Coraline’s Re-Release Exceeds Major 2024 Films in Box Office Revenue, Reaching a Significant Milestone

Coraline’s fifteenth anniversary rerelease has achieved a significant milestone at the domestic box office. The first feature film created by Laika, which has subsequently released films such as ParaNorman and Kubo and the Two Strings, was the 2009 stop-motion animated film directed by Henry Selick and based on the Neil Gaiman novella of the same name. With a $8.37 million debut on the Top 5 chart, the Coraline movie defied expectations and performed spectacularly when it returned to theatres for its most recent re-release. It even managed to hold its own against highly anticipated new releases.

The Coraline re-release is expected to gross $3.15 million in its third weekend at the American box office and $4.3 million in four days over the Labour Day holiday weekend, according to Deadline’s estimate as of Sunday morning. With a total domestic gross of $30.6 million after this, the re-release will rank 34th among all domestic films this year. This surpasses the domestic box office receipts of numerous high-profile 2024 films, including as Imaginary, Abigail, Arthur the King, Cabrini, The Bikeriders, The First Omen, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, and Ordinary Angels.

How Coraline Compares To Major Contemporary Re-Releases

The 2009 Classic Is Outshining The Competition

It is impossible to exaggerate the fantastic performance of the Coraline rerelease. Re-releases are nothing new; they have always been a part of the theatrical landscape.

Coraline is surpassing the competition, though, even among the well-received re-releases that brought in over $10 million during their theatrical runs. It has surpassed the record-breaking 2022 re-release of Avatar, which was brought back into theatres to promote the upcoming sequel Avatar: The Way of Water, which went on to become the third highest-grossing film of all time. This is the highest-grossing re-release of the decade.

The 30th anniversary re-release of Steven Spielberg’s iconic film Jurassic Park, which at the time had twice as much inherent nostalgia as Coraline, was the last re-release to surpass Coraline in more than a decade. It should be noted that Avatar and both of the re-releases benefited from an additional spike in ticket sales due to 3D showtimes. Still, the 15-year-old stop-motion title performs almost as well as the Spielberg classic, demonstrating how popular its re-release has been with viewers.