Oscar weekend is not traditionally a big moviegoing frame, but three films made the industry take notice. As expected, “Hoppers” remained at no. 1 for a second week, taking in $28.5 million, down just 37% for $86.8 million domestic and $164.7 million worldwide. The original Pixar hit has two more weekends to rake in family fare before“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” drops on April 1
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The weekend’s big surprise was the romantic drama “Reminders of Him” overperforming pre-release polling for $18 million domestic and $28.2 million global. The third Colleen Hoover adaptation in the past 18 months opened bigger than “Regretting You” ($13.6 million), but behind “It Ends With Us,” which hit $50 million partially thanks to Blake Lively’s starpower. With a reported $25 million production budget and Hoover’s committed fanbase, “Reminders” should shape up to be a nice triple down the line hit for Universal. A moneymaker that went under the radar for many.
A24 acquired worldwide rights to the microbudget horror film “Undertone” last summer after its debut at Fantasia Fest and scared up substantial box office this weekend. The haunted podcast thriller took in $9.3 million and should more than make up its marketing and acquisition costs in the U.S. alone. Granted, it did earn just a C CinemaScore, but that’s pretty common for horror movies. Reviews were slightly better with a 66 score on Metacritic and 78% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Among other releases, “Scream 7” hit $106 million domestic and $176.9 million worldwide.“Goat” is now at $90 million stateside and $162 million global. “Wuthering Heights” is now at $81 million in the U.S. and $226.4 million worldwide. “The Bride” continued to disappoint, dropping a staggering 70% for just $11.3 million in 10 days domestically and $26.9 million globally.
Hours before the Academy Awards ceremony begins, Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet” crossed the $100 million mark worldwide with $100.6 million. This is the first movie Jessie Buckley has toplined to pull this off, and just the second for co-star Paul Mescal. It brings the number of 2026 Best Picture nominees to cross the $100 million mark globally to five. In 2025, 2024, and 2023, there were just four nominees who hit that tally.
Also of note, Roadside Attractions took over distribution of the “Oscar Nominated Shorts” release and set a record with $3.6 million. That surpasses the previous tally of $3.53 million in 2019.
New releases Friday include “Project Hail Mary” and “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.”
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Editor-at-Large Gregory Ellwood is one of the entertainment industry's most respected journalists and critics. Based in Los Angeles, he's the only current awards expert who previously worked on Oscar campaigns at a major movie studio. Over the years, he has written for the LA Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Vox, among others. He also co-founded the entertainment news site HitFix, which spawned a legion of influential Emmy and WGA Award-winning alumni.
