{"id":458617,"date":"2026-03-05T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458617\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:12:07","slug":"pixars-hoppers-to-jilt-maggie-gyllenhaals-the-bride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458617\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ to Jilt Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn a much-needed win for Pixar\u2019s core mission to provide original storytelling, Hoppers<\/a> is positioned to deliver the iconic animated studio its biggest opening in nearly a decade for a non-franchise title. Conversely, Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s new film, inspired by the 1935 film The Bride of Frankenstein, is in danger of being jilted at the altar.<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney is forecasting a global debut of $88 million for Hoppers. The last time a Pixar original did so well was Coco in 2017. In North America, tracking suggests it could open anywhere from $36 million to $40 million, with room for upside. It\u2019s also expected to come in leaps and bounds ahead of Gyllenhaal\u2019s The Bride!, which Warner Bros. believes will open in the $16 million to $18 million range domestically and roughly $38 million-plus globally, although decidedly mixed reviews could ding the $80 million film. (It goes without saying that the two movies couldn\u2019t be more different.)<\/p>\n

\n\tHoppers has the advantage of hitting theaters in the wake of Disney Animation\u2019s mega-blockbuster Zootopia 2, which provided further evidence that there\u2019s still a huge appetite for family fare in the post-pandemic era if a film resonates with moviegoers. Pixar\u2019s movies were also once famous for attracting adults without kids; Hoppers is earning the kind of rave reviews from critics that could see those fans return (Zootopia 2, which has earned north of $1.86 billion globally to rank as the top-grossing Hollywood animated pic of all time, also attracted general audiences).<\/p>\n

\n\tAs of late Wednesday, Hoppers\u2018 critics score on Rotten Tomatoes was 97 percent<\/a>, one of the highest in years for Pixar. Audience reactions from early access screenings have been similar, with moviegoers also applauding the film\u2019s creativity and humor. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn the comedy-adventure, animal lover Mabel (Piper Curda) seizes an opportunity to use a new technology to \u201chop\u201d her consciousness into a life-like robotic beaver and communicate directly with animals. As she uncovers mysteries beyond anything she could have imagined, Mabel befriends a charismatic beaver named King George (Bobby Moynihan), and must rally the entire animal kingdom to face a major, imminent human-threat: smooth-talking local mayor Jerry Generazzo (Hamm). The ensemble voice cast also features Kathy Najimy, Dave Franco, Meryl Streep, Eduardo Franco, Aparna Nancherla, Tom Law, Sam Richardson, Melissa Villase\u00f1or, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Steve Purcell, Ego Nwodim, Nichole Sakura, Karen Huie and Vanessa Bayer.<\/p>\n

\n\t Hoppers is directed by Daniel Chong, with Nicole Paradis Grindle producing and Mark Mothersbaugh providing the original score. The pic will play across 4,000 theaters in North America, including 400-plus Imax screens, 1,000 premium large-format screens and more than 2,200 3D screens. Overseas, it opens in 81 percent of markets, with staggered releases planned for Japan (March 13), China (March 20) and Australia (March 26).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Pixar has good reason to be hopeful, no one is envying the position Warner Bros. and Gyllenhaal are in as The Bride! prepares to walk down the aisle. The R-rated, gothic romance made headlines on Wednesday, both for earning tepid reviews and for comments Gylleenhal made on a podcast<\/a> saying she was asked by Warners movie studio chiefs Pamela Abdy and Michael De Luca to remove some of the film\u2019s more violent scenes (she also gave a shout out to Abdy for \u201cunderstanding me\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Bride!, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, draws inspiration from the 1935 film The Bride of Frankenstein. The cast also includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Pen\u00e9lope Cruz and Annette Bening.<\/p>\n

\n\t \u201cIn James Whale\u2019s 1935 gothic horror masterpiece\u00a0The Bride of Frankenstein, the\u00a0title character played so indelibly by Elsa Lanchester screams and hisses but otherwise has no dialogue, and yet she has endured as an iconic movie-lore figure for almost a century,\u201d writes THR\u2018s David Rooney in his review. \u201cIn\u00a0Maggie Gyllenhaal<\/a>\u2019s aggressively punky reconsideration of the reanimated monster spouse, she becomes a laborious study guide for a Feminism 101 class, emphatically indicating points on sexual violence, consent, bodily autonomy and female power. She even yells \u2018Me too!\u2019 late in the film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0The Bride! marks Gyllenhaal\u2019s second directorial outing after the acclaimed, award-winning indie drama The Lost Daughter, starring Olivia Colman and Buckley<\/a>. All three women were nominated for a slew of awards by various orgs, including Oscars noms for best adapted screenplay (Gyllenhaal), best actress (Colman) and best supporting actress (Buckley). This year, Buckley is nominated for an Oscar for best actress for her performance in Hamnet.<\/p>\n

\n\tAbdy and De Luca are coming off a remarkable winning streak that has earned them major points and goodwill, culminating with two of their movies, Sinners and One Battle After Another, being front-runners in the Oscar race for best picture (Hamnet is another).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Bride! will play in more than 3,200 theaters in North America, and will also have a footprint in Imax and other premium formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a much-needed win for Pixar\u2019s core mission to provide original storytelling, Hoppers is positioned to deliver the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7214,96,164838,2839,71427,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-458617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-box-office","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hoppers","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-the-bride","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}