The animation giant rebounded after several disappointing recent releases, while Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sci-fi fantasia failed to come to life.

Pixar’s *Hoppers *trounces *The Bride *at the weekend box office

The animation giant rebounded after several disappointing recent releases, while Maggie Gyllenhaal's sci-fi fantasia failed to come to life.

By Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman is a news writer for with previous work in MUBI Notebook, Slant, and the LA Review of Books.

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March 8, 2026 7:52 p.m. ET

Stills from 'Hoppers' and 'The Bride!'. Credit:

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- 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 Ghostface.

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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.

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.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal and 'The Bride' cast break down its ambiguous ending and mid-credits scene

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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