Source: Rentrak
Special Thanks to Paul Dergarabedian

Rentrak has announced the official North American and Global / International box office estimates for the weekend of November 6-8, 2026, as compiled by the company’s theatrical measurement services. 

Toho's Godzilla Minus Zero topped the charts with a $63M worldwide launch, including $31.39M overseas and $31.61M in North America. GKIDS reported that Godzilla Minus Zero delivered the biggest opening weekend in the distributor’s history, more than doubling the previous $13 million record set by the Studio Ghibli film The Boy and the Heron. The King of the Monsters also dominated the MAX network with a $21.3 million debut, the largest global IMAX opening for a Japanese film.

 

Rentrak Domestic Box Office Estimates – Weekend of November 6–8, 2026 | Sunday studio estimates, Prepared by Paul Dergarabedian  

The domestic marketplace generated an estimated $121.7 million, up 45.0% from one year ago and 98.6% over the previous Halloween-impacted weekend. 

■ Notable New Openers and Event Releases:

• • Godzilla Minus Zero | GKIDS | No. 1 | Week 1 | Domestic weekend $31,610,000 | 3,254 locations | PTA $9,714 | Domestic cume $31,610,000 GKIDS projects an estimated $63 million worldwide cume, including $31.6 million in North America. IMAX reports $21.3 million globally, including $12.7 million from 429 North American screens and $8.6 million from 64 international markets; Japan delivered a record $4 million IMAX opening. Plotline: Two years after Japan begins recovering from Godzilla’s devastation, a new threat imperils the fragile peace. Stars: Minami Hamabe, Miou Tanaka. Director: Takashi Yamazaki. CinemaScore: A. GKIDS reports that the $31.610 million domestic opening sets a new distributor record, more than doubling the previous $13 million opening of The Boy and the Heron. The film is the first Japanese production Filmed for IMAX and is also playing in 4DX, Dolby Cinema, D-BOX, and 4D E-Motion. More than 100 territories launched this week in the first global simultaneous release for a Japanese Godzilla film; GKIDS reports multiple No. 1 market openings and results consistently ahead of Godzilla Minus One.

  • The Cat in the Hat Warner Bros. | No. 2 | Week 1 | Domestic weekend $20,500,000 | 4,003 locations | PTA $5,121 | Domestic cume $20,500,000 Warner Bros. reports approximately $10M internationally, bringing the worldwide opening to approximately $30.5M. Plotline: Dr. Seuss’s mischievous Cat brings magic and mayhem to the big screen. Voice cast: Bill Hader, Paula Pell, Quinta Brunson, Xochitl Gomez. Directors: Alessandro Carloni, Erica Rivinoja. CinemaScore: A.

  • Drummer Boy | Angel Studios | No. 3 | Week 1 | Domestic weekend $9,312,551 | 2,850 locations | PTA $3,268 | Domestic cume $9,312,551 Plotline: During the American Revolution, a young drummer boy, an enslaved woman and a divided family pursue freedom. Stars: Joel David Smallbone, Lucas Leach. Directors: Ben Smallbone and Joel David Smallbone. CinemaScore: A. Angel and 2521 Entertainment report the year’s No. 1 original musical and a No. 1 iTunes album chart placement.

  • Ramayana: Rise of a Legend | Sony Pictures Releasing International | No. 5 | Week 1 | Domestic weekend $8,650,000 | 1,433 locations | PTA $6,036 | Domestic cume $12,155,000 Studio reports a $55.7M global Diwali holiday opening, including India $32M, $12.2M North America over four days and $11.5M from 37 other markets. Over 11M tickets sold worldwide, across a rollout of 130+ countries, 10,000+ screens and 17 dubbed languages. Plotline: Epic adaptation of Prince Rama’s conflict with Ravana. Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi, Yash. Director: Nitesh Tiwari. Sony reports the widest North American release for an Indian film, a 91% Popcornmeter audience score and five-star PostTrak exits. Four-day North American opening: $12.155M; the chart’s $8.650M is the Friday–Sunday gross.

  • Wild Horse Nine | Searchlight | No. 8 | Week 1 | Domestic weekend $6,000,000 | 1,100 locations | PTA $5,455 | Domestic cume $6,000,000 Plotline: Two CIA agents travel from Santiago to Easter Island in 1973 Chile in a test of trust. Stars: John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell. Director: Martin McDonagh.

  • Stray Kids World Tour 'Run It' Live Viewing | Trafalgar Releasing | No. 9 | Week 1 | Domestic weekend $3,720,294 | 917 locations | PTA $4,057 | Domestic cume $3,720,294 Plotline: A live cinema broadcast of Stray Kids’ RUN IT world tour performance from Tokyo Dome, featuring the eight-member group’s vocals, choreography and elaborate concert production. Performers: Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, HAN, Felix, Seungmin and I.N.

