In today’s Box Office Breakdown, we analyze ten new releases:
Warner Bros.’ The Mummy
Magnolia’s Normal
Focus Features’ Lorne
A24’s Mother Mary
Magenta Light Studios’ Fireflies at El Mozote
1-2 Special’s Erupcja
Oscilloscope’s Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)
The Forge’s Everyone is Lying to You for Money
Janus Films’ Blue Heron
Dark Sky Films’ Mārama
Plus, a full breakdown of the top ten at the box office this weekend.
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Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie took #1 at the box office for the third weekend in a row with $35M domestic. This brings its domestic total to $355.2M. Internationally, it made $48M this weekend, bringing its worldwide total to $747.5M.
This film took a 49% drop in its third weekend. It is underperforming the first film:
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
$146.3M domestic opening (vs. Galaxy’s $131.7M)
$436M - week 3 domestic total (vs. Galaxy’s $355M)
35% week 3 drop (vs. Galaxy’s 49%)
However, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie should still crack $1bn, but not by much.
That would make it the first billion-dollar release of 2026. And the second-largest video-game-to-film adaptation of all time, if it’s able to beat out A Minecraft Movie’s $961.2M worldwide total.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie cost $110M to make, and has already become very profitable.
The film had a strong per-screen average of $8.4K/screen across 4170 theaters.
Here is the trailer.
Here’s the breakdown of the rest of the top 10:
$20.5M - Project Hail Mary (Amazon MGM Studios)
$285.1M domestic total
$573.1M worldwide
$200M budget
RT: 93%
Week 5
This film took a tiny 24% drop in its fifth weekend. Much less than Ryan Gosling’s 2nd and 3rd highest opening films:
Blade Runner 2049 (2018)
$32.7M domestic opening
-43.6% week 5 drop ($2.3M)
The Fall Guy (2024)
$27.7M domestic opening
-29.8% week 5 drop ($4.2M)
*Even Barbie, for which he is the co-star, dropped 37.8% in its fifth weekend.
This is now Amazon MGM Studios’ highest-grossing film. And the highest-grossing US original film of 2026.
Most impressively, it has tied the 5th week domestic total of Oppenheimer, the only other film that isn’t a franchise or a sequel to open above $80M in 10 years:
Oppenheimer (2023)
$82.46M domestic opening
-43% 5th week ($10.7M)
$285.3M 5th week domestic total
Project Hail Mary is based on a book by Andy Weir, who also wrote The Martian, which, it has now exceeded domestically:
The Martian (2015)
$54.3M domestic opening
$228.4M domestic total
$630.6M worldwide
Project Hail Mary cost $200M to make, and it has reached theatrical profitability.
$13.5M - Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (Warner Bros./Blumhouse)
$30M worldwide
$22M budget
RT: 43%
Week 1
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are not in this film, as has been made abundantly clear by the marketing.
So, although it’s not fair to judge it against the previous 4 Mummy films, it’s worth taking a look to see that it is underperforming by a big margin:
The Mummy (1999)
$43.4M domestic opening
The Mummy Returns (2001)
$68.1M domestic opening
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
$40.5M domestic opening
The Mummy (2017)
$31.7M domestic opening
It also continues the trend of Warner Bros. horror films opening lower in 2026, including They Will Kill You (2026), which opened at $5M.
Vs. WB’s 2025:
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)
$84M opening weekend
Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)
$51.6M opening weekend
Weapons (2025)
$43.5M opening weekend
Despite all this, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy should still break even theatrically.
$4.8M - The Drama (A24)
$39.7M domestic total
$81.8M worldwide
$28M budget
RT: 77%
Week 3
The Drama continues to perform incredibly well in its third week, dropping 44%.
It has now exceeded the domestic total of A24’s previous highest-grossing rom-com:
Materialists (2025)
$36.5M domestic total
$105.6M worldwide
It’s also slightly outperforming Zendaya’s previous rom-com:
Challengers (2024)
$37.8M week 3 domestic total
$50.1M domestic total
$96.1M worldwide
It has also way outperformed Robert Pattinson’s previous romance film:
Die My Love (2025)
$5.5M domestic total
$11.9M worldwide
The Drama has already recouped its budget.
$3.8M - You, Me & Tuscany (Universal)
$14.4M domestic total
$15.4M worldwide
$18M budget
RT: 93%
Week 4
This had a large 51% 2nd-weekend drop.
The cast is sensational: Halle Bailey (The Little Mermaid) and Regé-Jean Page (Bridgerton). The issue is that neither has led an adult film, so the numbers here aren’t huge.
Of course, Bailey shot to fame when Disney’s The Little Mermaid (2023) hit big:
$95.6M opening
$298.2M domestic total
$569.6M worldwide
Because You, Me & Tuscany is not expected to do much business internationally, it may not recoup in theaters.
