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2025 • PG • 91 min • Animation, Comedy, Family • Paramount Pictures

The legend continues

🍅 79% 68%

65

2.48

5.7

CS A

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$15.60M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$71.10M

Final

Worldwide total

$168.00M

Global total

Budget$64M

Domestic legs4.6x

2025 rank#32

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Cast & crew

Tom Kenny

Tom Kenny Starring

Clancy Brown

Clancy Brown Starring

Bill Fagerbakke

Bill Fagerbakke Starring

ScreenplayPam Brady, Matt Lieberman Produced byMarc Ceccarelli, Kaz CinematographyNot specified MusicNot specified Prod. DesignNot specified SeriesSpongeBob

Predicted final domestic

How the model works

$66M–$72M

$60M $69M $78M

$71.10M so far

The prediction model updated after a -29% second-weekend drop. The wider range of $60M–$78M accounts for 90% of films. Learn more about how the prediction model works

$47M

Baseline

Animation Original — 3.00 baseline opening

0%

CinemaScore

A: Animation avg is A

-4%

Audience

Below Avg — RT 68%, LB 2.48, IMDB 5.7

+31%

Seasonality

Christmas

0%

Release Day

Friday (standard)

+2%

2nd Weekend

-29% drop

+10%

Genre

Animation Original legs

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Dec 19-21 4 $15.6M — 3,557 $4,388 $15.6M

2 Dec 26-28 7 $11.1M −28.9% 3,570 $3,110 $38.1M

3 Jan 2-4 6 $8.3M −25.2% 3,217 $2,581 $57.7M

4 Jan 9-11 8 $3.9M −53.4% 2,567 $1,508 $63.7M

5 Jan 16-18 10 $2.4M −38.4% 1,939 $1,229 $67.2M

6 Jan 23-25 16 $903.3K −62.1% 1,416 $637 $69.5M

7 Jan 30-Feb 1 16 $606.0K −32.9% 802 $755 $70.5M

8 Feb 6-8 22 $242.5K −60% 453 $535 $70.9M

9 Feb 13-15 36 $47.7K −80.3% 113 $422 $71.0M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Dec 19 #4 $6.0M — $6.0M 3,557 $1,688 1

