The Wild Robot Box Office Is Just $15M Away From Hitting All-Time Highest Grossing List With Global Milestone

The Wild Robot is approaching all-time hit status as it passes a major box office milestone. The new DreamWorks movie, which is adapted from the children’s book of the same name, follows a robot named Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) raising an orphaned gosling named Brightbill (Kit Connor) after being stranded on a desert island. The Wild Robot release debuted with a middling $35.8 million, but it has slowly and steadily climbed over the course of nearly two months to become a major smash hit.




Per Deadline, as of Friday, The Wild Robot has grossed $300.5 million worldwide. This comes from $134.4 million in North America and $166.1 million internationally and makes it just the 14th release of 2024 to pass the $300 million global box office milestone. Additionally, it is now just $15.2 million away from outgrossing Makoto Shinkai’s 2023 fantasy romance anime release Suzume to take its place as the 100th highest-grossing animated movie of all time.


What This Means For The Wild Robot

It Could Be Bound For The Top 100


Given the movie’s spectacular word-of-mouth success after The Wild Robot reviews earned it matching Certified Fresh and Verified Hot scores of 98% from critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as its astoundingly slim week-on-week drops, it seems highly likely that the new DreamWorks movie will enter the Top 100 animated movies of all time before long. However, it remains to be seen how much longevity this honor has.

The Wild Robot
has consistently posted drops below 30% throughout its run, even rising 9.4% in its unprecedented sixth weekend.

The upcoming Moana 2 is hot on The Wild Robot‘s heels with a November 27 debut that is projected to blow the original 2016 movie (No. 29 on the all-time chart) out of the water. Thus, the DreamWorks movie will have to entrench itself further up the list in order to stay in the Top 100 through the end of the year. This shouldn’t be entirely outside the realm of possibility, as an additional $25 million worldwide would be enough for it to climb to No. 97, passing Disney’s A Christmas Carol, Megamind, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.


Our Take On The Wild Robot Box Office

The Movie Has Nothing Left To Prove

Roz teaching Brightbill how to fly in The Wild Robot

Even though The Wild Robot seems fairly certain to reach the all-time Top 100, this is just the cherry on top of a dazzling theatrical run. The movie only cost $78 million, which likely places its break-even point around $195 million, meaning it has already cemented its place as a bona fide hit. That commercial and critical success compounded with its Oscar buzz means that the upcoming sequel which is already in development likely won’t be the last installment in this burgeoning franchise.

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Source: Deadline