- Avatar: Fire and Ash– $40M/$306M
2026 starts off hot with James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash, which holds the top spot for the third week in a row with $40M. The latest sequel still holds a massive $10K per site average, and has hit $306M domestically. More impressively, it has already crossed $1B globally, becoming Cameron’s fourth movie to hit that mark.
2. Zootopia 2– $19M/$363.6M
Disney enters the new year with a new record holder. Zootopia 2 is now Disney’s highest-grossing animated movie ever with $1.58B worldwide, surpassing Frozen 2‘s $1.45M in 2019. And you wonder why they keep making so many sequels.
3. The Housemaid– $14.8M/$75.7M
4. Marty Supreme– $12.5M/$56M
5. Anaconda– $10M/$45.8M
6. The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants– $8.2M/$57.6M
7. David– $8M/$70.1M
8. Song Sung Blue– $5.8M/$24.9M
9. Wicked: For Good– $3.2M/$339.8M
10. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2– $2.7M/$125.2M
Also…The Daisy Ridley-led zombie horror We Bury the Dead (review) was released by Vertical into 1,172 theaters and earned $2.5M, its highest-grossing opener to date. [BoxOfficeMojo]
