The animation giant rebounded after several disappointing recent releases, while Maggie Gyllenhaal's scifi 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 scifi fantasia failed to come to life. By Ryan Coleman :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/RyanColemanauthorphoto0081ce8f0254478080f35972c433877b.jpg) Ryan Coleman Ryan Coleman is a news writer for with previous work in MUBI Notebook, Slant, and the LA Review of Books.

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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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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