Plus, don’t forget that Hidden Figures was only made off $25 million, while those three blockbusters had budgets stretching past $100 million.
According to The Wrap, Hidden Figures’ domestic total rose to $162.8 million at the end of this past weekend.
For comparison, Jason Bourne, which marked Matt Damon’s return to the Bourne franchise after nearly a decade, ended its theatrical run taking in $162.4 million domestically, while X-Men: Apocalypse, the ninth installment of the X-Men franchise, and Star Trek Beyond, the third of that franchise’s reboot movies, took in $155.4 million and $158.8 million, respectively.
Although Hidden Figures’ worldwide gross doesn’t come near cracking what any of these three movies made in various countries, it’s incredible that the movie has performed so well in the United States, showing that you don’t always need to be part of a franchise or “brand” to guarantee financial success.