{"id":155716,"date":"2026-01-02T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=155716"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:13:48","slug":"stranger-things-finale-episode-earns-20m-25m-in-new-years-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/stranger-things-finale-episode-earns-20m-25m-in-new-years-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stranger Things&#8221; Finale Episode Earns $20M\u2013$25M in New Year\u2019s Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Netflix<\/strong> rang in 2025 with an unexpected theatrical win as <strong>Stranger Things<\/strong>\u2019 finale episode from Volume 2 of the fifth season. Despite being released on December 31 worldwide, the episode was able to mark a record-setting box office performance for a Netflix title in cinemas.<\/p>\n<p>The final episode of Matt and Ross Duffer\u2019s global phenomenon debuted simultaneously on Netflix and 600 theaters on December 31, 2025.<strong> According to box office and exhibition sources, AMC and Cinemark, the finale surpassed Netflix\u2019s previous theatrical high<\/strong> set by Netflix\u2019s <em>\u201cKpop Demon Hunters,\u201d<\/em> which grossed $18 million.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_155743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155743\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stranger-Things-earned-almost-30-million-in-New-years-box-office.jpg\" alt=\"AMC and CInemark has reported their figures regarding Stranger Things final episode on cinemas \" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stranger-Things-earned-almost-30-million-in-New-years-box-office.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stranger-Things-earned-almost-30-million-in-New-years-box-office-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stranger-Things-earned-almost-30-million-in-New-years-box-office-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stranger-Things-earned-almost-30-million-in-New-years-box-office-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stranger-Things-earned-almost-30-million-in-New-years-box-office-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stranger-Things-earned-almost-30-million-in-New-years-box-office-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stranger-Things-earned-almost-30-million-in-New-years-box-office-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot from Deadline\u2019s Instagram post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Netflix didn\u2019t report box office figures, but EntTelligence estimates that admissions reached <strong>1.3 million by New Year\u2019s Day<\/strong>, up from the 1.1 million vouchers the Duffer brothers cited earlier in the week, <strong>marking a $20M-$25 Box Office during the screening<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Since its 2016 debut, Stranger Things has become a global phenomenon by becoming one of Netflix\u2019s most-watched series ever. The show already made its cinematic farewell a<strong> fittingly blockbuster<\/strong> with its iconic New Year\u2019s Box Office.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AfQ13jsLDms\" title=\"Stranger Things 5 | Finale Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AfQ13jsLDms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix rang in 2025 with an unexpected theatrical win as Stranger Things\u2019 finale episode from Volume 2 of the fifth season. Despite being released on December 31 worldwide, the episode was able to mark a record-setting box office performance for a Netflix title in cinemas. The final episode of Matt and Ross Duffer\u2019s global phenomenon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":155745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,7,1441],"tags":[1853],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-155716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-news","9":"category-series","10":"tag-stranger-things"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155716"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=155716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}