Name: Being John Malkovich
Director: Spike Jonze
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Released: 1999
Cast: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, John Malkovich, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean

Date	Rank	Gross	Daily Chg	Weekly Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Days
Sun Oct 31	#17	$192K		—	$638K	25	$7.7K	3
Mon Nov 1	#15	$90K	-53%	—	$727K	25	$3.6K	4
Tue Nov 2	#15	$97K	+8%	—	$824K	25	$3.9K	5
Wed Nov 3	#14	$90K	-7%	—	$914K	25	$3.6K	6
Thu Nov 4	#15	$92K	+2%	—	$1.01M	25	$3.7K	7
Sun Nov 7	#11	$515K		+168%	$2.88M	25	$20.6K	10
Mon Nov 8	#11	$165K	-68%	+84%	$3.04M	25	$6.6K	11
Tue Nov 9	#11	$198K	+20%	+105%	$3.24M	25	$7.9K	12
Wed Nov 10	#13	$223K	+12%	+147%	$3.46M	175	$1.3K	13
Thu Nov 11	#14	$274K	+23%	+198%	$3.73M	175	$1.6K	14
Fri Nov 12	#12	$740K	+170%	—	$4.47M	416	$1.8K	15
Sat Nov 13	#13	$980K	+32%	—	$5.46M	468	$2.1K	16
Sun Nov 14	#11	$619K	-37%	+20%	$6.09M	467	$1.3K	17
Mon Nov 15	#9	$180K	-71%	+10%	$6.27M	467	$386	18
Tue Nov 16	#9	$220K	+22%	+11%	$6.49M	467	$471	19
Wed Nov 17	#9	$202K	-8%	-9%	$6.70M	467	$432	20
Thu Nov 18	#9	$198K	-2%	-28%	$6.89M	467	$424	21
Fri Nov 19	#10	$543K	+174%	-27%	$7.44M	590	$920	22
Sat Nov 20	#10	$865K	+59%	-12%	$8.30M	590	$1.5K	23
Sun Nov 21	#10	$483K	-44%	-22%	$8.77M	591	$817	24
Mon Nov 22	#10	$164K	-66%	-9%	$8.93M	591	$278	25
Tue Nov 23	#10	$226K	+37%	+3%	$9.16M	591	$382	26
Wed Nov 24	#11	$305K	+35%	+51%	$9.46M	591	$516	27
Thu Nov 25	#11	$382K	+25%	+93%	$9.85M	591	$646	28
Fri Nov 26	#10	$768K	+101%	+41%	$10.61M	591	$1.3K	29
Sat Nov 27	#10	$828K	+8%	-4%	$11.44M	591	$1.4K	30
Sun Nov 28	#10	$431K	-48%	-11%	$11.91M	589	$732	31
Mon Nov 29	#9	$120K	-72%	-27%	$12.03M	589	$204	32
Tue Nov 30	#9	$150K	+25%	-34%	$12.18M	589	$255	33
Wed Dec 1	#9	$130K	-13%	-57%	$12.31M	589	$221	34
Thu Dec 2	#8	$133K	+2%	-65%	$12.44M	589	$227	35
Fri Dec 3	#9	$404K	+203%	-47%	$12.85M	624	$647	36
Sat Dec 4	#9	$643K	+59%	-22%	$13.49M	624	$1.0K	37
Sun Dec 5	#9	$338K	-47%	-22%	$13.83M	624	$542	38
Mon Dec 6	#8	$112K	-67%	-7%	$13.94M	624	$180	39
Tue Dec 7	#8	$142K	+27%	-5%	$14.08M	624	$228	40
Wed Dec 8	#8	$126K	-11%	-3%	$14.21M	624	$202	41
Thu Dec 9	#8	$120K	-5%	-10%	$14.33M	624	$192	42
Fri Dec 10	#9	$268K	+124%	-34%	$14.60M	630	$425	43
Sat Dec 11	#10	$421K	+57%	-35%	$15.02M	630	$668	44
Sun Dec 12	#10	$253K	-40%	-25%	$15.30M	630	$402	45
Mon Dec 13	#9	$91K	-64%	-19%	$15.39M	630	$145	46
Tue Dec 14	#9	$133K	+46%	-7%	$15.50M	630	$211	47
Wed Dec 15	#9	$101K	-24%	-20%	$15.60M	630	$160	48
Thu Dec 16	#9	$102K	+2%	-15%	$15.70M	630	$162	49
Sun Dec 19	#11	$231K		-9%	$16.49M	491	$470	52
Mon Dec 20	#12	$119K	-49%	+30%	$16.58M	491	$242	53
Tue Dec 21	#11	$146K	+23%	+10%	$16.73M	491	$298	54
Mon Dec 27	#16	$111K		-6%	$17.42M	247	$451	60
Tue Dec 28	#17	$107K	-4%	-27%	$17.53M	247	$433	61
Wed Dec 29	#17	$99K	-8%	—	$17.62M	247	$399	62
Sun Jan 2	#16	$177K		—	$18.24M	249	$711	66
Mon Jan 3	#16	$92K	-48%	-17%	$18.34M	249	$370	67
Tue Jan 4	#16	$67K	-27%	-37%	$18.40M	249	$268	68
Wed Jan 5	#16	$70K	+5%	-29%	$18.47M	249	$281	69
Thu Jan 6	#16	$71K	+2%	—	$18.54M	249	$286	70
Sun Jan 9	#19	$132K		-25%	$19.04M	235	$562	73
Mon Jan 10	#20	$46K	-65%	-50%	$19.08M	235	$198	74
Tue Jan 11	#20	$54K	+16%	-19%	$19.13M	235	$230	75

