Mckenna Grace Lands Two Films in the Same Weekend as The End of Oak Street Opens to $21 Million

All three of the films Trevor Decker News has been tracking toward August 14 opened on schedule this past Friday, and with the weekend estimates now in, the three of them have landed in three completely different places. Warner Bros. put its prehistoric survival thriller The End of Oak Street into 3,446 North American theaters and came away with an estimated $21 million and third place for the frame. The faith drama Elijah Peel posted a modest $250,551 from 535 locations. And the Green Day comedy Nimrods, which went out on the widest specialty footprint of the three, still has not reported a single public dollar.

The End of Oak Street finished the weekend with an estimated $21 million from 3,446 locations for a per theater average of $6,094, according to the weekend chart at The Numbers. That is ahead of the $18.7 million rival studios were projecting on Friday, as Variety reported, and slightly better than the roughly $20 million most of the industry had it pegged at. The film opened with $8.05 million on Friday including $2.5 million in Thursday previews, per Box Office Mojo. Clearing its own projections is the good news. The harder number is the production budget, which sits north of $80 million before marketing, and a $21 million domestic start leaves the picture needing strong legs and real international support to get anywhere near the black.

Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, best known for It Follows, The End of Oak Street stars Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor as parents whose early 1980s suburban block is abruptly relocated into a landscape crawling with prehistoric predators. Maisy Stella, Christian Convery and Jordan Alexa Davis round out the family, with J.J. Abrams producing through Bad Robot, Michael Giacchino scoring and Michael Gioulakis shooting. Critics have been broadly kind, with a Rotten Tomatoes score sitting in the mid 80s and an audience score in the high 70s, and opening night crowds handed it a B on CinemaScore. That is a workable but not commanding grade for a big swing original, and it means the film’s real test is whether it holds through the back half of August rather than what it did on opening weekend.

Context matters here, because Oak Street walked into a buzzsaw. Spider-Man: Brand New Day took $70 million in its third weekend, which Deadline notes is the second best third weekend ever at the domestic box office, pushing its running total to $785.8 million and putting it fourth on the all time North American chart by the end of Sunday. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey held second with $23.2 million in its fifth weekend and sailed past half a billion domestic. And in fourth, roughly half a million dollars behind Oak Street, was Paramount’s PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie with $20.5 million from 3,545 theaters, which is quietly the most interesting result of the frame, because it puts Mckenna Grace in two of the weekend’s new releases at once.

Grace voices a role in The Dino Movie alongside Carter Young, Terry Crews, Jennifer Hudson and Snoop Dogg, a return to the franchise TDN first covered when the film’s teaser dropped back in March. It earned an A on CinemaScore, matching the grade audiences gave 2023’s The Mighty Movie, and has already added $38.3 million from 52 overseas markets. Oak Street edged it for third by a hair in the Sunday estimates, but the two films are not playing the same game. The Dino Movie carries a $39.5 million production budget, less than half of what Warner Bros. spent on Oak Street, which makes essentially the same opening number a far healthier result for Paramount than it is for Warner Bros.

Her other film this weekend is Nimrods, and it has become the genuine oddity of the frame. Inaugural Entertainment and Live Nation Studios launched the R rated Green Day inspired road trip comedy on what Deadline described as 1,000 plus screens, yet the title is absent from the weekend chart entirely, has no listing on Box Office Mojo at all, and its box office line at The Numbers still reads not available. Thirty films reported grosses for the weekend, including titles playing on a single screen. Nimrods was not one of them. The one figure that exists anywhere comes from box office analyst Scott Mendelson, who projected the film at roughly $1.04 million from 1,012 theaters in his Outside Scoop newsletter. That is an outside estimate rather than a distributor reported number, and until Inaugural puts something on the board it is the only guide anyone has.

Directed by Lee Kirk, Nimrods follows a young musician who steals his brother’s car and drives his band from Kansas City to Los Angeles after a prank phone call convinces him they have been booked to open for Green Day. Mason Thames leads, with Grace playing Olivia, the role TDN covered when her character poster was released ahead of the theatrical run, and Kylr Coffman, Ryan Foust, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Fred Armisen, Bobby Lee and Sean Gunn filling out the ensemble. Billie Joe Armstrong produced and appears with Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool, and Armstrong’s son Jakob wrote songs for the film’s fictional band. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September and currently holds a 76 percent Rotten Tomatoes score across 45 reviews, with the consensus crediting its scrappy DIY spirit and lead performances. Grace also contributed to the 22 track soundtrack released July 31, including the single “It’s So Fine”, and Nimrods reunites her with Thames roughly ten months after the two costarred in the romantic drama Regretting You.

Taken together, the weekend caps what has already been an unusually loaded year for Grace on both the film and music sides. She opened 2026 in Scream 7, which debuted to $63.6 million in late February and finished with $121.9 million domestic and $213.8 million worldwide for Paramount, a run TDN covered as audiences rallied around her performance. She followed it with the solo single “Ugly and Rotten” in June, took the Phoenix Award at the Atlanta Film Festival’s 50th edition in April, and is heading into Netflix’s Scooby-Doo: Origins, where she anchors the cast. Two theatrical releases in the same weekend, one animated and one live action, is a fairly rare thing for any performer at any career stage, and it happened here without either film being built around her name on the poster.

Elijah Peel is the smallest of the three by a wide margin, but unlike Nimrods it did turn in a number. The PG-13 faith drama, distributed by EKKL Entertainment, grossed an estimated $250,551 from 535 theaters for a per theater average of $468. Kevin D. Sepe wrote and co-directed with Nathan Ross Murphy, and the film stars Robert Malcolm Cumming as a stadium filling rock star whose career of fame and addiction stops cold after a heart attack, with Evelyn Grace Kite, Kevin Sorbo, April Billingsley and Princess Elmore in support. Willie and Korie Robertson serve as executive producers. It arrives with three wins from the 2026 International Christian Film and Music Festival, including best picture, best director and a lead performance award for Kite, but with zero critic reviews logged on Rotten Tomatoes, which is typical for a title released through faith based channels that skip traditional press screenings and lean on church and community group sales instead.

The takeaway for anyone following these three is that the weekend produced one result better than expected, one result nobody can officially see, and one small but real number. Oak Street beat its projections and still has a budget problem, and its second weekend hold will say far more about the film’s fate than its opening did. Elijah Peel did what a modestly booked faith title does. Nimrods remains the outlier, a movie with a wide specialty release, a well reviewed cast and a built in Green Day fanbase whose distributor has so far declined to report anything, leaving an analyst projection of roughly $1 million as the only measure of how it actually did. Monday actuals will firm up the top of the chart, and Trevor Decker News will update if Inaugural surfaces an official figure.