In today’s Box Office Breakdown, we analyze four new releases:
Sony’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
GKIDS’ All You Need Is Kill
IFC’s Night Patrol
Mubi’s Sound of Falling
Plus, a full breakdown of the top ten at the box office this weekend. And a flurry of awards titles doing great business.
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20th Century’s Avatar: Fire and Ash took #1 at the box office for the fifth weekend in a row with $13.3M domestic. This brings its domestic total to $363.5M. Internationally, it has earned $955M, bringing its worldwide total to $1.319bn.
Domestically, Fire and Ash is trailing behind both of the previous Avatar films’ 5th week totals by a big margin:
Avatar (2009)
$493.25M - 5 week domestic total (vs. 3’s $363.5M)
Avatar 3 is down 26.31%
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
$564.6M - 5 week domestic total (vs. 3’s $363.5M)
Avatar 3 is down 35.6%
Domestically, this is disappointing as Fire and Ash had opened higher than the first Avatar, although well below The Way of Water:
Avatar (2009)
$73M domestic opening (vs. Fire and Ash’s $88M)
$159.2M international opening (vs. Fire and Ash’s $257M)
$232.2M worldwide opening (vs. Fire and Ash’s $345M)
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
$134M domestic opening (vs. Fire and Ash’s $88M)
$301M international opening (vs. Fire and Ash’s $257M)
$435M worldwide opening (vs. Fire and Ash’s $345M)
Even though Avatar 2 opened nearly double that of the first film, it still grossed $420M less:
Avatar (2009)
$749.8M domestic total
$1.994bn international total
$2.74bn worldwide total
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
$684M domestic total
$1.64bn international total
$2.32bn worldwide total
Right now, Fire and Ash is being carried by the international box office. It’s too early to tell whether it will hit $2bn.
The Avatar 3 production budget is $400M+ so it has safely recouped. But will it make enough to justify James Cameron making another Avatar film?
The per-screen average was a decent $4K/screen across 3300 theaters.
Here is the trailer.
Here’s the breakdown of the rest of the top 10:
$13M - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Sony)
$29.2M worldwide
$63M budget
RT: 93%
Week 1
This is a massive drop from Sony’s first installment of 28 Years Later, which opened last June:
28 Years Later (Sony Pictures)
$30M domestic opening
$60M worldwide opening
That film went on to earn:
28 Years Later (Sony Pictures)
$70.4M domestic total
$151.3M worldwide opening
We’ll see where Bone Temple lands as it has a higher RT score, but there may be some audience fatigue here.
The first two films in the series were powerhouses, earning exceptional amounts against their small budgets:
28 Days Later (2002)
$8M budget
$74.9M worldwide total ($137.1M w/ inflation)
28 Weeks Later (2007)
$15M budget
$65M worldwide total ($104.1M w/ inflation)
We believe 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple will recoup if it doesn’t drop too much next weekend.
$8.77M - Zootopia 2 (Disney)
$390M domestic total
$1.7034bn worldwide
$250M+ production budget
RT: 91%
Week 8
This is the highest-grossing Hollywood animated film of all time, surpassing:
Inside Out 2 (Disney)
$1.699bn worldwide total
However, this is still well behind the highest-grossing animated film ever made:
Ne Zha 2
$2.2bn worldwide total
Zootopia 2 dropped a minuscule 12% in its 8th week.
Disney and Pixar have consistently proved they can put out animated sequels that outperform the first film by wide margins:
Inside Out 2 (2024)
$154.2M opening
vs. $90.4M Inside Out 1
$653M domestic total
vs. $356.5M Inside Out 1
$1.699bn worldwide
vs. $859.1M Inside Out 1
Moana 2 (2024)
$139.8M opening
vs. $56.6M Moana 1
$460.4M domestic total
vs. $248.8M Moana 1
$1.059bn worldwide
vs. $643.3M Moana 1
Frozen 2 (2019)
$130.3M opening
vs. $93.6M Frozen 1
$477.4M domestic total
vs. $400M Frozen 1
$1.454bn worldwide
vs. $1.28bn Frozen 1
Interestingly, all three of the above films have domestic box office totals well above Zootopia 2. But international for the film has been incredibly strong.
$8.5M - The Housemaid (Lionsgate)
$107.1M domestic total
$245.7M worldwide
$60M budget
RT: 81%
Week 5
The film dropped a very tiny 22% in its week 5, continuing a sensational run.
This is now Sweeney’s highest-grossing domestic film of all time by nearly $20M (for a film she stars in):
Anyone But You (2024)
$88M domestic total
Immaculate
$15M domestic total
This is great news, as the last three Sydney Sweeney films were box office fails:
Christy (2025)
$1.3M opening
$1.9M domestic total
$2M worldwide
Americana (2025)
$500K opening
$1.5M domestic total (estimated)
Eden (2024)
$1M opening
$1.6M domestic total
$2.8M worldwide
Interestingly, it seems people like Sweeney movies that either tilt horror (like this and Immaculate) or romance (like Anyone But You).
This is star Amanda Seyfried’s top domestic-grossing film since Mamma Mia! Here We Go (2018).
$5.48M - Marty Supreme (A24)
$79.7M domestic total
$92.9M worldwide
$60-70M budget
RT: 95%
Week 5
This is now A24’s highest domestic-grossing film of all time. Right ahead of Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), which brought in $77.2M domestically.
