Every Friday, on the Weekend POURcast, we serve up what’s new in theaters and on streaming, movies only, paired with a curated cocktail suggestion to match the weekend.
Welcome to the Weekend POURcast, your boozy guide to the box office.
Halloween is over, the costumes are back in the closet, and Hollywood has immediately decided to replace ghosts and haunted houses with a radioactive lizard, Dr. Seuss, Revolutionary War musicals, Easter Island spies, Jimmy Stewart, and a three-hour Indian epic.
So, naturally, things are calming down.
After last weekend gave us one of the quietest box office weekends of the year, this one comes roaring back with a genuinely crowded theatrical slate. There is no shortage of options, but one movie clearly arrives with the biggest footprint.
Godzilla has entered the building.
Last Weekend in Review
You Can See Everything finally climbed to No. 1 in its third weekend with $10.6 million, completing one of the stranger box office ascents of the year. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary has now earned nearly $64 million domestically, putting it within striking distance of some of the biggest documentary grosses ever recorded.
Clayface finished essentially tied with it at $10.4 million, while Wildwood held third with $7.5 million. Wicker followed with $4.1 million, and Street Fighter continued its rapid descent with $3.2 million.
The bigger story was how little business there was overall. Halloween weekend generated just under $56 million across the entire domestic market, one of the weakest totals of 2026. Studios largely stayed out of the way, and the result was a weekend where holdovers had the multiplex mostly to themselves.
That changes now as November arrives with enough new movies to fill an entire marquee.
New in Theaters This Weekend
Godzilla Minus Zero
This is the movie to beat.
Takashi Yamazaki returns to the world of Godzilla Minus One, picking up in 1949, two years after Japan survived the destruction of the previous film and began the painful process of rebuilding. Just as life starts moving forward again, Godzilla returns and apparently decides recovery was getting a little too comfortable.
Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe return, and Yamazaki again serves as director, writer, and visual-effects supervisor. More importantly for the theatrical experience, this is the first Japanese production ever filmed specifically for IMAX.
That matters because Godzilla Minus One already proved audiences were willing to embrace a Japanese-language Godzilla movie when the human story was as strong as the destruction. The new film has been earning excellent early reviews, and current industry tracking has it opening between $25 million and $35 million.
That would make it an enormous success for GKIDS and another reminder that audiences do not need every blockbuster sanded down into globally homogenized franchise product.
Sometimes they just want a really good monster movie.
The Cat in the Hat
The Cat is back, and thankfully Mike Myers is nowhere near the makeup chair.
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation gives Dr. Seuss’ most chaotic houseguest his first fully animated theatrical adventure, with Bill Hader voicing the Cat. The story sends him to help two siblings adjust to a new town, which naturally turns into the sort of magical catastrophe you expect when the person running the mission is wearing a six-foot striped hat.
The voice cast also includes Quinta Brunson, Xochitl Gomez, Matt Berry, Giancarlo Esposito, America Ferrera, Bowen Yang, and Tituss Burgess.
A few weeks ago, tracking had this opening considerably higher. Now projections have fallen into the $15 million to $20 million range, with reviews reportedly not doing much to improve the mood. That does not mean families will stay away, but it does mean The Cat in the Hat may no longer be the easy No. 1 challenger it once looked like.
Dr. Seuss versus Godzilla is still an objectively excellent marquee, though.
Drummer Boy
This may be the sleeper of the weekend.
Angel Studios brings Drummer Boy to theaters as a Christmas musical set during the American Revolution, following two brothers whose opposing choices place them on different sides of the war. The story also follows a young drummer boy and an enslaved woman searching for freedom as the Revolution reshapes the country around them.
Joel Smallbone co-directs and stars, with Lucas Leach, India Brown, Melora Hardin, Iain Glen, and Ioan Gruffudd also in the cast. Angel has become increasingly good at identifying audiences Hollywood often treats as an afterthought, and tracking currently has Drummer Boy in the $10 million to $15 million range.
If that holds, it could finish third for the weekend and once again prove that clearly defined audiences are sometimes more valuable than broadly targeted ones.
