GOAT moves like a highlight reel and thinks like a sports movie: momentum, teamwork, pressure, and the nerve it takes to keep shooting when the room expects you to pass. Produced by Stephen Curry (who also voices the giraffe teammate Lenny Williamson), the film drops viewers into roarball, a co-ed, full-contact, basketball-adjacent sport where size looks like destiny…, until one small goat starts rewriting the math.
GOAT moves like a highlight reel and thinks like a sports movie: momentum, teamwork, pressure, and the nerve it takes to keep shooting when the room expects you to pass. Produced by Stephen Curry (who also voices the giraffe teammate Lenny Williamson), the film drops viewers into roarball, a co-ed, full-contact, basketball-adjacent sport where size looks like destiny…, until one small goat starts rewriting the math.
February 17, 2026
In a market that loves familiar brands, GOAT wins by feeling freshly engineered. Its numbers land with clarity: a $27.2M domestic opening weekend, a $35.1M four-day holiday debut, and an early worldwide total that’s already crossed $102M. It also rolled out wide, spanning 3,863 theaters, with a muscular $7,042 per-theater average that signals genuine demand, not niche curiosity.
What audiences respond to is the film’s dual-track credibility: spectacle plus sport. The premise is simple — Will, a young goat with pro-level ambition, gets a shot at the roarball big leagues, yet the execution treats athletic movement as story. Instead of filming roarball like a broadcast, director Tyree Dillihay and the team chase something closer to playing: cameras weaving through legs, sliding under jump shots, riding the speed and weight of animal athletes.
That realism extends to the details. NBA All-Star Andre Iguodala served as a basketball consultant. The team even filmed him moving 3D character models like chess pieces to shape authentic plays, so character beats (learning to pass, finding lanes, reading the floor) feel earned. Then there’s the style: bright, textured, relentlessly kinetic. Rotten Tomatoes’ page highlights how critics clock its “hyperkinetic” look as closely aligned with Sony’s Spider-Verse era energy, while audiences have kept the Popcornmeter high at 93% with 1,000+ verified ratings.
Finally, the “breakout” label shows up in retention. In week two, GOAT climbed to #1 with a $17M weekend, the kind of hold that comes from families recommending it and coming back.
