Colleen Hoover prints money, Hoppers crosses $100M, The Bride! craters, and Oscar night looms
March 14, 2026
All postsReminders of Him opened to $18M from 3,402 theaters, beating industry projections of $10-12M. The Colleen Hoover adaptation machine keeps printing money. Maika Monroe plays Kenna Rowan, a young mother returning home after five years in prison, facing a town that refuses to let her near her own daughter. Tyriq Withers plays the local bartender who becomes her one ally.
Critics are split — 54% on Rotten Tomatoes — but audiences don't care. The audience score sits at 89%, and the film pulled a CinemaScore of "B." That gap between critics and fans has become the defining feature of every Hoover adaptation. The formula works: cast well, lean into the emotional beats, don't overthink it.
Monroe brings more edge to Kenna than the book version had. She plays guilt as something physical — you see it in her posture, in the way she holds back from reaching for her daughter. It's a sharper performance than this material typically attracts. Whether the story earns its redemption arc is another question, but the box office has already answered the only one studios ask.
“Say what you want about CoHo adaptations, Maika Monroe actually acts in this one. The prison scenes hit different.”
— r/movies
Taylor Sheridan adds another show to his ranching empire. The Madison (Paramount+, premiered March 14) stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a New York matriarch who uproots her family to Montana's Madison River Valley. Both Sheridan and Pfeiffer have been clear: this is not a Yellowstone spinoff. No Duttons, no shared timeline. Standalone drama about a family reinventing itself against big-sky country.
Critics aren't impressed. A 64% on Rotten Tomatoes and 53 on Metacritic make this Sheridan's worst-reviewed series — and that includes Lioness. The complaints are familiar: thin dialogue dressed in gorgeous cinematography, characters who exist to deliver monologues about land and legacy. But Paramount+ is projecting their biggest series premiere ever. Sheridan's audience has never cared about review aggregators, and nothing about that changes here.
Meanwhile, One Battle After Another continues picking up streaming viewers who missed its theatrical run. PTA's Pynchon adaptation has been building momentum all season — it sits at 7.4 on TMDB, and tonight's 98th Academy Awards could reshape the conversation entirely. If it sweeps the way Reddit expects, expect a surge of "I need to watch this" energy by tomorrow morning.
Hoppers earned $30M in its second weekend and crossed $100M domestic. Pixar is back. The film about a girl who can "hop" her consciousness into robotic animals hasn't just held well at the box office — it's become an event. Parents are bringing kids back for second and third viewings. The set pieces hold up, and the emotional gut-punch in the third act apparently hits harder the second time.
One Redditor mapped the "Pixar Cry Chart" — charting the exact minute all 30 Pixar films deliver their emotional punch — and the Hoppers thread pulled nearly 950 engagement. The director, Daniel Chong, released a 2020 2D animation test that served as the film's visual seed, and r/movies gave it a 98% upvote ratio. Pixar hasn't had goodwill like this in years.
Sinners keeps running and won't stop. Ryan Coogler's vampire horror crossed $190M domestic on a 97% RT score and an A CinemaScore. No franchise, no sequel bait — just an original film that connected with everyone who saw it. The 98th Oscars tonight will decide whether it also takes home hardware.
“Took my daughter to Hoppers for the third time. She cried again. I cried again. Pixar has us in a chokehold.”
— r/movies
The Bride! dropped 70% in its second weekend. That kind of fall tells a story no marketing campaign can spin. Warner Bros. is now projected to lose over $100M on the film — one of the year's most expensive failures, and we're only in March.
The critic-audience split runs in an unusual direction here. RT has it at 60%, which is passable. But audience scores are brutal. Viewers who actually bought tickets rejected the film far more harshly than professional critics did. The spectacle landed; the story didn't. An r/movies discussion thread about the Nosferatu/Frankenstein comparison — arguing that the 2024 Nosferatu did what The Bride! tried to do, but better — pulled 1,704 engagement with a polarized 76% upvote ratio.
Warner Bros. has been here before, and they'll be here again. But a 70% second-weekend drop on a film this expensive stings in a way that's hard to recover from during earnings season. WB's larger crisis made headlines this week too: Paramount is now set to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in a $111B deal, with $24B backed by Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds. The entertainment landscape is shifting fast.
“I genuinely cannot believe how much money WB spent on this. The sets were gorgeous. Everything else was a mess.”
— r/movies
Josh Safdie directs Timothée Chalamet in a film about competitive ping-pong. That sentence alone should tell you this isn't a conventional biopic. Marty Supreme is based on the life of Marty Reisman, a New York City table tennis legend who hustled his way through mid-century Manhattan's underground sports scene. TMDB has it at 7.5, and it's expanding into more theaters this week after a strong limited run.
Chalamet is playing against type — no romantic leads, no period costumes, just a fast-talking showman with a paddle. Safdie shoots the matches like heist sequences, all tight close-ups and percussive editing. The result feels more like Uncut Gems than King Richard. This is a sports movie for people who don't watch sports movies.
In Dune-adjacent news, the first image of Chalamet in Dune: Part Three dropped this week and pulled 15,672 engagement — the second-biggest thread on r/movies this month after the Oscars. Character posters followed at 11,937 engagement. Denis Villeneuve has built a custom anamorphic IMAX lens for the film, which opens December 18. Catch Marty Supreme on the big screen now, because Chalamet's next theatrical turn will be a very different scale.
“Safdie turned ping-pong into the most stressful thing I've watched all year. Chalamet is unrecognizable.”
— r/A24
The 98th Academy Awards air tonight, hosted by Conan O'Brien with Matt Berry as the voiceover voice. The r/movies thread announcing Berry pulled 7,506 engagement at a 97% upvote ratio — the internet approves.
The race breaks down into a two-film battle. One Battle After Another leads the prestige conversation: PTA's Pynchon adaptation is the frontrunner for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Sean Penn is heavily favored for Supporting Actor. Sinners carries the populist momentum: Michael B. Jordan is the favorite for Best Actor, and Ryan Coogler is expected to take Original Screenplay. Ludwig Goransson's score is the lock of the night.
Jessie Buckley's Best Actress win for Hamnet is considered the most locked-up category. KPop Demon Hunters should take Animated Feature — Reddit is already mourning Hoppers. And Weapons could give Zach Cregger a Supporting Actress win through Amy Madigan, which would mean two horror films claiming Big Eight categories in one ceremony.
Add any of these to your watchlist now. Whatever wins tonight, streaming searches for these titles will spike by morning.
Project Hail Mary opens tomorrow (March 15). Ryan Gosling, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Andy Weir adaptation. No green screen in the entire film, according to an r/movies thread that pulled 9,649 engagement. Early reviews are stellar — 8.2 on TMDB. This is next week's Big Release.
Alpha (TMDB 6.4) is small-scale and character-driven. Don't expect fireworks — expect competence, which is its own kind of rare.
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025) won Costume Design, Production Design, and Makeup at the Oscars — its craft awards were never in doubt. TMDB has it at 7.7. If you missed the theatrical run, it's worth tracking down for the production design alone.