  • Jimmy | Fathom Entertainment | No. 12 | Week 1 | Domestic weekend $2,000,000 | 1,500 locations | PTA $1,333 | Domestic cume $2,000,000 Plotline: Jimmy Stewart’s World War II service and its impact on the emotional resonance of It’s a Wonderful Life. Stars: K.J. Apa, Kara Killmer, Max Casella. Director: Aaron Burns. Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 97%. Fathom reports separate early screenings of $35K on November 1 and select premieres of $134K on November 5.

  • Heated Rivalry | Regal Entertainment Distribution | No. 14 | Week 1 | Domestic weekend $1,400,000 | 945 locations | PTA $1,481 | Domestic cume $1,400,000 Plotline: Rival professional hockey players Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov navigate a secret romance amid their fierce on-ice rivalry. The theatrical event presents all six episodes of the series’ first season. Stars: Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, François Arnaud. Creator/director: Jacob Tierney. 

  • Scene | Prime Media Pictures | No. 16 | Week 1 | Domestic weekend $1,282,660 | 330 locations | PTA $3,887 | Domestic cume $1,282,660 Plotline: Police officer Inbaraj must reopen an unresolved case from years earlier, working with an unruly team as the investigation takes unexpected turns. Stars: Suriya, Nazriya Nazim, Lal, Naslen. Director: Jithu Madhavan.

  • Mouse | IFC Films | No. 34 | Week 1 | Domestic weekend $42,000 | 3 locations | PTA $14,000 | Domestic cume $42,000 Plotline: In 2002, high-school student Minnie struggles to redefine herself after her friendship with Callie is disrupted, and she develops a complicated bond with Callie’s mother. Stars: Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Sophie Okonedo, Chloe Coleman, Tara Mallen, Iman Vellani, David Hyde Pierce. Directors: Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson.

■ Top Selected Limited Openers:

• • Club Kid | A24 | No. 22 | Week 1 | Domestic weekend $390,583 | 6 locations | PTA $65,097 | Domestic cume $390,583 Plotline: An underground-party organizer discovers he has a son and must embrace new responsibilities. Stars: Jordan Firstman, Reggie Absolom, Cara Delevingne, Diego Calva, Colleen Camp, Eldar Isgandarov, Kirby Howell-Baptiste. Writer/director: Jordan Firstman. A24 reports a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes critics score, sold-out Q&As, strong younger-audience turnout and expansion before Thanksgiving. Highest PTA of the weekend.

  • I Play Rocky | Amazon MGM Studios | No. 23 | Week 1 | Domestic weekend $344,984 | 7 locations | PTA $49,283 | Domestic cume $344,984 Plotline: Sylvester Stallone fights to play the title role in the underdog boxing story he wrote. Stars: Anthony Ippolito, AnnaSophia Robb, Matt Dillon. Director: Peter Farrelly. Amazon MGM plans to expand wide November 20, ahead of Thanksgiving.

■ Notable Domestic Holdovers

• • You Can See Everything | A24 | No. 4 | Week 4 | Domestic weekend $8,862,846 (-23%) | 2,473 locations | PTA $3,584 | Domestic cume $79,797,396 Plotline: Elizabeth Holmes invites filmmakers to document her life before reporting to prison. Documentary participants: Elizabeth Holmes, Nathan Fielder. Directors: Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Remains in the Top 5 in its fourth weekend.

  • Wildwood | Fathom Entertainment | No. 6 | Week 3 | Domestic weekend $7,000,000 (-22%) | 2,462 locations | PTA $2,843 | Domestic cume $39,818,198 Plotline: A young girl ventures into a forbidden forest to rescue her brother. Stars: Carey Mulligan, Jacob Tremblay. Director: Travis Knight. The studio reports $37.68M through Saturday, surpassing Forgotten Island’s lifetime North American gross, and tracking 22% ahead of The Boy and the Heron and 18% ahead of Kubo and the Two Strings at equivalent release points.

  • Clayface | Warner Bros. | No. 7 | Week 3 | Domestic weekend $6,675,000 (-39%) | 2,946 locations | PTA $2,266 | Domestic cume $56,608,000 Warner Bros. reports approximately $6.8M internationally this weekend (-46%), bringing the international cume to approximately $52.4M and worldwide cume to approximately $109.0M. Global weekend: approximately $13.5M (-43%). Plotline: A Hollywood star’s monstrous transformation exposes the human cost of ambition and identity. Stars: David Dencik, Naomi Ackie. Director: James Watkins.

  • Wicker | Black Bear | No. 10 | Week 3 | Domestic weekend $3,350,000 (-23%) | 2,081 locations | PTA $1,610 | Domestic cume $19,885,478 Black Bear reports $3.7M internationally this weekend, $9.15M international cume and $29.035M worldwide. Plotline: An ostracized fisherwoman commissions a husband from a basketmaker, provoking jealousy and fascination in her village. Stars: Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki, Marli Siu, Nabhaan Rizwan, Richard E. Grant, Peter Dinklage. Directors: Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson. Black Bear oversees overseas distribution, with 35 markets yet to open.

