Owen Wilson’s New Movie Officially Earns Record Low Box Office Debut

Published Oct 5, 2026, 11:19 AM EDT

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Rolling Loud: The Movie has been lost among the crowd on the box office chart.

The new Owen Wilson movie, which was written and directed by Jeremy Garelick (Murder Mystery 2), is a comedy set at the real-life hip-hop festival Rolling Loud. It follows Wilson's character taking his 13-year-old son (Christian Convery) to Rolling Loud without telling his wife (Jolene), only to lose his son more or less immediately and spend the night desperately trying to find him, with the help of his hapless coworker (Matt Rife) and one of the festival's volunteers (Christine Ko). The movie, which is being distributed by Ketchup Entertainment in North America, debuted in theaters on October 2.

Ketchup Entertainment is the company that famously picked up the rights to distribute Coyote vs. Acme after it was shelved by Warner Bros. as a tax write-off.

Per Box Office Mojo, Rolling Loud: The Movie earned a 3-day total of $354,093 in 930 theaters at the domestic box office during its opening weekend. This saw it debuting at No. 17 on the domestic chart below many fellow new releases, including the Colleen Hoover thriller Verity (No. 1), the Tom Cruise comedy Digger (No. 5), the Bollywood crime movie Drishyam: The Conclusion (No. 8), the Metropolitan Opera's presentation Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte (No. 13), and the giant snake horror movie Beware Boiúna (No. 14).

While 2026's Rolling Loud: The Movie played in relatively few theaters (Verity and Digger both played in more than 3,000), which would account for it debuting outside the Top 5, its per-screen average of just $380 saw it falling significantly behind even movies that debuted in fewer theaters. For instance, Cosi Fan Tutte played on just 646 screens while Drishyam: The Conclusion played on 541.

In fact, this total gives Rolling Loud: The Movie the 137th lowest debut per-screen average of all time at the domestic box office. It has continued an unfortunate trend, as quite a few fellow 2026 movies have landed on that chart, including the romance Charlie Harper and the Paris Hilton documentary Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir. Below, see a breakdown of all the non-re-release 2026 movies on the chart and where they stand:

Rank	Title	Debut PSA
#16	The Stunt Driver	$159
#23	Charlie Harper	$169
#30	Buffalo Kids	$203
#80	Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir	$295
#89	Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass	$311
#90	Night Patrol	$312
#137	Rolling Loud: The Movie	$380
#145	Mystery Science Theater 3000: The RiffTrax Experiments: Sting of Death	$407
#176	Desert Warrior	$483
#178	Beware Boiúna	$490
#200	All You Need Is Kill	$547

In addition to earning the seventh-smallest debut per-screen average on the chart, Rolling Loud: The Movie is the only Owen Wilson movie in the entire Top 200. The roster of the star's dozens of other movies that have escaped this fate include 2001's Zoolander, which famously underperformed when it debuted due to the fact that it came out just a few weeks after 9/11, and Wes Anderson's debut feature Bottle Rocket, which only played in 28 theaters but earned a per-screen average of $4,432.

It remains to be seen if this theatrical performance for Rolling Loud: The Movie can be considered a true disappointment, because it is currently unknown how much the movie cost or how much Ketchup Entertainment paid to pick it up. Regardless, Owen Wilson will very likely have box office redemption soon enough. He will be reprising his role as Kevin, the ex-boyfriend of Greg Focker's (Ben Stiller) girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo) in Meet the Parents, in the upcoming sequel Focker-in-Law, which debuts on November 25.

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