Claim: Keeping Up with the Joneses had a budget of $40 million but only grossed $29 million.

Keeping Up with the Joneses is a 2016 American action comedy film directed by Greg Mottola and written by Michael LeSieur . Starring Zach Galifianakis , Jon Hamm , Isla Fisher and Gal Gadot , the film follows a suburban couple -LRB- Galifianakis and Fisher -RRB- who begin to suspect their new neighbors -LRB- Hamm and Gadot -RRB- are secret agents . The film was released on October 21 , 2016 by 20th Century Fox , received generally negative reviews and was a box office bomb , grossing $ 29 million against its $ 40 million budget .