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2003 • PG-13 • 1h 52m • Comedy, Drama, Sport • Fox Searchlight Pictures

Who wants to cook Aloo Gobi when you can bend a ball like Beckham?

🍅 85% 73% MC 66 LB 3.47 IMDb 6.7

Box office summary

Opening weekend
$161.5K
3-day opening
Domestic total
$32.50M
Final
Worldwide total
$74.60M
$42.00M international
Domestic legs16.7x from $2.0M biggest weekend
Budget$5.6M
2003 rank#88
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Cast & crew

Keira Knightley Keira Knightley Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers Jonathan Rhys Meyers Starring Anupam Kher Anupam Kher Starring Juliet Stevenson Juliet Stevenson Starring
ScreenplayGurinder Chadha, Guljit Bindra, Paul Mayeda Berges Produced byDeepak Nayar, Gurinder Chadha CinematographyJong Lin Music byCraig Pruess StudioFox Searchlight Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal
1 Mar 14-16 38 $161.5K — 6 $26,921 $191.8K
2 Mar 21-23 32 $178.1K +10.2% 8 $22,260 $437.9K
3 Mar 28-30 18 $655.7K +268.2% 46 $14,255 $1.2M
4 Apr 4-6 16 $1.2M +78.4% 117 $10,001 $2.6M
5 Apr 11-13 14 $1.4M +17.6% 216 $6,369 $4.3M
6 Apr 18-20 14 $2.0M +42.0% 392 $4,984 $6.8M
7 Apr 25-27 13 $1.5M −21.2% 421 $3,656 $9.1M
8 May 2-4 10 $1.5M −4.5% 483 $3,044 $11.0M
9 May 9-11 9 $1.7M +18.1% 555 $3,128 $13.2M
10 May 16-18 10 $1.4M −21.0% 553 $2,481 $15.0M
11 May 23-25 11 $1.7M +26.3% 522 $3,321 $17.3M
12 May 30-Jun 1 11 $1.1M −38.0% 491 $2,188 $19.2M
13 Jun 6-8 10 $942.3K −12.3% 493 $1,911 $20.5M
14 Jun 13-15 12 $801.3K −15.0% 387 $2,071 $21.7M
15 Jun 20-22 14 $740.6K −7.6% 315 $2,351 $23.0M
16 Jun 27-29 18 $566.9K −23.4% 301 $1,883 $23.9M
17 Jul 4-6 18 $487.4K −14.0% 239 $2,040 $24.7M
18 Jul 11-13 18 $384.8K −21.1% 195 $1,973 $25.3M
19 Jul 18-20 21 $304.9K −20.8% 156 $1,954 $25.9M
20 Jul 25-27 24 $223.6K −26.7% 119 $1,879 $26.3M
21 Aug 1-3 12 $1.8M +711.0% 1,002 $1,809 $28.3M
22 Aug 8-10 14 $915.0K −49.5% 849 $1,078 $30.1M
23 Aug 15-17 26 $316.6K −65.4% 277 $1,143 $30.9M
24 Aug 22-24 37 $193.8K −38.8% 161 $1,204 $31.3M
25 Aug 29-31 35 $215.4K +11.1% 152 $1,417 $31.7M
26 Sep 5-7 34 $190.0K −11.8% 173 $1,098 $32.0M
27 Sep 12-14 38 $144.6K −23.9% 164 $882 $32.2M
28 Sep 19-21 47 $89.5K −38.1% 117 $765 $32.3M
29 Sep 26-28 50 $68.4K −23.6% 99 $691 $32.4M
30 Oct 3-5 63 $36.1K −47.2% 54 $669 $32.5M
31 Oct 10-12 66 $15.1K −58.2% 26 $581 $32.5M
32 Oct 17-19 85 $5.1K −66.0% 16 $321 $32.5M
Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record
Weekend grossWk 10 · $1.4M
$161.5K
$178.1K
$655.7K
$1.2M
$1.4M
$2.0M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.4M
W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10
Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −21.0%
+10.2%
W1→2
+268.2%
W2→3
+78.4%
W3→4
+17.6%
W4→5
+42.0%
W5→6
−21.2%
W6→7
−4.5%
W7→8
+18.1%
W8→9
−21.0%
W9→10
Steepest −21.2%Biggest gain +268.2%

Profitability

Return on Budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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