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SUNDAY AM: Michael remain not only the King of Pop but the King of the B.O. with $26.1M, and he won the world over as well with a global fourth frame of $83.8M. The global running cume for the Graham King produced movie keeps making a run at his previous 4x Oscar winning hit, Bohemian Rhapsody with Michael now at $703.9M. 20th Century Studio’s Devil Wears Prada 2 came in lighter with $18M U.S. third weekend, likely losing women to Focus Features/Blumhouse’ romance horror Obsession which came in much higher with a great $16.1M opening.
Overall weekend is estimated to be at $106.1M, which is just -1% off from a year ago. Very good. The summer box office will take it.
Here’s the chart:
1.) Michael (LG) 3,560 (+10) theaters, Fri $7M Sat $10.9M Sun $8.1M 3-day $26.1M (-31%), Total $282.7M/Wk 4
2.) Devil Wears Prada 2 (20th) 3,830 (-370) theaters, Fri $5.3M Sat $7.1M Sun $5.6M 3-day $18M (-57%), Total $175.8M/Wk 3
3.) Obsession (Foc) 2,615 theaters, Fri $6.97M Sat $5.4M Sun $3.7M, 3-day $16.1M/Wk 1
The AMC Burbank (CA) is theleading single theater with $71.3K.
4.) Mortal Kombat II (NL) 3,534 (+31) theaters Fri $3.6M Sat $5.7M Sun $4M 3-day $13.4M (-65%) Total $62.2M/Wk 2
5.) Sheep Detectives (AMZ) 3,554 (+97) theaters Fri $2.4M Sat $4M Sun $2.8M 3-day $9.32M (-38%), Total $29.7M/Wk 2
6.) Super Mario Galaxy (Uni) 2,793 (-282) theaters Fri $1M Sat $1.97M Sun $1.42M 3-day $4.45M (-33%), Total $418.6M/Wk 7
The Nintendo Illumination sequel will soon hit $1 billion to be the first pic of 2026 to do so — but it’s gonna be a few weeks. So be patient.
7. Project Hail Mary (AMZ) 2,177 (240) theaters Fri $1M Sat $1.7M Sun $1.1M 3-day $3.9M (-41%) Total $334.8M/Wk 9
8.) Top Gun 40th anniversary (Par) 2,295 theaters, Fri $815K Sat $1.4M Sun 3-day $3.25M, Total $4.9M/Wk 1
The AMC Lincoln Square is the top grossing theater with $47.5K since Wednesday.
9.) In the Grey (Black) 2,018 theaters Fri $1.1M Sat $1M Sun $900K 3-day $3M /Wk 1
The AMC Century City is pic’s top theater with $8.6K.
10. Is God Is (AMZ) 1,510 theaters Fri $847K Sat $809K Sun $566K 3-day $2.2M/Wk 1
The Alamo Brooklyn in NYC is theleading single-location gross with near $17K through yesterday.
EARLY SATURDAY AM WRITETHRU after Friday Afternoon update: Lionsgate’s Michael is the hit that keeps on giving with an expected No. 1 in weekend four of $27M per industry estimates, -29%, after what’s looking like a $7M Friday at 3,560 theaters. Imax and PLF screens are giving the biopic some extra dance moves this weekend. This will ease Michael down the road to a running domestic take of $283.6M. If that cume holds, the Michael Jackson biopic will moonwalk past Lionsgate’s Pre-Covid 2015 hit, Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 ($281.7M final domestic). When it comes to biopics, Michael looks to be pacing +7% ahead of Oppenheimer through its fourth weekend, that Christopher Nolan directed title finaling at $330M.
In second, it’s 20th Century Studios/Disney’s The Devil Wears Prada 2 at 3,830 theaters with an estimated $5.4M third Friday for what could be a $20M third weekend. That’s -52% for a running cume on the high end by Sunday of $177.8M.
Michael Johnston in ‘Obsession’
Focus Features
Focus Features’ Curry Barker horror movie Obsession scared up a $6.6M Friday for what’s looking like a third-place take of $14M at 2,615 sites, well ahead of the $8M-$9M that was expected. One source observes that for a film festival acquisition — the box office start here is pretty impressive considering most titles go to streaming or become challenged at the arthouse. Obsession received the best CinemaScore out of this weekend’s wide entries with A-. That amount is just $3.8M shy of the $17.8M opening of Markiplier’s indie Iron Lung. Realize that Obsession is an original movie from a YouTuber; versus Iron Lung which was based on a videogame, and the upcoming A24’s Backrooms which is based on previous digital IP.
PLFs are driving a quarter of ticket sales with 39% turnout among those under 25. The 25-34 set were obsessed with Obsession showing up at 39% alone. Very good 70% definite recommend. Pic is playing in the West, South Central, and East Canada where 45.1% of their gross is coming from vs a norm of 42.2% for all other titles in the marketplace. AMC Burbank in California is Obsession‘s top grossing location with $46K. Diversity demos are 40% Caucasian, 32% Latino and Hispanic, 12% Black, 12% Asian American and 5% Native American/other. Overall 59% men to 41% women turnout.
With 102.2 million social media followers across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X and Facebook, per RelishMix, Obsession is just under such original horror pics social media universes as Longlegs (130.5M), The Black Phone (141.3M) and Abigail (108.5M).
