2026, knock on wood, continues to be on a good start in its first 11 days at the domestic box office with around $327M, +23% from the same period a year ago. The entire weekend is figured around $100M, which is pretty good for January, +25% from the same period last year. Even though James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash isn’t as strong as the first two films stateside with an anticipated running four weekend total tomorrow of $342.6M, about -34% behind Avatar: Way of Water, the movie is powerful enough to be the roux of the January box office. The threequel pulled in $21.3M in its fourth consecutive weekend at No. 1.

Second once a fight between Zootopia 2, Paramount/18Hz’s Primate and the fourth weekend of Lionsgate’s The Housemaid has resulted in a dust-up between the latter two now with $11M+ a piece. The Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, Paul Feig directed thriller will cross $100M by Friday of the MLK weekend.

Lionsgate’s Greenland 2: Migration is coming in at the lower end of its $8M-$10M projection with $8.5M. Previous Lionsgate Butler openings post Covid include Plane ($10M) and last year’s really good Den of Thieves: Pantera ($15M). That STX and Anton co-production cost $90M, but Lionsgate took U.S. for $10M. Pic’s weekend doesn’t include Canada. Both Primate and Greenland 2 get B- CinemaScores.

Primate gets an alright 50% definite recommend in Comscore/Screen Engine PostTrak exits. The R-rated movie is male skewing as expected at 58% with the 18-34 bunch showing up at 59%. Latino and Hispanic moviegoers and Caucasians are tied at 35% apiece followed by 20% Black and 7% Asian American moviegoers. Some PLFs are repping 10% of the Johannes Roberts’ directed genre pic’s business. West is the best with AMC Burbank the movie’s highest grossing venue so far with $34K.

Greenland 2 is a 49% definite recommend, and is also guy leaning at 56%, however, remains more older male than Primate, with dudes over 25 at 48% to the chimp’s 39%. The 35-44 set is the largest demo at 26% with 18-34 showing up at 37%. Caucasians are at 42%, Latino and Hispanic audiences at 28%, Black at 13%, Asian American at 10%. This movie is also over-indexing in the West, where a third of the gross is coming from versus a norm of 23% for other titles in the marketplace. The Harkins in Estrella Falls, AZ is the top grossing venue with close to $21K.

Angel Studios’ political war drama I Was a Stranger, which is looking at $1.2M outside the top 10, is the only new wide entry to get a good CinemaScore, that being an A-. It’s playing to the faith-based crowd in the South, Midwest and Mountain regions, just not at big numbers at 1,400 sites with 51% female and the over 55 set at 39%. Diversity demos are 48% Caucasian, 23% Latino and Hispanic, 13% Black, 6% Asian American and 10% Native American/other. Top grossing venue currently is the AMC Empire with around $6,5K through Saturday.

Meanwhile, Sony’s comedy Anaconda just clicked past $100M on Saturday at the global box office with $51.2M abroad. Add in Sunday’s $54.2M stateside and global stands at $105.4M.

Also hearing that Hamnet is a hit in its UK opening with $4.2M weekend. The Chloe Zhao-directed period drama posted the highest opening Friday for a drama released in January since 1917 in 2020. Domestic stands at a running total of $12.8M heading into the Golden Globes tomorrow where it’s up for six noms including Best Feature Drama. Global stands at $17.1M.

U.S./Canada numbers as of Sunday AM:

via Deadline