US Box Office Posts Best First Quarter Since Pandemic With $1.77 Billion

Thanks to the breakout success of Amazon MGM’s “Project Hail Mary” and the holdover grosses of Disney/20th Century’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” the first quarter of the 2026 domestic box office just inched past 2023 to give theaters the best start to the calendar year since the COVID pandemic.

According to data from Comscore, overall domestic grosses for the year through the end of March reached $1.77 billion, just topping the first quarter total for 2023 by approximately $20 million. It...