Marty Supreme dropped a tiny 27% in its 5th week.
Expect this to get Oscar-nominated, which will drive attendance up even more.
This is Timothée Chalamet’s 4th highest-grossing film domestically of all time, for a film in which he stars:
Dune: Part 2 (2024)
$282.7M domestic total
Wonka (2023)
$218.6M domestic total
Dune (2021)
$111M domestic total
A Complete Unknown (2024)
$75M domestic total
What’s wild is that Marty Supreme, in which Chalamet plays a real-life eccentric ping pong star, surpassed domestically the film in which he plays music icon Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown (2024).
$5M - Primate (Paramount)
$19.6M domestic total
$23.2M worldwide
$21M budget
RT: 78%
Week 2
This dropped 55% in its second weekend. On par with most non-prestige horror films.
Right now, it’s tracking close to Paramount’s last theatrically released horror:
Heart Eyes (2025)
$8.3M opening
$21.4M week 2 (Valentine’s Day bump)
$30.4M domestic total
$33.1M worldwide
Paramount’s highest-grossing horror films are the A Quiet Place series, which have brought in close to $900M worldwide.
Primate should have no problem recouping as it continues to expand internationally.
$3.4M - Greenland 2: Migration (Lionsgate)
$14.1M domestic total
$14.8M worldwide
$90M budget (Lionsgate acquired domestic rights for $10M)
RT: 57%
Week 2
Last week, this opened lower than expected for an action sequel. This weekend, it has the largest drop of any film in the top ten, down 60%.
Greenland (2020) was released during COVID, so the North American release was pulled. So all we have to compare are its decent numbers internationally:
Greenland (2020)
$52.3M international
$35M budget
RT: 77%
The first film did $10.2M in DVD and Blu-ray sales and had strong business in the rental market.
Right now, we’ll have to wait on international numbers for Greenland 2 to see where this will land.
$3.2M - Anaconda (Sony)
$59.1M domestic total
$121.4M worldwide
$45M+ budget
RT: 52%
Week 4
This is the third Anaconda film released theatrically, and it is a meta-sequel about the making of an Anaconda film.
Including inflation, it is trailing behind the first Anaconda film:
Anaconda (1997)
$16.6M opening ($33.8M w/ inflation)
vs. 2025’s $14.5M opening
$49.5M week 4 total ($100.1M w/ inflation)
vs. 2025’s $59.1M week 4 total
However, Anaconda (2025) has already surpassed the previous sequel:
Anaconda 2 (2004)
$32.2M domestic total
$71M worldwide
Anaconda (2025) is now profitable.
$2.3M - The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (Paramount)
$67.1M domestic total
$144.2M worldwide
$64M production budget
RT: 88%
Week 5
This had a great weekend internationally, and now we can see that it will recoup its budget.
However, this is the lowest-performing SpongeBob movie:
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)
$148.7M week 5 domestic total
vs. 2025’s $67.1M
$162.2M domestic total
$325.2M worldwide
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
$76.4M week 5 domestic total
vs. 2025’s $67.1M
$85.4M domestic total
$141.1M worldwide
It’s a crowded weekend for kids’ films with Zootopia 2 and Avatar pulling in a ton of business.
$2.2M - No Other Choice (Neon)
$6.5M domestic total
$29.3M worldwide
$12M production budget
RT: 97%
Week 4
This is a great result for Neon. And has already exceeded the filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s previous best:
Decision to Leave (2022)
$2.2M domestic total
$21.7M worldwide
This will continue to earn well as it is likely to get Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Film.
Here are the lowest-grossing films of the week:
$11.9K - Sound of Falling (Mubi)
Premiere: Cannes Official Selection
$54.9K worldwide
$11.9K /screen average
Week 1
$7.9K - OBEX (Oscilloscope)
Premiere: Sundance
$22.3K domestic total
$991/screen average
Week 2
$1.9K - Mistress Dispeller (Oscilloscope)
Oscar shortlisted
Premiere: Venice
$92.6K domestic total
$137.4K worldwide
$663 /screen average
Week 13
IFC Films’ Night Patrol earned $255K in its opening weekend. With a tiny per-screen average of $319/screen across 800 theaters. The film stars Dermot Mulroney and Justin Long and premiered at Fantastic Fest.
GKIDS’ All You Need is Kill earned $431.8K in its opening weekend. With a low per-screen average of $564/screen across 765 theaters. This is the anime adaptation of the same source material that led to the Tom Cruise film Edge of Tomorrow (2014).
There’s also a flurry of awards titles doing great business:
$1.8M - Song Sung Blue (Focus Features)
$35M domestic total
$48M worldwide
$1.1K/screen average
$1.3M - Hamnet (Focus Features)
$14.7M domestic total
$27.6M worldwide total
$1.8K/screen average
$957K - Is This Thing On? (Searchlight)
$5.4M domestic total
$640/screen average
$336K - The Testament of Ann Lee (Searchlight)
$726K domestic total
$12K/screen average
$71K - Father, Mother, Sister, Brother (Mubi)
$825.7K domestic total
$3.9M worldwide
$710/screen average
If you take into consideration Inflation, Fire and Ash did not outperform the original