Pixar looks like it has an original hit on its hands as Hoppers looks to drop as little as 33 percent in its second outing at the domestic box office. Based on Friday’s gross of $7.1 million, the animated film is expected to earn $30 million or thereabouts in its sophomore outing as it continues to play to both families and younger adults without kids.
Last weekend, the PG-rated pic delivered a key win for the Disney-owned Pixar with a domestic opening of $46 million and $88 million globally, the biggest launch for any Hollywood original animated film since Pixar’s Coco nearly a decade ago in 2017. Hoopers is benefiting from both strong critical and audience scores.
Hollywood studios — and specifically Universal — making movie adaptations of Colleen Hoover‘s novels also received good news as Reminders of Him topped Friday’s chart with $8 million, thanks to strong audience scores (it will be passed by Pixar’s film sometime on Saturday). The female-skewing film is now expected to come in ahead of expectations with a domestic debut of $19 million to $20 million.
Despite becoming a global box office sensation, the adaptation of Hoover’s It Ends With Us became engulfed in a legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni that overshadowed the movie’s performance and raised questions about how future adaptations would fare. (Last year, Paramount’s adaptation of her novel Regretting You may have been ultimately profitable, but it failed to breakout after opening to a meek $13 million domestically.)
A24’s Undertone looks to debut in third place with a gross in the $9 million range, followed by Spyglass and Paramount’s holdover Scream 7. On Friday, the latest installment in the iconic slasher franchise set another record when crossing the $100 million mark in its fifteenth day in release at the domestic box office, a new franchise-best (it took Scream VI 28 days).
Sony Pictures Animation’s GOAT is also hanging in there, despite the entry of Hoppers. The pic is expected to round out the top five with $4.5 million or more as its domestic total heads for $90 million through Sunday.
Elsewhere, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! continues to get battered at the box office in its sophomore outing after opening in bomb territory with a domestic debut of $7.3 million, less than double what was expected. A big part of the reason? Mediocre reception from both critics and audiences.
While The Bride! may have been dumped at the altar, Warner Bros.’ studio heads Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy continue to be widely praised for taking bold, original swings that resulted in far more hits than misses over the past year. At the March 15 Oscar ceremony, they have two films in the best-picture race, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (both are considered the two leading candidates.) And at the early 2026 box office, Emerald Fennell’s edgy Wuthering Heights adaptation recently crossed the $200 million mark globally after three weekends.
As fate would have it, Focus Features’ best picture nominee Hamnet will cross the $100 million mark globally on the same day as the Oscars. The film, produced by Sam Mendes’ London-based production company in tandem with Steven Spielberg‘s Amblin, has earned the lion’s share of its earnings overseas, or north of $73 million.
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