The Fall 2026 Movies Quiz: Six Questions

Movie theaters had a strange and loud September. A zombie reboot rewrote the record books for video game movies, a witchy sequel ended a twenty-eight-year wait, a Japanese cartoon phenomenon outran a famous detective, and a coyote finally got his day in court. This fall 2026 movies quiz turns six of the season's biggest film stories into questions.

The format matches the earlier rounds. Read each question, settle on an answer in your head, then read the section for the reveal. Every answer sits at the end of its section, so commit before you scroll. Keep a running tally and check the score breakdown at the bottom.

Question one: who directed the Resident Evil reboot that set a box office record?

Zach Cregger. His new take on the survival horror franchise opened to an estimated sixty million dollars in North America and one hundred eight million globally, the best debut the series has managed in its twenty-four-year movie history. Rotten Tomatoes' editorial team reported that the opening also made it the biggest debut ever for an R-rated video game adaptation, a crown previously held by Resident Evil: Afterlife for sixteen years. TheWrap noted the film earned a B+ CinemaScore alongside a ninety-six percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, with international markets adding forty-eight million dollars to the total. The film cost about seventy-five million dollars to produce, making it the most expensive entry in the franchise, and it arrives as the follow-up to Cregger's Oscar-winning horror film Weapons from last year. Answer: Zach Cregger.

Question two: how many years passed between the original Practical Magic and its sequel?

Twenty-eight years. Practical Magic 2 opened with thirty million dollars across four thousand one hundred forty-six theaters, ending Spider-Man: Brand New Day's six-week run at the top of the box office, according to Media News Journal. The sequel brings back Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as the Owens sisters under director Susanne Bier, adapted from Alice Hoffman's novel The Book of Magic. Warner Bros. produced it for a reported seventy-five million dollars, and audiences gave it a B+ CinemaScore plus a ninety-three percent Popcornmeter rating even as critics stayed cooler, with the Tomatometer landing in the thirties. For context on the web-slinger it dethroned, see GenZNewZ's report on Spider-Man: Brand New Day breaking the all-time domestic box office record. Answer: twenty-eight years.

Question three: which studio's all-time box office record did The Odyssey break?

Universal Pictures. Christopher Nolan's epic added seven point four million dollars in its ninth weekend, pushing its domestic total just past six hundred million dollars. Media News Journal reported that the milestone made The Odyssey the highest-grossing film in Universal Pictures' history. The film spent weeks trading places with the summer's biggest titles and kept drawing crowds long after most blockbusters fade. Answer: Universal Pictures.

Question four: which anime franchise did the Chiikawa movie pass in Japan?

Detective Conan. The first Chiikawa feature film reached nine point six million tickets sold and thirteen point nine billion yen at the Japanese box office, passing Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway and its thirteen point seven billion yen haul, according to AnimeNagi. That result made the film Japan's biggest theatrical hit of the year so far and lifted it to twenty-third place on the country's all-time box office ranking. Directed by Kei Oikawa at CygamesPictures, the movie adapts the manga's popular Siren arc, in which Chiikawa, Hachiware and their friends follow a suspicious invitation to a mysterious island. It opened on July twenty-fourth and kept climbing for weeks against competition from Spider-Man and Toy Story. Answer: Detective Conan.

Question five: how much did Ketchup Entertainment pay for Coyote vs. Acme?

Fifty million dollars. Warner Bros. had shelved the finished live-action and animation hybrid in November of twenty twenty-three, planning to take a reported thirty million dollar tax write-off rather than release it. After public backlash from filmmakers who had seen the film, the studio backed off and shopped it instead, and Ketchup Entertainment closed the deal last year, according to a report from Clownfish TV citing Cartoon Brew. The Dave Green-directed film, with John Cena, Will Forte and Lana Condor in the story of Wile E. Coyote suing the Acme Corporation, opened on August twenty-eighth and crossed one hundred million dollars worldwide on September twenty-second, with a ninety-six percent score on Rotten Tomatoes and a digital release set for September twenty-ninth. Answer: fifty million dollars.

Question six: what did Hasbro call its Transformers anniversary campaign?

"The Apology Tour." The remastered edition of the nineteen eighty-six animated classic The Transformers: The Movie opened on September seventeenth, known as Transformers Day, at one thousand four hundred fifty-four North American locations. Fathom Entertainment reported that it earned three point one million dollars over the weekend, landing at number seven on the domestic chart and passing five million dollars worldwide, which prompted hundreds of theaters to extend screenings through October seventh. Hasbro dubbed its yearlong anniversary celebration "The Apology Tour," a nod to the shocking death of Optimus Prime twenty-six minutes into the original film. The run also serves as a tribute to Peter Cullen, the longtime voice of Optimus Prime, who died in August at eighty-five; his final performance appears in the twelve-minute short Optimus Prime: Awakening, which plays exclusively after the feature. Answer: "The Apology Tour."

Score yourself

Six out of six on this quiz means you have been reading more box office reports than sleeping, and the group chat should start coming to you. Four or five right is a strong week of paying attention. Two or three suggests the trailers blurred together, which is fair for a season this crowded. Zero or one means the algorithm won this week, and the rematch options are the first September 2026 news quiz and the late September edition.