The clearest measure of how far Masters of the Universe has fallen in its second weekend is not its chart position but the gap between what it has earned and what it needs. ScreenRant, citing TheWrap’s Saturday-morning tracking, projects a three-day domestic total of about $8.8 million for the sophomore frame, a drop of roughly 70 percent from the opening weekend.
ScreenRant places the film’s reported production budget at $170 million or more and estimates its theatrical break-even point as high as $425 million. Through Thursday, Masters of the Universe had reached a cumulative worldwide gross of $62.7 million, leaving it likely to finish the weekend under $100 million and more than $325 million short of that break-even line.
A 70 percent second-weekend decline would tie the film with Warcraft, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and 2018’s Bad Samaritan for the 211th-largest domestic sophomore drop on record, per ScreenRant. The movie has slid from No. 2 on opening weekend, behind the R-rated Scary Movie, to No. 5, now trailing the new Steven Spielberg release Disclosure Day at No. 1, the fifth weekend of Obsession, Scary Movie, and the third weekend of Backrooms.
For context, the 1987 live-action He-Man grossed $17.3 million against a reported $22 million budget, a flop that the 2026 film has already out-grossed in nominal terms while operating at roughly eight times the cost. ScreenRant notes that the summer schedule ahead, including Toy Story 5 and Supergirl through the end of June and Minions & Monsters, the Moana remake, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day in July, gives the film little room to recover screens or audience.
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