Michael backdrop

Michael movie poster

MichaelFollow

2026 • PG-13 • 2h 10m • Biography, Drama, Music • Lionsgate

🍅 38% 97%

39

3.60

7.6

CS A-

Users 3.0 (12)

Box office summary

Opening Weekend

$97.20M

3-day opening

Domestic Total

$372.30M

Week 13

Worldwide Total

$1.02B

$649.10M international

Domestic Legs3.8x

Budget$170M

2026 Rank#5

Compare with other movies

Cast & Crew

Full Fuqua filmography

Antoine Fuqua Director

Colman Domingo Starring

Nia Long Starring

Miles Teller Starring

ScreenplayJohn Logan Produced byGraham King, John Branca, John McClain CinematographyDion Beebe StudioLionsgate

Predicted final domestic

How the model works

$340M–$363M

↑ $8M

$340M $340M $392M

$372.30M so far

The prediction updated after the third weekend. Based on the weekend 2 and 3 drops and factoring in other movies with similar performance, the model predicts a final range of $340–$363 million. The wider range of $340–$392 million represents about 90% of outcomes after the third weekend. Learn more about how the prediction model works

$242M

Baseline

Banked through 3 weekends

71%

Earned by Wk 3

Typical for this drop profile

-37%

Weekend drops

-44% then -30%

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Apr 24-26 1 $97.2M — 3,955 $24,578 $97.2M

2 May 1-3 2 $54.4M −44% 3,955 $13,756 $184.2M

3 May 8-10 3 $37.9M −30% 3,550 $10,677 $241.9M

4 May 15-17 1 $26.1M −31% 3,560 $7,343 $282.8M

5 May 22-24 3 $20.6M −21% 3,306 $6,238 $314.8M

6 May 29-31 4 $11.9M −42% 3,118 $3,805 $340.1M

7 June 5-7 7 $7.6M −36% 2,636 $2,896 $354.2M

8 June 12-14 7 $4.2M −45% 2,256 $1,868 $362.8M

9 June 19-21 10 $2.2M −49% 1,434 $1,504 $367.9M

10 June 26-28 12 $902.9K −58% 711 $1,270 $370.2M

11 Jul 3-5 - $492.0K −46% 400 $1,230 $371.3M

12 Jul 10-12 - $260.5K −47% 270 $965 $371.9M

13 Jul 17-19 14 $142.7K −45% 165 $865 $372.2M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Thu Apr 23 $12.6M — $12.6M 3,900 $3,231 0

