Anaconda Reboot Now The Franchise’s Highest-Grossing Movie In 28 Years

2025’s Anaconda is climbing up the franchise’s all-time chart. The Anaconda reboot is a meta comedy starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd as a pair of friends whose attempt to remake 1997’s Anaconda goes awry when a real-life ravenous snake attacks the set. The movie, which was directed and co-written by Tom Gormican, also stars Thandiwe Newton, Steve Zahn, and Daniela Melchior.

Per Variety, as of Sunday morning, Anaconda is projected to hit a cumulative global box office total of $88 million by the end of its second weekend in theaters. This total comprises $45.8 million at the domestic box office and an additional $42.2 million from international markets.

By hitting this total, the Paul Rudd movie will have taken fewer than 11 days to surge past the all-time worldwide gross of 2004’s Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid to become the franchise’s highest-grossing installment since 1997, when the original creature feature debuted, kicking off the long-running franchise. Below, see a breakdown of the box office grosses of the entire franchise:

Title	Domestic Box Office	Worldwide Box Office
Anaconda (1997)	$65.6 million	$137 million
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)	$31.5 million	$70.3 million
Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008 TV movie)	N/A	N/A
Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009 TV movie)	N/A	N/A
Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015 TV movie)	N/A	N/A
Anaconda (2025)	$45.8 million (& counting)	$88 million (& counting)

2025’s Anaconda still has to earn an additional $49 million if it hopes to become the highest-grossing installment in the franchise overall. However, it has the potential to hit that benchmark, because it debuted on Christmas Day and holiday season releases tend to have slow and steady growth throughout January.

While it will face direct competition from Paramount’s creature feature Primate when it debuts on January 9, the movie only had a narrow drop of 31% during its sophomore weekend. That fact, paired with its reasonably strong Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 76% and CinemaScore of B could help propel it across the finish line.

Ultimately, it does not even need to outgross the original Anaconda in order to be deemed a success. Its reported budget of $45 million most likely places its theatrical break-even point somewhere around $112.5 million. This means that it will most likely end up in the black if it earns just $24.5 million more.

This is something that is well within the reboot’s reach. If Anaconda has a similar week-on-week drop during its impending third weekend, it will earn roughly $7 million more during that 3-day span at the domestic box office alone. This would push it more than 28% closer to its goal, getting it more than 50% of the way if its international grosses continue to roughly match its domestic haul.

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