Laika's Wildwood Passes $60 Million at the Worldwide Box Office

Laika's stop-motion animated film Wildwood has passed $60 million at the worldwide box office, according to Variety, which reported the total on 13 November 2026. Stop-motion is the old craft of filming physical puppets one small move at a time, frame by frame, until they appear to move on their own.

The bulk of the money has come from North American cinemas. The film has grossed $41.86 million in the United States and Canada, what the trade calls "domestic." Overseas, it has taken $19.06 million across 49 international territories, meaning countries or regions where it has opened.

Over its third weekend in North American cinemas, the film earned $7.21 million. That was a 20 per cent drop from the weekend before. The film will stay in 2,198 North American theatres for its fourth weekend, Variety reported. Keeping a film on that many screens is a sign the distributor expects it to keep drawing audiences.

Fathom Entertainment, which releases films to cinemas, calls Wildwood its most successful release so far. The film's international sales are handled by FilmNation Entertainment, the company that sells the rights to overseas distributors and decides, territory by territory, where the film goes next.

Travis Knight directed the film. It is based on Colin Meloy's novel and follows Prue McKeel, played by Peyton Elizabeth Lee. Stop-motion films take years to make, because every second of screen time can require dozens of individual frames, each posed and photographed by hand.

Variety reported a budget of $100 million for the film. A budget is the production cost, the money spent making the movie before any advertising. Set against that figure, the worldwide total of more than $60 million is the number to watch in the weeks ahead, as the film's cinema run continues into its fourth weekend in North America.