A24’s Marty Supreme has reached $70.1m in North America and Disney’s number one film Avatar: Fire And Ash stands at $342.6m as early 2026 box office leads 2025 by 23% year-on-year.
Comscore reported estimated three-day weekend box office of $98.6m and $327.5m for the year thus far.
Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie’s epic tale of ambition starring Golden Globes nominee Timothée Chalamet, added $7.6m from 2,512 cinemas. After four weekends, the drama has overtaken A24’s Civil War on $68.8m, and will surpass within a week or so 2023 best picture Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All At Once, the company’s highest earner on $77.2m.
20th Century Studios’ Avatar: Fire And Ash from James Cameron held on to the top spot in North America as $21.3m from 3,700 sites in its fourth weekend boosted the running total to $342.6m. This is approximately 33% behind December 2022 release Avatar: The Way Of Water, which stood at $517.6m by the same stage and finished its run on $684.1m.
Fire And Ash will not get anywhere close to that number (which ranks as the seventh-highest all-time gross in North America, with 2009’s Avatar in fourth place on $785m), nor will the current $1.2bn global cumulative score compare favourably to the second instalment’s $2.3bn final global tally.
’Primate’, ‘The Housemaid’ vie for second place
Nonetheless the sci-fi action adventure has earned nearly $80m of its overall gross in the first 11 days of 2026 and continues to do enough to boost the year’s early box office alongside the likes of Marty Supreme (which has earned nearly $30m so far this year) and other notable holdivers like Lionsgate’s The Housemaid.
The Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried thriller ranks third on $94.2m after an $11.2m haul in the fourth session following an impressive 26% week-on-week drop. It has earned roughly $34m of its gross this year and is vying with Paramount’s Primate for second place. The chimpanzee horror, which reportedly carries a $24m production cost, opened in second place on $11.3m from 2,964 locations and drew a 56%-44% male-female audience split, with 58% of the crowd aged over 25. The studios will release confirmed box office on Monday.
Box office analyst FranchiseRe reported the debut was well above the $6.3m average opening weekend of single-picture (non-franchise) horror films taken from a sample of 137 titles, and above the $8.7m average of single-picture creature horror films from a sample of 26.
Lionsgate released post-apocalyptic thriller Greenland 2: Migration starring Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin in fifth place on $8.5m from 2,710 sites, which was towards the lower end of opening weekend expectations. Lionsgate paid $10m for US-only rights to the thriller sequel produced and financed by STX and Anton for a budget variously reported at $65m and $90m. The 2020 original did not open in US cinemas due to the pandemic and went straight to PVoD platforms prior to HBO Max. PostTrak reported a 56%-44% male-female audience split, with 85% aged over 25.
Angel Studios’ animated Biblical adventure David ranks ninth and the $3.1m gross from 2,475 locations pushed the running total to $75.2m after four weekends.
Specialty box office
Fledgling distributor Row K rolled out its first release as Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire arrived in 14 sites in 10 cities and earned $154,131. The Venice premiere expands next week and stars Bill Skarsgard in the true-life story of a hostage-taking in 1977 Indianapolis.
From Searchlight Pictures, comedy-drama Is This Thing On? starring Will Arnett and Laura Dern brought in $2.4m from 1,475 sites in its fourth weekend for a $3.5m running total, while The Testament Of Ann Lee led by Golden Globe nominee Amanda Seyfried remained in a tiny footprint in its third session and grossed $39,000 from four venues for a $356,476 early tally.
In its third weekend, Focus Features’ true-life feelgood film Song Sung Blue in tenth place earned $3m from 2,262 locations, resulting in a $31.1m running total. Kate Hudson is nominated for a Golden Globe and has been winning over the awards voting community since the film’s December 25 release. She stars alongside Hugh Jackman in the Neil Diamond tribute act biopic directed by Craig Brewer.
Focus Features’ Hamnet earned $580,000 from 232 cinemas following a noteworthy 27% drop in its seventh weekend and stands at $12.9m. Jim Jarmusch’s Venice Golden Lion winner Father Mother Sister Brother expanded into the top 50 North American markets through Mubi and earned $343,827 from 253 sites for a $552,704 cumulative tally.
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