Daily Brief

Box Office Weekend

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Episodes

You Can See Everything tops Halloween box office and closes in on all-time documentary record, Clayface holds second in $200K photo finish, Halloween on Saturday delivers one of 2026's softest industry weekends
Mon
Wildwood posts respectable -39% hold but faces steep climb against $100M budget, Resident Evil crosses $400M worldwide with rare -12.9% seventh-weekend drop, Heart of the Beast reaches $65M cumulative in sixth weekend
Mon
Clayface opens to $24M but misses projections, Wildwood debuts near top of range with perfect audience scores, You Can See Everything rises 25% in week two to nearly topple DC at the box office
October 29
Laika's Wildwood opens at $12.2M beating tracking estimates, domestic box office up 22% year-over-year, Halloween weekend expected quiet with no major wide releases
October 29
Clayface opens at No. 1 on near-breakeven $44M budget, Laika's Wildwood beats low tracking with $11.6M stop-motion debut, Street Fighter suffers brutal 72% second-weekend collapse
October 26
Clayface opens to $24M domestic in DC's R-rated gamble, Wildwood beats tracking with $11.6M stop-motion debut, Street Fighter craters 72% in week two
October 26
Clayface opens against You Can See Everything in a rare horror-vs-documentary #1 race, A24 doc posts second-best documentary opening ever at $15.6M, expansion from 855 to 2500+ theaters sets up historic second weekend test
October 22
A24 documentary expands to 2600 theaters and threatens Clayface for number one, Clayface opens with softening tracking and presale concerns, midweek holds reveal how the showdown was built
October 22
A24 documentary shatters records with $15M limited opening, domestic box office surges 48% year-over-year, Whalefall sinks against $60M budget
October 19
You Can See Everything posts historic per-theater average with $15M from 855 theaters, Whalefall opens to a disappointing $8M against $60M budget, Other Mommy drops 70% but crosses $78M worldwide
October 19
Street Fighter reboot opens at 3,500 theaters with tracking down to $22–35M, Whalefall survival thriller targets $10–12M second-place finish, You Can See Everything eyes record-breaking documentary debut with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
October 15
Other Mommy opens to $27.5M with a D+ CinemaScore, The Social Reckoning flops with $5.5M debut, U.S. domestic box office crosses $8 billion milestone
October 12
Other Mommy opens to $27.5M with a D+ CinemaScore, The Social Reckoning flatlines at $5.5M, Verity tumbles 64% in week two
October 12
Other Mommy tracking for $17M-$22M debut, October 2-4 top ten crosses $99M, Verity's C+ CinemaScore signals steep second-weekend drop
October 8
Tom Cruise's Digger opens to $8M, his worst debut in 19 years, Weekend domestic total reaches $99M despite the misfire, 2026 year-to-date nears $8 billion milestone two months ahead of last year
October 5
Verity opens to $62.6M worldwide, doubling expectations, Digger earns just $8M domestic in Cruise's worst wide opening in 19 years, Digger's $12M international haul collapses the 'Cruise will travel' assumption, Warner Bros. faces $150-200M loss on final pre-merger release
October 5
Verity projected to open at number one with $24–35M, Digger reviews crater Tom Cruise's box office prospects, Anne Hathaway on track for third number-one opening of 2026
October 1
Avengers: Endgame Encore sets re-release record with $86M global opening, Resident Evil crosses $100M domestic first for franchise, Tom Cruise's Digger tracking toward historic box office bomb
October 1
Avengers: Endgame Encore opens to $26M domestic in record re-release debut, A24's Primetime beats tracking by 60% with $19.2M opening, Heart of the Beast earns rave reviews but faces brutal math on $82M budget
September 28
Resident Evil reboot crosses $100M domestic milestone, A24's Primetime opens to $19.2M with Robert Pattinson, DreamWorks' Forgotten Island underperforms despite perfect reviews
September 28
Avengers Endgame Encore re-release targets No. 1 with new Doomsday footage, Robert Pattinson's Primetime arrives with Oscar buzz and A24 box office ambitions, crowded fall weekend sets up one of the year's tightest top-ten races
September 24
Avengers: Endgame Encore re-release tracking $18-30M, Resident Evil faces sophomore drop in crowded marketplace, A24's Primetime opens wide with 92% RT and Venice buzz
September 24
Resident Evil reboot opens to franchise-record $60M domestic debut, overall weekend box office surges 28% as horror genre tops $1.1B in 2026, Practical Magic 2 stumbles with near-60% second-weekend drop
September 21
Resident Evil reboot shatters franchise record with $60M domestic opening, Zach Cregger hits $108M global career best, domestic horror crosses $1.1B year-to-date
September 21
Spider-Man: Brand New Day breaks all-time domestic box office record, Resident Evil tracks $44-53M opening weekend, video game adaptation genre faces structural shift
September 17
Resident Evil reboot tracking $40-50M domestic debut, R-rated video game record in sight, global forecast hits $80M-$150M, 97% Rotten Tomatoes sets all-time live-action video game adaptation record
September 17
Practical Magic 2 opens at No. 1 with $30M, ending Spider-Man's six-week reign, debut falls short of presale expectations amid mixed reviews, post-Labor Day holdover declines signal market slowdown
September 14
Practical Magic 2 opens to $30M at #1 ending Spider-Man's six-week run, Warner Bros. sequel falls at low end of projections with B+ CinemaScore, Angel Studios' Runner earns strong A- score and $2505 per-theater average at #4, September top ten down 5% week-over-week and trailing prior-year comparables
September 14
Spider-Man: Brand New Day within $13M of all-time domestic record, The Odyssey nears $600M in week nine, Practical Magic 2 opens to mixed reviews with $30M-$40M projections
September 10