{"id":320876,"date":"2026-03-09T16:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/320876\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:07:11","slug":"the-bride-opens-behind-hoppers-and-scream-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/320876\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bride! opens behind Hoppers and Scream 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s perhaps not all that surprising that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/the-bride-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bride!<\/a>, 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. <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/box-office\/the-bride-bombs-box-office-opening-weekend-pixar-hoppers-scores-1236681832\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety reports<\/a> that the film opened to just $7.3 million this weekend, far behind even the most conservative box office predictions. Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s 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.\u2019 streak of having its previous nine films open atop the box office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/hoppers-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hoppers<\/a>, meanwhile, opened to $46 million domestically and to another $42 million overseas, totaling $88 million. The movie is poised to be Pixar\u2019s biggest original, non-sequel hit since 2017\u2019s 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Scream and 1997\u2019s Scream 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the entire top 10 for the weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/weekend\/2026W10\/?ref_=bo_hm_rw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">courtesy of Box Office Mojo<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Hoppers<br \/>\n\u00a0Scream 7<br \/>\n\u00a0The Bride<br \/>\n\u00a0Goat<br \/>\n\u00a0Wuthering Heights<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0Crime 101<br \/>\n\u00a0Send Help\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0I Can Only Imagine 2<br \/>\n\u00a0EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert<br \/>\n\u00a0Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s perhaps not all that surprising that The Bride!, a feminist reimagining of a classic monster movie, would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-320876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}