looking only at the northernmost country part of the North American movie market, the post-pandemic recovery was even slower. Box office gross in Canada amounted to around 600 million Canadian dollars in 2023, roughly only two thirds of the result seen in 2019. It is possible that the audience remained cautious after the coronavirus outbreak. As of mid-2021, nearly 70 percent of people aged 14 and above said in a survey that they did not go to a movie theater in Canada throughout the past 12 months.