‘Hoppers’ $88M WW Pixar Rebound, ‘Bride’ Bombs $13M

When it comes to an original animated film, the Pete Docter-led administration at Pixar Studios can celebrate a big breakthrough with Hoppers which jumped to an $88M global opening, broken out by $42M (81% offshore footprint) international and $46M stateside. As we’ve been writing all weekend, it’s the best opening for an original animated film, and a Pixar original animated movie since 2017’s Coco ($104.7M WW in like-for-likes). Hoppers also outstrips the like-for-like global starts of Pixar originals 2020’s Onward ($65.6M) and 2023’s Elemental ($65.1M).

Similar to the U.S., Saturday popped over Friday around the global. Stateside Saturday of $19.1M was up +45% over Friday/previews of $13.2M. If domestic is any indication, Hoppers is pulling in a broad audience with 52% general and 48% families. Quite often on a Pixar movie like this, it can be family leaning in the 60 percentile.

The movie debuted as the No. 1 MPA in all major markets including UK ($6.4M), Mexico ($3.7M), France ($3.6M; Hoppers finally beat the big local family title Marsupilami in its 5th weekend for No. 1), Germany ($3.5M), Spain ($2.8M, overperformed), Korea ($2.1M very good, but No. 2 behind mega local period title The King’s Warden in weekend 7), Italy ($1.9M) and Brazil ($1.8M). Hoppers was No. 2 in Belgium and No. 5 in India (where original U.S. animation is an uphill battle).

Impressive is that Hoppers sprung outside of a holiday window (most holidays will hit toward the end of the month beginning of April when Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s Super Mario Bros Galaxy arrives. Don’t worry — the global marketplace can support three to four family titles at once).

Across Europe, Hoppers debuted to No. 1 (non-local) in nearly all markets. Regionally it is the second highest opening weekend of 2026 and the highest opening for an original animated film since Coco (2017). Poland did $1M.

Ditto for Latin America, Hoppers opened at #1 in all markets, as well as regionally. It was also the highest opening weekend of 2026 to date in nearly all markets. Regionally it was the highest opening for an original animated film since Elemental. The Friday to Saturday increase was significantly above comps, reflecting strong word of mouth. Colombia pulled in $1M.  Hoppers only opened in five markets this weekend: Korea, Philippines, Thailand, India and Indonesia. It opened at #1 (non-local), as well as posting the highest non-local opening of 2026 to date, in all five markets. In both India and Thailand, Hoppers opened as the highest grossing original animated film since the pandemic. Next big openings are in Japan, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore and Vietnam next weekend; China on March 20 and Australia on March 26 (to capitalize on school breaks). How well Hoppers does in China is up for grabs. While Zootopia 2 connected with audiences there with its great rabbit symbolism, the one big plus for Pixar’s latest heading into China is that Hoppers has trailered greatly on Zootopia 2 which is up to $667M there. Pixar originals have paled similar to the U.S. post Coco which was a fiesta there with $189M+ (reported). Onward slipped to $10.3M cume in the Middle Kingdom with Elemental at $15.8M and Elio rejected with $3.9M.

Here comes The Bride! and there goes The Bride! with an international take of $6.3M in 70 markets, lower than domestic’s $7.3M. Brazenly, Warners forecasted a $38M-$40M global start. The Bride! was rejected by global suiters with a $13.6M worldwide opening off an $80M production cost and a global P&A around $65M, I now hear. Typically, an auteur driven movie can find an audience in Europe, however, Maggie Gyllenhaal wasn’t a selling point at this time for sophisticated moviegoers in the way that Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino would be. In many markets, the Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley starring movie wasn’t even in the top 10.

The Bride‘s best gross (if you can call it that) was the UK with $950K where it was No. 4, with trailing monies in Mexico with $753K (No. 4), China with (No. 8 $538K), France (No. 13 with $406K), Brazil ($376K), Spain ($304K No. 5), Italy ($292K No. 7), Australia ($281K No. 5), Germany (No. 16, $181K), Korea ($135K), Colombia ($116K) and Poland ($114k).

We’ll have more foreign updates for you later.