Box Office History for SpongeBob SquarePants Movies

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Release
Date
TitleProduction
Budget
Opening
Weekend
Domestic
Box Office
Worldwide
Box Office
Aug 14, 2020The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge… $60,000,000$865,824$4,810,790$4,810,790
Feb 6, 2015The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge… $74,000,000$55,365,012$162,994,032$311,013,181
Nov 19, 2004SpongeBob SquarePants: The … $30,000,000$32,018,216$85,416,609$142,051,255
 
Averages $54,666,667$29,416,351$84,407,144$152,625,075
Totals 3 $164,000,000$253,221,431$457,875,226

Video Release Breakdown

Release DateTitleDomestic
Video Sales
to Date
Watch Now
Oct 19, 2004SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Second…    
Sep 27, 2005SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 3    
Mar 1, 2014SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie   Amazon Google
Jun 2, 2015The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water $24,792,031 Amazon iTunes Google Vudu
Jun 7, 2016The Spongebob Movie Collection $423,219  
May 23, 2017SpongeBob SquarePants First 100 Episodes    
Oct 10, 2017SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 9 $251,607 Amazon
Sep 11, 2018SpongeBob SquarePants: The Legend of Boo-K… $7,334  
Jul 15, 2019SpongeBob SquarePants: The Best 200 Episod…    
Oct 15, 2019SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 10   Amazon
Mar 31, 2020SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Eleven… $197,212 Amazon
Apr 28, 2020SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash    
Jan 12, 2021SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 12 $171,581  
Mar 4, 2021The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run $2,869,549 iTunes Google Vudu
Jul 9, 2021The Patrick Star Show    
Jul 13, 2021The SpongeBob 3-Movie Collection $38,272  
Dec 5, 2023Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years - Seas…    
Dec 5, 2023The Patrick Star Show: Season 1, Volume 2    
 
 Totals$28,750,805

Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.

For example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. The consumer spending estimate is based on the average sales price for the title in the retailers we survey.

We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates.

Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles.

Weekend Wrap-Up: SpongeBob and Unhinged Kick Off the Theatrical Comeback

August 18th, 2020

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

The release of two major new movies in Canada at the weekend gave us a first chance to see how the box office might recover in North America as theaters open up. The results are not particularly encouraging, although they are in line with our analysis earlier this month. More...

Weekend Preview: SpongeBob Ready to Run Away with the Box Office

August 13th, 2020

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

For the first time in a long, long time there are wide releases to talk about. That is, two films are opening wide... in Canada: The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and Unhinged. While Canada is a lot smaller than the United States, it is still a large enough part of the domestic box office that we should see the best domestic weekend since the pandemic caused theaters to be shut down in March. More...

2015 - Holiday Gift Guide - Part I

November 27th, 2015

MCU Phase 2

It's Thanksgiving weekend, which means Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and of course the first installment of our Holiday Gift Guide. This week we will tackle first run releases, as well as franchise box sets. I'm going to try to keep it to a dozen or so releases, as these columns are notorious for getting out of hand. Also, while there were a record number of $1 billion box office hits, there were not as many first run releases that earned stellar reviews this year. More...

Home Market Numbers: Kings Among Men

July 4th, 2015

The Kingsman: Secret Service

It was a busy week in real life, with the July Preview, Canada Day, and July 4th holidays messing with schedules. Because of that, the home market numbers were late this week. However, this week's numbers will be up in the next two days, so it was a very short disruption. That said, there's not much to talk about when it comes to new releases on the home video sales charts for the week ending June 14. Sure, The Kingsman: Secret Service earned first place on the home market chart, but there was only one other new release in the top five and only a few others in the top 30. The number one release of the week sold 591,000 units and generated $10.29 million in consumer spending. This includes an opening week Blu-ray share of 51%. Anything above 50% is worth celebrating; however, the overall numbers are still lower than anticipated. More...

Home Market Releases for June 2nd, 2015

June 3rd, 2015

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

Welcome to the column formerly known as the DVD and Blu-ray release report! In response to the changing home market landscape, we have renamed it the Home Market Release Report, and will now be including Video-on-Demand releases. It was a bad week to try and change the format, as there were a ton of great releases contending for Pick of the Week. Most of these contenders are TV on DVD releases, including Parks & Recreation: Season 7. There is also one limited release, Spring on Blu-ray, and one first-run releases, The SpongeBob Movie: A Sponge Out of Water on 3D Combo Pack. It was a close race, but I choose SpongeBob in the end. More...

