Critics loved it. Moviegoers mostly stayed home. "The End of Oak Street," the JJ Abrams-produced time-slip thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor as a bickering married couple whose suburban neighborhood gets yanked back to the dinosaur age, opened over the weekend of August 14-16 to an estimated $21 million domestically, according to Variety's weekend box office report. It added $26 million overseas for a $47 million global haul, well short of expectations for a film with an $80 million-plus price tag.

The number is notable mainly for who it belongs to: as ScreenRant reported, the debut ties "Bride Wars" as the eighth-lowest opening of Hathaway's career, an odd footnote for an actress currently riding high off "The Devil Wears Prada 2" and "The Odyssey." Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell ("It Follows") and produced through Abrams' Bad Robot, the film landed a strong 86% Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes but only a middling B CinemaScore from opening-weekend audiences, with just 51% saying they'd definitely recommend it.

Warner Bros.' Rough Year Continues

The disappointing debut extends a brutal stretch for the studio. Every one of Warner Bros.' original 2026 releases has now opened below $40 million domestically, per Deadline's box office recap, which had "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" easily holding the No. 1 spot for a third straight weekend with roughly $70 million.

"This is late summer escapist entertainment, but right now audiences are still escaping to 'Spider-Man.'"

That's box office analyst David A. Gross, who publishes the industry newsletter FranchiseRe, summing up the problem: a well-reviewed, star-driven original film simply couldn't compete with a superhero threequel still dominating multiplexes a month into its run. With production costs reportedly needing roughly $200 million worldwide just to break even, "Oak Street" will need unusually strong word-of-mouth legs — or a big overseas expansion — to avoid landing in the red, even as Hathaway herself heads into fall as one of the year's most in-demand stars, fresh off being named a 2026 Disney Legend at D23 this same weekend.