$2.9M - Hoppers (Pixar)
$161.2M domestic total
$359M worldwide
$150M budget
RT: 93%
Week 7
This is Pixar’s best opening for an original film in nearly a decade. And it has exceeded the domestic totals of the last three original films:
Elio (2025)
$73M domestic total
$154.3M WW total
Elemental (2023)
$154.4M domestic total
$496.4M WW total
Onward (2020)
$61.6M domestic total
$141.9M WW total
It is trailing:
Coco (2017)
$191.9M - week 7 domestic total
$210.5M domestic total
$814.6M WW
Hoppers’ budget is $150M, and it should have no problem recouping, as Pixar films tend to stay in theaters for a long time.
$2.65M - Normal (Magnolia)
<$20M budget
RT: 77%
Week 1
This continues the trend of pure-action Bob Odenkirk films with single-word titles, starting with “N:”
Nobody (2021)
$6.8M opening
$27.6M domestic total
$57.5M worldwide
Nobody 2 (2025)
$9.3M opening
$21.6M domestic total
$43.3M worldwide
Normal was supposed to be a massive opening for Magnolia across 2060 screens, but the per-screen average is very middling at $1.3K/theater.
This doesn’t look like it’s going to come close to recouping, but we’ll need to see how it does internationally.
$669K - The Exit 8 (Neon)
$2.8M domestic total
$42M worldwide
$1.4M budget
RT: 92%
Week 2 (domestic)
While this film has hit very big internationally, it’s not connecting as well domestically for Neon. In fact, when it opened last week at $1.4M, it was their worst horror opening in some time:
Longlegs (2024)
$22.4M opening
$125.4M worldwide
The Monkey (2025)
$14.2M opening
$68.9M worldwide
Together (2025)
$6.8M opening
$32.3M worldwide
Immaculate (2024)
$5.3M opening
$35.3M worldwide
Cuckoo (2024)
$3M opening
$6.7M worldwide
It Lives Inside (2023)
$2.6M opening
$7.4M worldwide
Shelby Oaks (2025)
$2.35M opening
$5.5M worldwide
Luckily, with great international biz, it has already recouped.
$596K - The Christophers (Neon)
$702K domestic total
RT: 97%
Week 2
The film stars Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, and right now, Neon is doing a slow rollout into theaters.
Last week it made a wild $20.2K/screen across 4 theaters ($80.7K total). This week, on only 364 screens, it did a decent $1.6K/theater.
We’ll see where it lands as they keep expanding.
$450K - Reminders of Him (Universal)
$48.2M domestic total
$85M worldwide
$25M budget
RT: 56%
Week 6
This is the third film based on a Colleen Hoover book to release in theaters. And it’s looking like it may finish behind the previous two releases:
It Ends With Us
$148.5M domestic total
$351.4M worldwide
Regretting You
$41.6M domestic total
$90.5M worldwide
Hoover’s novels are amassing cultural gravity. And they’re being made for relatively modest amounts and have all been profitable theatrically.
The next one up is Amazon MGM’s Verity, and it will be huge.
Here are the lowest-grossing films of the week:
$3.7K - Marc by Sofia (A24)
$302.3K domestic total
Premiere: Venice (out of competition)
$466 /screen average
Week 5
$3.2K - Kontinental ‘25 (1-2 Special)
$33.7K domestic total
$106K worldwide
Premiere: Berlin (winner: Best Screenplay)
$535 /screen average
Week 4
$2.1K - John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (Oscilloscope)
$17.1K domestic total
Co-Dir: Michael Almereyda (Tesla)
Narrator: Chloë Sevigny
$302 /screen average
Week 4
There was a flurry of limited-release indie films that opened this weekend.
Focus Features’ Lorne earned $270K in its opening weekend. This had a poor per-screen average of $652/screen across 414 theaters. The film is directed by Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?).
A24’s Mother Mary earned $168K in its opening weekend. This had a massive, weekend-best per-screen average of $33.6K/screen across 5 theaters. The film is directed by David Lowery (A Ghost Story) and stars Anne Hathaway.
Magenta Light Studios’ Fireflies at El Mozote earned $47.7K in its opening weekend. This had a decent per-screen average of $1.2K/screen across 39 theaters. Produced by Bob Yari (Crash).
1-2 Special’s Erupcja earned $25.6K in its opening weekend. This had a very strong per-screen average of $12.8K/screen across 2 theaters. The film premiered at TIFF and stars Charli XCX.
Oscilloscope’s Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) earned $23.1K in its opening weekend. This had a very strong per-screen average of $11.5K/screen across 2 theaters. The film premiered at Sundance and won the NEXT Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast.
The Forge’s Everyone is Lying to You for Money earned $20.4K in its opening weekend. This had a strong per-screen average of $5.1K/screen across 4 theaters. It premiered at SXSW London.
Janus Films’ Blue Heron earned $16.5K in its opening weekend. This had a huge per-screen average of $16.5K/screen across 1 theater. It premiered at TIFF.
Dark Sky Films’ Mārama earned $6.3K in its opening weekend. This had a very strong per-screen average of $6.3K/screen across 1 theater. It premiered at TIFF.