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The Bad Guys 2

2025 PG 94 min Animation, Comedy, Family

The heist is on again

Box office summary
Opening Weekend
$22.0M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$82.6M
Final
Worldwide Total
$240M
Global total
Budget
$80M
Production
Domestic Legs
3.8x
Opening → Total
2025 Rank
#26
Domestic
Compare with other movies
Predicted Final Domestic
$74M–$80M
$69M $77M $86M
$83M so far

The prediction model updated after a -52% second-weekend drop. The wider range of $69M–$86M accounts for 90% of films.

$66M
Baseline
Animation Animated Sequel — 3.00 baseline opening
0%
CinemaScore
A: Animation avg is A
+3%
Audience
Strong — RT 95%, LB 3.53, IMDB 7.0
+5%
Seasonality
Summer Peak
0%
Sequel
Animated Sequel
0%
Release Day
Friday (standard)
-4%
2nd Weekend
-52% drop
+13%
Genre
Animation Sequel legs
Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Aug 1-3 2 $22.0M $22.0M 3,852 $6K 1
Aug 8-10 4 $10.6M -51.8% $43.6M 3,860 $3K 2
Aug 15-17 5 $7.5M -29% $57.2M 3,380 $2K 3
Aug 22-24 5 $5.1M -32.1% $66.2M 3,288 $2K 4
Aug 29-31 7 $4.8M -7% $73.1M 3,024 $2K 5
Sep 5-7 6 $2.4M -50% $77.5M 2,540 $935 6
Sep 12-14 10 $1.1M -53.3% $79.6M 1,630 $680 7
Sep 19-21 14 $666K -40% $80.8M 1,010 $659 8
Sep 26-28 16 $400K -39.9% $81.5M 560 $714 9
Oct 3-5 20 $195K -51.3% $81.9M 345 $565 10
Oct 10-12 25 $114K -41.4% $82.1M 194 $588 11

Performance Charts

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Cumulative Total

Weekend Gross Trend

Theater Count

Profitability

Return on Budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

Week-over-Week Drop

Weekly Gross Decline (%)

Cast & Crew

Directed byPierre Perifel, JP Sans
ScreenplayYoni Brenner, Etan Cohen
Produced byDamon Ross
CinematographyN/A
MusicDaniel Pemberton
Prod. DesignN/A
StarringSam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina, Craig Robinson