In today’s Box Office Breakdown, we analyze six new releases:
Paramount’s Scream 7
Trafalgar Releasing’s Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined
GAGA Corporation’s Uma Musume: Pretty Derby
Greenwich’s Dreams
GKIDS’ Hypnosis Mic
Brainstorm’s For Worse
Plus, a full breakdown of the top ten at the box office this weekend. And final results for Avatar 3 which dropped to 11th place.
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Paramount’s Scream 7 took #1 at the box office with $64.1M domestic. Internationally it made $33.1M, bringing its worldwide total to $97.2M.
It is the largest opening in the franchise, not including inflation:
Scream (1996)
$6.4M opening
$103M domestic total
$173M worldwide
Scream 2 (1997)
$32.9M opening ($66.4M w/ inflation)
$101.4M domestic total
$172.4M worldwide
Scream 3 (2000)
$34.7M opening ($66.5M w/ inflation)
$89.1M domestic total
$161.8M worldwide
Scream 4 (2011)
$18.7M opening
$38.2M domestic total
$97.2M worldwide
Scream (2022)
$30M opening
$81.6M domestic total
$137.7M worldwide
Scream VI (2023)
$44.4M opening
$108.4M domestic total
$166.6M worldwide
In 2025 and 2026, late-stage horror franchise entries are performing well. Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025), the sixth film in the series, had a franchise-best opening at $51.6M.
In fact, from what we can tell, Scream 7 had the biggest box office opening for the 7th episode of a horror film, opening over 3x the average.
The budget was $45M and it should be fully recouped by next weekend.
The per screen average was a weekend-best of $18.1K/screen across 3540 theaters.
Here is the trailer.
Here’s the breakdown of the rest of the top 10:
$12M - GOAT (Sony)
$74M domestic total
$130.5M worldwide
$90M
RT: 82%
Week 3
GOAT dropped a small 29% in its third week.
Sony is on its way to creating another original animated hit franchise. Even though it opened lower than Sony’s top three animations that launched series (Spider-Man not included), its week 3 drop held steady:
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
$42.5M opening
36.3% week 3 drop ($17.2M)
$148.3M domestic total
$377.1M worldwide
The Smurfs (2011)
$35.6M opening
33.7% week 3 drop ($13.7M)
$142.6M domestic total
$563.7M worldwide
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
$30.3M opening
36.9% week 3 drop ($15.8M)
$124.9M domestic total
$236.8M worldwide
GOAT (2025)
$27.2M opening
29% week 3 drop ($12M)
GOAT may not reach the mega totals of the above, and it’s unclear if it’ll recoup its $90M budget.
$6.95M - “Wuthering Heights” (Warner Bros.)
$72.3M domestic total
$192M worldwide
$80M (Warner Bros. Acquired for this amount) + $85M Marketing budget
RT: 59%
Week 3
At a 50% drop, this ranks on the higher end for Warner Bros. third weekend drops for its top films of the past year:
Sinners
28% week 3 drop
Final Destination: Bloodlines
29.4% week 3 drop
Weapons
37% week 3 drop
One Battle After Another
39% week 3 drop
Minecraft Movie
48.4% week 3 drop
The Conjuring: Last Rites
52.1% week 3 drop
Superman
57.5% week 3 drop
However this film is still doing great business and ranks as the fifth-highest grossing erotic drama of all time behind the Fifty Shades of Grey series and Indecent Proposal:
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
$85.2M opening
$166.2M domestic total
$570.8M worldwide
Indecent Proposal (1993)
$18.3M opening
$106.6M domestic total
$266.6M worldwide
With a $165M budget all in we’re still a ways from this hitting break even point at the box office.
$4.3M - Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined (Trafalgar Releasing)
RT: 100%
Week 1
This is a massive win for Trafalgar Releasing and the Grammy-winning band Twenty One Pilots.
These concert films are gaining popularity. In the past two years, we’ve seen a spike, including some re-releases:
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (2025 re-release, Trafalgar Releasing)
$2.6M opening
$6.5M worldwide
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé (2023)
$33.9M domestic
$44M worldwide
Stop Making Sense (2023 re-release, A24)
$5.2M domestic
$6.9M worldwide
Of course, it’s nowhere near Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour (2023) which opened at $93.2M or Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl took #1 at the box office with $33M.
$3.5M - EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (Neon - domestic, Universal - international)
$7.8M domestic total
$14.4M worldwide
$10M budget
RT: 96%
Week 2
This is a massive win for Neon as the film jumped 9% from its opening weekend. That’s because it opened on 325 screens with an astounding $10K/screen. Week 2 (this weekend) it did $1.8K/screen on 1940 theaters.
It had a larger opening than other top music docs of the past 15 years. And has already topped:
Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025)
$2.7M opening
$10.4M domestic total
$14.7M worldwide (will surpass by tomorrow)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
$800K opening
$2.3M domestic total
$3.7M worldwide
Amazing Grace (2018)
$47K opening
$4.5M domestic total
$7.8M worldwide
Marley (2012)
$262K opening
$1.4M domestic total
$3.8M worldwide
We’ll see if it can continue to hold steam internationally to top:
Amy (2015)
$222K opening
$8.4M domestic total
$23.7M worldwide
With Baz Luhrmann at the helm, who drove Elvis (2022) to $288.7M worldwide, we’re excited to see where this companion doc will go.
