Pixar's “Hoppers ”trounces “The Bride ”at the weekend box office

Ryan ColemanSun, March 8, 2026 at 11:52 PM UTC

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Stills from 'Hoppers' and 'The Bride!'Credit: Disney/Pixar;Warner Bros.Key Points -

Pixar's Hoppers leapt high at the box office this weekend, scoring $46 million domestically and $88 abroad — the best the studio has seen in years.

Meanwhile, Maggie Gyllenhaal's Bride of Frankenstein reimagining, The Bride!, crashed and burned with $7.2 million domestically and $13.5 million globally.

Next week, the A24 horror offering Undertone and Colleen Hoover adaptation Reminders of Him will vie with Hoppers for the gold.

This weekend at the box office, it wasn't The Bride! rising from the dead, but Pixar.

The famed animation house's latest effort, the woodlands rebellion flick Hoppers, scored the studio's best open in years with a $46 million domestic premiere gross and $88 million abroad, per Comscore.

Outside of Inside Out 2's gargantuan $154 million open back in 2024 leading to a record-breaking $653 million run at the domestic box office, the Disney subsidiary has been smarting from a string of uncontested flops, from Soul not even scraping past $1 million in 2024 to Elio's deflating lifetime gross of $72 million last year.

The success of the latest effort featuring the voices of Jon Hamm, Kathy Najimy, and more spells good news for Pixar. But it was not a weekend of good news for every studio, as Warner Bros. learned when its big arthouse effort, The Bride!, seriously failed to launch.

'Scream 7' villain GhostfaceCredit: Jessica Miglio/Pa

The rollicking Bride of Frankenstein revision from director Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Jessie Buckley barely made it off the operating table with a $7.2 domestic premiere and $13.5 million abroad. Those figures disappoint on a number of levels. Most glaringly, The Bride! was budgeted at an astonishing $80-90 million, a number made even more perplexing when factoring in the performance of Gyllenhaal's last film, the literary adaptation The Lost Daughter. Distributor Netflix gave that film a limited release before it hit streaming, where it recouped less than a million of its meager $5 million budget.

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Second, The Bride! was the beneficiary of an ample marketing and publicity campaign, costs that are not factored into that $80-90 million estimate. That means the film lost even more for Warners amid its likely final days before being acquired by Paramount. The film's failure also breaks a long winning streak for the studio that includes Barbie, A Minecraft Movie, Superman, and more.

Warners' potential new owner fared well at the box office this weekend, as Scream 7 continued to add its coffers with a $17.3 million domestic take in week two and $32.9 million globally. That haul placed it at the No. 2 spot on both leaderboards, proving that its franchise-best premiere last weekend wasn't a one-off.

At the Nos. 4 and 5 spots domestically, respectively, the animated sports comedy GOAT and brooding romantic drama Wuthering Heights continued to do good business in their fourth weeks of release. GOAT's $6.6 million this week puts it at $83.8 domestically overall, while Wuthering Heights' $8.7 million puts it at $78.7 million.

It's never easy competing with a strong Pixar film at the box office, especially after parents hear that its strong premiere suggests its a worthy trip for the kids. But next weekend, two very different films will vie for the box office gold with Hoppers. The first is Undertone, the latest horror flick from A24, focused on a pair of paranormal podcasters who become haunted by a set of mysterious recordings. The second is Reminders of Him, another adaptation from It Ends With Us scribe Colleen Hoover's vast archive, starring Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers.

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