“Coraline’s Release Has Reached Yet Another Major Box Office Record”

One particular film consistently performs well at the box office, and it’s not the one you may anticipate. Coraline has recently hit a significant box office milestone. Coraline has been re-released in theatres to commemorate its 15th anniversary. Since reopening in theatres about two weeks ago, the movie has already brought in $40 million globally. This is a remarkable accomplishment because many films fall short of this goal during their first run in theatres. A few days ago, Coraline achieved yet another significant box office milestone by hitting $50 million in foreign markets with the additional money made from the re-release. Currently, Coraline has made more than $125 million at the box office globally when taking into account both its original and re-release releases.

To put Coraline’s $40 million box office haul during its rerelease in perspective, consider that it outperformed other films like Jeff Nichols’ biker thriller The Bikeriders, which starred Tom Hardy and Austin Butler. Additionally, it has made more money than Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An America Saga – Chapter 1, which was cancelled from release earlier this year due to poor box office performance. It also defeated Borderlands, which, while having a cast full of famous people, has been criticised as one of the worst video game adaptations ever made. It also narrowly misses other big star-led films like Fly Me to the Moon (starring Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson) and Arthur the King (starring Mark Wahlberg and Simu Liu).

The 2024 Box Office Has Been a Wild Ride

A movie’s box office performance can be highly unexpected because a lot of factors influence whether or not people would attend in theatres. Sometimes a big-budget blockbuster like The Fall Guy or Furiosa, which were undoubtedly expecting a massive box office windfall, fails to break even, while a surprise success like Inside Out 2 unexpectedly becomes one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Given that Deadpool & Wolverine is the sole Marvel film of the year and features the MCU debuts of two iconic characters, Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) and Logan (Hugh Jackman), it was easy to predict the film would be a huge hit.