Name: 28 Days Later
Director: Danny Boyle
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 2002
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns, Brendan Gleeson

Date	Rank	Gross	Daily Chg	Weekly Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Days
Fri Jun 27	#4	$3.40M		—	$3.40M	1,258	$2.7K	1
Sat Jun 28	#4	$3.60M	+6%	—	$7.00M	1,258	$2.9K	2
Sun Jun 29	#4	$3.06M	-15%	—	$10.06M	1,258	$2.4K	3
Mon Jun 30	#4	$1.42M	-54%	—	$11.48M	1,258	$1.1K	4
Tue Jul 1	#5	$1.11M	-22%	—	$12.59M	1,258	$880	5
Wed Jul 2	#7	$876K	-21%	—	$13.47M	1,319	$664	6
Thu Jul 3	#7	$1.18M	+34%	—	$14.64M	1,319	$892	7
Fri Jul 4	#7	$1.33M	+13%	-61%	$15.97M	1,319	$1.0K	8
Sat Jul 5	#7	$2.52M	+90%	-30%	$18.49M	1,319	$1.9K	9
Sun Jul 6	#7	$2.16M	-14%	-30%	$20.56M	1,407	$1.5K	10
Mon Jul 7	#6	$1.09M	-49%	-23%	$21.65M	1,407	$777	11
Tue Jul 8	#7	$1.01M	-7%	-8%	$22.67M	1,407	$721	12
Wed Jul 9	#8	$780K	-23%	-11%	$23.45M	1,407	$554	13
Thu Jul 10	#8	$753K	-3%	-36%	$24.20M	1,407	$535	14
Fri Jul 11	#8	$1.29M	+71%	-3%	$25.49M	1,396	$924	15
Sat Jul 12	#8	$1.61M	+25%	-36%	$27.10M	1,396	$1.2K	16
Sun Jul 13	#7	$1.34M	-17%	-38%	$28.45M	1,396	$956	17
Mon Jul 14	#7	$646K	-52%	-41%	$29.09M	1,396	$463	18
Tue Jul 15	#8	$647K		-36%	$29.74M	1,396	$463	19
Wed Jul 16	#8	$594K	-8%	-24%	$30.34M	1,378	$431	20
Thu Jul 17	#8	$521K	-12%	-31%	$30.86M	1,378	$378	21
Fri Jul 18	#10	$810K	+55%	-37%	$31.67M	1,310	$618	22
Sat Jul 19	#10	$955K	+18%	-41%	$32.62M	1,310	$729	23
Sun Jul 20	#10	$777K	-19%	-42%	$33.40M	1,310	$593	24
Mon Jul 21	#10	$392K	-50%	-39%	$33.79M	1,310	$299	25
Tue Jul 22	#10	$410K	+5%	-37%	$34.20M	1,310	$313	26
Thu Jul 24	#10	$399K		-23%	$34.96M	1,310	$305	28

Weekend	Rank	Gross	Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Wks
Jun 27-29	4	$10.06M	—	$10.06M	1,260	$8.0K	1
Jul 4-6	7	$6.01M	-40.3%	$20.56M	1,318	$4.6K	2
Jul 11-13	8	$4.25M	-29.3%	$28.45M	1,396	$3.0K	3
Jul 18-20	10	$2.54M	-40.2%	$33.40M	1,310	$1.9K	4
Jul 25-27	11	$2.34M	-7.9%	$37.30M	915	$2.6K	5
Aug 1-3	13	$1.66M	-28.9%	$40.29M	842	$2.0K	6
Aug 8-10	15	$891K	-46.5%	$42.07M	647	$1.4K	7
Aug 15-17	22	$456K	-48.8%	$43.03M	336	$1.4K	8
Aug 22-24	31	$289K	-36.6%	$43.58M	247	$1.2K	9
Aug 29-31	29	$388K	+34.3%	$44.11M	220	$1.8K	10
Sep 5-7	32	$242K	-37.8%	$44.54M	248	$975	11
Sep 12-14	37	$145K	-40.2%	$44.78M	212	$682	12
Sep 19-21	51	$61K	-57.7%	$44.90M	136	$449	13
Sep 26-28	59	$44K	-28.4%	$44.97M	93	$471	14
Oct 3-5	71	$26K	-40.4%	$45.02M	51	$512	15
Oct 10-12	67	$15K	-43.4%	$45.04M	28	$528	16
Oct 17-19	82	$6K	-57.7%	$45.06M	16	$391	17
Oct 24-26	80	$3K	-44.4%	$45.06M	8	$435	18

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

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Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byDanny Boyle

Written byAlex Garland

Produced byAndrew Macdonald

CinematographyAnthony Dod Mantle

Music byJohn Murphy

StarringCillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns, Brendan Gleeson

StudioFox Searchlight Pictures

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