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Bill & Ted's Excellent AdventureFollow

1989 • PG • 1h 30m • Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction • Orion Pictures

History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can't spell.

🍅 83% 75% MC 50 LB 3.67 IMDb 6.9

Box office summary

Opening weekend
$6.20M
3-day opening
Domestic total
$40.50M
Final
Domestic legs6.6x
Budget$10M
1989 rank#32
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Cast & crew

Directed byStephen Herek ScreenplayChris Matheson, Ed Solomon Produced byScott Kroopf, Michael S. Murphey, Joel Soisson CinematographyTimothy Suhrstedt Music byDavid Newman StarringKeanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Terry Camilleri, Dan Shor, Tony Steedman, Rod Loomis, Al Leong StudioOrion Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal
1 Feb 17-19 3 $6.2M — 1,196 $5,157 $6.2M
2 Feb 24-26 3 $4.7M −24.5% 1,228 $3,794 $12.0M
3 Mar 3-5 2 $4.5M −4.4% 1,314 $3,388 $17.4M
4 Mar 10-12 5 $3.4M −24.7% 1,314 $2,551 $21.8M
5 Mar 17-19 8 $2.5M −25.3% 1,321 $1,897 $25.2M
6 Mar 24-26 9 $2.1M −16.1% 1,320 $1,593 $28.6M
7 Mar 31-Apr 2 5 $2.0M −6.1% 1,313 $1,503 $31.7M
8 Apr 7-9 9 $1.4M −28.8% 1,201 $1,171 $33.7M
10 Apr 21-23 15 $629.7K — 777 $810 $36.0M
13 May 12-14 19 $290.7K — 438 $664 $37.8M
Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record
Weekend grossWk 10 · $629.7K
$6.2M
$4.7M
$4.5M
$3.4M
$2.5M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$1.4M
$629.7K
W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W10
Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −28.8%
−24.5%
W1→2
−4.4%
W2→3
−24.7%
W3→4
−25.3%
W4→5
−16.1%
W5→6
−6.1%
W6→7
−28.8%
W7→8
Steepest −28.8%Best hold −4.4%

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