This is a list of films that ranked number one at the weekend box office for the year 2026.

Number-one films Weekend end date Film Gross Notes 1 Avatar: Fire and Ash $41,419,407 Avatar: Fire and Ash became the first film since Lilo & Stitch to top the box office for three consecutive weekends. 2 $21,502,272 Avatar: Fire and Ash became the first film since Barbie to top the box office for four consecutive weekends and the first film since Weapons to top the box office in its fourth weekend. 3 $14,489,184 Avatar: Fire and Ash became the first film since Avatar: The Way of Water to top the box office for five consecutive weekends and the first film since Mufasa: The Lion King to top the box office in its fifth weekend. 4 Mercy $10,809,178 5 Send Help $19,102,299 6 $9,046,059 7 Wuthering Heights $32,801,647 8 Goat $16,855,460 Goat reached the #1 spot in its second weekend of release. 9 Scream 7 $63,615,172 10 Hoppers $45,349,901 11 $28,661,727 12 Project Hail Mary $80,506,007 Project Hail Mary broke Creed IIIs record ($58.4 million) for the highest weekend debut for an Amazon MGM Studios film. 13 $54,537,595 14 The Super Mario Galaxy Movie $131,703,340 15 $68,083,645 16 $36,497,250 The Super Mario Galaxy Movie became the first film of 2026 to top the box office for three consecutive weekends. 17 Michael $97,206,874 Michael broke Straight Outta Comptons record ($60.2 million) for the highest weekend debut for a music biopic and Oppenheimers record ($82.4 million) for the highest weekend debut for any biopic. 18 The Devil Wears Prada 2 $76,747,075 19 $41,602,986 20 Michael $26,140,937 Michael reclaimed the #1 spot in its fourth weekend of release, making it the first film since Avatar: Fire and Ash to top the box office in its fourth weekend. 21 Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu $81,670,433 22 Backrooms $81,402,424 Backrooms broke Civil Wars record ($25.7 million) for the highest weekend debut for an A24 film. Kane Parsons (age 20) became the youngest director to have a number-one film, breaking the record previously held by John Singleton (age 25) for Poetic Justice. 23 Scary Movie $54,336,626 Scary Movie broke Scary Movie 4s record ($40.2 million) as the highest weekend debut both for the entire Scary Movie film series and for a parody film. 24 Disclosure Day $44,530,925 Disclosure Day had the highest opening weekend debut for an original film directed by Steven Spielberg not based on an existing IP. During its fifth weekend, Obsessions director Curry Barker (age 26) became the youngest filmmaker to gross over $300 million worldwide, breaking the record previously held by Spielberg (age 27), for his film Jaws, and its total domestic gross ($260 million). https://pdxbot.org/article/steven-spielberg-s-disclosure-day-vs-curry-barker-s-obsession-box-office-battle-of-2026 25 Toy Story 5 $159,677,837 26 $70,829,028 During its tenth weekend, Michaels worldwide total surpassed Oppenheimers total ($976.8 million) as the all-time highest-grossing biopic film. 27 Minions & Monsters $37,003,505 During its eighth weekend, Obsessions worldwide total surpassed Enter the Dragons total ($400 million) as the highest-grossing film with a budget under $1 million. 28 Moana $43,142,824 29 The Odyssey $123,502,900 30 $90,022,510 The Odysseys –27.1% drop broke Wickeds record (–27.9%) for the smallest second-weekend drop for any film debuting with over $100 million in its opening weekend. In third place, Hadestown: The Musicals $10.2 million opening weekend broke Hamiltons record ($10.1 million) for the highest weekend debut for a Broadway stage capture feature film. 31 Spider-Man: Brand New Day $360,091,572 Spider-Man: Brand New Days $72 million gross from Thursday night preview showings broke Avengers: Endgames record ($60 million) for the highest Thursday night gross of all-time. Its opening day gross of $169.8 million broke Avengers: Endgames records ($157.5 million) for the highest opening day and single-day grosses of all-time. It also broke Deadpool & Wolverines records ($211.4 million) for the highest weekend debuts in July and for a summer release, Spider-Man: No Way Homes record ($260.1 million) for the highest weekend debut for a Marvel Cinematic Universe film outside of the Avengers films, as well as Avengers: Endgames records ($357.1 million) for the highest weekend debuts for a superhero film, a 3D film, a PG-13 rated film, and of all-time. It currently has the highest weekend debut of 2026. 32 $144,254,386 Spider-Man: Brand New Day broke Suicide Squads record ($133.6 million) for the highest weekend gross in August and had the biggest second weekend for a film since Avengers: Endgame ($147.4 million). 33 $70,711,990 Spider-Man: Brand New Day became the first film since The Super Mario Galaxy Movie to top the box office for three consecutive weekends. 34 $39,000,155 Spider-Man: Brand New Day became the first film since Avatar: Fire and Ash to top the box office for four consecutive weekends and the first film since Michael to top the box office in its fourth weekend. During the week, Spider-Man: Brand New Day ($863.3 million) surpassed Avengers: Endgame ($858.4 million) to become the highest grossing superhero film domestically. During its sixth weekend, The Odysseys worldwide total ($1.452 billion) surpassed Deadpool & Wolverines total ($1.338 billion) as the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. 35 $22,513,101 Spider-Man: Brand New Day became the first film since Avatar: Fire and Ash to top the box office in its fifth weekend, as well as for five consecutive weekends. During the week, The Odyssey became the first R-rated film in history to gross $1 billion at the international box office. 36 $18,178,872 Spider-Man: Brand New Day became the first film since Avatar: The Way of Water to top the box office for six consecutive weekends and the first film since Deadpool & Wolverine to top the box office in its sixth weekend. 37 Practical Magic 2 $30,002,526 38 Resident Evil $60,152,878 During the week, Spider-Man: Brand New Days box office total surpassed Star Wars: The Force Awakens total ($936.6 million) to become the highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada. 39 Avengers Endgame: Encore $26,106,643 Avengers Endgame: Encore became the first re-release since The Lion King (3D) in 2011 to top the box office. 40 Verity $32,031,011 During the weekend, Avengers: Endgames worldwide box office total surpassed Avatars total ($2.9255 billion) to become the highest-grossing film of all-time.

Highest-grossing films

In-Year Release +Highest-grossing films of 2026 by In-year releaseRankTitleDistributorDomestic gross 1. Spider-Man: Brand New Day Sony $954,994,964 2. The Odyssey Universal $620,750,470 3. Toy Story 5 Disney $480,294,461 4. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Universal $429,814,610 5. Michael Lionsgate $372,303,388 6. Project Hail Mary MGM $344,050,007 7. Obsession Focus $263,451,715 8. The Devil Wears Prada 2 20th Century $220,556,651 9. Backrooms A24 $197,523,512 10. Minions & Monsters Universal $183,171,260

+ Highest-grossing films by MPA rating of 2026 G Cars (re-release) PG Toy Story 5 PG-13 Spider-Man: Brand New Day R The OdysseyNC-17N/A

See also Lists of American films — American films by year Lists of box office number-one films

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