Box office most watched movies, Primate and Greenland 2: Migration are the new entries

Avatar: Fire and Ash

The box office of the most watched movies in the United States from January 9 to 11, 2026 - with still provisional data - confirms Avatar: Fire and Ash in first place (342,590,528 dollars): the Sully family is devastated by Neteyam’s death, while she and Jake blame their youngest son, Lo’ak, for not obeying orders. Meanwhile, Colonel Quaritch continues his ruthless hunt for Jake: Spider, Quaritch’s human son, risks dying when his mask battery runs out. To save him, the protagonists decide to bring him back to the rebel earthlings but, during the journey, they are attacked by the violent Ash Clan: Jake’s children are captured by the Iwa-nawii tribe, led by the fierce Varang.

Primate

In second place enters Primate (11,300,000 dollars): a group of friends’ tropical vacation transforms into a terrifying horror story, when a believed chimpanzee assaults the young people.

The Housemaid is in third place (94,154,153 dollars): a woman in difficulty, out of prison, begins working as a housekeeper for a wealthy and elitist couple. She realizes that the matriarch, Nina, behaves very strangely towards her, and that the husband, Andrew Winchester, could be her salvation.

Zootopia 2

Taking fourth place is Zootopia 2, which has earned $378,844,584. In this film, brave rabbit police officer Judy Hopps and her friend Nick Wilde, a fox, team up to solve the most complex case of their careers.

Greenland 2: Migration

In fifth place enters Greenland 2: Migration (8,500,000 dollars): the surviving Garrity family must abandon the safety of the bunker in Greenland and undertake a dangerous journey through the desolate and frozen wastelands of northern Europe to find a new home.

Another new entry is in thirteenth place, with I Was a Stranger (1,214,826 dollars): a tragedy strikes a Syrian family in Aleppo, and this triggers a chain reaction of events in four different countries, involving people united by kinship bonds.

In twentieth place is Dead Man’s Wire (154,131 dollars): on February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis enters the office of Richard Hall, president of Meridian Mortgage Company, and takes him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun connected with a “wire” from the trigger to Tony’s neck.

In twenty-fourth place is All That’s Left of You (56,074 dollars): after a Palestinian teenager is involved in a protest in the West Bank, his mother tells the story of his family, made of hope, courage and struggle that led to this fateful moment.