In today’s Box Office Breakdown, we analyze three new releases:
Universal’s Reminders of Him
A24’s undertone
Bleecker Street’s Slanted
Plus, a full breakdown of the top ten at the box office this weekend.
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Pixar’s Hoppers took #1 at the box office for the second week in a row with $28.5M domestic. That brings its domestic total to $86.8M. Internationally, it made $31M this weekend, bringing its worldwide total to $164.7M.
Not only was this Pixar’s best opening for an original film in nearly a decade, it also boasted the lowest second weekend drop of 37.2%:
Elio (2025)
50% week 2 drop ($10.4M)
Elemental (2023)
37.7% week 2 drop ($18.4M)
Onward (2020)
72.9% week 2 drop ($10.6M - COVID shutdown)
It also beat out:
Coco (2017)
45.8% week 2 drop ($27.5M)
Hoppers’ budget is $150M, and it should have no problem recouping, as Pixar films tend to stay in theaters for a long time.
It had a very strong per-screen average of $7.1K/screen across 4000 theaters.
Here’s the breakdown of the rest of the top 10:
$18.3M - Reminders of Him (Universal)
$28.25M worldwide
$25M budget
RT: 56%
Week 1
This is the third film based on a Colleen Hoover book to release in theaters. And this is sitting in the middle:
It Ends With Us
$50M opening
$148.5M domestic total
$351.4M worldwide
Regretting You
$13.7M opening
$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.
$9.3M - undertone (A24)
$500K budget
RT: 32%
Week 1
Trailer
undertone is one of A24’s highest opening horror films by a first time director. Compare it to:
Hereditary (2018) - Ari Aster
$13.6M opening
$44.1M domestic total
$90.2M worldwide
Talk to Me (2022) - Danny and Michael Philippou
$10.4M opening
$43.9M domestic total
$92.2M worldwide
The Witch (2016) - Robert Eggers
$8.8M opening
$25.1M domestic total
$40.4M worldwide
A24 made an incredible pickup of this film at Fantastic Fest and has been marketing it with clever tactics that play on the sonic appeal.
The micro-budget makes this a massive win for A24 out of the gate and puts undertone director Ian Tuason in an elite category.
$8.35M - Scream 7 (Paramount)
$106.5M domestic total
$176.9M worldwide
$45M budget
RT: 32%
Week 3
Not including inflation this is now the top earning Scream film of all time:
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 VI (2023)
$44.4M opening
$108.4M domestic total
$166.6M worldwide
Scream 3 (2000)
$34.7M opening ($66.5M w/ inflation)
$89.1M domestic total
$161.8M worldwide
Scream (2022)
$30M opening
$81.6M domestic total
$137.7M worldwide
Scream 4 (2011)
$18.7M opening
$38.2M domestic total
$97.2M worldwide
The budget was $45M, and it is fully recouped.
$4.7M - GOAT (Sony)
$90.6M domestic total
$162.8M worldwide
$90M budget
RT: 82%
Week 5
GOAT had a tiny 27% drop in its fifth week.
Sony’s new original animated film will end nowhere near Sony’s top three animated films that launched series (Spider-Man not included):
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
$42.5M opening
$148.3M domestic total
$377.1M worldwide
The Smurfs (2011)
$35.6M opening
$142.6M domestic total
$563.7M worldwide
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
$30.3M opening
$124.9M domestic total
$236.8M worldwide
GOAT will not reach the mega totals of the above, and it’s unlikely to recoup its $90M budget.
$2.1M - The Bride! (Warner Bros.)
$11.3M domestic total
$27M worldwide
$80M budget
RT: 59%
Week 2
This film dropped a massive 70% in its second week making a paltry per screen average of $638/screen across 3304 theaters.
This is actually Warner Bros.’ largest second weekend drop of the last year:
Sinners
6% week 2 drop
Weapons
43% week 2 drop
One Battle After Another
49% week 2 drop
Minecraft Movie
50% week 2 drop
Superman
54% week 2 drop
Wuthering Heights
57% week 2 drop
Final Destination: Bloodlines
62% week 2 drop
The Conjuring: Last Rites
69.5% week 2 drop
This film is set to lose a lot of money given the $80M budget. This is disappointing as Warner Bros. has been minting massive horror films in the last 12 months:
Weapons
$270M worldwide
Final Destination: Bloodlines
$317.9M worldwide
Sinners
$370M worldwide
The Conjuring: Last Rites
$499.2M worldwide
There’s something wonderfully punk about Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! But it’s not hitting the way WB wanted, even with Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, and Jake Gyllenhaal as the stars.
$1.7M - Kiki’s Delivery Service (GKIDS)
35th anniversary re-release (week 1)
$2.7M domestic total (since 1989)
$12.1M worldwide (since 1989)
RT: 98%
This is one of Hayao Miyazaki’s films, although it doesn’t get as much love as Spirited Away (2001) or Princess Mononoke (1997) or Howl’s Moving Castle (2004).
It was first released in the US in 2019, where it made $1M across three days. So GKIDS has already exceeded that total.
$1.7M - “Wuthering Heights” (Warner Bros.)
$81.9M domestic total
$226.4M worldwide
$80M (Warner Bros. acquired for this amount) + $85M Marketing budget
RT: 59%
Week 5
Now that this is making its way towards the end of its box office run, it will likely be Warner Bros.’ second-lowest wide release in the past year from a film that opened #1:
Minecraft Movie
$961.2M worldwide
Superman
$618.7M worldwide
The Conjuring: Last Rites
$499.2M worldwide
Sinners
$370M worldwide
Final Destination: Bloodlines
$317.9M worldwide
Weapons
$270M worldwide
One Battle After Another
$209.3M worldwide
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 the break-even point at the box office.
$1.5M - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (New Line Cinema)
35th anniversary re-release (week 1)
$80.1M domestic total (since 1991)
Not released internationally
RT: 36%
These re-releases have become increasingly popular. Two examples: Paramount’s 10-year Interstellar re-release made $3.3M and Fathom Events 15th Anniversary Coraline re-release made $8.9M.
Usually these re-releases easily clear $1M while spending minimal money on marketing.
$1.1M - Crime 101 (Amazon MGM)
$35.6M domestic total
$67M worldwide
$90M budget
RT: 88%
Week 5
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.
Here are the lowest-grossing films of the week:
$9.1K - Natchez (Oscilloscope)
$163K domestic total
Premiere: Tribeca (winner: Best Doc)
$698 /screen average
Week 19
$8.1K - The Moment (A24)
$3.89M domestic total
$4.9M worldwide
Premiere: Sundance
$885 /screen average
Week 7
$678 - OBEX (Oscilloscope)
$47.7K domestic total
Premiere: Sundance
$226 /screen average
Week 10
Bleecker Street’s Slanted earned $617K in its opening weekend. This had a decent per-screen average of $1K/screen across 588 theaters. It premiered at SXSW.
Focus Features’ Hamnet has now made $100M worldwide.