Key Takeaways
Total 3-Day Weekend Gross:
$60,732,187 | -26.5% Last Week / +10.7% Weekend 6, 2025
A deluge of new titles all aimed at specific demos (horror crowd, KPop fans, older grownups) made for a muted Super Bowl weekend where holdover Send Help remained on top, likely because it was the closest thing to a slick Hollywood product (name stars, name director, etc). Biting weather/freezing temperatures across the country also de-incentivized moviegoing, although not to the extent of two weeks ago when hundred of theaters shuttered due to blizzards. Thanks to the glut of films, the overall is actually doing a little better than this frame last year when Dog Man held firm in its second weekend.
- Top Title: Send Help (20th Century) | $10M / 3,475 Screens / $2,878 PSA | Week 2
- Top Opener: Solo Mio (Angel Studios) | $7.2M / 3,052 Screens / $2,359 PSA | Week 1
- Best PSA: Pillion (A24) | $241.7K / 4 Screens / $60,442 PSA | Week 1
1. Send Help
20th Century Studios | Week 2
$10M 3-Day Weekend | $35.8M Domestic Total
$53.7M Global Total
20th Century’s survival thriller Send Help fought off some surprising competition from Stray Kids and Solo Mio (placing third on Friday) to ultimately win a freezing Big Game weekend with an estimated $10M from 3,475 screens for a $2,878 Per Screen Average, right at expectations.
At $35.8M, the film has now surpassed director Sam Raimi’s For Love of the Game and Darkman to become his seventh-highest domestic grosser to-date, looking to surpass Drag Me To Hell‘s $42.1M sometime in the next week. It is the 17th highest grosser for Rachel McAdams, and her biggest lead role since Game Night in 2018 ($69.17M).
Here’s how the 3-Day looked…
- Friday – $2.8M
- Saturday – $4.7M
- Sunday – $2.5M
Internationally Send Help is off to a slow start with $6.3M from 50 material territories for a global total of $53.7M. New markets this week included the UK, Croatia, Greece, and Uruguay. Top markets are Mexico ($2.3M), UK ($2.2M), and Australia ($1.6M).
2. Solo Mio
Angel Studios | NEW
$7.2M 3-Day Opening Weekend
Angel Studios’ negative pickup romantic comedy Solo Mio starring Kevin James managed to do well with that company’s target demo, earning $7.2M from 3,052 screens for a $2,359 PSA, placing second for the weekend. RT critical was a solid 78%, while audience score was 95% and “A-” CinemaScore. These are similar metrics to last week’s Melania.
Here’s how the 3-Day looked, including $744K in Thursday previews…
- Friday – $3.18M
- Saturday – $2.7M
- Sunday – $1.3M
This is also star Kevin James’ biggest domestic opening as a lead since 2012’s Here Comes the Boom ($11.8M), with much of the King of Queens actor’s output of late going direct to streaming.
Other Notable Performances
The KPop concert doc Stray Kids: The DominATE experience started the weekend strong at the top of the charts Friday with $3.2M, but by Sunday was only tallying $383.5K for a $5.56M total at #4. Distrib Bleecker Street is calling this their second biggest opening weekend ever, and the launch of a new event cinema label called Crosswalk. It also earned $900K from early access IMAX screenings held on Wednesday, with $2.1M total domestically from the format.
Vertical Entertainment could not make a meal of Luc Besson’s redo of Dracula, which seemed a rehash of the Coppola version from three decades ago. The movie led by Caleb Landry-Jones could only scare up $4.5M from 2,050 screens for a $2,198 PSA to place fifth, although the movie has done a bit better overseas with over $20M including $11.5M from Russia.
We mentioned on Wednesday that the law of diminishing returns suggested there was no bottom for Lionsgate’s The Strangers: Chapter 3, which wound up with $3.5M for the weekend to place 7th behind Frame 11 of Zootopia 2. That’s less than a third of what Chapter 1 opened to ($11.8M). While the first entry did solid at $35.2M domestically, the second one more than halved that at $15.15M, indicating that the curiosity factor may have been driving the first Chapter, leaving only the die hards for the remaining two entries. Rotten Tomatoes was 18%, while CinemaScore was a “D.” Overall this will still be a profitable enterprise given the ability to package the three films as both a trilogy and a bundle with the first two Strangers films.
Next Weekend
Sony’s animated Goat finally steps in to fill the family gap now that Zootopia 2 is on Digital, looking at a possible number one finish for the basketball-themed comedy. Margot Robbie is looking to bounce back from the misfire of last year’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey with another romance, a sweeping adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Co-starring hot leading man Jacob Elordi (making the awards rounds for Frankenstein, it is directed by Saltburn‘s Emerald Fennell. Four Marvel stars (Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Halle Berry) will headline MGM’s crime thriller Crime 101.
