Mason Thames Is First Actor Since Jim Carrey To Star in Three No. 1 Movies in One Year

Summary

• Rising star Mason Thames achieved three No. 1 box office hits in a single year
• This milestone was last accomplished by Jim Carrey in 1994
• Thames’s 2025 hits include How to Train Your Dragon, Black Phone 2, and Regretting You

In a feat not witnessed in three decades, 18-year-old Hollywood rising star Mason Thames has achieved three No. 1 box office hits in a single year, a milestone last accomplished by Jim Carrey in 1994. This impressive streak, which occurred over the Halloween weekend, firmly establishes Thames’s emergence as an undeniable box office powerhouse.

Thames’s remarkable year began with the summer release of the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon, which grossed $636 million worldwide. In October, Black Phone 2, the sequel to Thames’s debut film, surpassed $104 million globally, making it one of only six horror films in 2025 to exceed $100 million. Completing his trio of successes, the recently released Regretting You, a Colleen Hoover adaptation featuring Thames in a romantic lead role, has become one of the year’s most successful love stories, earning $50 million worldwide.

This rare achievement mirrors Jim Carrey’s 1994 success, when Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber all reached the No. 1 spot. For 30 years, no actor had managed to replicate this until Thames.

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