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By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | March 30, 2026
We’re three months into the year and I refuse to accept it. Time is a flat circle. It means nothing. Can it slow down a little and just let us breathe?! But it was a good month for our top two of the weekend at the box office.
Project Hail Mary is still at the top of the charts in its second week. It saw only a 32.3% drop from its opening weekend, which suggests the word of mouth is strong. With a $54.5 million intake this past weekend, its domestic gross now comfortably sits at over $164.3 million. Project Hail Mary is also doing well internationally. So far, its worldwide intake is just over $300 million. That makes it the second highest-grossing movie of 2026 so far. The number one spot is held by the Chinese movie Pegasus 3, the racecar sports comedy.
Things are also solid for Hoppers, the Pixar comedy. Four weeks in and it’s at $138.5 million domestically. This one also seems to be benefitting from good word of mouth. It’s close to doubling its $150 million budget and is currently the third highest-grossing movie of the year. That puts it ahead of Wuthering Heights and Scream 7.
Things weren’t so good for the highest-grossing new release of the weekend, the bloodstained action-thriller They Will Kill You. Reviews were solid but it struggled against bigger and more family-friendly fare, so it only landed at number three with $5 million.
It was a busy weekend for limited releases and anniversary screenings. The documentary The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist earned $650,000 from 786 theatres. The Mummy Returns turned 25, and even though we all know it’s nowhere near as good as the first one, we still have a soft spot for it. Enough millennials made their way to the cinema to get this one to $600,000 from 1,430 places. Another anniversary re-release: the late great Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me, a movie I’ve seen too many times to count. It grossed $450,000 from 624 locations.
Julia Ducournau followed up her controversial Palme d’Or winner Titane with Alpha, a highly divisive drama starring Tahar Rahim. Critics either adored it or wanted it set on fire. That didn’t translate to a big commercial boost, although $121,033 from 218 cinemas isn’t terrible.
Jimmy O. Yang: Finally Home, an autobiographical special from the stand-up comedian, took in $80,700; A Magnificent Life, the latest sumptuous animation from Sylvain Chomet of The Triplets of Belleville fame, earned $76,337. The rom-com Fantasy Life, starring Amanda Peet, brought in $39,000, while the drama Our Hero, Balthazar, made $33,277. Kontinental ‘25, from the Romanian director Radu Jude, grossed $6,683.
And the award for the best title of the week goes to John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office. This one is a documentary about the utopian neuroscientist, John C. Lilly and his experiments on consciousness. Dolphins are involved, apparently. It took in $3,720 from one location.
This coming week sees the release of Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s The Drama and the animated sequel The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.