Fri Apr 24 #1 $39.3M — $39.3M 3,955 $9,934 1

Sat Apr 25 #1 $32.5M −17% $71.8M 3,955 $8,208 2

Sun Apr 26 #1 $25.5M −22% $97.2M 3,955 $6,435 3

Mon Apr 27 #1 $7.7M −70% $104.9M 3,955 $1,939 4

Tue Apr 28 #1 $11.1M +45% $116.0M 3,955 $2,809 5

Wed Apr 29 #1 $7.2M −35% $123.2M 3,955 $1,831 6

Thu Apr 30 #1 $6.6M −9% $129.8M 3,955 $1,663 7

Fri May 1 #2 $14.3M +117% −64% $144.1M 3,955 $3,603 8

Sat May 2 #2 $22.9M +61% −29% $167.0M 3,955 $5,802 9

Sun May 3 #2 $17.2M −25% −32% $184.2M 3,955 $4,351 10

Mon May 4 #2 $4.6M −73% −40% $188.8M 3,955 $1,157 11

Tue May 5 #2 $6.4M +40% −42% $195.2M 3,955 $1,619 12

Wed May 6 #2 $4.7M −26% −35% $199.9M 3,955 $1,199 13

Thu May 7 #2 $4.1M −14% −38% $204.0M 3,955 $1,027 14

Fri May 8 #3 $8.8M +117% −38% $212.8M 3,550 $2,478 15

Sat May 9 #2 $14.4M +64% −37% $227.2M 3,550 $4,068 16

Sun May 10 #2 $14.7M +2% −15% $241.9M 3,550 $4,132 17

Mon May 11 #1 $3.6M −76% −22% $245.5M 3,550 $1,007 18

Tue May 12 #2 $4.7M +32% −26% $250.2M 3,550 $1,331 19

Wed May 13 #1 $3.3M −30% −30% $253.5M 3,550 $937 20

Thu May 14 #1 $3.2M −5% −22% $256.7M 3,550 $888 21

Fri May 15 #1 $7.0M +122% −20% $263.7M 3,560 $1,967 22

Sat May 16 #1 $10.9M +55% −25% $274.5M 3,560 $3,053 23

Sun May 17 #1 $8.3M −24% −44% $282.8M 3,560 $2,322 24

Mon May 18 #2 $2.8M −66% −22% $285.6M 3,560 $780 25

Tue May 19 #2 $3.6M +31% −23% $289.2M 3,560 $1,019 26

Wed May 20 #2 $2.6M −29% −22% $291.8M 3,560 $728 27

Thu May 21 #2 $2.4M −7% −24% $294.2M 3,560 $674 28

Fri May 22 #3 $5.0M +110% −28% $299.2M 3,306 $1,522 29

Sat May 23 #3 $7.9M +56% −28% $307.1M 3,306 $2,379 30

Sun May 24 #3 $7.7M −2% −7% $314.8M 3,306 $2,337 31

Mon May 25 #3 $6.5M −16% +133% $321.3M 3,306 $1,958 32

Tue May 26 #3 $2.8M −57% −24% $324.1M 3,306 $839 33

Wed May 27 #3 $2.3M −18% −12% $326.4M 3,306 $688 34

Thu May 28 #3 $1.8M −19% −23% $328.2M 3,306 $558 35

Fri May 29 #4 $3.3M +81% −34% $331.5M 3,118 $1,071 36

Sat May 30 #4 $4.8M +43% −39% $336.3M 3,118 $1,527 37

Sun May 31 #4 $3.8M −21% −51% $340.1M 3,118 $1,207 38

Mon Jun 1 #4 $1.6M −58% −76% $341.6M 3,118 $505 39

Tue Jun 2 #4 $2.1M +33% −25% $343.7M 3,118 $670 40

Wed Jun 3 #4 $1.6M −25% −31% $345.3M 3,118 $505 41

Thu Jun 4 #4 $1.3M −19% −31% $346.6M 3,118 $409 42

Fri Jun 5 #7 $2.1M +68% −36% $348.7M 2,636 $814 43

Sat Jun 6 #7 $3.1M +44% −35% $351.8M 2,636 $1,172 44

Sun Jun 7 #7 $2.4M −23% −36% $354.2M 2,636 $908 45

Mon Jun 8 #6 $1.0M −56% −33% $355.3M 2,636 $398 46

Tue Jun 9 #6 $1.4M +38% −31% $356.7M 2,636 $549 47

Wed Jun 10 #5 $1.0M −28% −33% $357.8M 2,636 $397 48

Thu Jun 11 #5 $870.3K −17% −32% $358.6M 2,636 $330 49

Fri Jun 12 #8 $1.3M +50% −39% $359.9M 2,256 $577 50

Sat Jun 13 #8 $1.6M +20% −49% $361.5M 2,256 $694 51

Sun Jun 14 #7 $1.3M −14% −44% $362.8M 2,256 $598 52

Mon Jun 15 #5 $656.1K −51% −37% $363.5M 2,256 $291 53

Tue Jun 16 #5 $968.8K +48% −33% $364.5M 2,256 $429 54

Wed Jun 17 #5 $756.3K −22% −28% $365.2M 2,256 $335 55

Thu Jun 18 #3 $502.0K −34% −42% $365.7M 2,256 $223 56

Fri Jun 19 #11 $614.5K +22% −53% $366.3M 1,434 $429 57

Sat Jun 20 #9 $800.1K +30% −49% $367.1M 1,434 $558 58

Sun Jun 21 #9 $742.2K −7% −45% $367.9M 1,434 $518 59

Mon Jun 22 #8 $347.6K −53% −47% $368.2M 1,434 $242 60

Tue Jun 23 #8 $461.4K +33% −52% $368.7M 1,434 $322 61

Wed Jun 24 #8 $350.2K −24% −54% $369.0M 1,434 $244 62

Thu Jun 25 #9 $259.1K −26% −48% $369.3M 1,434 $181 63

Fri Jun 26 #13 $271.0K +5% −56% $369.6M 711 $381 64

Sat Jun 27 #12 $349.4K +29% −56% $369.9M 711 $491 65

Sun Jun 28 #12 $282.6K −19% −62% $370.2M 711 $397 66

Mon Jun 29 #10 $149.9K −47% −57% $370.4M 711 $211 67

