Hello! Welcome to TheBox Office Report for the weekend of March 27-29, 2026.
1. Project Hail Mary
Weekend gross: $54.5M Total domestic gross: $164.3M Last weekend: 1st Percent drop: 32
Project Hail Mary continues its (inter)stellar box office performance. With chatter about Amazon MGM Studios being very much interested in another outing with Ryan Gosling and Rocky, the adaptation soared to a $54.5 million second weekend.
After just two weekends, Project Hail Mary is now the highest grossing movie released in 2026, leaping over Hoppers. (More on that one in a second.) That reign will likely be short-lived, though, with The Super Mario Galaxy Movie opening this Wednesday and tracking for a five-day debut over $160 million.
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2. Hoppers
Weekend gross: $12.2M Total domestic gross: $138.6M Last weekend: 2nd Percent drop: 31
While Hoppers’ time as the year’s biggest animated film will also likely come to an end this week, it continues to perform exceptionally well. Through four weekends in theaters, Pixar’s latest film has posted weekend-to-weekend drops of 37 percent, 38 percent and 31 percent.
Maybe it’s the lack of family fare in theaters, but people seemingly like giving Hoppers their money. The film has now passed The Good Dinosaur ($123.1 million) on Pixar’s all-time domestic box office chart.
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Weekend gross: $5M Total domestic gross: $5M Last weekend: New release Percent drop: NA
Yikes. Warner Bros. can’t be happy with this one. A $5 million opening weekend for the Zazie Beetz film (executive produced by It and The Flash director Andy Muschietti and his wife, Barbara Muschietti). It’ll be hard for They Will Kill You to come back from a debut like this.
4. Dhurandhar: The Revenge
Weekend gross: $4.745M Total domestic gross: $22.8M Last weekend: 3rd Percent drop: 53
The Indian film not only continued to hold off Reminders of Him and Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, it came close to beating They Will Kill You too.
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Weekend gross: $4.7M Total domestic gross: $41.1M Last weekend: 5th Percent drop: 41
Reminders of Him is almost to what It Ends With Us, the previous adaptation of a Colleen Hoover book, opened with. Let’s see if it can match that $50 million mark in another weekend or two.
Box office numbers via The Numbers and Box Office Mojo based on Sunday estimates.
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