Babygirl Box Office Climbs A24's All-Time Highest-Grossing Movie Chart In Less Than One Month After Release

Babygirl is climbing a major chart as it nears one full month in theaters. The A24 movie, which was written and directed by Halina Reijn, stars Nicole Kidman as Romy Mathis, a CEO who begins an illicit affair with her intern Samuel (Harris Dickinson) which allows her to explore her repressed sexual desires. The Babygirl release kicked off on Christmas Day and, while it was the third highest-grossing new release of the day behind Nosferatu and A Complete Unknown, it has quickly earned back its $20 million budget in theaters.

Per The Numbers, Babygirl has reached a worldwide gross of $29.3 million as of Friday, January 17. This sees it climbing the chart of the highest-grossing A24 movies of all time, surpassing 2017's The Disaster Artist ($28.72 million) to become the nineteenth best-performing release by the independent studio and distributor. However, it is still quite far from the grosses of the movies at the top of the chart, which are the 2022 Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All At Once ($111.5 million) and the $50 million 2024 thriller Civil War ($106.5 million).

What This Means For Babygirl

It Could Continue To Climb

Ultimately, it seems highly unlikely that Babygirl could ever break into the Top 10, because that means it would have to outgross the 2024 Hugh Grant horror movie Heretic, which has so far earned $44.3 million worldwide. As it approaches a full month in theaters, it seems unlikely that the Nicole Kidman movie could rake in an additional $15 million, a total that far exceeds its strongest weekend, which was its $4.4 million debut. However, there is still room for it to climb the chart. Below, see a breakdown of the five A24 movies ahead of it:

Rank	Title	Worldwide Box Office
#18	Priscilla (2023)	$30.9 million
#17	Spring Breakers (2013)	$31.1 million
#16	Room (2015)	$36.3 million
#15	Ex Machina (2015)	$38.3 million
#14	We Live in Time (2024)	$39.2 million

With a few more weekends ahead of it, Babygirl could climb at least to No. 17 behind the Oscar-winning Room. One thing that could potentially boost it even higher than expected is the fact that so far there have been no major hits in January 2025 to provide it with strong competition. While Den of Thieves 2: Pantera had a strong debut, it has already fallen to No. 5 over MLK weekend, while the new releases One of Them Days and Wolf Man debuted at No. 2 and No. 3 respectively behind the holdover Christmas release Mufasa: The Lion King.

Our Take On The Babygirl Box Office

Reviews Could Trip It Up

Harris Dickinson and Nicole Kidman lying in bed together in Babygirl

While it has a clear runway to continue climbing, Babygirl reviews could potentially hamper its progress. While it has a Certified Fresh score of 77% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has had a much more mixed response from viewers, who have given it a firmly Rotten audience score of 48%. This indicates that word of mouth may not be able to provide it with the same financial backbone as other A24 titles above it such as We Live in Time (which has an 83% audience score) and Ex Machina (which has 86%).

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Source: The Numbers