■ Notable Week 2 Performances

• • Everest: The Other Side | Disney | No. 24 | Week 2 | Domestic weekend $320,000 (-71%) | 515 locations | PTA $621 | Domestic cume $1,918,023 Plotline: Ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson pursue the North Face of Everest. Directors: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin.

  • The Mosquito Bowl | Netflix | No. 26 | Week 2 | Domestic weekend $105,000 (-77%) | 309 locations | PTA $340 | Domestic cume $756,386 Plotline: College football stars enlist in the Marines during World War II and play a legendary game before Okinawa. Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Galitzine. Director: Peter Berg.

  • Sight & Sound Presents: Joshua Live! | Roadside Attractions | No. 28 | Week 2 | Domestic weekend $97,472 (-87%) | 367 locations | PTA $266 | Domestic cume $1,262,875 Plotline: A filmed stage presentation following the people of Israel under Joshua’s leadership. Stars: Carl Anderson, Hope Klessig. Director: Chris Wert.

  • Paging Hezbollah | Hammond Entertainment | No. 35 | Week 2 | Domestic weekend $8,077 (-94%) | 18 locations | PTA $449 | Domestic cume $198,590 Plotline: Documentary tracing the Israel–Hezbollah conflict and the 2024 operation that disrupted Hezbollah’s communications network using compromised pagers, through interviews with intelligence personnel, engineers and historians. Featuring: Benjamin Netanyahu, David Petraeus, David Barnea, Michael Oren. Director: Justin Folk.

■ IMAX Domestic/Global Update

• • IMAX reports $29M in global box office, led by two record Filmed for IMAX openings. Godzilla Minus Zero debuted to $21.3M globally in IMAX, 34% of the film’s global opening and the biggest global IMAX bow ever for a Japanese film. North America delivered $12.7M from 429 screens, accounting for 40% of the domestic opening, the highest IMAX opening-weekend indexing reported by the company. Across 421 screens and 64 international markets, IMAX added $8.6M, including a record $4M in Japan.

  • Ramayana: Rise of a Legend opened to $6M worldwide in IMAX, representing 11% of its global bow and the biggest global IMAX opening ever for an Indian film. India generated a record $2M, North America contributed $2.5M from 53 screens, accounting for 20% of its domestic debut, and 32 international markets outside India added $1.4M. George Michael: The Faith Tour earned $255K from 117 IMAX screens across 26 international markets.

  • Beginning November 13, IMAX-exclusive double features of Dune: Part I and Dune: Part II will include an exclusive preview of Dune: Part III. Godzilla Minus Zero continues on the network, while George Michael: The Faith Tour expands into 10 additional international markets.

 

Rentrak Global/International Weekend Box Office Estimates – Weekend of November 6–8, 2026 | Sunday studio estimates, Prepared by Paul Dergarabedian  

 

■ Notable New Openers:

• • Godzilla Minus Zero | Worldwide No. 1 | GKIDS • Opening weekend | Origin: Japan | Worldwide: $63M weekend and cumulative across 101 chart territories. | International: $31.39M weekend and cumulative.

  • Ramayana: Rise of a Legend | Worldwide No. 2 | Sony Pictures / Prime Focus Studios • Opening weekend | Origin: India | Worldwide: $52.15M Friday-Sunday weekend. | International: $43.5M Friday-Sunday weekend and cumulative.

  • The Cat in the Hat | Worldwide No. 3 | Warner Bros. • Opening weekend | Worldwide: $30.5M opening across 61 chart territories. | International: $10M estimated opening on more than 24,000 screens across over 60 markets, with approximately 900,000 weekend admissions.

  • Stray Kids World Tour 'RUN IT' Live Viewing | Worldwide No. 4 | Trafalgar Releasing • Opening weekend | Worldwide: $13,930,451 opening across 73 chart territories. | International: $10,210,157

  • Wild Horse Nine | Worldwide No. 6 | Searchlight Pictures • Opening weekend | Worldwide: $12.6M opening across 30 chart territories. | International: $6.6M

  • Scene | Worldwide No. 7 | Multiple international distributors / Prime Media • Opening weekend | Origin: India | Worldwide: $12,482,660 opening across 17 chart territories. | International: $11.2M opening, including India.

  • Drummer Boy | Worldwide No. 9 | Angel Studios • Opening weekend | Worldwide: $9,353,851 opening across two chart territories. | International: $41,300

■ Notable Holdovers:

• • Clayface | Worldwide No. 5 | Warner Bros. • Week 3 | Worldwide: $13.475M weekend; $109.008M cumulative across 61 chart territories. | International: $6.8M weekend; $52.4M cumulative.

  • Wildwood | Worldwide No. 8 | Fathom Entertainment • Week 3 | Worldwide: $10.628M weekend; $56,401,298 cumulative across 40 chart territories. | International: $3.628M weekend; $16,583,100 cumulative.

  • You Can See Everything | Worldwide No. 10 | Worldwide: $8,977,046 weekend; $79,911,596 cumulative across two chart territories. | International: $114,200 weekend and cumulative.