Michael Tops Box Office 4th Weekend; Obsession Opens $16M
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- Michael (Lionsgate) topped the box office for a fourth consecutive weekend with $26.1M domestic and $83.8M global, pushing its worldwide total to $703.9M and pacing 7% ahead of Oppenheimer at the same point in its run.
- Obsession (Focus Features/Blumhouse), a romantic horror from YouTube filmmaker Curry Barker, opened to $16.1M — well above the $8M–$9M the industry expected — earning an A- CinemaScore and drawing 39% of ticket buyers from the 25-34 demo.
- Devil Wears Prada 2 (20th Century/Disney) slid to second in its third weekend with $18M domestic (-57%), reaching $175.8M cumulative, with the article attributing the softness partly to women viewers shifting to Obsession.
- Mortal Kombat II (New Line) plunged 65% in its second weekend to $13.4M, reaching a 10-day domestic total of $62.2M.
- The overall domestic weekend grossed an estimated $106.1M, running just -1% behind the comparable weekend a year earlier — a result the article called 'very good' for the summer box office.
- Super Mario Galaxy (Universal) added $4.45M in its seventh frame to hit $418.6M domestic, with the article projecting it will become 2026's first film to reach $1B globally within weeks.
Why it matters: Lionsgate's Michael keeps delivering — now $703.9M worldwide after four weekends and pacing 7% ahead of Oppenheimer — giving the studio a rare biopic hit. Meanwhile, Obsession's $16.1M debut against $8M–$9M expectations validates the festival-to-wide model for Blumhouse/Focus Features, and a weekend just -1% off last year eases pre-summer industry anxiety about the 2026 slate.
