By Janet H. Cho

Walt Disney's Avatar: Fire and Ash stayed No. 1 at the domestic box office for a second straight weekend. Ticket sales for Christmas releases, though, fell short of last year's total.

Avatar: Fire and Ash raked in another estimated $64 million through Sunday, bringing its domestic ticket sales to an estimated $217.7 million since its Dec. 19 debut, according to Comscore.

James Cameron's sci-fi fantasy was also the biggest cinema draw on Christmas, with $24 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada -- 35.3% of the day's totals.

Ten films opened on Christmas this year, collectively grossing nearly $68 million. On Christmas 2024, seven films opened, grossing $69.9 million, Comscore reported.

Hollywood aims to reach $9 billion in domestic ticket sales before 2025 ends on Wednesday.

Only two films that opened on Christmas ranked in the domestic top 10: Anaconda, from Sony Pictures, and Song Sung Blue, from Focus Features.

Anaconda, a PG-13-rated comedy adventure about midlife, raked in an estimated $14.6 million. Song Sung Blue, a PG-13-rated musical biography of a Neil Diamond tribute band, sold $7.6 million.

The rest of the domestic top 10 were holdovers. In second place was Disney's Zootopia 2, which opened on Nov. 26. It sold another $20 million in its fifth weekend, bringing its total domestic box office to an estimated $321.4 million, according to Comscore.

In third place, A24's sports drama Marty Supreme sold a record per-screen average of $145,833, the highest since 2016's La La Land, when it opened in six theaters on Dec. 19. On Christmas, it opened on 2,668 screens and sold $17.5 million. It has sold $28.3 million through Sunday.

And in ninth place, Universal's Wicked: For Good, which opened Nov. 17, sold $5.3 million in its sixth weekend. It has sold an estimated $331.6 million.

Write to Janet H. Cho at janet.cho@dowjones.com

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