The November 6-8 weekend is now fully confirmed on the domestic chart, and “Ramayana: Part 1” has kept adding huge numbers in India through the start of this week. Here’s the final tally from both sides of the globe.
Hollywood: Godzilla Minus Zero Confirmed the Weekend Winner
With Monday actuals now in, “Godzilla Minus Zero” closed its opening weekend at a confirmed $31.6 million domestic from 3,254 theaters, beating “The Cat in the Hat” at $20.5 million from 4,003 theaters — a bigger gap than most pre-weekend trackers projected. Our take: a subtitled Japanese monster movie outgrossing a major studio animated release by more than $11 million is a genuinely rare result, and it’s a strong signal that “Godzilla Minus One”‘s Oscar win built real crossover audience trust rather than just critical goodwill.
The Rest of the Confirmed Top Chart
Rounding out the weekend: “Drummer Boy” opened to a stronger-than-expected $9.3 million, “You Can See Everything” added $8.9 million in its fourth weekend to keep its remarkable run going, “Ramayana: Part 1” contributed $8.65 million from a limited 1,433 North American theaters (on top of its much larger India and international totals), “Wildwood” held with $7 million, “Clayface” added $6.7 million in its third weekend, and “Wild Horse Nine” opened to $6 million. Our take: “Ramayana” cracking the North American top 5 from just 1,433 theaters, a fraction of the screen count given to the weekend’s wide releases, says a lot about diaspora demand — its per-theater average comfortably outpaces everything else on this list.
Ramayana: Part 1 Keeps Climbing Through the Work Week
In India, “Ramayana: Part 1” hasn’t slowed down after its holiday-weekend opening. The film’s India net collection stood at roughly ₹346 crore through its first five days, with Day 6 (Tuesday) adding another strong number as advance bookings kept climbing — over 11 lakh tickets had already sold for the day by Monday night. Worth flagging: worldwide gross estimates for the film genuinely diverge between trade trackers right now, with figures ranging from roughly ₹500 crore to ₹660+ crore depending on the source’s international reporting methodology, so we’re not picking one as definitive until trackers converge — the India net figure above is the one with the clearest cross-source agreement.
What This Means for Both Trackers
We’ve updated both of our living box office trackers with this week’s confirmed numbers: Hollywood Box Office 2026 now reflects Godzilla Minus Zero and The Cat in the Hat’s final opening weekend totals instead of pre-weekend estimates, and Bollywood Box Office 2026 has Ramayana: Part 1’s latest confirmed India net figure. For our full take on the film itself, see our Ramayana: Part 1 review.
A Reminder on How We Verify These Numbers
Every figure in this roundup is cross-checked against at least two independent trade sources before it gets written up here — for the Hollywood chart, that means comparing studio-reported estimates against outlets like Box Office Mojo and The Numbers; for Ramayana’s India figures, that means checking Sacnilk against Bollywood Hungama and Pinkvilla. When those sources genuinely disagree by a wide margin, as they currently do on Ramayana’s exact worldwide total, we say so explicitly rather than averaging the numbers or picking whichever one sounds most impressive.
What’s Next
With the weekend now fully settled, attention shifts to whether “Godzilla Minus Zero” can hold its lead through a second weekend against two more new wide releases, and whether “Ramayana: Part 1” can sustain its current pace into a second weekend in India once the Diwali-holiday boost fades. Deadline’s box office desk will have final studio-reported numbers as the week continues.
Why This Weekend Matters for the Rest of November
Godzilla Minus Zero’s win is a useful data point heading into a crowded back half of November and a loaded December — it suggests audiences are still willing to turn out in real numbers for a genre release with strong word of mouth, even one that requires reading subtitles, rather than defaulting only to the biggest marketed franchise title on the marquee. That’s a meaningfully different signal than a studio tentpole simply outspending its way to a win. On the Bollywood side, Ramayana’s sustained daily numbers well past its opening weekend — rather than the sharp Monday drop-off that sinks most big openers once the holiday crowd thins out — is the stronger long-term signal than the opening weekend total itself, and it’s the number worth watching most closely as the film heads into its second weekend.
What won the box office weekend of November 6-8, 2026?
“Godzilla Minus Zero” won with a confirmed $31.6 million domestic, ahead of “The Cat in the Hat” at $20.5 million.
How much has Ramayana: Part 1 made through its first week?
The film’s India net collection reached roughly ₹346 crore through its first five days, with worldwide gross estimates varying by tracker between roughly ₹500-660 crore.
Did Ramayana: Part 1 chart on the North American box office?
Yes, it opened to $8.65 million from a limited 1,433 theaters in North America, cracking the weekend’s top 5 despite a far smaller theater count than the wide releases around it.
Looking ahead: see our weekend box office predictions for November 13-15, led by Johnny Depp’s “Ebenezer.”
