While a massive winter storm shut down a large chunk of the United States this weekend, Avatar: Fire and Ash was finally unseated from the top of the box office charts by Mercy.
Mercy opened with $10.8 million domestically and made $22.4 million worldwide. That domestic opening puts it in fourth place among director Timur Bekmambetov’s films, behind Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and Ben-Hur. For Chris Pratt, it’s his lowest wide opening of all time, taking over the low mark from Passengers, which made $14.8 million in 2016. Audiences gave it a mediocre B- CinemaScore, so it’s doubtful that those who stayed inside during the storm will head to theaters this coming weekend if things thaw out.
Avatar: Fire and Ash dropped to second place with $6.4 million. It now has $377.9 million domestically and $1.3 billion worldwide. It’s the third-highest-grossing film worldwide of 2025, behind Ne Zha 2 and Zootopia 2.
Speaking of Zootopia 2, it took third place with another $5.3 million. It’s now sitting at $401.2 million domestically and $1.7 billion worldwide. Domestically, Fire and Ash has been tracking ahead of Zootopia 2 on a weekly basis, but with Zootopia 2‘s strong international grosses, especially in China, it seems like Zootopia 2 will beat James Cameron’s latest worldwide.
The Housemaid and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple rounded out the top 5. The Bone Temple saw a pretty massive 71% drop from last weekend’s opening, making $3.6 million and bringing its domestic total to $20.7 million. Worldwide, it has $45.8 million.
Return to Silent Hill opened outside the top 10 with $3.2 million. That’s down significantly from the previous two Silent Hill movies, with Silent Hill: Revelation, the previous movie, making $8 million when it opened in 2012. It’s one of the weakest openings, recently and likely all-time, for a movie based on a video game.
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring continued its special revival screenings, along with the other two movies in Peter Jackson’s iconic trilogy, and took eighth place with another $2 million.
The best per-theater average went to animated film Arco, which made $11,326 in each of the four theaters it played in over the weekend.
