Practical Magic 2 Opened at $30 Million. Spider-Man Is One Weekend From the Record

The witches took the weekend. The spider is one quiet Tuesday from the all-time domestic record. Those two sentences can live in the same paragraph because September 11-13 was that kind of chart.

ABC News, using Rentrak estimates, put Practical Magic 2 at $30 million from 4,146 theaters. Warner Bros. had been talking $30 million to $35 million. The film landed at the floor of its own range, on a reported $75 million production budget, and still knocked Spider-Man: Brand New Day out of first after six straight weekends on top.

We already wrote the opening-day record for Holland’s film. This is the hangover math, plus a sequel that did twice what the 1998 original did in its first three days.

$30 million is a win you can still argue with

Susanne Bier directed. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman came back. Nostalgia did the rest of the marketing. Erik Childress at Rotten Tomatoes put the original Practical Magic in context so the new number does not float. In 1998 the first film opened to $13.1 million, finished $46.6 million domestic, and about $68 million worldwide. $30 million in 2026 is more than double that opening. It is also, as ABC notes, the low end of what the studio said out loud.

I would not call that a miss. I also would not call it a phenomenon. A $75 million movie that opens at $30 million needs legs, or it needs a second weekend that does not fall off a cliff. Adult women showed up in a month the calendar usually reserves for holdovers and prestige. That is the story. The story is not that Warner Bros. found a new superhero.

The Associated Press gave the film two out of four stars. The review, as ABC summarized it, said the sequel drops some of the camp that helped the original find a second life, and that Bullock and Kidman’s chemistry is what holds. I am not going to decorate that. Two stars is two stars. Chemistry is not a multiplier on Monday morning.

Childress also notes how thin Bullock’s lead slate has been since The Blind Side in 2009. Gravity, The Heat, Ocean’s 8, The Lost City, and now this. Five films in the post-Oscar run if you count Gravity. She does not work like a franchise actress. When she does work, the opening still looks like a star opening. That is rarer than the internet pretends.

Spider-Man is not collapsing. He is collecting a record

ABC has Brand New Day at $8.4 million, down 54% from the prior weekend, with a domestic cume around $935.2 million. Star Wars: The Force Awakens sits at $936.6 million. The gap is about $1.4 million on that tally. Deadline had $935.1 million North America by the Sunday write-up and said the film should pass Force Awakens around Tuesday. Variety’s Friday note was already aiming at $8.5 million for the weekend and $935.27 million domestic.

Use whichever Sunday number you like. The distance to the record is a rounding error in superhero money. Losing first place after six weeks is not a failure. It is what six weeks looks like when a new wide title actually wants the multiplex.

Deadline’s global snapshot is the part that still looks like a juggernaut. $1.51 billion overseas. $2.452 billion worldwide. Third behind Avatar and Endgame. China $233 million, UK $132 million, Mexico $90.7 million, France $86.5 million, Brazil $76.7 million. A 54% domestic drop does not touch that list.

If you want the summer frame, it is already on this site. The Odyssey and Spider-Man carried 2026. This weekend is the same two titles, plus a witch movie that borrowed first place for three days.

The rest of the top ten

Rotten Tomatoes published the September 11-13 table off Box Office Mojo. ABC’s Rentrak list is close, not identical, on a couple of mid-chart titles. I am printing RT’s order and flagging the one split that matters.

Rank	Film	Weekend	Cume
1	Practical Magic 2	$30.0M	$30.0M
2	Spider-Man: Brand New Day	$8.4M	$935.1M
3	The Odyssey	$7.4M	$600.5M
4	Runner	$6.4M	$6.4M
5	Coyote vs. Acme	$6.2M	$47.78M
6	Buddy	$3.5M	$21.2M
7	Insidious: Out of the Further	$3.35M	$60.5M
8	Hope	$3.32M	$5.0M
9	The Uprising	$3.25M	$3.25M
10	By Any Means	$2.5M	$13.4M

ABC had Runner at $6.7 million and Odyssey at $7 million even. RT has Runner at $6.4 million and Odyssey at $7.4 million. Estimates move. I would not build a theory on $300,000.

