The Bride! opens behind Hoppers and Scream 7 at the weekend box office

The Jessie Buckley-starring film opened to just over $7 million, far below expectations.

By Drew Gillis  |  March 9, 2026 | 9:29am
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The Bride! opens behind Hoppers and Scream 7 at the weekend box office

It’s perhaps not all that surprising that The Bride!, a feminist reimagining of a classic monster movie, would open behind Hoppers, the latest Pixar animated feature. But how far behind that The Bride! ended up is certainly unexpected. Variety reports that the film opened to just $7.3 million this weekend, far behind even the most conservative box office predictions. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore directorial effort cost $90 million to make, and Warner Bros. expected the film to open to $16 to $18 million at the box office; even more conservative estimates from other sources predicted it would at least hit $10 million. The opening ends Warner Bros.’ streak of having its previous nine films open atop the box office. 

Hoppers, meanwhile, opened to $46 million domestically and to another $42 million overseas, totaling $88 million. The movie is poised to be Pixar’s biggest original, non-sequel hit since 2017’s Coco. Hoppers opens the same weekend that Zootopia finally falls from the top 10 in box office receipts, bringing its domestic box office to $426 million and its international haul close to $1.9 billion. 

Scream 7 also held on to some audience to perform better than the bride, even if its take dropped almost 73% compared to last weekend. Earning $17.3 million this weekend, the controversy-saddled film still managed to hold onto the number 2 spot in the weekend grosses, bringing its international haul to just shy of $150 million. Variety reports that the film is on pace to become the highest-grossing film in the franchise, beating both 1996’s Scream and 1997’s Scream 2. 

Here’s the entire top 10 for the weekend, courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 

  1.  Hoppers
  2.  Scream 7
  3.  The Bride
  4.  Goat
  5.  Wuthering Heights
  6.   Crime 101
  7.  Send Help 
  8.  I Can Only Imagine 2
  9.  EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert
  10.  Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle

 
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