What are America’s favorite Christmas movies?

64% of Americans are planning on watching one this year.

Whether you’re into so-bad-they’re-good Christmas movies, anti-Christmas Christmas movies, or even semi-horrifying Christmas movies, there seems to be something out there for even the least festive film fans once the holiday season rolls around. Perhaps that’s part of the reason that a full 64% of US adults say they plan on sitting down to watch one this year, per a new YouGov survey.

However, as anyone who’s managed to get halfway through a particularly bad (which is really saying something) Hallmark holiday movie can attest, not all Christmas flicks are created equal, with the same YouGov poll revealing America’s favorites.

Christmas movie ranking chart — Sherwood News

“Home Alone,” the 1990 home invasion comedy classic starring a 9-year-old Macaulay Culkin, sits atop the tree, with some 56% of respondents who’d seen the movie saying they loved it. The film hauled a mightily impressive ~$286 million when it was released some 35 years ago, meaning it’s not only the most loved American Christmas film, but also the top-grossing, per Box Office Mojo figures.

“A Charlie Brown Christmas” from 1965, with its soft-jazzy soundtrack, which has become a favorite among vinyl-hoarding music aficionados the world over, sits in second place, while other decades-old movies like “White Christmas” (1954) and, maybe controversially, “Die Hard” (1988) round out much of America’s list of favorites.

Indeed, you have to get down as far as “The Holdovers” from 2023 in 10th place to find the first holiday movie made in the last 20 years, suggesting that it takes quite an effort to break into America’s Christmas movie royalty.

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In less than 3 weeks, Disney’s “Zootopia 2” becomes the second billion-dollar film of 2025

The global film industry officially has its second billion-dollar film of the year, as Disney’s “Zootopia 2” surged past the $1 billion box office mark in just 17 days. The other billion-dollar film this year, the live-action “Lilo & Stitch,” was also made by Disney.

“Zootopia” was the fastest to reach 10 figures of any animated film. The animated hit, which had the highest-grossing global debut of the year over Thanksgiving weekend, has benefited from massive numbers in China.

Disney also logged two billion-dollar films last year with “Inside Out 2” and “Moana 2.” (The latter also came out over the Thanksgiving holiday.) The only other film to cross the mark in 2024 was “Deadpool and Wolverine,” which featured Disney’s IP.

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12/11/25

Would a social media ban see chronically online teens turn to AI chatbots?

As Australia enacts a world-first ban, a survey finds more US teens are using social media — and chatbots — daily.

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Only six of the top 20 songs of 2025 so far are from this year

Most of the biggest songs of 2025 aren’t from 2025.

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Charlie Kirk’s Wikipedia page was the top English-language article on the site in 2025

The day after his assassination in September, Charlie Kirk’s Wikipedia page was viewed over 170 times per second, or almost 15 million times, according to figures from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Like with most other years, the top entries of the year reflected the fact that millions flock to the platform to learn more about political figures, films, and fatalities.

Though there’s been much talk about the impact of AI-generated search summaries and chatbots on Wikipedia — not least from the platform itself — it’s still clearly a major go-to resource for anyone looking to learn a little about a lot online, especially if this week’s year-end figures are anything to go by.