Runner is the other new wide title people will pretend they predicted. Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson, soldier and less battle-ready partner, cartel chase. Variety had $2.5 million on Friday from 2,568 locations. A $6 million-and-change weekend from that footprint is fine for an original action movie that is not a sequel to anything with a theme park. It is not a new bar.

The Uprising is the prestige miss. Paul Greengrass, Andrew Garfield, Focus Features, a 14th-century plowman against Richard II. ABC: $3.25 million, ninth place. Variety Friday: $1.38 million from 2,068 screens. Historical action with a movie star used to be a November adult play. Putting it against a nostalgia sequel and a spider in week seven is how you finish ninth.

Odyssey is the other giant, and it is not done

Deadline’s overseas paragraph is the one to keep if you only have time for one. Universal’s The Odyssey did $34.4 million worldwide in its ninth weekend across 85 territories, $1.68 billion global. It beat Brand New Day worldwide for a second straight weekend ($27.4 million worldwide for the spider, $19 million of that overseas). Deadline says Nolan’s film is now the highest-grossing Universal theatrical release, overtaking Jurassic World.

Japan’s official opening was $4.1 million at 360 screens, including a week of Imax previews. Deadline calls the standard three-day Japan open well above Oppenheimer and more than double Dune: Part Two. Domestic ninth weekend: $7.4 million, down 43%, about $600 million in North America. Variety’s Friday split was $2.06 million, looking at $8.1 million Sunday in an earlier pass. Again, estimates move. The shape does not. Imax still props it. Adults still buy it. The spider can have the domestic record and still lose the weekend on the planet.

That split is why I keep these two films in the same sentence and refuse to mash them into one “blockbuster is back” slogan. One is a Marvel holdover hunting a 2015 Star Wars number. One is a Nolan epic that just took Universal’s house record and opened Japan like a new movie. Different audiences. Same multiplex, because that is how the building works.

Coyote vs. Acme is the $50 million watch

Ketchup Entertainment paid Warner Bros. a reported $50 million to pull Coyote vs. Acme out of the vault. Childress has been tracking the number that actually matters to the people who ran that protest: $50 million domestic to match the purchase price. After $6.2 million in weekend three, the film sits at $47.7 million, or $47.8 million if you prefer Variety’s Friday add. Childress thinks a similar drop gets it around $70 million. That would be a healthy finish for a Looney Tunes movie that had to be rescued from a write-down.

It is still not Spider-Man money. It does not have to be. If you donated outrage to this title in 2024 and 2025, the chart is now doing a quieter job than the petitions did. Two and a half million short of the purchase price with weeks left is a different article than “they buried it.”

I am not turning that into a morality play about conglomerates. I am saying the $50 million line is visible, and this weekend put the film on the doorstep.

What this weekend actually means

Practical Magic 2 can lead a September weekend and still be a movie that needs its second Friday. $30 million on 4,146 screens is a star opening, not a blank check. Watch the drop. If it holds in the 40s, Warner has a profit path on a $75 million budget plus prints. If it falls like a sequel nobody needed, the witches still won three days and the internet will forget the chart by Toronto’s leftovers.

Spider-Man will almost certainly take the domestic record this week. Deadline said Tuesday. ABC had him $1.4 million short on Monday’s final-ish numbers. Either way, the headline writes itself, and it will bury the witches. That is fine. The witches were never competing with $2.45 billion worldwide. They were competing with the version of September that only has holdovers.

Odyssey keeps printing. Japan just proved the movie still opens. Universal’s house record is a real trophy even if you personally bounced off the runtime.

Runner and The Uprising tell you the rest of the menu. Original action can still clear $6 million. A Greengrass period film cannot assume adults will show up because the director’s name used to mean United 93. Book the former. Ask harder questions about the latter.

I am not going to pretend a 1998 cult comedy sequel “saved” the year. I am going to say the multiplex had a human-sized number at number one, a record chase at number two, and a Nolan epic at number three that is still adding countries. That is a healthier page than six weeks of one title and a shrug.

One more number for the people who only read PTA. $30 million in 4,146 theaters is about $7,200 per site. That is a real opening for an adult sequel in mid-September. It is not a blank check, and it is not a bomb. The second weekend will tell you whether Kidman and Bullock still own Saturday night or whether the first crowd was just the people who still own the DVD. ABC already told you the studio’s own range. Believe the range, not the fan edits.