It was a downright horrific weekend at the box office. Honestly, the first couple months of 2025 have been a little terrifying on that front as we’ve yet to have any true breakout Hollywood hits of meaningful size, though we’ve had some smaller qualified hits like Companion. Sad to say, this past weekend saw several new releases fail to drum up much business, including a couple of smaller genre titles. The dry spell continues with little relief in sight.
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For starters, Parasite director Bong Joon Ho’s latest Mickey 17 finally hit theaters as this weekend’s big new release. On the positive end, it topped the charts with $19.1 million. That’s where the good news ends. The movie has a production budget well north of $100 million, which doesn’t even account for marketing. Globally, the sci-fi flick starring Robert Pattinson has earned $53.3 million thus far. Barring a miracle, it is very unlikely to reach profitability, which is a damn shame.
The weekend's other “big” new release was Paul W.S. Anderson's George R.R. Martin adaptation In the Lost Lands. Starring Resident Evil mainstay Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista, it was completely dead on arrival making just over $1 million. That's not moving the needle for anyone. This was kind of doomed by bad reviews. Even in the best of times, fantasy can be a tough sell. Vertical Entertainment is more than likely hoping that this one will do its business on VOD.
As far as new genre fare goes, a pair of radically different offerings both struggled In their respective debuts. Shudder's old folks home horror flick The Rule of Jenny Pen and the animated Night of the Zoopocalypse both failed to drum Up much business, doing $263,000 and $1.06 million, respectively. Those are, again, lousy numbers that aren’t doing much to help fill empty seats in theaters. It’s tough sledding out there.
In holdover news, last weekend’s surprise thriller Last Breath held pretty well, pulling in $4.2 million in its second weekend. It’s still got a way to go before reaching profitability, having pulled in $14.6 million domestically to date. Still, it’s done better than expected. Any win is welcome right now. On that front, NEON’s The Monkey continues to do well for itself, pulling in $3.9 million on its third weekend. Oz Perkins’ latest has now made $45.7 million globally on a $10 million budget. That’s the goods right there.
So, when can we expect to see some meaningful relief? That appears to be coming on the weekend of March 21 when Disney’s live-action Snow White arrives. That same weekend, Robert De Niro’s long-delayed Alto Knights also arrives, as does the sci-fi/thriller Ash. That figures to offer a much-needed shot of life. But if audiences don’t respond to Snow White, it could be another Captain America: Brave New World situation where it’s here today, gone tomorrow.
On the horror front, the next major release is Blumhouse’s The Woman in the Yard, which is due to arrive on March 28 to help round out the month. Fingers crossed that April can bring with it green pastures to help tee up the summer movie season.
You can see the full list of the top ten movies at the box office for the weekend of March 7, 2025, below. For more, check out the lineup for this year’s Overlook Film Festival.
- Mickey 17 – $19.1 million (first weekend)
- Captain America: Brave New World – $8.5 million (fourth weekend)
- Last Breath – $4.2 million (second weekend)
- The Monkey – $3.9 million (third weekend)
- Paddington in Peru – $3.8 million (fourth weekend)
- Dog Man – $3.5 million (sixth weekend)
- Anora – $1.8 million (21st weekend)
- Mufasa: The Lion King – $1.7 million (12th weekend)
- Rule Breakers – $1.5 million (first weekend)
- Night of the Zoopocalypse – $1 million (first weekend)
