{"id":647215,"date":"2026-10-31T20:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T20:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647215\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T20:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T20:38:11","slug":"wildwood-adds-screens-passes-20m-at-the-domestic-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647215\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wildwood\u2019 Adds Screens, Passes $20M At The Domestic Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laika\u2019s Wildwood <\/a>has passed $20 million in North America after eight days, with distributor Fathom Entertainment projecting a $7\u20138 million second weekend. That would push its total past $25 million through Sunday.<\/p>\n

Travis Knight\u2019s stop-motion feature earned approximately $2.4 million on Friday, with roughly 200 screens still to report. That\u2019s down about 18% from its opening Friday, excluding previews.<\/p>\n

The full weekend projection points to a 35\u201343% decline from its $12.3 million debut<\/a>, a respectable hold roughly in line with earlier Laika releases.<\/p>\n

Kubo and the Two Strings offers the clearest comparison: it opened to $12.6 million in 2016 before dropping 37.8% to $7.8 million in its second weekend. That said, Laika\u2019s two preceding films started bigger and held as well or better: ParaNorman fell 38.7% after a $14.1 million debut, while The Boxtrolls slipped 30.7% after opening to $17.3 million.<\/p>\n

Fathom also added 150 screens for Wildwood<\/a>\u2019s second weekend, bringing the film to 3,103 across the U.S. and Canada. That expansion will surely contribute to the film\u2019s hold, wherever it lands.<\/p>\n

Along with today\u2019s numbers, Wildwood producer and Chief Marketing and Operations Officer at Laika, Dave Burke, said:<\/p>\n

We made Wildwood for audiences who love bold, imaginative cinema, and our ambition has always been to expand the traditional family audience. We trust audiences to embrace a film that takes risks, both in the story it tells and how it\u2019s made. Passing $20 million in eight days, alongside an \u2018A\u2019 CinemaScore, gives us confidence as we continue bringing Wildwood to more moviegoers. This is a film made to be experienced on the big screen, and we\u2019re proud to see audiences relishing it.<\/p>\n

As we reported after its debut, Wildwood earned an A CinemaScore. Its early audience reception and second-Friday performance are encouraging, although the projected weekend result would put it in familiar territory for Laika rather than mark an unusually strong hold.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s still plenty of ground to cover against a reported $100 million production budget. The film appears to be avoiding a steep second-weekend fall, but building a substantial theatrical run from its modest opening will take more than one decent hold. Laika\u2019s films can have a long commercial life, as Coraline <\/a>has demonstrated, but it\u2019s too early to know whether Wildwood will follow that path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laika\u2019s Wildwood has passed $20 million in North America after eight days, with distributor Fathom Entertainment projecting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-647215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}