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2026 • PG • Animation / Family / Mystery • Amazon MGM

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Box office summary

Opening weekend

$15.10M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$66.10M

Week 10

Worldwide total

$133.12M

$67.00M international

Domestic legs4.4x

Budget$75M

2026 rank#23

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Cast & crew

Full Balda filmography

Kyle Balda

Kyle Balda Director

Hugh Jackman

Hugh Jackman Starring

Nicholas Galitzine

Nicholas Galitzine Starring

Molly Gordon

Molly Gordon Starring

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Starring

ScreenplayCraig Mazin · based on the work by Leonie Swann Produced byLindsay Doran, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner CinematographyGeorge Steel MusicChristophe Beck StudioAmazon MGM Studios

Predicted final domestic

How the model works

$61M–$73M

$57M $67M $89M

$66.10M so far

The prediction updated after the third weekend. Based on the weekend 2 and 3 drops and factoring in other movies with similar performance, the model predicts a final range of $61–$73 million. The wider range of $57–$89 million represents about 90% of outcomes after the third weekend. Learn more about how the prediction model works

$44M

Baseline

Banked through 3 weekends

66%

Earned by Wk 3

Typical for this drop profile

-20%

Weekend drops

-37% then -4%

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 May 8-10 (opening) 4 $15.1M — 3,457 $4,364 $15.1M

2 May 15-17 5 $9.6M −37% 3,454 $2,772 $29.9M

3 May 22-24 5 $9.2M −4% 3,207 $2,870 $43.7M

4 May 29-31 8 $4.7M −49% 2,810 $1,671 $54.6M

5 June 5-7 11 $2.3M −51% 1,757 $1,297 $59.5M

6 June 12-14 13 $1.4M −37% 1,420 $1,014 $62.4M

7 June 19-21 13 $1.1M −25% 520 $2,067 $64.6M

8 June 26-28 15 $507.6K −53% 286 $1,775 $65.6M

9 Jul 3-5 - $149.8K −70% 160 $936 $65.9M

10 Jul 10-12 - $60.6K −60% 85 $713 $66.0M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Thu May 7 (p) #3 $1.0M — $1.0M — — 0

