Wildwood opens third in North America and passes $20 million after eight days

LAIKA's Wildwood opened in North American cinemas on the weekend of 23-25 October 2026 and took an estimated $11.6 million from 2,942 locations, according to BoxOfficeReport.com figures cited by Willamette Week. That placed it third, behind Clayface ($24 million) and You Can See Everything ($19.5 million). Analysts had projected $6-10 million, the paper notes, citing the Los Angeles Times.

Directed by LAIKA president and CEO Travis Knight from Colin Meloy's 2011 novel, illustrated by Carson Ellis, Wildwood is the studio's first PG-13 film. LAIKA has not disclosed the budget; the paper cites a Forbes estimate of $60-100 million for one of the studio's stop-motion features.

In Portland, near LAIKA's home in Hillsboro, Oregon, the Hollywood Theatre showed the film in 35mm and digital and sold out every screening through 1 November, and the Moreland Theater sold out a 25 October screening with a Q&A by three LAIKA artists.

Cartoon Brew's 31 October follow-up reported a revised $12.2 million opening and said the film passed $20 million in North America after eight days. Distributor Fathom Entertainment added 150 screens for the second weekend, bringing the count to 3,103, and projected a $7–8 million second weekend. Those weekend figures were projections at publication, not a final total.

Update, 2026-11-04: Cartoon Brew's 2 November report (Jamie Lang) gives an estimated $9 million second weekend, down 27% from the debut, and a 10-day North American total of about $27.4 million. Sunday rose 38% over Saturday and finished 2% above opening Sunday. The report compares second-weekend drops of 37.8% for Kubo and the Two Strings, 38.7% for ParaNorman and 30.7% for The Boxtrolls, and cites a reported $100 million production budget. These remain estimates, not final figures.