Weekend	Rank	Gross	Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Wks
Oct 29-31	17	$638K	—	$638K	25	$25.5K	1
Nov 5-7	14	$1.85M	+190.4%	$2.88M	175	$10.6K	2
Nov 12-14	14	$2.34M	+26.2%	$6.09M	467	$5.0K	3
Nov 19-21	10	$1.87M	-20.2%	$8.77M	591	$3.2K	4
Nov 26-28	10	$2.04M	+9.6%	$11.91M	589	$3.5K	5
Dec 3-5	8	$1.36M	-33.3%	$13.83M	624	$2.2K	6
Dec 10-12	10	$963K	-29.4%	$15.29M	630	$1.5K	7
Dec 17-19	11	$751K	-22.0%	$16.49M	491	$1.5K	8
Dec 24-26	18	$302K	-59.8%	$17.31M	247	$1.2K	9
Dec 31-Jan 2	17	$473K	+56.5%	$18.24M	249	$1.9K	10
Jan 7-9	21	$488K	+3.3%	$19.04M	235	$2.1K	11
Jan 14-16	24	$510K	+4.4%	$19.74M	218	$2.3K	12
Jan 21-23	30	$303K	-40.6%	$20.16M	192	$1.6K	13
Jan 28-30	29	$313K	+3.3%	$20.60M	233	$1.3K	14
Feb 4-6	30	$314K	+0.4%	$21.06M	207	$1.5K	15
Feb 11-13	31	$251K	-20.1%	$21.42M	173	$1.4K	16
Feb 18-20	32	$243K	-3.1%	$21.76M	165	$1.5K	17
Feb 25-27	34	$159K	-34.5%	$21.98M	135	$1.2K	18
Mar 3-5	43	$107K	-33.0%	$22.14M	95	$1.1K	19
Mar 10-12	47	$83K	-22.7%	$22.27M	70	$1.2K	20
Mar 17-19	51	$65K	-21.0%	$22.37M	73	$893	21
Mar 24-26	43	$91K	+39.2%	$22.50M	82	$1.1K	22
Mar 31-Apr 2	43	$70K	-22.8%	$22.62M	82	$854	23
Apr 7-9	48	$49K	-29.5%	$22.70M	74	$668	24
Apr 14-16	61	$30K	-40.3%	$22.75M	48	$615	25
Apr 21-23	60	$35K	+18.6%	$22.80M	48	$729	26
Apr 28-30	75	$20K	-42.6%	$22.84M	36	$558	27
May 5-7	99	$5K	-73.4%	$22.86M	21	$254	28

Performance Charts

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

Daily Gross

Cumulative Total

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Theater Count

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Week-over-Week Drop

Weekly Gross Decline (%)

Cast & Crew

Directed bySpike Jonze

Written byCharlie Kaufman

Produced byMichael Stipe, Sandy Stern, Steve Golin, Vincent Landay

CinematographyLance Acord

Music byCarter Burwell

StarringJohn Cusack, Cameron Diaz, John Malkovich, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean

StudioUSA Films

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