Coyote vs. Acme finally opens; Brand New Day goes for five straight and passes Titanic worldwide

Brand New Day passed Avengers: Endgame on Tuesday and sits second on the all-time domestic list at $866,496,542. The weekend drops have improved every frame, from -60% to -51% to -45%, and this week’s weekdays came in around -50% against the same days last week. Force Awakens went -37.8% into its fifth weekend and Endgame -42.6%. Expect a drop in the 40s again this weekend, which would get it to around $890M+. That puts it less than $50M away from taking the all-time domestic record from The Force Awakens.

Looking at the worldwide numbers, Titanic’s $2,257,906,828 and Ne Zha 2’s $2,260,176,370 will both go down by Sunday, making this one the fourth-biggest release in history, only behind Endgame and two Avatar movies. By the end of its run, it’ll be situated at the #3 spot worldwide while it sits atop the domestic podium.

Less than a month ago, Coyote vs. Acme was tracking in the single digits. Over the past week or so, strong reviews and slowly building buzz have helped it break out from there, now looking very likely for a mid teens opening weekend, most likely $12–15M but with a shot to break above that mark.

The case for it is not complicated. It is certified fresh at 95% on 137 reviews and is a known brand, albeit an older one. The question is if kids can get excited for this OR if parents can based off of nostalgia and bring them along. People have been demanding Warner Bros. release the film for a few years now after they shelved it, so the hope for Ketchup Entertainment is that now it’s releasing, they actually show up.

Warner Bros. Discovery took a $30 million write-down on a finished $70 million production in November 2023. Ketchup bought global rights for $50 million in March 2025 and recouped under $20 million selling foreign. Its biggest opening to date is The Day the Earth Blew Up at $3.2 million, so a $15 million weekend here is about five times the biggest the company has ever had. If it breaks double digits, that’s good enough considering the circumstances and earlier tracking that we can call this a success.

20th Century/Disney put The Dog Stars here as a late summer adult option, and it arrives on 3,300 theaters carrying a net $70 million production cost. It also arrives at 40% on 111 reviews. It has some heavyweight names attached, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Jacob Elordi, but it’s always hard to get adult audiences out to the theater when reviews come in soft like they have here.

One comp is The Amateur, which opened to $14.8 million and legged 2.8x to $40.8 million domestic and $96 million worldwide on a $60 million budget, with better reviews and a spring release. Ridley Scott’s directed openings run from Gladiator II’s $55.5M and The Martian’s $54.3M, Napoleon’s $32.8M and as low as The Last Duel’s $4.8M, and you can expect this one to open on the low end. Again, the hope here would be for double digits, but that doesn’t seem like a sure thing here.

This series drops hard in week two every single time: -58.0% for The Last Key, -60.6% for The Red Door, -65.7% for Chapter 2 and -67.8% for Chapter 3. Out of the Further is going to the steep end of it. Expect a drop of around -60% to -65% for $9–10M. That gets it to $43M or so and will safely clear $50M when all is said and done.

Off an $18 million budget, this is already profitable before we even count the international portion of the gross, though that should contribute enough to get this over $100M worldwide. To Sony, that’s a nice little side result while it continues to shovel in all the Spider-Man cash. To be clear: they need hits like this. Sony has had a very light year besides Spidey, and needs to build out the depth of its roster so it’s not so all-or-nothing.

The Odyssey keeps posting the shallowest declines on the board. Its weekend drops read -27%, -43%, -38%, -26% and -17%, its weekdays this week fell mostly in the -20s against the same days last week, the smallest on the chart. Seven weeks in, an R-rated Nolan epic is still pulling an audience and still packing out IMAX. Expect a drop of maybe -25% and $14–15M.

Its sixth weekend at $19.7M was the ninth-biggest sixth weekend ever, and anything over $13M this time keeps it in the top 10 all-time for its seventh weekend. It should be at around $565M by Sunday and we’re still seeing a finish over $600M here. Worldwide refuses to slow down and this weekend it gets past $1.5B, overtaking Avatar: Fire and Ash, Furious 7 and The Avengers, getting it to #14 of all-time.

The End of Oak Street and PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie opened the same day within $756,000 of each other, $21,010,488 against $20,254,688, which makes them the cleanest same-week pair on the 2026 chart. Two weeks on, Oak Street leads $40.5 million to $37.8 million, although it’s falling faster, which is to be expected. A -45% third weekend gives $4.5–5.5M and a $50 million domestic total. It should end its run between $55–60M domestic and maybe $120M worldwide, which is decent, but not enough to justify the $85M budget.

PAW Patrol has Coyote vs. Acme landing and is competing for the same kid/family audience, so expect a slide of around 50% for a $4–5M weekend. A $60M domestic finish seems likely still, with worldwide likely landing a little under $150M, a good result off a $40M budget and likely millions of toys sold.