The A24 romance comedy The Drama starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson has lastly handed a important field workplace purpose. Releasing nationwide on April 3 in the USA, the movie had an honest home opening weekend and has performed decently over its first month in theaters, notably in Europe. The Drama, directed and written by Kristoffer Borgil, follows engaged couple Emma Harwood (Zendaya) and Charlie Thompson (Robert Pattinson) whose upcoming marriage ceremony is threatened after the pair learns damaging secrets and techniques about one another. On condition that the film got here out on the identical day as The Tremendous Mario Galaxy Film, its field workplace haul to date has been higher than anticipated.
A24’s The Drama is performing properly on the field workplace
As of Could 1, The Drama has earned a complete of $114 million worldwide, with $44.8 million coming domestically and $69.3 million coming internationally, based mostly on Box Office Mojo.
The movie has a manufacturing funds of $28 million, in line with The Numbers, which signifies that the film has already develop into worthwhile. To account for advertising and promoting, films usually must make 2.5 instances its funds on the field workplace to interrupt even, which comes out to $70 million for The Drama. Which means that the A24 manufacturing is just not solely already successful, however has raked in over $40 million in revenue, exhibiting the strength of Zendaya and Pattinson as romantic leads. The movie nonetheless has a couple of month or two in theaters as properly, although it should face competitors towards the female-driven blockbuster The Devil Wears Prada 2.
Roughly 60 % of The Drama’s field workplace whole has come abroad (that’s, outdoors of the US and Canada), which is comparatively excessive for films lately. Particularly, it has had a powerful viewers reception in the UK ($12.4 million), France ($6.1 million), Germany ($4.2 million), Italy ($5.7 million), Mexico ($4.8 million), Australia ($4 million), and Russia / CIS ($7 million).
On the home entrance, the movie had an honest opener of $14.3 million, which was on the upper finish of some field workplace predictions. Its $44 million home whole to date places it in 14th place for films in 2026 and sits between the home openers for love movie Reminders of Him and the motion thriller Crime 101.
To place these numbers into perspective with different romance movies launched in 2026, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s Wuthering Heights made $241 million on a $80 million funds, whereas Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Web page’s You, Me & Tuscany has earned $21 million to date on a $18 million funds. The Drama is especially excellent news for A24, which has had some early struggles in 2026 with Anne Hathaway’s Mom Mary ($1.6 million to date on a $20 million funds) and Glen Powell’s How one can Make a Killing ($20.4 million on a $15 million funds). That stated, the unbiased movie firm did have a serious field workplace hit with the Canadian supernatural horror flick Undertone that earned a whopping $21 million on a mere $500,000 funds.
Part of The Drama’s continued success has come from its excessive critic scores and viewers evaluations. On Rotten Tomatoes, the R-rated movie is “Licensed Recent” and holds a 77% ranking from critics and an equally sturdy 78% ranking from audiences. It additionally has a excessive common rating of seven.5 out of 10 on IMDB. ComingSoon’s Jonathan Sim scored The Drama an 8 out of 10 in his review, praising how the movie “explores how simply love may be destabilized when the picture we’ve of somebody is disrupted, and the way troublesome it’s to rebuilt that picture as soon as it’s been shattered.”
