Weekend Box Office: Hoppers Stays on Top
Neither a new Colleen Hoover adaptation nor a new A24 horror film had enough to take down Pixar's latest animated treat.
Oscar weekend. March Madness selection Sunday. SXSW happening in Austin. Whatever your pleasure, there were still movies playing in theaters, and families kept Pixar in the top spot again. Colleen Hoover fans continue to show their love for her brand. And horror fans continue to buy tickets for not only a well-marketed micro-budgeted release from A24, but also enough to give Scream a new high in its 30-year history.
King of the Crop: Hoppers Stays on Top
Hoppers had its second weekend at No. 1, making $28.5 million, and has $86.8 million in 10 days. This is remarkably consistent with many of its animated counterparts released in March. Look at these numbers:
Home ($15.7 million – second weekend / $95.2 million – 10 days)
How To Train Your Dragon ($29.0 million / $92.1 million)
The Boss Baby ($26.3 million / $89.4 million)
The Croods ($26.7 million / $88.8 million)
Ice Age ($30.0 million / $87.2 million)
Horton Hears a Who ($24.5 million / $86.0 million)
Those six films represent a floor of $154 million and a ceiling of $217 million. Hoppers’ numbers are in line most with The Boss Baby and The Croods; we could narrow its endgame to somewhere between $175-188 million. A number somewhere in the vicinity of $300 million globally seems to be the play but is far below what the $150 million production would need for a theatrical victory. It has made just $77.9 million internationally to date.
Tales of the top 10: Reminders of Him and Undertone Open Strong
After the huge success of It Ends With Us, the Colleen Hoover industry was in full swing. Last October’s adaptation of Regretting You, while no favorite with critics, was a quiet little hit during the fall, making over $90 million globally with $48.8 million of that grossing domestically. It opened with $13.6 million, so Universal should be happy to see Reminders of Him with Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers double that critic score (56% on the Tomatometer) and open to $18.2 million, the fifth-best start of 2026 just ahead of Iron Lung ($17.8 million). Regretting You grossed more than 3.5 times its opening and It Ends With Us nearly tripled its $50 million start. If the Hoover fans continue to show up we could be looking in the $55-65 million region. That’s a way-too-early estimate, but the budget comes in a bit less than Regretting You ($25 million compared to $30 million) so the hill is not as far to climb for this to be a success. It has made another $10 million internationally as well.
Ian Tuason’s “audio horror” film Undertone debuted to solid reviews at Sundance this year. That score has fallen a bit as the festival fog has parted, but the A24 release opened to a solid $9.3 million, much better than last year’s Sundance horror entry Opus ($1.01 million) and SXSW’s premiere of horror comedy Death of a Unicorn ($5.7 million). The latter ended with $12.89 million. Horror has had its stragglers this year with Dracula, The Strangers: Chapter 3, Return to Silent Hill, We Bury the Dead, and Psycho Killer; the latter two not even hitting 1,200 theaters and all opening to less than $4.5 million. But horror has had a decent year otherwise, at least in their openings, with Scream 7 ($63.6 million), Send Help ($19.1 million), Iron Lung ($17.8 million), 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple ($12.5 million) and Primate ($11.1 million). Undertone may not have hit those numbers in its opening, but at a cost of just $500,000, this is all just profit from here.
Last week, Scream 7 set a new low bar for $60+ million openings and where it was after 10 days of release. History books aside, it was by far the most profitable film of 2026 thus far, and it added $8.3 million to its total this week on the domestic side. That’s $106.5 million after 17 days, the 15th best for a February release. The numbers are much closer to Fifty Shades Darker than Get Out, but a finish in the $120-130 million range (the highest in the franchise) still seems like the play even with a very low multiple. Add in another $70 million internationally and the numbers are golden for Paramount. Could Scary Movie beat those numbers come June? We shall see, but they are both likely the best the studio are going to see this year.
Sony’s animated film GOAT gets its fifth-straight week in the top five despite the Hoppers competition. Another $4.7 million this weekend puts it over $90 million and in a better position to still hit $100 million than we led on last week. The film may still be trailing $7 million behind The Lego Movie 2, but it is right in line with Journey 2 The Mysterious Island, which was at $90.6 million after a $3.6 million fifth weekend and legged its way out to $103.8 million. If only its international total could match that, they could put this in the win column by the time it leaves theaters. Right now, it has made just $72 million. Make that up in physical media, Sony.
It is a tale of two films for Warner Bros. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s THE BRIDE! was met with mixed reviews (57% on the Tomatometer) although it was the louder negative voices you likely heard. Thinkpieces were written on why it failed at the box office. How many of those were written about Tron: Ares or The Running Man last year? Perhaps the low number in attendance inspired them. THE BRIDE! fell 70% to $2.1 million and a total of $11.3 million domestic and $21 million worldwide. That’s never good news for an $80 million production, but let’s not wag a finger at Maggie or the funders at Warner Bros. when others failed to do the same with bigger financial and creative failures.
By the same token, Emerald Fennell took her own wild swing with a classic from the 19th century, and while a big opening weekend did not entirely translate into a big word-of-mouth success, it has still garnered over $226 million globally (the best for a 2026 U.S. release so far) and will go down as a financial winner. “Wuthering Heights” made $1.6 million in its fifth weekend, bringing its domestic total to $81.9 million. One of the more fascinating turns in watching these numbers is just how in sync it has become with Margot Robbie’s other February variation of a published character in Birds of Prey. The film was at $82.5 million at the end of its fifth weekend, making $2.1 million. The week following its release, the pandemic would hit. Let’s hope another doesn’t start during Wuthering’s run.
A film with a bigger budget than THE BRIDE! is Crime 101. The $90 million production has made $35.5 million domestic to date and less than $70 million globally. Combine that with Amazon/MGM’s costs for the Melania documentary and you are looking at a much bigger and redder ink spot on the books than Warner Bros. this year and their female filmmakers.
A pair of re-releases also cracked the top 10 this weekend: Kiki’s Delivery Service with a 4K restoration in 249 IMAX theaters grossed $1.66 million, while Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze was in 1,372 theaters and it grossed $1.47 million.
On the Vine: Ryan Gosling Goes to Space and Samara Weaving Fights for Her Life Again
Ryan Gosling goes into space again next week with the latest from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Their adaptation of Project Hail Mary is expected to have the biggest opening of the year so far. Samara Weaving is also being hunted again in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, which premiered at SXSW this weekend. In limited release, look for Rose Byrne as a homeless woman trying to get her car back in Tow, and A24 releases Sofia Coppola’s documentary about designer Marc Jacobs in the aptly titled Marc by Sofia.
Full List of Box Office Results: March 13-15, 2026
- Hoppers – $28.5 million ($86.8 million total)
- Reminders of Him – $18.2 million ($18.2 million total)
- Undertone – $9.3 million ($9.3 million total)
- Scream 7 – $8.3 million ($106.5 million total)
- GOAT – $4.7 million ($90.5 million total)
- THE BRIDE! – $2.1 million ($11.3 million total)
- Kiki’s Delivery Service (re-release) – $1.6 million ($1.6 million total)
- “Wuthering Heights” – $2.3 million ($82.3 million total)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (re-release) – $1.4 million ($1.4 million total)
- Crime 101 – $1.1 million ($35.5 million total)
Erik Childress can be heard each week evaluating box office on Business First AM with Angela Miles and his Movie Madness Podcast. [box office figures via Box Office Mojo]
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