--- title: Mr. Peabody & Sherman Beats Need for Speed and 300 at Box Office description: The DreamWorks animated flick about the intelligent beagle and his human companion beat out the Aaron Paul car-crash thriller at the weekend box office, raking in about $21.2 million based on preliminary studio estimates canonical: https://time.com/26525/mr-peabody-need-for-speed-box-office/ author: Richard Corliss article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-16T18:45:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T06:47:38.931Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Mr. Peabody & Sherman Beats Need for Speed and 300 at Box Office og:description: The DreamWorks animated flick about the intelligent beagle and his human companion beat out the Aaron Paul car-crash thriller at the weekend box office, raking in about $21.2 million based on preliminary studio estimates og:url: https://time.com/26525/mr-peabody-need-for-speed-box-office/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04e48f058fac4328/6986848455a85902e3a7f99b/film_review_mr_peabody_sherman-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Film Review Mr Peabody & Sherman og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mr. Peabody & Sherman Beats Need for Speed and 300 at Box Office twitter:description: The DreamWorks animated flick about the intelligent beagle and his human companion beat out the Aaron Paul car-crash thriller at the weekend box office, raking in about $21.2 million based on preliminary studio estimates twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04e48f058fac4328/6986848455a85902e3a7f99b/film_review_mr_peabody_sherman-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Mr. Peabody_ Outraces _Need for Speed_ > Sponsored content. 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This image released by DreamWorks Animation shows Sherman, voiced by Max Charles, from left, Penny, voiced by Ariel Winter, and Mr. Peabody, voiced by Ty Burell, in a scene from "Mr Peabody & Sherman."Dreamworks Animation/AP by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) ## Richard Corliss Mar 16, 2014 6:45 PM UTC The dog beat the Mustang. In its second frame, _Mr. Peabody & Sherman_ outraced the race-car newcomer _Need for Speed_ to win the weekend at North American theaters. The DreamWorks animated feature about a brilliant beagle and his pet boy earned $21.2 million, according to preliminary studio estimates. Benefitting from the beginning of spring break, which has sprung nearly 20% of kids from school, _Peabody_ fell just 34% from last weekend. Including $85 million from foreign markets, the movie’s 10-day total is just under $150 million. _Peabody’_s holding power underlines the current box-office magic of animated features, which have won four of the past six weekends—three of them snagged by _The LEGO Movie_, now at $236.9 million. Another cartoon fantasy, Disney’s _Frozen_, remained in the top 10 for its 16th consecutive week and has amassed $1.026 billion worldwide. **(READ: Our** [**review of** **_Mr. Peabody & Sherman_**](http://time.com/16534/review-mr-peabody-and-sherman-has-muttzpah/)**)** The weekend favorite in the judgment of most movie touts, _Need for Speed_ opened fairly well, with $1.1 million on Thursday night and another $5.5 million Friday. But like a flashy NASCAR speedster experiencing engine trouble in the middle of the big race, _Speed_ sputtered a bit and finished at $17.8 million, behind both _Peabody_ and last weekend’s champ, _300: Rise of an Empire_, at $19.1 million. **(READ:** [**Why** **_300: Rise of an Empire_** **is bloody good**](http://time.com/16474/review-300-rise-of-an-empire-is-bloody-good/)**)** _Need for Speed_ is based on the 1994 Electronic Arts video game, which has sold about $4 billion worth of units. In the movie version, Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman on _Breaking Bad_) plays a car jockey—a kind of nerd for speed—who drives his retooled Ford Mustang cross-country with the auto motive of revenge against a guy who stole his girl and killed his best friend. Budgeted at $66 million, _Speed_ was intended to launch a franchise in the spirit of _Fast & Furious_. Instead, it duplicated the soft results of other movies inspired by video games: _Doom_, _Max Payne_, _Hitman_. To [Deadline Hollywood’s Anita Busch](http://www.deadline.com/2014/03/box-office-mr-peabody-need-for-speed-in-second-gear-tyler-perrys-moms-club-worst-opener-budapest-hotel-exceptional-again/) wrote, this proved “that gamers are hermits and aren’t bringing friends (do they have any that aren’t digitally created in chat boxes?).” More than half of those who did forsake their consoles in their parents’ basement for the communal warmth of the multiplex were between the ages of 18 and 34\. In years past, a majority of young adults usually translated into a hit movie. These days, though, that group has ceded power to the kids and their parents who have turned so many animated features into blockbusters. **(READ:** [**The cinematic jolt of** **_Need for Speed_**](http://time.com/25214/need-for-speed-movie-review/)**)** Ninety percent of the theaters playing the DreamWorks live-action