Wild Horse Nine
Martin McDonagh takes John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, and Parker Posey to Easter Island in 1973.
That sentence alone should probably sell a few tickets.
Malkovich and Rockwell play CIA agents stationed in Chile shortly before the coup against Salvador Allende. They are sent to Easter Island by their bureau chief, played by Buscemi, where the isolation, the landscape, and their own increasingly ugly histories begin pulling their relationship apart.
McDonagh has made a career out of putting difficult men in beautiful places and then letting them emotionally destroy each other, so this feels comfortably within his wheelhouse. The reviews have been strong enough to put Malkovich into the awards conversation, and while this probably will not compete with Godzilla commercially, it may be the strongest adult option on the board.
Queen at Sea
Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay lead one of the weekend’s heaviest dramas.
Binoche plays Amanda, whose mother is suffering from advanced dementia. Amanda and her stepfather Martin disagree over whether her mother can still make decisions for herself and, if she cannot, who has the right to decide what happens next.
That is not exactly popcorn escapism, but it is the kind of adult drama that increasingly feels rare in wide theatrical release.
The film won the Silver Bear Jury Prize in Berlin, while Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall also received acting honors. For audiences looking for something serious, humane, and emotionally complicated, this may be the weekend’s strongest alternative.
Jimmy
KJ Apa takes on Jimmy Stewart in Jimmy, a biographical drama focused on the period when one of Hollywood’s biggest stars walked away from his career to serve as a combat pilot during World War II.
The film follows Stewart from his Academy Award win for The Philadelphia Story through his wartime service and eventual return to Hollywood, where a little movie called It’s a Wonderful Life was waiting for him.
Max Casella plays Frank Capra, with Neal McDonough and Kara Killmer also in the cast. Early reviews have been particularly kind to Apa, who apparently avoids turning Stewart into an impression and instead tries to find the person beneath the familiar voice and mannerisms.
There is also something nicely timed about this opening just ahead of Veterans Day.
Ramayana: Rise of a Legend
Sony is also taking Ramayana: Rise of a Legend wide this weekend.
The three-hour-plus animated epic brings one of the foundational stories of Indian mythology to the big screen, with Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi, Yash, and Amitabh Bachchan among the voice cast.
The film combines action, fantasy, mythology, and animation on a scale considerably larger than most of this weekend’s other releases. Indian cinema has become an increasingly meaningful part of the North American box office, and a title this culturally significant deserves to be treated as more than an afterthought.
It may not threaten Godzilla for No. 1, but it could put up very strong numbers in the markets where demand is concentrated.
Box Office Forecast: November 6th-8th, 2026
1. Godzilla Minus Zero
$29M to $36M
I am going slightly above the current tracking ceiling because the ingredients are there. Godzilla Minus One built enormous goodwill, early reviews are strong, and IMAX gives this exactly the kind of theatrical hook audiences need.
If the Thursday numbers come in hot, $35 million-plus would not surprise me.
2. The Cat in the Hat
$16M to $21M
The late tracking decline is difficult to ignore, but this still has family recognition, a strong voice cast, and very little direct competition in the animated lane outside Wildwood.
The question is whether parents see this as an event or simply something they can wait to watch at home.
3. Drummer Boy
$10M to $14M
Angel Studios has a clear audience and knows how to mobilize it.
That may be enough to put this unexpectedly high on the chart.
4. You Can See Everything
$7M to $10M
At this point, betting against this movie seems foolish. It finally reached No. 1 last weekend, and while a crowded slate will take screens away, the word of mouth is still unusually strong.
Another solid hold pushes it deeper into documentary box office history.
5. Wild Horse Nine
$6M to $9M
This is the adult wildcard.
Awards attention, McDonagh’s name, and that cast should generate interest, but it is competing in a weekend where audiences suddenly have a lot of choices. I would not be shocked if it starts modestly and hangs around for weeks.
The Godzilla Question
There is something genuinely interesting happening with Godzilla.
For years, American studios treated the character primarily as a giant effects delivery system. Make him bigger, add another monster, destroy a city, repeat.
Godzilla Minus One reminded audiences that the original films worked because the monster meant something. Godzilla was not simply spectacle. He was fear, trauma, destruction, and the horrifying possibility that rebuilding does not guarantee safety.