Featured Blu-ray / DVD Review: The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

June 1st, 2015

Barely Lethal

On Friday, I got a package of half-a-dozen Nickelodeon releases ... all of which come out on Tuesday. Needless to say, I won't be reviewing all of them, but that's why the current box office prediction contest features Nickelodeon releases. The one I'm definitely reviewing is The SpongeBob Movie: A Sponge Out of Water, which earned great reviews and was a surprise hit at the box office. Did it deserve this success? Or will I be one of the dissenting voices? More...

Weekend Wrap-Up: Box Office Loses Focus

March 3rd, 2015

Focus poster

As expected, Focus led the way at the box office, but sadly did so with a much lower opening weekend result than predicted. The rest of the top five were a little stronger than predicted each earning between $10 million and $12 million. That said, the overall box office was still weak, down 10% from last week to $107 million. It was also down 13% from last year. This caused 2015's lead over 2014 to drop. Granted, 2015 is still ahead of 2014 by $110 million or 6.8% at $1.74 billion to $1.63 billion, so it would take a while to lose that lead at this pace. More...

Note: This list contains actors who appeared in at least two movies in the franchise.

PersonNr. of
Movies
RoleFranchise
Worldwide
Box Office
Career
Worldwide
Box Office
Franchise
/
Career
Tom Kenny 3 SpongeBob SquarePants/Narrator/Gary/Clay/Tough Fish/Twin/Houston $457,875,226 $1,309,173,105 35.0%
Bill Fagerbakke 3 Patrick Star/Fish/Chum Customer/Local Fish $457,875,226 $457,875,226 100.0%
Clancy Brown 3 Mr. Krabs $457,875,226 $2,798,953,262 16.4%
Rodger Bumpass 3 Squidward Tentacles/Fish $457,875,226 $1,371,205,081 33.4%
Mr. Lawrence 3 Plankton/Fish/Attendant (Lloyd) $457,875,226 $457,875,226 100.0%
Carolyn Lawrence 3 Sandy Cheeks $457,875,226 $556,885,893 82.2%
Jill Talley 3 Karen $457,875,226 $471,890,450 97.0%
Mary Jo Catlett 3 Mrs. Puff $457,875,226 $457,875,226 100.0%
Lori Alan 3 Pearl $457,875,226 $7,130,311,053 6.4%
Carlos Alazraqui 2 Seagull/Dead Parrot $453,064,436 $6,531,242,206 6.9%
Dee Bradley Baker 2 Man Cop, Phil, Perch Perkins, Waiter, Attendant, Thug, Coughing Fish, Twin, Frog Fish, Monster, Freed Fish, Sandals $453,064,436 $3,789,412,805 12.0%
Sirena Irwin 2 Reporter, Driver, Ice Cream Lady $453,064,436 $453,369,839 99.9%
Stephen Hillenburg 2 Voice of Parrot $453,064,436 $453,064,436 100.0%

Note: This list contains people who contributed to at least two movies in the franchise.

PersonNr. of
Movies
Technical RoleFranchise
Worldwide
Box Office
Career
Worldwide
Box Office
Franchise
/
Career
Stephen Hillenburg 3 Story Creator (3)
Executive Producer (2)
Producer (1)
Screenwriter (1)
Director (1)
Based on the Series "Spongebob Squarepants" Created By (1)
$457,875,226 $457,875,226 100.0%
Jonathan Aibel 2 Screenwriter (2) $315,823,971 $4,031,415,051 7.8%
Tim Hill 2 Screenwriter (2)
Director (1)
$146,862,045 $1,049,731,611 14.0%
Glenn Berger 2 Screenwriter (2) $315,823,971 $4,031,415,051 7.8%
Paul Tibbitt 2 Director (1)
Story Creator (1)
Producer (1)
Screenwriter (1)
$453,064,436 $453,064,436 100.0%
Chris Spellman 2 Production Supervisor (1)
Production Designer (1)
$146,862,045 $1,475,419,888 10.0%
Alan Smart 2 Animation Supervisor (1)
Supervising Animation Director (1)
$453,064,436 $453,064,436 100.0%