film showed it in 3-D, but only 43% of customers bothered to pay the surcharge. The audience, which gave the movie a B-plus rating as polled by CinemaScore, had a curious demographic breakdown: 70% were male, standard for a macho action film, but 66% were identified as “couples”—which implies that at least 4% of the date-night duos were gay men. Who knew so many of them were car buffs? _Speed_ did much better abroad, where it earned $45.6 million. In fact, the picture registered a higher gross over the weekend in China, $21.1 million, than it did in North America. The second-biggest foreign take, $5.5 million, was in Russia, and the fourth-highest, $1.9 million, in Malaysia, where the locals could use some diversion from the news of a lost airplane to enjoy a movie about car crashes. **(SEE:** [**The** **_Need for Speed_** **trailer**](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/09/25/todays-movie-trailer-aaron-paul-shows-his-need-for-speed/)**)** The other new wide release, _Tyler Perry’s The Good Moms Club_, stumbled to an $8.3 weekend—the lowest opening for any of the 15 movies written by the multitasking mogul. Not screened for critics, the drama received an indulgent A-minus CinemaScore rating from an audience that fit Perry’s demographic: 79% female, 80% 25 or older and predominantly African-American. _Veronica Mars_, the big-screen version of the TV cult favorite, raised its $5.7-million budget from more than 91,000 angels on Kickstarter. The opening weekend take of about $2 million, divided by an average ticket price of $10, suggests that each investor took a friend, and nobody else went. Or maybe the movie’s backers watched it on VOD, where it also opened; no numbers from On Demand are available. **(READ: A review by** **_Veronica Mars_** **investor Megan Gibson)** _Veronica Mars_ was playing in 291 theaters, giving it a $7,000 per-screen average. In just 66 venues, Wes Anderson’s _The Grand Budapest Hotel_ earned $3.5 million, for a sensational $55,000 PSA. We grant that impressive grosses in limited engagements don’t predict a movie’s wider success, but _Budapest_ has a shot at matching the domestic gross of Anderson’s biggest recent hit, _Moonrise Kingdom_ ($45.5 million) and possibly even of _The Royal Tenenbaums_ ($52.4 million in 2001, which would be $75.4 million in today’s dollars). Fingers crossed for the year’s finest new movie. **(READ: Corliss’s** [**mash note to** **_The Grand Budapest Hotel_**](http://time.com/17897/wes-andersons-the-grand-budapest-hotel-make-that-the-great/)**)** In art-house openings, _Bad Words_, the malicious little comedy directed by and starring Justin Bateman, managed $120,000 on six screens, while _Enemy_, a mystery thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a history teacher who meets his exact double, cadged $18,000 in one theater. Or could it be… _two_ theaters? **(READ: Our reviews of** [**_Bad Words_**](http://time.com/21841/review-bad-words-jason-bateman-f-s-up-a-shot-at-saturnine-satire/) **and** [**_Enemy_**](http://time.com/22554/review-in-enemy-jake-gyllenhaal-sees-double/)**)** Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by [Box Office Mojo](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/): 1\. _Mr. Peabody & Sherman_, $21.2 million; $63.2 million, second week 2\. _300: Rise of an Empire_, $19.1 million; $78.3 million, second week 3\. _Need for Speed_, $17.8 million, first weekend 4\. _Non-Stop_, $10.6 million; $68.8 million, third week 5\. _Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club_, $8.3 million, first weekend 6\. _The LEGO Movie_, $7.7 million; $236.9 million, sixth week 7\. _Son of God_, $5.4 million; $50.9 million, third week 8\. _The Grand Budapest Hotel_, $3.6 million; $4.8 million, second week 9\. _Frozen_, $2.1 million; $396.4 million, 17th week 10\. _Veronica Mars_, $2 million, first weekend ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/26525/mr-peabody-need-for-speed-box-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/26525/mr-peabody-need-for-speed-box-office/"},"headline":"Mr. Peabody Outraces Need for Speed","datePublished":"2014-03-16T18:45:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:47:38.931Z","description":"The DreamWorks animated flick about the intelligent beagle and his human companion beat out the Aaron Paul car-crash thriller at the weekend box office, raking in about $21.2 million based on preliminary studio estimates","url":"https://time.com/26525/mr-peabody-need-for-speed-box-office/","keywords":["movies","The Grand Budapest Hotel"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04e48f058fac4328/6986848455a85902e3a7f99b/film_review_mr_peabody_sherman-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Richard Corliss","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04e48f058fac4328/6986848455a85902e3a7f99b/film_review_mr_peabody_sherman-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Film Review Mr Peabody & Sherman","caption":"Film Review Mr Peabody & Sherman","creditText":"Dreamworks Animation/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/26525/mr-peabody-need-for-speed-box-office/","name":"Mr. Peabody Outraces Need for Speed"}}]}] ```