Weekend Box Office: HOPPERS Jumps to Biggest Original Animated Opening Since COCO

Key Takeaways

Total 3-Day Weekend Gross:
$94,868,671 | -14.5% Last Week / +41.1% Weekend 10, 2025

Disney’s Pixar silo showed they can deliver a successful opening Q1 with Hoppers, which is doing well both critically, commercially, and word-of-mouth. It carried year-over-year well above this same Mickey 17-led frame in 2025. Unfortunately, Warner Bros.’ The Bride! did little to distinguish itself in any of the places where Hoppers excelled, giving the studio its first across-the-board miss after an extended streak of #1 debuts.

• Top Title: Hoppers (Disney) | $46M / 4,000 Screens / $11,500 PSA | Week 1
• Top Opener: Hoppers (Disney) | $46M / 4,000 Screens / $11,500 PSA | Week 1
• Best PSA: Hoppers (Disney) | $46M / 4,000 Screens / $11,500 PSA | Week 1

1. Hoppers
Pixar | NEW
$46M 3-Day Opening Weekend | $88M Global Total

Disney and Pixar’s new family offering Hoppers managed both the studio and the industry at large’s biggest original animated opening since Coco in 2017 ($72.9M). The movie about a girl whose mind gets transferred to a robotic beaver earned an estimated $46M from 4,000 locations for an $11,500 Per Screen Average. This also tops the last Pixar title to open in the March corridor, 2020’s ill-timed Onward ($39.1M opening/$61.55M total), and is on par with the $47M bow of Ratatouille in 2007.

Here’s how the 3-Day looked, including $3.2M in Thursday previews…

• Friday – $13.2M
• Saturday – $19.1M
• Sunday – $13.7M

On Rotten Tomatoes, the critical and audience scores are a rare dead-even at 94% for both, with an “A” CinemaScore and 5 out of 5 stars on PostTrak. Being the destination family movie until April, Disney should continue to collect from this title throughout the early spring. This is also a fantastic rebound after last summer’s Elio represented a box office and critical nadir.

Here’s how the format split looked, with premium formats representing 35% of the total box office…

2D – 90%

Traditional 2D – 65%
PLF 2D – 22%
IMAX 2D – 2%
Motion 2D – 1%

3D – 10%

Traditional 3D – 9%
Motion 3D – 1%

Audiences veered female at 53% vs 47% male, with under 12’s unsurprisingly the largest age demo at 27%. Here’s how demographics looked…

• Caucasian (45%)
• Hispanic (25%)
• Asian (14%)
• AA (9%)
• NatAm/Other (7%).

Overseas Hoppers‘ business was also solid, opening to $42M across 40 material territories representing 81% of the international landscape, with key markets like Japan, China, and Australia still to come. The global total stands at $88M. Top 3 markets are UK ($6.4M), Mexico ($3.7M), and France ($3.6M).

3. The Bride!
Warner Bros. | NEW
$7.3M 3-Day Opening Weekend | $13.6M Global Total

Warner Bros.’ historic winning streak came to an end this week with The Bride!, writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s transgressive take on the Frankenstein mythos, which came in well-below already modest forecasts with $7.3M from 3,304 screens for a $2,197 PSA. Starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, the movie got hit on all fronts with a poor Rotten Tomatoes critical score (59%) and “C+” CinemaScore.

Here’s how the 3-Day looked, including $1M in Thursday previews…

• Friday – $3M
• Saturday – $2.5M
• Sunday – $1.76M

To be fair, this movie was always a tough proposition as it seemed too narrow in appeal to really take off unless it got tailwind from critics and audience word-of-mouth, neither of which was forthcoming. The perception may have been that it was too much of a Bonnie & Clyde-style romance for the horror crowd and not sexy enough for the female audience. Guillermo del Toro’s more straightforward but still stylish adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel for Netflix is still fresh on people’s minds due to an aggressive awards campaign, so this film could only ever be Deep Impact to that one’s Armageddon.

Overseas, The Bride! took in $6.3M from 70 markets -not cracking a million in any- for a global total of $13.6M. Top 3 territories are the UK ($950K), Mexico ($753K), and China ($538K).

Other Notable Performances

While it was the reigning champ last weekend, #2 movie Scream 7 had its throat slit with a blood-gargling -73% drop from last week, taking only $17.3M for a $93.37M domestic total. That’s still well on the way towards becoming the biggest grosser in the franchise, only $15M shy of Scream VI‘s $108.39M. It will get there, but the studio now has to acknowledge that something did not click here in terms of word-of-mouth, and the lowest critical score over seven films may have played a part as well. Neither Hoppers nor The Bride! represented any real threat, and in an era where a well-liked genre movie, a la Sinners, can nearly match its Frame 1 in Frame 2, the stewards of this franchise must be asking themselves why this was so front-loaded. With the international total at $56.1M, the global gross now stands at $149.47M.

Next Weekend

After getting bumped from a competitive Valentine’s Day slot, Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers try to inject a little romance into the theatrical landscape, starring in Universal’s Reminders of Him. Based on the novel by Colleen Hoover, this is clearly an attempt to replicate the box office success of her work on It Ends with Us… hopefully without the negative snail trail that came after that film.

Sunday Studio Estimates | Weekend 10 – 2026
Total 3-Day Domestic Gross: $94,868,671 | (+41.1% vs 2025)