Sat Dec 20 #5 $5.3M −12% $11.3M 3,557 $1,491 2

Sun Dec 21 #5 $4.3M −19% $15.6M 3,557 $1,210 3

Mon Dec 22 #5 $2.8M −34% $18.4M 3,557 $794 4

Tue Dec 23 #5 $3.5M +25% $22.0M 3,557 $995 5

Wed Dec 24 #5 $1.8M −50% $23.8M 3,557 $502 6

Thu Dec 25 #8 $3.2M +81% $27.0M 3,557 $906 7

Fri Dec 26 #7 $3.9M +20% −36% $30.9M 3,570 $1,084 8

Sat Dec 27 #7 $4.0M +3% −25% $34.8M 3,570 $1,119 9

Sun Dec 28 #7 $3.2M −19% −25% $38.1M 3,570 $908 10

Mon Dec 29 #6 $2.7M −18% −6% $40.7M 3,570 $742 11

Tue Dec 30 #6 $3.6M +37% +2% $44.4M 3,570 $1,014 12

Wed Dec 31 #8 $2.0M −45% +11% $46.3M 3,570 $554 13

Thu Jan 1 #7 $3.1M +57% −4% $49.4M 3,570 $869 14

Fri Jan 2 #6 $3.1M −2% −21% $52.5M 3,217 $949 15

Sat Jan 3 #6 $3.2M +5% −20% $55.7M 3,217 $1,000 16

Sun Jan 4 #6 $2.0M −37% −37% $57.7M 3,217 $633 17

Mon Jan 5 #7 $740.7K −64% −72% $58.5M 3,217 $230 18

Tue Jan 6 #8 $651.1K −12% −82% $59.1M 3,217 $202 19

Wed Jan 7 #8 $379.9K −42% −81% $59.5M 3,217 $118 20

Thu Jan 8 #8 $311.0K −18% −90% $59.8M 3,217 $97 21

Fri Jan 9 #10 $780.9K +151% −74% $60.6M 2,567 $304 22

Sat Jan 10 #8 $1.9M +145% −41% $62.5M 2,567 $745 23

Sun Jan 11 #8 $1.2M −38% −42% $63.7M 2,567 $459 24

Mon Jan 12 #9 $241.7K −80% −67% $63.9M 2,567 $94 25

Tue Jan 13 #9 $398.1K +65% −39% $64.3M 2,567 $155 26

Wed Jan 14 #9 $264.5K −34% −30% $64.6M 2,567 $103 27

Thu Jan 15 #9 $210.5K −20% −32% $64.8M 2,567 $82 28

Fri Jan 16 #12 $441.2K +110% −43% $65.3M 1,939 $228 29

Sat Jan 17 #10 $1.0M +135% −46% $66.3M 1,939 $536 30

Sun Jan 18 #10 $904.9K −13% −23% $67.2M 1,939 $467 31

Mon Jan 19 #6 $1.0M +15% +330% $68.2M 1,939 $536 32

Tue Jan 20 #13 $192.7K −81% −52% $68.4M 1,939 $99 33

Wed Jan 21 #14 $107.0K −44% −60% $68.5M 1,939 $55 34

Thu Jan 22 #14 $84.0K −22% −60% $68.6M 1,939 $43 35

Fri Jan 23 #17 $211.5K +152% −52% $68.8M 1,416 $149 36

Sat Jan 24 #12 $477.5K +126% −54% $69.3M 1,416 $337 37

Sun Jan 25 #14 $214.3K −55% −76% $69.5M 1,416 $151 38

Mon Jan 26 #15 $91.0K −58% −91% $69.6M 1,416 $64 39

Tue Jan 27 #15 $129.1K +42% −33% $69.7M 1,416 $91 40

Wed Jan 28 #15 $97.6K −24% −9% $69.8M 1,416 $69 41

Thu Jan 29 #12 $88.2K −10% +5% $69.9M 1,416 $62 42

Fri Jan 30 #20 $111.9K +27% −47% $70.0M 802 $140 43

Sat Jan 31 #15 $278.1K +149% −42% $70.3M 802 $347 44

Sun Feb 1 #15 $216.0K −22% +1% $70.5M 802 $269 45

Mon Feb 2 #21 $33.3K −85% −63% $70.6M 802 $42 46

Tue Feb 3 #22 $43.6K +31% −66% $70.6M 802 $54 47

Wed Feb 4 #23 $30.1K −31% −69% $70.6M 802 $37 48

Thu Feb 5 #19 $29.5K −2% −67% $70.7M 802 $37 49

Fri Feb 6 #28 $43.8K +49% −61% $70.7M 453 $97 50

Sat Feb 7 #21 $126.8K +189% −54% $70.8M 453 $280 51

Sun Feb 8 #20 $71.9K −43% −67% $70.9M 453 $159 52

Mon Feb 9 #28 $16.7K −77% −50% $70.9M 453 $37 53

Tue Feb 10 #27 $22.8K +36% −48% $71.0M 453 $50 54

Wed Feb 11 #30 $16.5K −28% −45% $71.0M 453 $36 55

Thu Feb 12 #30 $8.9K −46% −70% $71.0M 453 $20 56

Fri Feb 13 #40 $6.9K −22% −84% $71.0M 113 $61 57

Sat Feb 14 #32 $23.6K +240% −81% $71.0M 113 $209 58

Sun Feb 15 #33 $17.2K −27% −76% $71.0M 113 $152 59

Mon Feb 16 #30 $19.0K +10% +13% $71.1M 113 $168 60

Tue Feb 17 #34 $5.8K −69% −74% $71.1M 113 $52 61

Wed Feb 18 #33 $6.5K +11% −61% $71.1M 113 $57 62

Thu Feb 19 #36 $4.2K −34% −52% $71.1M 113 $38 63

Cumulative total$71.1M

Dec 19Jan 4Jan 19Feb 4Feb 19

Weekend grossWk 9 · $47.7K

$15.6M

$11.1M

$8.3M

$3.9M

$2.4M

$903.3K

$606.0K

$242.5K

$47.7K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9

Theater countPeak 3,570 → 113 −96.8%

3,557 open113 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 9 · −80.3%

−28.9%

W1→2

−25.2%

W2→3

−53.4%

W3→4

−38.4%

W4→5

−62.1%

W5→6

−32.9%

W6→7

−60%

W7→8

−80.3%

W8→9

Steepest −80.3%Best hold −25.2%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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