Hoppers vs. The Bride: Box Office Results — Pixar Triumphs, Gyllenhaal's Film Bombs
This past weekend delivered one of the starkest box office contrasts of the year. Pixar's Hoppers dominated while Warner Bros.' The Bride! collapsed spectacularly — and Hollywood is talking about little else this Monday morning.
Hoppers — Pixar's Biggest Original Hit Since Coco
Pixar's Hoppers was No. 1 at the global box office with $88 million — $46 million domestically and $42 million from 40 overseas territories. It is the biggest launch for an original animated film since the studio's Coco in 2017.
Directed by Daniel Chong and written by Jesse Andrews, Hoppers follows Mabel Tanaka, a 19-year-old animal lover whose mind is transferred into a lifelike robotic beaver to communicate with fellow creatures and save their habitat from destruction, inadvertently starting an uprising. The voice cast includes Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan, Jon Hamm, Kathy Najimy, and Dave Franco. Mark Mothersbaugh composed the score, and SZA wrote and performed the end-credits song "Save the Day."
Hoppers earned an A CinemaScore and a very good 75% definite recommend on PostTrak. Kids under 12 gave it 90% positive on PostTrak, with a 61% must-see-right-away rating. Critics certified it fresh at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes with a Metacritic score of 75.
The Bride! — One of the Year's Biggest Bombs
Director Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! collapsed in its box office debut with $7.3 million from 3,304 North American theaters. Since the Warner Bros. film cost $90 million to produce and audience scores are downright scary, it is shaping up to be the year's first big bomb.
The Bride! is a 2026 American Gothic romance film written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale alongside Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Penélope Cruz. Drawing inspiration from the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein, it is set in 1930s Chicago where Frankenstein's Monster revives a murdered woman as his companion, sparking a crime spree and radical social change.
The Bride! received a C+ CinemaScore and a low 43% definite recommend on PostTrak. Gyllenhaal's film ends a yearlong winning streak for Warner Bros. studio heads Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, who have two films — Ryan Coogler's Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another — in the Best Picture race at the upcoming Oscars.
Full Weekend Box Office Top 5
The full weekend chart: No. 1 Hoppers at $46 million, No. 2 Scream 7 at $17 million in its second weekend, No. 3 The Bride! at $7.3 million, No. 4 GOAT at $6.6 million, and No. 5 Wuthering Heights at roughly $3.7 million.
