🎬 US Box Office Results This Weekend (July 2026)

The number that matters: $124,500,000. That's what Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opened to this weekend, from 3,919 theaters, a $31,768 per-theater average that lapped every other wide release combined. Universal's mythological epic didn't just win the weekend. It made the rest of the top 10 look like a separate chart.

Grading last week's call first, because Elliot's record only means something if it's checked in public. Three parts, three different outcomes. Toy Story 5 in the mid-teens and past $420M cumulative: hit, clean, $14.8M and $430,918,566. Backrooms under $2M and closing in on $196M: hit, almost to the dollar, $714,828 this weekend against a $195,963,463 total. Moana holding #1 while sliding 45-50%: miss on the hold, close on the slide. Nothing in the family lane could touch Moana, true. Nobody said a $124.5M Nolan opening was coming for the top spot from a different lane entirely. The drop itself, 56%, ran a few points hotter than the called range, still recognizable as the same shape.

Elliot's call for next weekend, on record: The Odyssey holds #1 and drops in the 44-48% range, in line with how Nolan's original (non-franchise) pictures actually hold — Oppenheimer fell 44% in its second weekend in 2023, Dunkirk fell 44.3% in its second weekend in 2017. That puts Odyssey around $67-70M. Moana slides again, in the same rough 45-55% band it just posted, landing closer to $9-10M than to collapse, pushing past $90M cumulative. Toy Story 5 keeps its mid-teens hold and clears $445M. Check back Sunday to see how it grades.

This weekend's US box office chart

Data as of the weekend of July 17-19, 2026. Top 10 domestic releases, ranked by weekend gross, with the per-theater column nobody else runs:

Total weekend box office across all reporting movies: $193,010,684.

Footnote, because someone always runs the math: the top 10 above add up to $190,159,395. The reporting total is $193,010,684. The other $2.85M came from movies that didn't crack the top 10, Backrooms among them. The chart is for the top performers. The ledger is for everyone.

Why Toy Story 5 out-earns Minions & Monsters where it counts

Minions & Monsters and Toy Story 5 tied at $14.8M this weekend, near enough to call it a wash. Check the screen count and the tie breaks. Minions & Monsters needed 3,510 theaters to get there. Toy Story 5 did it from 3,400, 110 fewer, and still won per seat, $4,353 to $4,217. That's the gap that predicts what happens next weekend. The gross gap doesn't, because there wasn't one worth mentioning.

Toy Story 5 crossed $400M domestic earlier in its run, our critics have also been tracking Moana's reception, and Toy Story 5's $430,918,566 total is now 9.99 times what Moana made in its entire opening weekend. That's the long game a family franchise plays when the audience isn't finished, five weekends deep and still winning the per-theater math against a newer release. I'd bet on Toy Story 5 out-legging Minions & Monsters straight through Labor Day.

Nobody asked. There it is.

This chart ranks movies, not studios. For who's actually winning 2026 by distributor, not by weekend, that's a separate ledger — see our studio market share tracker.

The long tail: what dropping out of the top 10 actually means

Rank by weekend gross buries the more useful number: how much of a movie's lifetime total came from this particular weekend. Backrooms is the case study, and it isn't even on the chart above anymore.

Backrooms earned $714,828 this weekend, 0.4% of its $195,963,463 domestic total, and fell to 11th, out of the top 10 entirely for the first time since it opened. Its total gross is now 274 times its own current weekend number, the widest multiple this page has run. That's what a title looks like well into its run: still selling at a slow, steady clip, already A24's biggest release ever domestically and past $350M worldwide (our A24 box office history has the full studio ranking). Obsession sits at a 103x multiple, $2.5M against $258,491,000 total. Disclosure Day runs 79x. Supergirl is at 46x. Compare any of those to The Odyssey's 1.0x. Day one, basically.

None of that is coincidence. Every long-running hit takes this shape: a huge opening weekend as a share of eventual total, then a multiple that climbs every week the movie keeps selling tickets after that. Track the multiple, not the rank, and a movie's real trajectory shows up months before the weekend chart admits it — or, in Backrooms' case, after the weekend chart has stopped admitting it entirely.

How to actually read this chart

Weekend gross is a three-day snapshot. It says nothing about profitability and nothing about whether a movie is still growing. A film can fall off this list and still be one of the year's biggest hits: that's Backrooms, near $196M and counting from outside the top 10. For the mechanics behind how these numbers get built, from ticket sales to studio estimate, our box office numbers explainer has the full breakdown.

Track the season instead of the weekend and our 2026 box office chart ranked by total gross rolls every wide release into one leaderboard, updated on the same cycle as this page.

Methodology

Box office reporting in the US and Canada runs through point-of-sale data that theater chains report to industry trackers, covering an estimated 99% of screens per Comscore's box office reporting. Sunday figures are estimates. Monday actuals are the confirmed numbers. This page reflects the most recently completed weekend and refreshes on the same cycle.

Where these titles go next

New wide releases typically hit premium digital rental 30-45 days after their theatrical debut, with ad-supported streaming windows further out. Once a title on this chart confirms an actual date, we track it in our streaming price guide instead of guessing at a window. That's Sofia's beat, not mine.

Three numbers worth watching next weekend. The Odyssey's second-weekend hold, the one that tells us whether a $124.5M mythological epic with no built-in franchise behaves like Oppenheimer (a 44% drop) or like an ordinary tentpole (55%+). Moana's third weekend, testing whether last week's better-than-panic 56% held as a floor or was itself the good outcome. And Toy Story 5 within reach of $445M domestic, still winning the per-theater math five weekends in. We'll have all three next Sunday.