In today’s Box Office Breakdown, we analyze three new releases:
Universal’s Disclosure Day
Lionsgate’s The Furious
Bleecker Street’s Stop! That! Train!
Plus, a full breakdown of the top ten at the box office this weekend, including Focus Features’ and A24’s top-earning film of all time.
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Universal’s Disclosure Day took #1 at the box office with $44M domestic. Internationally, it earned $48.9M. This brings its worldwide total to $92.9M.
Not counting inflation, this is Spielberg’s fifth-highest opening of all time, right behind:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
$100.1M opening
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
$72.1M opening
War of the Worlds (2005)
$64.9M opening
Jurassic Park (1997)
$47M opening
However, adjusting for inflation, this would be his 13th-highest opening (he has directed 37 films).
The film had a production budget of $115M and a marketing budget of $80M, so we’ll have a better sense next week of whether it will recoup theatrically.
Here’s the breakdown of the rest of the top 10:
$19M - Obsession (Focus Features)
$188.4M domestic total
$261.7M worldwide
$750K budget, picked up by Focus for $15M
RT: 96%
Week 5
In its fifth week, Obsession has taken the largest drop of its entire run at 25%. Not too shabby, but the previous weeks’ drops/gains were remarkable:
+39%: Week 2
+10%: Week 3
-7%: Week 4
Obsession is now Focus Features’ highest-earning film of all time (not including inflation), topping:
Downton Abbey (2019)
$96.9M domestic total
$194.7M worldwide
Coraline (2009)
$116.9M domestic total
$188.1M worldwide
Nosferatu (2024)
$95.6M domestic total
$182M worldwide
By next weekend, it should become the highest-earning Focus Features film of all time, including inflation, as Coraline would be $298.1M in today’s dollars.
Curry Barker is in a rare category of horror directors, one that already has him taking on iconic IP like A24’s new Texas Chainsaw Massacre film.
$14.5M - Scary Movie 6 (Paramount)
$84.6M domestic total
$169M worldwide
$30M budget
RT: 24% (critic), 67% (audience)
Week 2
Despite having the highest opening of any Scary Movie film in the series, without inflation, it took the largest week 2 drop at 73%:
Scary Movie 6 (2026)
-73% week 2 drop
$169M worldwide
Scary Movie 4 (2006)
-58.2% week 2 drop
$90.7M domestic total
$178.3M worldwide
Scary Movie 3 (2003)
-57.5% week 2 drop
$110M domestic total
$220.7M worldwide
Scary Movie 5 (2013)
-56.6% week 2 drop
$32M domestic total
$78.4M worldwide
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
-53.4% week 2 drop
$71.3M domestic total
$141.2M worldwide
Scary Movie (2000)
-38.1% week 2 drop
$157M domestic total
$278M worldwide
However, this is a massive win for Scary Movie for two reasons. First, its budget is $30M, and it has already recouped. Second, it’s a massive jump from 13 years ago when Scary Movie 5 ended its theatrical run with $78M worldwide ($112M w/ inflation).
$11.3M - Backrooms (A24)
$160M domestic total
$262.3M worldwide
$10M budget
RT: 89%
Week 3
This is A24’s top-earning film of all time by a mile:
Marty Supreme (2025)
$96M domestic total
$191.3M worldwide
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
$77.2M domestic total
$147.9M worldwide
The Drama (2026)
$48.1M domestic total
$130.8M worldwide
Coming off the 4th-highest opening of a horror film of all time, Backrooms has cooled down a little, with a week 3 drop of 57%. Compare that to the three other highest-opening horror films of all time:
It (2017)
$123.4M opening ($167.8M w/ inflation)
-50.5% week 3
Hannibal (2001)
$58M opening ($108.5M w/ inflation)
-46.9% week 3
Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023)
$80M opening ($86.8M w/ inflation)
-52.6% week 3
Backrooms (2026)
$81.4M opening
-57% week 3
Of course, this is a remarkable result. The director Kane Parsons is 20 years old. And this film is based on his YouTube series, which has racked up over 220M views on YouTube, with the top video garnering 80M views.
$8.7M - Masters of the Universe (Amazon MGM Studios)
$46.7M domestic total
$71.4M worldwide
$170M production budget
RT: 66%
Week 2
This took a massive week 2 drop of 71%.
Mattel was hoping for a smashing success like their previous film based on a toy:
Barbie (2023)
$162M opening
-42.6% week 2 drop
$636.2M domestic total
$1.4bn worldwide
Masters of the Universe won’t come close to recouping theatrically, let alone break even.
$4.7M - Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (Disney)
$165.1M domestic total
$315.1M worldwide
$114M budget
RT: 62%
Week 4
Now in its 4th weekend, it’s underperforming the previous Star Wars spinoff by 15%:
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
$193.7M week 4 domestic total (vs. Grogu’s $165M)
$213M domestic total
$392.9M worldwide
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu has already recouped theatrically.
$4.1M - Michael (Lionsgate)
$362.8M domestic total
$932.2M worldwide
$200M budget
RT: 38% (critics), 97% (audience)
Week 8
In its eighth week, Michael is now the highest-earning music film of all time, besting:
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
$51.1M opening
$216.7M domestic total
$910.8M worldwide
Although with inflation, Bohemian Rhapsody would be at $1.2bn.
This is now Lionsgate’s highest-grossing film of all time, not counting inflation, surpassing the top Hunger Games and Twilight films:
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
$424.7M domestic total
$865M worldwide
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)
$292.3M domestic total
$848.6M worldwide
Lionsgate has made massive profits on Michael.
$3.8M - BTS World Tour Arirang: Live Viewing (Trafalgar Releasing)
$6.2M domestic total
$9.4M worldwide
RT: 97%
Week 10
Synopsis:
Pop royalty BTS returns to the iconic Busan Asiad Main Stadium for a monumental homecoming, broadcast live to cinemas around the world. This marks their poignant return to the very venue where they shared their final full-group performance before enlistment in 3 years and 8 months. Spanning 34 cities with 85 shows, this tour sets a new pinnacle as the most extensive tour ever by a Korean artist.
This is doing remarkable business for a live concert film. Although not quite as strong as the previous incarnation:
BTS Permission to Dance on Stage - Seoul: Live Viewing (2022)
$6.8M domestic total
$32.6M worldwide
BTS is massively popular, and these types of live concert films will continue to generate strong box office numbers.
$2.75M - The Furious (Lionsgate)
$20M production budget
RT: 97%
Week 1
This is a slightly lower opening than Lionsgate’s previous highly rated hard-action film:
Sisu (2022)
$3.3M opening
$7.3M domestic total
$14.2M worldwide
The Furious earned $13.5M in China in its opening weekend (#1 at the box office), although Lionsgate is not distributing in this territory.
$2M - Stop! That! Train! (Bleecker Street)
$5M production budget
RT: 83%
Week 1
This is slightly down from the average indie action comedy by 30%.
Here are the lowest-grossing films of the week:
$6.6K - The Python Hunter (Oscilloscope)
$63.6K domestic total
Premiere: SXSW
$1.1K /screen average
Week 6
$2.1K - Ask E. Jean (Abramorama)
Official Selection: Telluride
$41.1K domestic total
$297 /screen average
Week 4
$1.4K - Underland (Oscilloscope)
$9.1K domestic total
$146.6K worldwide
Narrator: Sandra Hüller
Producer: Darren Aronofsky
Premiere: Tribeca 2025
$686 /screen average
Week 2
Lionsgate’s Power Ballad fell 80% at the box office in its second weekend of wide release. It has earned $2.4M total domestically. The film stars Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas and premiered at SXSW.