#1 Domestic Box Office — Weekend of September 18, 2026

The weekend of September 18, 2026 is headlined by Sony/Columbia's "Resident Evil" reboot, directed by Zach Cregger ("Barbarian," "Weapons") and starring Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Paul Walter Hauser. Pre-release tracking shows the highest awareness and interest scores of any 2026 release to date, with projections of $40-50M — which would shatter the video-game franchise's prior domestic opening record of $26.65M. It expands to IMAX a day early on September 17. Holdovers "Practical Magic 2" (second weekend) and "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" (eighth weekend) continue in wide release, while GKIDS/Aardman's stop-motion "Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom" opens in a platform/limited release as the weekend's family-audience counterprogramming. This event asks which film will have the #1 domestic box office for the weekend of September 18, 2026.

Settles based on the #1-ranked film by domestic (U.S./Canada) box office gross for the weekend of September 18-20, 2026, as reported by Box Office Mojo using Comscore data. If a film not listed as a named outcome ranks #1, "Any Other Film" settles YES.