$3.4M - Crime 101 (Amazon MGM)
$30.1M domestic total
$57.2M worldwide
$90M budget
RT: 88%
Week 3
This took a smaller week 3 drop of 38%. Even still it’s clear to see that this is a bad result for Amazon. Typically, they’ll try to recoup their production costs theatrically and then drive engagement to Prime as the movie plays there.
But this won’t come close to reaching $90M by the time it finishes its theatrical run.
So what happened? The movie stars Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry, Barry Keoghan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Nick Nolte.
Crime 101 was marketed as a fairly generic crime drama and although the execution was tip top, the premise wasn’t compelling enough to drive the kind of big box office numbers that the cast deserved.
$3.1M - I Can Only Imagine 2 (Lionsgate)
$13.3M domestic total
$18M budget
RT: 62%
Week 2
This had a large week 2 drop of 60%, more significant than the first film in the series which was a hit:
I Can Only Imagine (2018)
$17.1M opening (vs 2’s $7.75M)
20.4% week 2 drop - $13.6M
$83.5M domestic total
$86.1M worldwide
Lionsgate typically does decently with these faith-based films where they partner with Kingdom Story Company (Jesus Revolution took $53.4M worldwide).
However, faith-based sequels tend to not make as much as the original.
God’s Not Dead (2014)
$64.7M worldwide
God’s Not Dead 2 (2016)
$24.5M worldwide
Luckily for Lionsgate the budget here is fairly small so even if it continues to drop next week it shouldn’t be a huge loss.
$2.3M - Send Help (20th Century)
$59.4M domestic total
$86.9M worldwide
$40M budget
RT: 94%
Week 5
Send Help’s 2% week 3 drop was legendary. And now at week 5, the drop of 48% is starting to show some fatigue.
But by next week this will be director Sam Raimi’s top earning original film. Of course, his other films based on IP (Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Oz the Great and Powerful) have pulled in massive earnings.
His current top earning original film is:
Drag Me to Hell (2009)
$90.8M worldwide
Send Help was boosted by the unusual but genius decision to cast rom-com regular Rachel McAdams in a horror.
$1.56M - How to Make a Killing (A24)
$6.3M domestic total
$15M budget
RT: 47%
Week 2
This took a 55% week 2 drop. And this continues to be a disappointing result for A24 and Glen Powell, especially after his previous film, failed to do well:
The Running Man (2025)
$16.5M opening
$69.4M worldwide
$110M budget
This opened on 1625 screens and now is boosted in week 2 to 1726 screens. So we can see that at 1726 screens, A24 still hasn’t given this a full wide release.
If you recall A24 opened Eternity at 1348 and then boosted it to 2386 screens week 2 when it performed well.
We’ll have to see how this does internationally before we can tell if it’ll recoup.
$1.4M - Zootopia 2 (Disney)
$425.8M domestic total
$1.851bn worldwide
$250M+ production budget
RT: 91%
Week 14
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 dipped 35% in its 14th 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.
$1.2M - Avatar: Fire and Ash (20th Century)
$400.1M domestic
$1.476bn worldwide
$400M+ production budget
RT: 66%
Week 11
Domestically, Fire and Ash is trailing behind both of the previous Avatar films’ 11th week totals by a big margin:
Avatar (2009)
$706.56M - 11 week domestic total (vs. 3’s $400.1M)
Avatar 3 is down 43.4%
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
$655.5M - 11 week domestic total (vs. 3’s $400.1M)
Avatar 3 is down 39%
Right now, Avatar 3 is far behind the mammoth totals of the first two films:
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
This is a disappointing result and could result in the cancellation of the next Avatar film.
Here are the lowest-grossing films of the week:
$29K - The Moment (A24)
$3.85M domestic total
Premiere: Sundance
$583 /screen average
Week 5
$10.9K - For Worse (Brainstorm Media)
Premiere: SXSW
Cast: Bradley Whitford
$5.4K /screen average
Week 1
$1.1K - OBEX (Oscilloscope)
Premiere: Sundance
$46.9K domestic total
$527/screen average
Week 8
GKIDS’ Hypnosis Mic earned $83.3K in its opening weekend. This had a strong per-screen average of $5.5K/screen across 15 theaters.
Greenwich’s Dreams earned $95K in its opening weekend. This had a weak per-screen average of $505/screen across 188 theaters. It stars Jessica Chastain and premiered at Berlin. Directed by Michel Franco.
GAGA Corporation’s Uma Musume: Pretty Derby earned $900K in its opening weekend. This had a decent per-screen average of $1.5K/screen across 600 theaters. It is a Japanese racing anime film. It had previously earned $8.5M internationally.
It’s also worth noting that A24’s Pillion jumped by 22% in its 4th weekend. Pulling in $701K for a domestic total of $2.5M