From the biggest screen to the smallest, entertainment faced a year of uncertainty. TikTok’s ban loomed large, and Hollywood anxiously awaited a slate of box-office biggies to complete its comeback. Meanwhile, Tayvis kept on keeping on.
Your predictions for how the year in entertainment would pan out were hit-or-miss. OK, mostly miss.
You said: TikTok wouldn’t get banned in the US. ✅
The 72% of you who said the social app wouldn’t be banned are mostly right—and the rest of you can take home a technical win, because TikTok was shut down for ~14 hours on January 19. The fate of the #ForYouPage appears to be stabilizing: A group of US investors, including Oracle and Silver Lake, signed agreements to take over stateside operations of the app from China-based ByteDance.
You said: Wicked: For Good would earn the most at the global box office. ❌
Instead, Zootopia 2 had the biggest opening weekend of any movie in 2025, with $556 million globally. Only 7% of you predicted Judy Hopps would bounce to the top of the list, with nearly a third predicting Wicked: For Good would win out instead. Zootopia 2 was the biggest global animated opening of all time and the No. 4 biggest global opening…period. The domestic box office this year is on track to match or exceed the US box office’s post-pandemic high of ~$9 billion.
You said: The Kansas City Chiefs would win Super Bowl LIX. ❌
More than a third of you thought Andy Reid would get Gatorade dumped on his head this year. Instead, the Philadelphia Eagles won, which just 11% of you predicted.
You said: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce would stay together, but not get engaged. ❌
Instead of getting a Super Bowl ring this year, Kelce got a vintage-style ~8- to 10-carat ring for Tay.—JW