Fri May 8 #5 $4.0M — $4.0M 3,457 $1,160 1

Sat May 9 #4 $5.2M +29% $9.2M 3,457 $1,500 2

Sun May 10 #4 $5.9M +14% $15.1M 3,457 $1,704 3

Mon May 11 #4 $1.1M −81% $16.2M 3,457 $322 4

Tue May 12 #4 $1.8M +66% $18.0M 3,457 $534 5

Wed May 13 #4 $1.2M −36% $19.2M 3,457 $341 6

Thu May 14 #4 $1.1M −5% $20.3M 3,457 $322 7

Fri May 15 #5 $2.5M +120% −39% $22.8M 3,454 $710 8

Sat May 16 #5 $4.0M +64% −22% $26.8M 3,454 $1,166 9

Sun May 17 #5 $3.1M −23% −47% $29.9M 3,454 $896 10

Mon May 18 #5 $1.1M −63% +3% $31.1M 3,454 $331 11

Tue May 19 #3 $1.6M +36% −16% $32.6M 3,454 $449 12

Wed May 20 #3 $987.2K −36% −16% $33.6M 3,454 $286 13

Thu May 21 #4 $938.8K −5% −16% $34.5M 3,454 $272 14

Fri May 22 #6 $2.1M +124% −14% $36.6M 3,207 $656 15

Sat May 23 #5 $3.6M +73% −10% $40.3M 3,207 $1,135 16

Sun May 24 #5 $3.5M −5% +12% $43.7M 3,207 $1,078 17

Mon May 25 #5 $3.1M −10% +171% $46.8M 3,207 $968 18

Tue May 26 #5 $1.3M −59% −17% $48.1M 3,207 $399 19

Wed May 27 #5 $1.0M −19% +5% $49.2M 3,207 $322 20

Thu May 28 #5 $746.8K −28% −20% $49.9M 3,207 $233 21

Fri May 29 #8 $1.3M +75% −38% $51.2M 2,810 $466 22

Sat May 30 #7 $2.0M +50% −46% $53.2M 2,810 $699 23

Sun May 31 #7 $1.4M −28% −59% $54.6M 2,810 $506 24

Mon Jun 1 #7 $579.2K −59% −81% $55.2M 2,810 $206 25

Tue Jun 2 #7 $908.8K +57% −29% $56.1M 2,810 $323 26

Wed Jun 3 #6 $668.3K −26% −35% $56.8M 2,810 $238 27

Thu Jun 4 #6 $423.0K −37% −43% $57.2M 2,810 $151 28

Fri Jun 5 #11 $625.7K +48% −52% $57.8M 1,757 $356 29

Sat Jun 6 #11 $920.5K +47% −53% $58.7M 1,757 $523 30

Sun Jun 7 #11 $733.2K −20% −48% $59.5M 1,757 $417 31

Mon Jun 8 #10 $332.8K −55% −43% $59.8M 1,757 $189 32

Tue Jun 9 #10 $488.6K +47% −46% $60.3M 1,757 $278 33

Wed Jun 10 #10 $374.4K −23% −44% $60.7M 1,757 $213 34

Thu Jun 11 #7 $322.3K −14% −24% $61.0M 1,757 $183 35

Fri Jun 12 #12 $425.7K +32% −32% $61.4M 1,420 $300 36

Sat Jun 13 #13 $502.0K +18% −45% $61.9M 1,420 $354 37

Sun Jun 14 #10 $511.7K +2% −30% $62.4M 1,420 $360 38

Mon Jun 15 #9 $229.5K −55% −31% $62.6M 1,420 $162 39

Tue Jun 16 #7 $352.0K +53% −28% $63.0M 1,420 $248 40

Wed Jun 17 #7 $313.4K −11% −16% $63.3M 1,420 $221 41

Thu Jun 18 #9 $223.8K −29% −31% $63.5M 1,420 $158 42

Fri Jun 19 #12 $405.6K +81% −5% $63.9M 520 $780 43

Sat Jun 20 #11 $423.5K +4% −16% $64.4M 520 $814 44

Sun Jun 21 #13 $245.9K −42% −52% $64.6M 520 $473 45

Mon Jun 22 #11 $96.6K −61% −58% $64.7M 520 $186 46

Tue Jun 23 #11 $142.4K +47% −60% $64.8M 520 $274 47

Wed Jun 24 #11 $101.9K −28% −67% $64.9M 520 $196 48

Thu Jun 25 #11 $102.2K +0% −54% $65.1M 520 $197 49

Fri Jun 26 #14 $187.1K +83% −54% $65.2M 286 $654 50

Sat Jun 27 #15 $215.4K +15% −49% $65.5M 286 $753 51

Sun Jun 28 #15 $105.1K −51% −57% $65.6M 286 $368 52

Mon Jun 29 #13 $43.9K −58% −55% $65.6M 286 $154 53

Tue Jun 30 #12 $75.8K +73% −47% $65.7M 286 $265 54

Wed Jul 1 #17 $36.5K −52% −64% $65.7M 286 $128 55

Thu Jul 2 #17 $40.2K 10% −61% $65.8M 286 $140 56

Fri Jul 3 #16 $63.3K +58% −66% $65.8M 160 $395 57

Sat Jul 4 #16 $45.2K −29% −79% $65.9M 160 $282 58

Sun Jul 5 #16 $41.3K −9% −61% $65.9M 160 $258 59

Mon Jul 6 #14 $15.9K −61% −64% $65.9M 160 $100 60

Tue Jul 7 #14 $23.9K +50% −68% $65.9M 160 $149 61

Wed Jul 8 #13 $17.0K −29% −53% $66.0M 160 $106 62

Thu Jul 9 #13 $19.4K +14% −52% $66.0M 160 $121 63

Fri Jul 10 #20 $19.7K +1% −69% $66.0M 85 $232 64

Sat Jul 11 #20 $21.2K +8% −53% $66.0M 85 $249 65

Sun Jul 12 #19 $19.8K −7% −52% $66.0M 85 $232 66

Mon Jul 13 #16 $8.5K −57% −47% $66.1M 85 $100 67

Tue Jul 14 #16 $8.7K +2% −64% $66.1M 85 $102 68

Wed Jul 15 #16 $9.5K +10% −44% $66.1M 85 $112 69

Cumulative total$66.1M

May 7May 24Jun 11Jun 28Jul 15

Weekend grossWk 10 · $60.6K

$15.1M

$9.6M

$9.2M

$4.7M

$2.3M

$1.4M

$1.1M

$507.6K

$149.8K

$60.6K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,457 → 85 −97.5%

3,457 open85 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −60%

−37%

W1→2

−4%

W2→3

−49%

W3→4

−51%

W4→5

−37%

W5→6

−25%

W6→7

−53%

W7→8

−70%

W8→9

−60%

W9→10

Steepest −70%Best hold −4%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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