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Every Monday, here on the Monday Morning Box Office Hangover Report we break down the weekend box office: who won, who didn’t, and what the numbers are really saying about what audiences want right now. It’s your post-weekend debrief with a little cocktail bite.
Opening Pour
Well, Spielberg has joined the summer box office conversation. Disclosure Day opened to $44 million domestic, good enough for the No. 1 spot and the best opening for one of his original films. It was not some ridiculous Jurassic or Indy level detonation, but it was a real grown-up summer movie win in a weekend where the NBA Finals, the World Cup, and basic human distraction were all competing for attention. Meanwhile, Obsession kept doing its weird little black-magic act and pulled in $19 million in weekend five, because apparently that movie has decided normal box office gravity is optional.
Top 5 Domestic Films
(Weekend estimates, June 12 to June 14, 2026)
- Disclosure Day – $44.0M
- Obsession – $19.0M
- Scary Movie – $14.5M
- Backrooms – $11.3M
- Masters of the Universe – $8.7M
Recap
This weekend was clearly down from the previous one. Box Office Mojo shows the Top 10 gross at $112.6 million and the overall weekend at $117.5 million, a steep drop from the prior weekend’s $174.7 million Top 10 and $182.2 million overall. Again, amazing basketball and World Cup games keep a lot of peoples’ attention and wallets away from theaters. That is the bad news. The good news is that one of the titles doing the heavy lifting was an original Spielberg sci-fi thriller, which is a much more interesting sentence than “some sequel did fine.”
Highlights and insights
1) Disclosure Day won because it felt like a real event for adults
AP reports the film opened to $44 million domestic and $92.9 million worldwide, which made it Spielberg’s best opening for an original film. That matters, because original sci-fi from a legacy filmmaker is not supposed to be the easiest sell in 2026, especially against live sports and shrinking attention spans. AP also noted that 41% of the audience was 45 and older, which tells you exactly who showed up and why.
2) The audience is older, the reviews are strong, and that may help legs
AP says the film landed a B CinemaScore and has an 80% Rotten Tomatoes score, which is not ecstatic audience worship but is solid enough to suggest it can play beyond opening weekend. This is not a teen-rush horror title that burns hot and vanishes. It looks more like the sort of movie that could settle in and hold if adults keep treating it like must-see summer prestige-popcorn entertainment. That is an encouraging shape for the run, even if it is not guaranteed.
3) Obsession is still doing something faintly demonic
Weekend five brought in $19 million, and AP says the film has now reached $286.5 million worldwide. At this point, it is not just a hit. It is one of the strangest hold stories of the year. After that absurd second-weekend increase and the refusal to behave like a normal horror title, it is still sitting in second place behind Spielberg. That is insane in the most profitable possible way.
4) Scary Movie had the drop you’d expect after a big comeback opening
Box Office Mojo has Scary Movie at $14.5 million for the weekend, down from its franchise-best debut last frame. That is not shocking. Horror-comedy reboots tend to be front-loaded, especially when nostalgia and opening-weekend urgency are doing a lot of the selling. It is still a decent No. 3 finish, but the oxygen in the room shifted hard this weekend once Disclosure Day arrived.
5) Backrooms and Masters of the Universe had the rougher visible comedown
Backrooms dropped to $11.3 million, while Masters of the Universe pulled $8.7 million. For Backrooms, that is less alarming because it already banked so much money that the movie can afford to start acting mortal. Masters, on the other hand, still has that giant reported budget hanging over every number like a curse, so an $8.7 million weekend does not exactly scream victory lap.
Who Had the Rough Morning After?
This week, the rough morning after belongs to Masters of the Universe. Not because it completely fell apart, but because a title with that kind of reported cost cannot keep posting ordinary numbers and expect people not to notice. You could also make the case for the overall marketplace, since the weekend total dropped sharply from the week before, but at least Disclosure Day gave the chart a credible No. 1 story instead of a shrug.
What’s next
The next obvious question is whether Disclosure Day can hold next weekend or whether it was helped by Spielberg curiosity and older-skewing urgency more than true four-quadrant demand. Barron’s noted the summer is pacing 11% ahead of last year and only 3.5% behind 2019’s Endgame-driven summer, which means the broader season still has real momentum. But this specific weekend was softer, so now the test is whether Disclosure Day becomes a sturdy summer run or just a classy opener with a quick fade.
Final Pour
This weekend did not belong to chaos. It belonged to authority. Disclosure Day opened like a real movie from a real filmmaker and took the top spot without needing to cosplay as a franchise. Obsession kept behaving like it sold its soul for legs, Scary Movie came back to earth a bit, and Masters of the Universe still looks like the one waking up with the uglier headache. Not the loudest weekend of the summer, but a pretty damn interesting one. 🍸🍿