Sunday Studio Estimates | Weekend 6 – 2026
Total 3-Day Domestic Gross: $60,732,187 | (+10.7% vs 2025)
| Title | Weekend Estimate | % Change | Locations | Location Change | PSA | Domestic Total | Week | Distributor |
| Send Help | $10,000,000 | -48% | 3,475 | n/c | $2,878 | 35,839,748 | 2 | 20th Century… |
| Solo Mio | $7,200,000 | 3,052 | $2,359 | 7,200,000 | 1 | Angel Studios | ||
| Iron Lung | $6,000,000 | -67% | 2,916 | -99 | $2,058 | 30,815,104 | 2 | Markiplier S… |
| Stray Kids: The DominATE experience | $5,564,237 | 1,724 | $3,228 | 5,564,237 | 1 | Bleecker Street | ||
| Dracula | $4,505,350 | 2,050 | $2,198 | 4,505,350 | 1 | Vertical Ent… | ||
| Zootopia 2 | $4,000,000 | -32% | 2,715 | -165 | $1,473 | 414,506,721 | 11 | Walt Disney |
| Avatar: Fire and Ash | $3,500,000 | -38% | 2,365 | -435 | $1,480 | 391,533,850 | 8 | 20th Century… |
| The Strangers: Chapter 3 | $3,500,000 | 2,565 | $1,365 | 3,500,000 | 1 | Lionsgate | ||
| Shelter | $2,425,000 | -56% | 2,726 | n/c | $890 | 9,987,000 | 2 | Black Bear P… |
| Melania | $2,378,874 | -67% | 2,003 | 225 | $1,188 | 13,353,819 | 2 | Amazon MGM S… |
| The Housemaid | $1,800,000 | -48% | 2,030 | -573 | $887 | 123,652,280 | 8 | Lionsgate |
| The Moment | $1,689,191 | 295% | 581 | 577 | $2,907 | 2,283,824 | 2 | A24 |
| Marty Supreme | $1,310,791 | -53% | 1,124 | -579 | $1,166 | 93,217,787 | 8 | A24 |
| Hamnet | $750,000 | -52% | 925 | -334 | $811 | 21,765,000 | 11 | Focus Features |
| Whistle | $720,000 | 1,200 | $600 | 720,000 | 1 | IFC Entertai… | ||
| 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple | $480,000 | -69% | 785 | -1,257 | $611 | 24,786,000 | 4 | Sony Pictures |
| Anaconda | $305,000 | -63% | 545 | -507 | $560 | 64,208,000 | 7 | Sony Pictures |
| Pillion | $241,769 | 4 | $60,442 | 241,769 | 1 | A24 | ||
| The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants | $220,000 | -64% | 453 | -349 | $486 | 70,897,000 | 8 | Paramount Pi… |
| Song Sung Blue | $217,000 | -63% | 448 | -261 | $484 | 38,861,000 | 7 | Focus Features |
| No Other Choice | $206,500 | -50% | 196 | -127 | $1,054 | 9,500,389 | 7 | Neon |
| Primate | $185,000 | -77% | 372 | -853 | $497 | 25,549,000 | 5 | Paramount Pi… |
| The Secret Agent | $180,000 | -32% | 300 | -12 | $600 | 3,558,638 | 11 | Neon |
| Scarlet | $165,000 | 160 | $1,031 | 260,000 | 9 | Sony Picture… | ||
| Clika | $140,000 | -73% | 202 | -338 | $693 | 2,518,000 | 3 | Sony Pictures |
| Sirat | $136,252 | 4 | $34,063 | 136,252 | 13 | Neon | ||
| Arco | $124,000 | -69% | 243 | -59 | $510 | 800,324 | 13 | Neon |
| Return to Silent Hill | $115,559 | -88% | 273 | -1,335 | $423 | 5,544,971 | 3 | Iconic Relea… |
| David | 112,044 | -66% | 256 | -279 | $438 | 80,210,159 | 8 | Angel Studios |
| The Testament of Ann Lee | $104,000 | -67% | 230 | -270 | $452 | 2,377,834 | $7 | Searchlight … |
| Sentimental Value | $98,000 | -34% | 251 | -25 | $390 | 4,890,055 | $14 | Neon |
| A Poet | 51,808 | 87% | 33 | 31 | $1,570 | 91,441 | $2 | 1-2 Special |
| Kokuho | 47,175 | $3 | $15,725 | $124,767 | $13 | GKIDS | ||
| All That’s Left Of You | $37,024 | -26% | 33 | -9 | $1,122 | $413,913 | 5 | Watermelon P… |
| Is This Thing On? | $32,000 | -27% | 75 | -20 | $427 | $6,189,756 | 8 | Searchlight … |
| Magellan | $18,800 | -8% | 19 | 3 | $989 | $171,951 | 5 | Janus Films |
| The Love That Remains | $15,700 | -32% | 8 | 4 | $1,963 | $47,240 | 2 | Janus Films |
| Natchez | $8,474 | -50% | 3 | 2 | $2,825 | $46,577 | 14 | Oscilloscope… |
| OBEX | $3,442 | -7% | 5 | -4 | $688 | $45,207 | 5 | Oscilloscope… |
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