Box Office: ‘Godzilla Minus Zero' Scores $32M Opening, ‘You Can See Everything' Dips Just 23%, ‘Wild Horse Nine' Impresses With $6M

Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” opened to $32M this weekend from 3,254 theaters, the highest opening ever for a live-action foreign-language movie in North America. A Japanese-language Godzilla sequel just nearly tripled the $11.4M debut of “Godzilla Minus One” three years ago.

It was frontloaded. As I told you on Thursday, previews landed at a whopping $6.7M, a number that counted the fan screenings from earlier in the week. For context, “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” had $6.3M in Thursday previews and went on to a $47M opening, which is why a $35M-$40M weekend looked very much in play. It didn’t quite get there, but GKids will happily take this incredible figure. An “A” CinemaScore suggests ‘Minus Zero’ could have real legs heading into the holidays.

Meanwhile, A24’s “You Can See Everything” continues to impress. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes “documentary” dipped just 23% in its fourth weekend, grossing an estimated $8.9M from 2,473 locations. Its estimated domestic total now stands at $80M.

For a nearly three-hour doc that reportedly cost under $7M, the run has been nothing short of astonishing. International markets are coming very soon, and $100M in US receipts is basically locked at this point.

Warner Bros. Animation’s “The Cat in the Hat,” starring Bill Hader as the voice of Dr. Seuss’ mischievous feline, debuted with $20M from 4,000+ screens. That was right on tracking, but the problem is that the film cost $92M to make. Hopefully it plays through Thanksgiving and Christmas, and will have legs throughout the holidays. It’s going to need them.

Martin McDonagh’s “Wild Horse Nine” made an impressive $6M on just 1000+ screens for Searchlight. The film, which reunites McDonagh with Sam Rockwell alongside John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi, is a darkly comic CIA caper set on Easter Island on the eve of the 1973 Chilean coup. In other words, audience hunger for good movies that have nothing to do with IP is very much there in 2026.

Then there’s LAIKA’s “Wildwood” grossing an estimated $7M this weekend from 2,693 locations, a 22% decrease from last weekend. Its estimated domestic total stands at $40M. Travis Knight’s stop-motion epic opened with around $11.6M back in late October, and these holds suggest word of mouth is helping.

DC’s “Clayface” was #5 with $6.6M from around 2,950 screens, a slightly better hold than the 57% drop it suffered over Halloween weekend. The R-rated body horror experiment, directed by James Watkins and starring Tom Rhys Harries, sits at $56M domestic and $106M worldwide against a reported $44M budget. That means the film will break even early this week.