Pixar appears to have an original hit on its hands Hoppers It looks like it will drop as much as 33 percent in its second outing at the domestic box office. Based on Friday’s $7.1 million gross, the animated film is expected to earn $30 million or so in its sophomore outing as it continues to play for both families and younger adults without kids.
Last weekend, the PG-rated film delivered a major win for Disney-owned Pixar with a $46 million domestic opening and $88 million worldwide, the biggest launch for any original Hollywood animated film since a Pixar film. Coco Nearly a decade ago in 2017. Clubs It benefits from strong results from critics and audiences.
Hollywood studios – specifically Universal – which makes films based on Colleen Hoover’s novels have also received good news. Reminder of it It topped Friday’s list with $8 million, thanks to strong audience results (it will be surpassed by the Pixar film at some point on Saturday). The female-biased film is now expected to outperform expectations with a domestic debut of between $19 million and $20 million.
Although it became a global box office sensation, it was adapted from Hoover’s film And it ends with us The film became mired in a legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni that cast a shadow over the film’s performance and raised questions about the success of future adaptations. (Last year, Paramount adapted its novel We are sorry for you It may have been ultimately profitable, but it failed to break through after opening to a modest $13 million domestically.)
A24 tone It looks to debut in third place with a total of $9 million, followed by Spyglass and Paramount Screaming 7. On Friday, the latest installment in the popular slasher series set another record when it surpassed the $100 million mark on its 15th day of release at the domestic box office, besting a new franchise (it took Sixth scream 28 days).
Sony Pictures Animation A goat It’s also hanging there, despite the entry Hoppers. The pic is expected to round out the top five with $4.5 million or more as its domestic total heads toward $90 million through Sunday.
Elsewhere, Maggie Gyllenhaal Bride! The film still took a beating at the box office in its second outing after opening in bomb territory with a domestic debut of $7.3 million, less than double what was expected. A big part of the reason? Modest reception from critics and audiences.
while Bride! Maybe it was thrown at the altar, Warner Bros. Studio heads Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdi continue to be widely praised for taking bold, innovative swings that have led to far more successes than misses over the past year. And at the Oscars on March 15, they will have two films in the best picture race, one by Ryan Coogler Sinners And Paul Thomas Anderson Battle after battle (Both are considered prime candidates.) And at the early 2026 box office, Emerald Fennell’s gritty Wuthering Heights The adaptation recently crossed the $200 million mark globally after three weekends.
As fate would have it, Best Picture nominee for Focus Features Hamnet It will cross the $100 million mark globally on the same day as the Oscars. The film, which was produced by Sam Mendes’s London-based production company in conjunction with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin, earned the lion’s share of its earnings overseas, to the tune of $73 million.
