‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Grosses $300M Worldwide

‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes‘ has grossed $300M at the worldwide box office and is now the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2024.

The film earned $13.36M over the 3-day weekend from 3,550 locations. The estimated 4-day weekend gross is $17.1M, bringing the estimated total domestic gross to $126.55M. Internationally, the film grossed an estimated $20.6M this weekend, with an estimated international total of $172.0M. The estimated global total through Sunday stands at $294.8M.

Directed by Wes Ball from a screenplay by Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Patrick Aison. The film stars Owen Teague as Cornelius, the chimpanzee son of Caesar, along with Freya Allan, Peter Macon, Eka Darville, Kevin Durand, Travis Jeffery, Neil Sandilands, Sara Wiseman, Lydia Peckham, Ras-Samuel Weld A’abzgi, William H. Macy, and Dichen Lachman.

The franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

The film had a $160M budget. Speaking to Collider, director Ball said, ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ was shot almost entirely on location. 

“That, to me, was what was so surprising about this process. We probably had one blue screen set in the movie. For the most part, we’re out in real locations, shooting with real actors. They happen to be in these funny dots with this stupid camera in their face everywhere, which they eventually kind of forget about, but you make it like a live-action movie. You just have to imagine, ‘Oh, that’s going to be an ape doing that in a year.’ That’s the whole thing. How do you give spontaneity? That’s the thing for me.”

‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” is now playing in theaters.

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