Tue Jun 30 #10 $228.0K +52% −51% $370.6M 711 $321 68

Wed Jul 1 #12 $99.2K −56% −72% $370.7M 489 $203 69

Thu Jul 2 #12 $117.0K 18% −55% $370.8M 489 $239 70

Fri Jul 3 #13 $199.4K +70% −26% $371.0M 400 $498 71

Sat Jul 4 #13 $154.7K −22% −56% $371.2M 400 $387 72

Sun Jul 5 #13 $137.9K −11% −51% $371.3M 400 $345 73

Mon Jul 6 #11 $73.8K −46% −51% $371.4M 400 $185 74

Tue Jul 7 #10 $103.1K +40% −55% $371.5M 400 $258 75

Wed Jul 8 #- $80.9K −22% −18% $371.6M 400 $202 76

Thu Jul 9 #11 $52.2K −36% −55% $371.6M 400 $130 77

Fri Jul 10 #14 $74.0K +42% −63% $371.7M 270 $274 78

Sat Jul 11 #14 $98.5K +33% −36% $371.8M 270 $365 79

Sun Jul 12 #15 $88.0K −11% −36% $371.9M 270 $326 80

Mon Jul 13 #12 $45.4K −48% −39% $371.9M 270 $168 81

Tue Jul 14 #12 $60.1K +32% −42% $372.0M 270 $222 82

Wed Jul 15 #12 $45.4K −24% −44% $372.0M 270 $168 83

Thu Jul 16 #14 $39.8K −13% −24% $372.1M 270 $147 84

Fri Jul 17 #14 $43.4K +9% −41% $372.1M 165 $263 85

Sat Jul 18 #14 $61.8K +42% −37% $372.2M 165 $375 86

Sun Jul 19 #14 $37.5K −39% −57% $372.2M 165 $227 87

Mon Jul 20 #13 $22.8K −39% −50% $372.2M 165 $138 88

Tue Jul 21 #11 $35.1K +53% −42% $372.3M 165 $212 89

Wed Jul 22 #10 $26.9K −23% −41% $372.3M 165 $163 90

Thu Jul 23 #15 $20.1K −25% −49% $372.3M 165 $122 91

Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record

Cumulative total$370.8M

Apr 23May 11May 28Jun 15Jul 2

Weekend grossWk 10 · $902.9K

$97.2M

$54.4M

$37.9M

$26.1M

$20.6M

$11.9M

$7.6M

$4.2M

$2.2M

$902.9K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,955 → 489 −87.6%

3,900 open489 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −58%

−44%

W1→2

−30%

W2→3

−31%

W3→4

−21%

W4→5

−42%

W5→6

−36%

W6→7

−45%

W7→8

−49%

W8→9

−58%

W9→10

Steepest −58%Best hold −21%

Run milestones

$300M in 30 days

$100M

Day 4

Apr 27

$200M

Day 14

May 7

$300M

Day 30

May 23

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

Records held

All records →

#9 Biggest April openingsAll-time $97.2M #14 Biggest 5th weekendsAll-time $20.6M #20 Longest runs of $1M+ daysAll-time 49 days

From the analysis desk

Ordered by how prominently this film features · all articles

Mentioned Week 17: Michael swings for the music-biopic record as Mario falls to #2Week 17 · Preview · Apr 22, 2026 → Mentioned Week 18: The Devil Wears Prada 2 locks #1 as Michael faces its first hold testWeek 18 · Preview · Apr 29, 2026 → Mentioned Week 19: Mortal Kombat II challenges DWP2 for #1 as PHM passes OppenheimerWeek 19 · Preview · May 7, 2026 → Mentioned Week 20: Michael back on top; Obsession's $16.1M opening shatters trackingWeek 20 · Preview · May 17, 2026 → Mentioned Week 21: Star Wars returns as The Mandalorian & Grogu eyes a soft Memorial Day bowWeek 21 · Preview · May 24, 2026 →

Similar movies

A Complete Unknown 2024 · Mangold $75M The Magnificent Seven 2016 · Fuqua $93.4M The Guilty 2021 · Fuqua Bob Marley: One Love 2024 · Green $97M Rocketman 2019 · Fletcher $96.4M I Can Only Imagine 2018 · Erwin $83.5M

Box office comparisons

Build your own comparison →

Box Office Comparison Michael vs Bohemian Rhapsody vs Straight Outta Compton vs Elvis Can Michael topple the music biopic opening-weekend record set by Straight Outta Compton — and match Bohemian Rhapsody's

Box Office Comparison Michael vs Project Hail Mary Side-by-side daily and weekend comparison of Michael (2026) and Project Hail Mary (2026) — two of the year\'s biggest hi

Box Office Comparison The Odyssey vs Michael vs Project Hail Mary 2026's $300M+ hits compared: The Odyssey against Michael and Project Hail Mary, from opening weekend to final domestic t