{"id":522978,"date":"2026-03-14T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/522978\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:34:09","slug":"hoppers-springs-30m-weekend-2-reminders-of-him-18m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/522978\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hoppers’ Springs $30M Weekend 2, ‘Reminders of Him’ $18M"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFRIDAY PM: Yes, Disney\/Pixar\u2019s original animation title Hoppers<\/a> is leading with a second frame around $30M, -34%, but Universal\u2019s feature take of Colleen Hoover novel, Reminders of Him<\/a>, is top of mind for women, overindexing with an $18M opening, maybe more. <\/p>\n

\n\tBy Sunday, Hoppers\u2018 domestic cume should stand at $88.3M, well ahead of Onward\u2018s ten-day of $61.5M; that pic\u2019s runway cut short by the closure of theaters during Covid. <\/p>\n

\n\tSimilar to Twisters, Universal went straight for the Heartland here in promoting Reminders of Him. Muy smart, with Uni launching a Heartland Tour that kicked off in Chicago with a screening (moderated by\u00a0Good Day Chicago\u2019s\u00a0Jake Stakes) and had star Tyriq Withers reunite with his grandmother and aunt. There were several stops at Chicago landmarks, followed by stops in Kansas City and Dallas with exclusive screenings, Q&As, book giveaways and as well as Wither\u2019s character Ledger\u2019s\u00a0orange truck. We hear Texas markets overindexed yesterday. <\/p>\n

\n\tNote, Reminders of Him the best reviewed of the Hoover movies at 60% fresh, better than It Ends With Us (55% Rotten) and way better than Paramount\u2019s Regretting You from the fall (29%). Current RT Audience score for the Maika Monroe, Tyriq Withers movie is 88%, ahead of It Ends With Us (87%) and Regretting You (84%). <\/p>\n

\n\tReminders of Him\u2018s Friday is $7.6M at 3,402 sites. RelishMix measures pic\u2019s social media reach at 349M across TikTok, YouTube, X, Instagram and Facebook, which is ahead of It Ends With Us (337.4M). YouTube views at 94.6M are ahead of It Ends With Us (56M) at the time of opening, but the Blake Lively movie bested Reminders of Him in IG views, 157.1M to 117M. Overall, pre-release social media universe reach is 2x ahead of romantic genre norms. Talent activation shows Rudy Pankow at 8M fans, Lauren Graham at 2.1M, Hoover fans at 4.4M, Withers at 466k and Monroe at 406K.<\/p>\n

\n\tSays RelishMix about word of mouth on social, \u201cConvo runs positive for\u00a0Reminders of Him, with emotion-forward reactions doing the heavy lifting. Fans lean into catharsis, repeat-viewing confessions, and book-to-screen loyalty, framing the trailer as a tear-jerker rather than a puzzle box. Casting goodwill helps, especially with Monroe\u2019s credibility bleeding in from horror and indie drama, while chatter about Withers signals a rising-actor bump. Comparisons land in the Nicholas Sparks lane and adjacent melodrama like\u00a0It Ends With Us, mostly as tone-setters. Craft praise centers on music, the cut and gut-punch moments that feel engineered to make people cry on their phones. Quotes that capture the upside include \u2018Emotional damage actually I can\u2019t wait to see this one\u2019 and \u2018After reading the novel I had to watch it again and again, it was so beautiful.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile It Ends With Us is considered Hoover\u2019s most popular novel, Regretting You was significantly less in popularity (hence the final domestic gross of $48.8M, which pales next to the $50M stateside opening of It Ends With Us. Reminders of Him, I\u2019m told, is more popular than Regretting You, with 6 million-plus copies sold in the United States and translation into 45 languages. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlso showing the potential to overperform is A24\u2019s horror title undertone<\/a> with $4.3M today, and $8.5M to $10.5M at 2,570 locations. Why the bullish-ness on the high-end? Hello, it\u2019s Friday the 13th today. Great day for a horror movie. Previews yesterday were $200K shy of Heretic\u2018s $1.2M which went on to a $4.3M first day\/previews and $10.8M opening. <\/p>\n

\n\tFourth goes to the third weekend of Paramount\/Spyglass\u2019 Scream 7 with $7.5M, -56%, at 3,243 sites, after a $2.2M Friday. Today the movie becomes the fourth Scream movie to cross the century mark. Cume by Sunday is $105.6M. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn fifth, is the fifth weekend of Sony Pictures Animation\u2019s Goat with $1.3M today, $5M, -23%, for the 3-day at 2,946 sites, and a running cume of $90.8M. <\/p>\n

\n\tFRIDAY AM: The weekend box office hopes to hold it together after the successful launch of Pixar\u2019s Hoppers<\/a>, with Universal delivering the third feature take of a Colleen Hoover novel to the screen in Reminders of Him, and A24 hoping for one of its indie horror pics, undertone, to overperform.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth are off to solid starts, with Reminders of Him at $1.9 million in previews Thursday at 3,000 theaters from showtimes that began at 2 p.m. A24\u2019s undertone, which premiered at Sundance, did $1M yesterday from 2,750.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Reminders Of Him\u2019 Director Vanessa Caswill Breaks Down Challenging Scenes In Latest Colleen Hoover Adaptation From \u201cHigh\u201d Stakes For Tyriq Withers To Maika Monroe\u2019s \u201cBalance\u201d As Kenna \u2013 Q&A<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tReminders of Him, from director Vanessa Caswill, had a Thursday night that\u2019s above the previous Hoover pic Regretting You from Paramount ($1M previews, $13.6M opening), ahead of A24 rom-com Materialists ($1.5M, $11.3M opening), and just below The Housemaid ($2.2M previews, $19M opening). Forecasts for the movie starring Maika Monroe, Tyriq Withers and Lainey Wilson were between $10M-$15M heading into the weekend. The PG-13 film is looking to be a destination for female audiences this spring.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pic follows a woman who after prison attempts to reconnect with her young daughter but faces resistance from everyone except a bar owner with ties to her child. As they grow closer, she must confront her past mistakes to build a hopeful future.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: 37 Of The Most Anticipated Movies Of 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tundertone\u2018s previews are ahead of the Philippou brothers\u2019 Bring Her Back ($850,000) which debuted to $7.1M. That\u2019s the three-day hope for this movie by Ian Tuason about a podcaster who receives freaky recordings. A24 snapped up the movie after Fantasia Festival; the pic was made for $500K before P&A.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe $80M production The Bride<\/a>!, from Warner Bros ends its first week with $9.2M at 3,304 sites. It\u2019s expected to plummet this weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: The 60 Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tHoppers ends its first week with $58.2M at 4,000 theaters, which is ahead of the first week of Pixar summer originals Elemental ($47M), Elio ($31.5M) and 2020\u2019s pre-Covid Onward ($49.7M). Hoppers will rule this weekend with around $27M in its second frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIDAY PM: Yes, Disney\/Pixar\u2019s original animation title Hoppers is leading with a second frame around $30M, -34%, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,13771,133046,105292,191354],"class_list":["post-522978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-hoppers","tag-reminders-of-him","tag-the-bride","tag-undertone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}