In today's Box Office Breakdown, we analyze six new releases:
Warner Bros.’ One Battle After Another
Universal’s Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie
Lionsgate’s The Strangers: Chapter 2
Prathyangira Cinemas’ They Call Him OG
Vertical’s Dead of Winter
Sony Pictures Classics’ Eleanor the Great
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Here’s the breakdown of the top 10:
$22.4M - One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
$48.5M worldwide
$130-150M budget
RT: 96%
Week 1
Full breakdown here: https://theindustry.co/p/leonardo-dicaprios-box-office-battle
$13.7M - Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie (Universal)
$19.4M worldwide
$32M budget
RT: 80%
Week 1
This movie is based on the children’s series on Netflix, which is quite popular.
This opened about 30% higher than the average family film with no sequel and should have no problem recouping.
$7.1M - Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Infinity Castle (Sony)
$118.2M domestic total
$602.8M worldwide
$20M budget
RT: 98%
Week 3
It is now the highest-grossing anime film of all time:
Demon Slayer 1: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train (Crunchyroll, 2020)
$21.2M domestic opening
$49.9M domestic total
$486.5M worldwide
Spirited Away (2001)
$15.2M domestic total
$395.8M worldwide ($581.5M w/ inflation)
Pokémon: The First Movie (1999)
$31M domestic opening ($60M w/ inflation)
$163.6M worldwide total ($318M w/ inflation)
The distributor, Crunchyroll (owner: Sony), controls much of the market here for popularizing Japanese anime, and they have built tremendously off the previous installment.
$6.9M - The Conjuring: Last Rites (Warner Bros.)
$161.5M domestic total
$435.9M worldwide
$55M production budget
RT: 56%
Week 4
After its fourth week, it is the highest-grossing film in the series by a large margin:
The Conjuring (2013)
$41.9M opening
$137.4M domestic total
$320.4M worldwide total
86% RT
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
$40.4M opening
$102.5M domestic total
$321.4M worldwide total
80% RT
The Conjuring 3 (2021)
$24.1M opening
$65.6M domestic total
$206.4M worldwide total
56% RT
Critically, the current The Conjuring film is the lowest-rated of any in the pack. But the zealot-like resurgence of horror fans has catapulted this film to the highest earnings.
$5.9M - The Strangers: Chapter 2 (Lionsgate)
$8.5M budget
RT: 16%
Week 1
This opened much lower than the previous film in the series:
The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
$11.8M opening
$35.2M domestic total
$48.2M worldwide
RT: 21%
The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
$10.4M opening
$24.6M domestic total
$31M worldwide
RT: 40%
The Strangers (2008)
$21M opening
$52.6M domestic total
$82.4M worldwide
RT: 50%
An interesting pattern where each sequel seems to earn about half of what the first film in the series earned. And with The Strangers: Chapter 2 being the lowest-rated film in the series, it doesn’t bode well for the already shot Chapter 3.
Regardless, it should recoup.
$3.65M - Him (Universal)
$20.8M domestic total
$21.3M worldwide
$27M budget
RT: 28%
Week 2
This took a massive 72% week 2 drop.
On the sunny side, the director Justin Tipping’s first feature, Kicks (2016), made $150K total.
Of course, it’s much lower than the second weekend drops of the producer Jordan Peele’s films:
Get Out (2017)
$33M opening
$28.2M week 2 (15% drop)
Us (2019)
$71M opening
$33.2M week 2 (53% drop)
Nope (2022)
$44.4M opening
$18.6M week 2 (58% drop)
Him is a very American-centered story, so it may not be able to bring up its international box office total much.
$3.4M - The Long Walk (Lionsgate)
$28.8M domestic total
$34.7M worldwide
$20M budget
RT: 90%
Week 3
This is the 3rd highest grossing film based on a Stephen King book to open in the past two years:
The Monkey (2025, Neon)
$14M opening
$39.7M domestic total
$68.9M worldwide
The Life of Chuck (2024, Neon)
$224K opening
$6.7M domestic total
$16.9M worldwide
The Boogeyman (2023)
$12.4M opening
$42.2M domestic total
$67.3M worldwide
It was the highest-grossing film for star Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza).
$3.3M - Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (Focus Features)
$39M domestic total
$77.1M worldwide
$50M budget
RT: 90%
Week 3
It’s slowly catching up to the previous installment of the series, but nowhere near the first Downton Abbey film:
Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)
$16M opening (vs. Grand Finale’s $18M)
$44.1M domestic total
$92.7M worldwide ($16.9M UK)
Downton Abbey (2019)
$31M opening (vs. Grand Finale’s $18M)
$96.9M domestic total
$194.7M worldwide ($34.5M UK)
These films over-index in the UK as they focus on the British Aristocracy and their servants.
$1.4M They Call Him OG (Prathyangira Cinemas)
$5.2M domestic total
$23.8M worldwide
$28.2M budget
RT: 87%
Week 1
Synopsis:
After vanishing from Mumbai’s underworld for a decade, mob boss Ojas Gambheera resurfaces--feared, unstoppable, and with a single goal: to reclaim his empire and exact vengeance on the current tyrant, Omi Bhau. As loyalties fracture and alliances shift, OG reignites a brutal criminal war, confronting both external threats and haunting buried betrayals.
$1.25M - A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (Sony)
$5.9M domestic total
$14M worldwide
$60M production budget + $50M Sony paid to acquire the package
RT: 37%
Week 2
This film had the lowest per-screen average of any film this weekend by a large margin. Earning $375/screen across a massive 3330 theaters.
Margot Robbie failed to deliver when compared with her previous:
Barbie (2023)
$162M domestic opening
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is going to be a big money loser for Sony. Perhaps this is why Sony re-released the first three Spider-Man films this weekend.
The three earned $2.25M. Individually, this weekend they earned:
Spider-Man 1
$737.5K
RT: 90%
Spider-Man 2
$1.1M
RT: 93%
Spider-Man 3
$400K
RT: 63%
Great to see that the highest-rated films in the series earned the most money.
Re: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, the one saving grace is that it’s doing better business internationally.
Here are the lowest-grossing films of the week:
$39K - Apollo 13 (Universal)
$174.6M domestic total
$336.6M worldwide
$390/screen average
30th Anniversary re-release
$5.9K - CatVideoFest 2025 (Oscilloscope)
$1M domestic total
$1.2M worldwide
$1.2K /screen average
Week 9
$5K - Lilo & Stitch (Disney)
$423.8M domestic total
$1.037bn worldwide
$250 /screen average
Week 19
Sony Pictures Classics’ Eleanor the Great earned $860K in its opening weekend. The film earned a decent per-screen average of $964/screen across 892 theaters. It is the feature directorial debut of Scarlett Johansson. It opened in Cannes at Un Certain Regard.
Vertical’s Dead of Winter earned $1M in its opening weekend. With a very decent per-screen average of $1.7K/screen across 605 theaters. The film stars Emma Thompson and premiered at Locarno.