Anne Hathaway’s New 99-Minute Dinosaur Thriller Just Passed One Of Her Most Famous Movies At The Box Office — But There’s A Catch

Anne Hathaway has hardly been absent from cinemas in 2026, but one of her less obvious releases has quietly reached an intriguing box-office milestone.

The actress has already appeared in A24’s Mother Mary and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, while Verity is moving into its promotional campaign and a Days of Thunder sequel remains among her future projects.

Yet it is the original dinosaur thriller The End of Oak Street that has now passed a movie that has occupied a surprisingly durable place on Hathaway’s box-office résumé for 17 years.

Four weekends after a relatively modest opening, the 99-minute sci-fi thriller has earned approximately $115.5 million worldwide, pushing it just beyond the lifetime global total of Hathaway and Kate Hudson’s 2009 comedy Bride Wars.

The achievement comes with an important qualification, however. Despite passing the older film, The End of Oak Street still has considerable ground to cover before it can be considered a financial success.

A Modest Opening Didn’t End Its Theatrical Run

The End of Oak Street arrived in theaters on August 14 in an extremely competitive period.

The Warner Bros. release opened against major titles including Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, beginning its domestic run with approximately $21 million.

That was hardly an explosive start.

But the movie did not immediately disappear.

Four weekends later, it remained in more than 2,000 theaters, allowing its total to continue climbing as audiences gradually discovered the original sci-fi thriller.

As of this week, the film has reached approximately $51.7 million domestically and $115.5 million worldwide.

That number is significant for Hathaway because it takes the movie past Bride Wars.

Bride Wars Had Held The Advantage For 17 Years

Released in 2009, Bride Wars starred Hathaway and Kate Hudson as close friends whose relationship collapses after their weddings are accidentally scheduled for the same day.

Despite being poorly received by critics, the romantic comedy proved commercially successful.

According to Box Office Mojo figures cited in the original report, Bride Wars finished its theatrical run with just under $115.4 million worldwide.

That meant the movie continued to rank above several more acclaimed entries in Hathaway’s filmography when measured purely by global ticket sales.

Seventeen years later, The End of Oak Street has finally edged past it.

The difference is tiny — roughly $100,000 based on the current figures — but Oak Street still has some theatrical life remaining.

Anne Hathaway And Ewan McGregor Face A Prehistoric Nightmare

The film also represents a major step up in scale for director David Robert Mitchell.

Mitchell became widely known through It Follows, the acclaimed horror film produced for just over $2 million that went on to become one of the most influential genre releases of the 2010s.

His last feature before The End of Oak Street was 2018’s Under the Silver Lake.

This time, however, Mitchell has been given a considerably larger canvas.

Hathaway and Ewan McGregor play a married couple who unexpectedly find themselves transported into a prehistoric world.

Maisy Stella and Christian Convery play their children, placing the family at the center of a survival story filled with dinosaurs and other dangers.

J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot produced the movie.

And despite the much larger scale, Mitchell has kept the finished film relatively lean at just 99 minutes.

Critics Have Responded Positively

The movie has also performed strongly with critics.

The End of Oak Street currently holds an 86% Rotten Tomatoes score, with the site’s critics’ consensus describing it as “pulpy good fun carried off with a light touch and a sharp bite.”

That reception gives the film another advantage as it attempts to maintain momentum through the remainder of its theatrical run.

Its overseas performance has been particularly important.

While Bride Wars generated approximately 51% of its worldwide total in North America, The End of Oak Street has followed the opposite pattern.

Around 56% of its box office has come from international markets.

For an original movie without the built-in recognition of a major franchise, that overseas support has helped it reach the $115 million mark despite its relatively restrained domestic opening.

Passing Bride Wars Doesn’t Automatically Make It A Hit

The comparison between the two Hathaway films becomes less flattering once their budgets are considered.

The End of Oak Street reportedly cost somewhere between $80 million and $92 million to produce.

That is substantially more than the cost of the 2009 romantic comedy it has just surpassed.

Once marketing expenses are included, industry estimates cited in the original report suggest the dinosaur thriller may need approximately $200 million worldwide to break even.

That makes its $115.5 million total a mixed result.

Crossing Bride Wars is a notable career milestone for Hathaway, but the two films cannot be considered equally successful simply because their worldwide grosses are now similar.

The economics surrounding them are very different.

The Film Could Finish Around $125 Million

Warner Bros. may have hoped The End of Oak Street could develop the kind of extended theatrical staying power previously demonstrated by films such as Sinners and Weapons.

So far, that has not happened on the same scale.

The movie has nevertheless avoided collapsing after its opening weekend, with reasonable drops helping it remain in theaters and continue adding to its worldwide total.

Current projections cited in the report suggest it could eventually finish around $125 million globally.

That would place it somewhere in the middle of Hathaway’s extensive box-office filmography.

It would also move the movie more comfortably ahead of Bride Wars, even if it remained well short of the estimated figure needed to become profitable theatrically.

For Hathaway, however, the milestone still adds an unexpected footnote to an unusually busy year.

Few might have predicted that an original 99-minute dinosaur thriller would be the film to finally overtake one of her most recognizable 2000s comedies.

Seventeen years after Bride Wars reached $115.4 million, The End of Oak Street has finally gone one step further — even if its much larger budget means the real box-office battle is far from won.