That is why Godzilla Minus Zero matters beyond the opening-weekend number.
If this movie opens around $30 million or better in North America, in Japanese, with returning characters from a period drama, it tells Hollywood something important: audiences will absolutely embrace international filmmaking when the movie feels like an event worth leaving home for.
No translation required.
New Movies on Streaming This Weekend
The streaming side is lighter than theaters this weekend, with Netflix carrying most of the genuinely new movie premieres.
Possible Love | Netflix
Lee Chang-dong returns with Possible Love, which arrives on Netflix Friday after a limited theatrical run.
The drama follows two married couples whose lives collide after a funeral. One couple is struggling financially after the husband loses his job, while the other lives a far more comfortable life centered around documentary filmmaking. As the couples grow closer, attraction, resentment, class tension, and buried dissatisfaction begin complicating everything.
For anyone looking for something quiet and adult after watching Godzilla destroy several square miles of Japan, Netflix has provided an emotional palate cleanser.
Possibly not a cheerful one.
Carolina Caroline | Netflix
Carolina Caroline follows a restless woman who falls in with a charismatic con artist and joins him on the road.
What begins with small scams gradually turns into more dangerous crimes, transforming the relationship into something closer to a modern outlaw story. Road movie, romance, crime, bad judgment.
That combination has been working since somebody first invented a getaway car.
Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story | Netflix
Dane Cook gets the documentary treatment in Funny Money, looking back at his rise from stand-up comedy phenomenon to arena-filling celebrity and the devastating financial betrayal inside his own family.
Whatever your opinion of Cook’s comedy, his career remains one of the stranger stories of the 2000s comedy boom. He became one of the biggest comedians in America almost overnight, then discovered that the person managing his fortune was stealing millions from him.
That is a fairly brutal second act.
Under Siege | Netflix
Netflix also premieres Under Siege, a documentary examining the 1985 siege of Colombia’s Palace of Justice.
The attack and military response left scores dead and created decades of unanswered questions surrounding disappearances, government responsibility, and what actually happened inside the building.
Not light Friday-night viewing, obviously, but for documentary audiences it adds another strong option to a year where nonfiction films have unexpectedly become part of the mainstream box office conversation.
Earlier This Week: A Dog’s Perfect Christmas | Netflix
If the holiday season officially starts the second Halloween ends, Netflix has accepted the assignment.
A Dog’s Perfect Christmas arrived Wednesday, starring Dennis Quaid, Milo Ventimiglia, Mary Steenburgen, Jennifer Tilly, and Thomas Haden Church. The family drama follows a household dealing with a difficult Christmas while a trusty basset hound presumably performs whatever emotional labor humans have once again failed to handle themselves.
Dogs remain undefeated.
Weekend Drink Pairing: Fluid Karma Fizz
This weekend’s pairing is Fluid Karma Fizz.
We have not pulled this one from the Cocktails and Movies bar in a while, and it fits a weekend where almost everything seems to be colliding with something else. Godzilla collides with Japan’s attempt to rebuild. Two CIA agents collide with their own histories on Easter Island. Two married couples collide in Possible Love. Jimmy Stewart collides with the gap between movie-star mythology and actual war.
Even the Cat in the Hat exists primarily because peace and order offended him personally. The Fluid Karma Fizz feels right for a weekend built around consequences catching up with people, monsters, governments, families, and one very tall cat.
Pour accordingly.
Final Pour
Last weekend was quiet enough that a documentary climbed to No. 1 in its third weekend.
This weekend is the opposite.
Godzilla Minus Zero arrives looking like a legitimate international event movie. The Cat in the Hat tries to claim families. Drummer Boy comes armed with an audience Hollywood routinely underestimates. Martin McDonagh brings one of the best casts of the fall to Easter Island, while Queen at Sea, Jimmy, and Ramayana: Rise of a Legend make this one of the most varied theatrical weekends we have had in months.
And for once, the correct answer to “What is there to see?” is not “Well, how much time do you have?”
It is “What are you in the mood for?”
That is how a movie weekend should feel. 🍸🍿