Says RelishMix: “Convo runs positive forObsessionand plays like a horror fandom pressure cooker where monkey’s paw references and genuine breakout-director hype are all feeding the same machine. Curry Barker emerges as the brand asset, with commenters treating the film less like disposable Blumhouse programming and more like an indie horror graduation moment. The ‘crazy girlfriend’ premise is landing because audiences see it asFatal Attractionfor TikTok brain, with references spanningPearl, Swimfan, The Substance, Twilight Zone, Fairly OddParents, Tales from the Crypt andSleepaway Camp. Smart chatter praises the trailer’s restraint, sound design and emotional cruelty more than gore, which is rare air for internet horror discourse. Advanced screening reactions are especially potent because they frameObsessionas emotionally disturbing instead of merely loud. ‘Just because you chose this for her doesn’t make it less real…that is an INCREDIBLE line.’ ‘This movie, man. It is like gore for the soul’ plus ‘Going from hilarious videos to terrifying horror films, Curry has the kind of gift that rarely gets recognized’ and ‘Fatal Attractionfor Gen Z.’
Focus Features and Blumhouse took Obsession to Overlook, Panic Fest, Fantastic Fest, and SXSW to dru up support among potential fans. The tchotchkes for the film were unveiled three from shirts to Post-Its on bathroom mirrors with cryptic sayings from the demonized girlfriend in the film, Nikki.
Apparently, the studio made their own One Wish Willows, the magical device at the center of the film that grants Bear his terror-inducing wish. Fans rushed to get their own with the product selling out within hours. The commercial alone amassed more than 4.4M views on YouTube alone.
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Fourth goes to the second weekend of New Line’s Mortal Kombat II with $3.5M Friday and an estimated $12.7M– $13M 3-day, -66%, for a 10-day of $61.8M. In reporting on this sequel last weekend, which in under expectations, we forgot to mention that its $38.5M domestic opening repped a franchise record (the first Mortal Kombat movie released in 1995).
Fifth is Amazon MGM Studios’ second frame of The Sheep Detectives with $2.3M Friday and $9.8M,-35%, for the 3-day with a 10-day on the high end at $30.1M.
Outside the top 5 are Black Bear’s In the Grey with around $1.2M Friday and $3M for the weekend at 2,018 sites. While not an amazing weekend, the Guy Ritchie movie gets a B CinemaScore and an alright 64% definite recommend. Men to women is 61% to 39%. Over 55 set is the biggest demo at 34%. Diversity make-up is 54% Caucasian, 16% Latino and Hispanic, 13% Black and 10% Asian American. The movie is playing evenly across the U.S. sans Canada. AMC Century City is the highest grossing venue so far with $5K. Let’s see where this goes overseas with its foreign partners. You’ll remember with Ritchie’s Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, 87% of its near $49M global haul was made abroad.
At 2,295 theaters is Paramount’s 40th anniversary release of Top Gun with $740K Friday and $2.9M-$3.2M for the weekend and a running cume of $4.7M.
Amazon MGM Studios’ drama Is God Is with a B+ CinemaScore at 1,510 sites is seeing north of $850K Friday for $2.2M estimated 3 day. The few going are women at 58%. Pic’s best area of play is Midwest, South, and East where 65.4% of its gross is coming from versus 48.4% for all other titles in the marketplace. The Alamo Brooklyn (NY) is the movie’s best location with close to $11K through yesterday. Diversity demos are showing 58% Black, 22% Caucasian, 11% Latino and Hispanic, and 6% Asian American.
FRIDAY AM: Curry Barker’s romantic horror movie Obsession, which Focus Features/Blumhouse’s picked up for $15M+, has grossed $2.6M in previews between Thursday night and Wednesday shows.
Now get this, that number is higher than the previews for Paramount’s Smile, which were $2M, but that movie opened to $22.6M. It remains to be seen whether Obsession plays to that level. The pic’s comps are indie horror movies like A24’s Heretic and Talk to Me, and Obsession already has beaten those pics’ Friday previews, which were $1.2M apiece. Heretic opened to $10.8M and Talk to Me to $10.4M.
Heading into this weekend, literally as of Thursday, it was expected to be a faceoff between the fourth weekend of Lionsgate’s Michael and the third weekend of The Devil Wears Prada 2 with about $20M+ each. We’ll see if Obsession upsets. As we told you Thursday, the Barker film about a toxic relationship is winning critics and audiences over at 95% each on Rotten Tomatoes.
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YouTube filmmaker-turned-big-screen filmmaker Barker’s Obsession is booked at 2,615locations, which includes 435 PLF screens.
Amazon isn’t reporting grosses to its drama Is God Is, nor is Black Bear with its Guy Ritchie movie In the Grey. They are expected to open to around $3M and $4M+, respectively.
Here’s how the week went own at the B.O.:
1) The Devil Wears Prada 2 (Dis) 4,200 theaters, Wk $55.9M (-45%), Total $157.7M/Wk 2
2) Michael (LG) 3,550 theaters, Wk $52.6M (-29%), Total $256.6M/Wk 3
Note that Michael beat Prada 2 in weekdays on Monday, Wednesday and yesterday. Tuesday was a close call with both grossing $4.7M each.
3.) Mortal Kombat II (NL) 3,503 theaters, Wk $48.8M/Wk 1
4.) The Sheep Detectives (AMZ) 3,457 theaters, Wk $20.3M/Wk 1
5.) Project Hail Mary (AMZ) 2,417 theaters, Wk $9.2M (-23%), Total $330.95M/Wk 8
Let the record show that Project Hail Mary, sans any Oscar nominations (yet), saw its domestic cume rocket past Oppenheimer‘s final total ($330M) this past week.