Despite competition from over half a dozen major titles at the domestic box office this weekend, Focus Features continued to reap the rewards of counter-programming the World War II drama thriller Pressure. Starring Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott, the movie debuted with $5.5 million last week, and managed to retain a spot on the domestic top 10 list in its sophomore frame. The leaderboard was topped by Paramount’s Scary Movie reboot, which debuted with a terrific $55 million. Meanwhile, last week’s record-breaking horror hit, Backrooms, slipped to the number three spot behind Masters of the Universe, which grossed just under $30 million. Pressure, on the other hand, held strong at number nine, despite having a lower theater count (around 1,800) of any movie above it on the list.
Pressure grossed $3 million in its second weekend, registering a 48% drop. It’s succeeding on the strength of solid reviews and an even more enthusiastic response from its core audience of older men. Pressure now holds a “Certified Fresh” 86% critics’ score and a “Verified Hot” 95% audience score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The site’s consensus reads, “Finding a fresh angle on one of the most dramatized days in military history, Pressure is a brainy war film that derives most of its thrills from Andrew Scott’s simmering performance.” Scott plays the British meteorologist who takes it upon himself to convince U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower to delay the Allied invasion of Europe by one day.
Here’s How Much ‘Pressure’ Has Grossed at the Box Office
Directed by Anthony Maras, who previously made the nail-biting siege thriller Hotel Mumbai, Pressure is the latest in a new line of World War II movies that provide solid comfort for their target audience and do stupendously well on home video. With $11 million in the bank, Pressure is poised to surpass the $14 million domestic haul of Nuremberg, starring Russell Crowe and Rami Malek. In 10 days, the movie has quadrupled the domestic box-office haul of the 2016 WWII film Anthropoid, starring Cillian Murphy as one of the real-life Czech soldiers who executed an assassination plot against a high-ranking Nazi official. You can watch Pressure in theaters, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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May 29, 2026
- Runtime
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90 Minutes
- Director
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Anthony Maras






















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