Hello! Welcome to TheBox Office Report for the weekend of Nov. 6-8, 2026.
1. Godzilla Minus Zero
Weekend gross: $31.6M Total domestic gross: $31.6M Last weekend: New release Percent drop: NA
In the Friday edition of Popculturology, I called Godzilla Minus Zero “brutal” and “masterful.” (I also called it the loudest movie I’ve ever seen.) The sequel can add another title to that list of accolades: Biggest opening weekend for a live-action foreign-language film.
Godzilla Minus Zero easily won the weekend, with its $31.6 million box office haul demolishing a wave of other new releases, including the most recent adaptation of The Cat in the Hat.
When it comes to Godzilla movies, Godzilla Minus Zero effortlessly beat Godzilla Minus One’s domestic opening weekend of $11.4 million. That film settled at $56.9 million in North America, and between a $31.6 million debut and very positive word of mouth, I can see Godzilla Minus Zero stomping past that mark.
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2. The Cat in the Hat
Weekend gross: $20.5M Total domestic gross: $20.5M Last weekend: New release Percent drop: NA
Arriving over two decades after the live-action The Cat in the Hat starring Mike Myers, the new animated film debuted with a first-weekend haul just a bit more than half of the 2003 film’s $38.3 million opening weekend.
Not great, especially when the new version, starring the voice talent of Bill Hader, has the benefit of inflation to boost it along. It probably also didn’t help that reviews for the new version of The Cat in the Hat have been poor. If you’re going to adapt a Dr. Seuss book, you can’t just slap the characters into any generic movie plot.
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Weekend gross: $9.3M Total domestic gross: $9.3M Last weekend: New release Percent drop: NA
It’s always funny when an Angel Studios film slips into the top five, and I have to research a movie that I had no idea existed before sitting down to write the most recent edition of The Box Office Report. When I saw a movie titled Drummer Boy in this weekend’s lineup, I assumed it was a Christmas movie getting an early jump on things.
Nope. It’s about “a young drummer boy, an enslaved woman and a divided family each [searching] for freedom in a world built to deny it” during the Revolutionary War.
4. You Can See Everything
Weekend gross: $8.9M Total domestic gross: $79.8M Last weekend: 1st Percent drop: 23
You Can See Everything is the only movie from last weekend’s top five that managed to stick around this weekend as a wave of new releases overtook the box office. The film added an estimated $8.9 million to its domestic total, bringing the Elizabeth Holmes documentary just shy of $80 million in North America.
Does You Can See Everything have another $20 million in it to hit the $100 million milestone?
5. Ramayana: Rise of a Legend
Weekend gross: $8.7M Total domestic gross: $12.2M Last weekend: New release Percent drop: NA
Godzilla Minus Zero wasn’t the only foreign-language film making some money in North America this weekend, Ramayana: Rise of a Legend, the first installment in the two-part Hindi-language adaptation, scored an $8.7 million debut.
Box office numbers via The Numbers and Box Office Mojo based on Sunday estimates.
Correction: The headline on this article originally stated that Godzilla Minus One stomped The Cat in the Hat. GodzillaMinus Zero stomped The Cat in the Hat.
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