Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | October 26, 2026
DC is trying something new with its movie division. Stepping away from the expanded universe mould under the rule of James Gunn has had mixed-to-positive results so far. With Clayface, they’ve gone full horror with a far lower budget than your average superhero blockbuster, and it seems to have paid off. The film took the top spot at the box office over the weekend, with $24 million from 3,458 locations. Not too shabby for a movie with a reported budget of somewhere between $30 and 40 million. It’s already made back its money internationally. I’m all in favour of more of these movies having budgets less than $300 million.
You Can See Everything opened to an extra 1,800 theatres and is now at $45.1 million domestically. This is an incredible amount of money for a documentary, let alone a three-hour one from a cringe comedy guy on HBO.
Laika has spent about a decade making Wildwood, an achingly beautiful stop-motion fantasy drama based on a novel by Colin Meloy of The Decemberists. This company has never been a box office mainstay, so its $11.6 million opening weekend intake isn’t surprising. This is what we want nepo babies doing, though. Travis Knight, keep it up!
At five is Wicker, the romantasy starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgard, with $5.75 million from 1,471 theatres. There’s money in horniness, especially when there’s a hot monster involved. We wood.
The HYBE Cine Fest 2026 is a grand multi-title release mini-fest centred on the KPop conglomerate behind BTS and Seventeen, and it managed to earn $4.5 million. Never bet against KPop.
Taika Waititi’s latest film, Klara and the Sun, received terrible reviews, but before that, there was a sense of failure surrounding the project. It was delayed several times and plagued by months of negative pre-release buzz. It seems like Sony is dumping the movie as quickly as it can. It was only released in 880 films and earned a paltry $725,000.
Right beneath that was A Talent for Murder, a thriller inspired by the Ripley creator Patricia Highsmith, as played by Helen Mirren. It only took in $717,864 in 876 cinemas.
In limited release news: Fatherland, a biographical drama from Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, grossed $83,790 from four theatres; and Going for Two, a coming-of-age comedy, grossed $52,825 from 247 cinemas.
This coming week sees the release of the festive horror Christmas at the Kringles, the John Turturro drama The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, the documentary Everest: The Other Side, and the new Liam Neeson action film of the week, The Mongoose.
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.
