Anyone But You’s 8 Biggest Box Office Records & Milestones After $190 Million Performance

Summary

• Anyone But You broke an 8-year rom-com record, surpassing Romeo + Juliet as the highest-grossing Shakespeare adaptation.
• The R-rated film made over $100 million worldwide, the first rom-com to do so since Bridget Jones’s Baby in 2016.
• Sydney Sweeney’s leading role in the film could make it her most profitable, potentially surpassing $200 million worldwide.

The surprise box office hit Anyone But You continues to extend its impressive and unexpected box office run. Directed by Will Gluck (Peter Rabbit, Easy A, Friends with Benefits), the breakout romantic comedy stars Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) and Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria) as Ben and Bea, two former romantic interests who find a new spark when they run into each other at a destination wedding in Australia. Despite the lackluster critical reception for Anyone But You, the sleeper box office hit has demonstrated an untapped modern interest in the romantic comedy genre.

The ending of Anyone But You has left viewers wondering whether there could possibly be an upcoming sequel for Ben and Bea’s characters. Sydney Sweeney addressed the possibility of an Anyone But You sequel, hinting that there is at least some conversation about the exciting potential project. Given that Anyone But You has become the first and biggest box office surprise hit of 2024, Sony as well as other major Hollywood studios, are likely contemplating how to keep the Powell-Sweeney momentum going as the rom-com looks to make a huge comeback in the 2020s.

8 Anyone But You Is The Highest-Grossing William Shakespeare Adaptation

The rom-com surpassed 1996’s Romeo + Juliet

Collider made note that Anyone But You has become the highest-grossing film adaptation of a William Shakespeare original work. Anyone But You is loosely based on Much Ado About Nothing, a comedy that is thought to have been written at the end of the 16th century. With a current worldwide box office total of nearly $190 million, Anyone But You has far surpassed the previously highest-grossing Shakespeare adaptation, Romeo + Juliet (1996), which earned an impressive $147.6 million at the worldwide box office upon its release. Another Romeo and Juliet adaptation, Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, only amassed $76 million globally.

The last movie to do so was 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby

An R-rating didn’t seem to affect the box office success of Anyone But You, considering that it’s the first R-rated rom-com to earn more than $100 million worldwide since Bridget Jones’s Baby in 2016. It’s an even more impressive feat considering the franchise pull of the Bridget Jones series, which had two popular movies in 2001 and 2004. Anyone But You was able to establish itself as a standalone film and may even spark its own franchise. It had a hugely impressive 4-week opening run built largely in part off the hype of a rumored relationship between its stars, Powell and Sweeney.

6 Anyone But You Valentine Encore Pushes Domestic Box Office Total Past $85 Million

The timing of Anyone But You’s release has contributed to its success

The timing of Anyone But You’s release in late December made it possible to extend it to Valentine’s Day weekend, which proved to be an excellent choice for the sake of its continued box office success. Initially, Anyone But You opened to a $6 million domestic opening weekend, which had a lot of overlap with many Oscar contenders and holiday films during the holiday season. Anyone But You’s mid-February resurgence due to Valentine’s Day allowed the film’s box office run to keep up its momentum, especially considering the overall lack of competition it has had with new 2024 releases.

5 Anyone But You Has The Potential To Surpass $200 Million Worldwide

The rom-com could surpass the box office gross for The Marvels

Anyone But You surprisingly has the potential to surpass the $200 million worldwide box office threshold in the coming weeks. Doing so would impressively put it ahead of the MCU film The Marvels, which grossed $199,706,250 at the worldwide box office. This would also put it ahead of the popular Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore rom-com 50 First Dates from 2004, which amassed roughly $196 million worldwide. Depending on how much longer Anyone But You stays in theaters, it could come very close to surpassing those titles that were expected to perform well from the start.

4 Anyone But You’s Week 4 Box Office Surpassed Its Opening Weekend Gross

Anyone But You amassed more than $7 million in its 4th week

Another impressive and uncommon box office feat for Anyone But You is how outstanding its first three weeks were after its $6 million opening weekend. Despite playing in a slightly less total number of theaters during its fourth week, Anyone But You amassed more than $7 million during that time period. It’s Week 2 and 3 numbers raked in roughly $8.75 million and $9.75 million, respectively. This implies that the film’s marketing success on social media platforms continued to pay off and could have inspired many repeat viewings during the month of January 2024 when only a handful of new movies were released in theaters.

3 Anyone But You Is Sydney Sweeney’s Most Profitable Movie In A Leading Role

Madame Web is severely underperforming at the box office

Sydney Sweeney’s leading role appeal in Anyone But You might be slightly working against the success of Madame Web, in which she stars alongside Dakota Johnson. This likely isn’t the case as the reviews for Madame Web are stunningly bad, which indicates that Anyone But You will continue to be Sweeney’s highest-grossing film that she stars in. Sweeney had a small supporting role in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which is the highest-grossing film she has ever been a part of. Anyone But You could mark her highest-grossing leading role for quite some time with the disappointment of Madame Web.

It could crack the Top 35 if it passes $196 million worldwide

Anyone But You could crack the Top 35 of highest-grossing romantic comedies ever made if it surpasses the $196 million of 50 First Dates. It certainly has the potential to do so if it stays on pace, but it currently stands at number 36 on the list of highest-grossing romantic comedies of all time. This is one of the most impressive feats for a film that had very little box office expectations whatsoever. Atop the list is Pretty Woman and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, classics that Anyone But You won’t surpass but could inch closer to over its final weeks in theaters.

1 Anyone But You Is Sony’s Third-Highest Grossing Movie Of 2023

The rom-com trails only to Spider-Verse and Equalizer 3

Anyone But You quietly became Sony’s third highest-grossing movie of 2023, even though the hit has made most of its box office revenue during the first two months of 2024. Atop the list is Sony’s box office juggernaut Spider-Man: Across the SpiderVerse with a staggering $381 million domestic and $682 million worldwide gross. As it currently stands, Anyone But You is roughly $7 million away from becoming Sony’s second-highest-grossing domestic release of 2023. It would need to surpass the roughly $92 million gross of the Denzel Washington action flick The Equalizer 3, which would be challenging but not necessarily implausible for Anyone But You.