Box-office coverage on this page follows the weekend numbers and what they reveal about the market. The 2026 stories so far include Toy Story 5's record $312m global opening and its duel with Supergirl and the Minions, Spielberg's Disclosure Day landing the biggest opening of his original-film career, and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie becoming the year's first billion-dollar hit. The misses are tracked as closely as the hits, from Masters of the Universe's $29m bow against a $170m budget to how a $750,000 horror film called Obsession became the box-office story of the year.
Minions & Monsters topped the US chart with $36.4m over Toy Story 5's $31m — a win with caveats in a tighter, more international summer box office.
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot opened at No.1 in the UK and Ireland, setting a live-action franchise record with £4.2 million.
More than 17 million admissions in August, driven by The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, have carried British exhibitors into autumn on their strongest run since the pandemic.
Aardman's Halloween-tinged stop-motion adventure arrives today via Sky, landing in a UK box office led by Practical Magic 2 and the Oasis concert film.
Don't Look Back In Anger, the film charting Oasis's 2025 reunion tour, has made about £675,000 on its first preview day ahead of a wide weekend opening.
Pixar's sequel took about $70m as Supergirl opened to roughly $38m, showing family animation's pull while superhero films must now earn trust film by film.
A $170m Supergirl opened soft while Toy Story 5 soared past $585m worldwide — a blunt lesson in audience trust for DC's rebooted universe.
Pixar's long-awaited fifth instalment took an estimated $160m in North America and $312m worldwide, the franchise's strongest-ever launch and the year's biggest opening so far.
The 79-year-old director's UFO thriller starring Emily Blunt and Colin Firth has handed Universal the summer's most encouraging original-movie launch, even as a soft CinemaScore raises questions about its long legs.
Focus Features' micro-budget chiller has done something almost no wide release ever manages: grown its audience weekend after weekend, smashing records and turning into the studio's highest-grossing film of all time.
Steven Spielberg's UFO thriller starring Emily Blunt debuted at number one in the United States, marking his strongest launch for an original film since 2018.
Illumination and Nintendo's animated sequel has cleared the $1bn mark worldwide, pushing the Mario film franchise past $2bn and cementing Universal's grip on family entertainment.
Travis Knight's long-gestating He-Man epic, starring Nicholas Galitzine and Jared Leto, has become one of 2026's most painful box office misfires, opening behind even infamous tentpole disasters.
Disney and Pixar's latest sequel is projected to deliver the franchise's biggest-ever debut and the largest opening of the year so far when it lands on 19 June.
Antoine Fuqua's Michael Jackson biopic has crossed roughly $912m worldwide to dethrone the 2018 Queen film, with a release in Japan tipping it toward the billion-dollar mark.
The Wayans-led horror spoof opened to roughly $55m in North America, handing Paramount its biggest comedy launch on record and outpacing Amazon MGM's costly Masters of the Universe.
Society of London Theatre data shows record footfall in 2025 even as average ticket prices held steady, with theatre outperforming football and cinema for audience growth.
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