<p style="text-align:start;" size="0" _root="undefined" __ownerid="undefined" __hash="undefined" __altered="false">A typically slow New Year’s Eve at the box office did little to rally the industry on the last movie-going day of the year and while an end of year surge from "Avatar: Fire and Ash" helped propel the 2025 domestic box office past last year's gross, it still fell short of analysts' $9 billion prediction. </p><p style="text-align:start;" size="0" _root="undefined" __ownerid="undefined" __hash="undefined" __altered="false"></p>