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Billy Elliot

2000 R 1h 50m Drama, Music Focus Features

Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it.

Billy Elliot Box Office

Opening Weekend
$216K
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$22.0M
Final
Worldwide Total
$109M
$87.3M international
Domestic Legs102.0x
Budget$5.0M
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Nov 3-5 13 $1.03M $2.83M 119 $8.7K 1
Nov 10-12 9 $2.60M +151.8% $5.80M 494 $5.3K 2
Nov 17-19 12 $1.77M -31.8% $8.40M 497 $3.6K 3
Nov 24-26 11 $2.03M +14.3% $11.31M 494 $4.1K 4
Dec 1-3 11 $1.34M -33.8% $13.21M 510 $2.6K 5
Dec 8-10 13 $916K -31.7% $14.59M 471 $1.9K 6
Dec 15-17 16 $585K -36.1% $15.48M 405 $1.4K 7
Dec 22-25 23 $411K -29.8% $16.23M 256 $1.6K 8
Dec 29-Jan 1 24 $524K +27.6% $17.10M 234 $2.2K 9
Jan 5-7 23 $450K -14.2% $17.73M 267 $1.7K 10
Jan 12-15 27 $448K -0.3% $18.37M 212 $2.1K 11
Jan 19-21 27 $261K -41.9% $18.73M 199 $1.3K 12
Jan 26-28 29 $204K -21.8% $19.07M 155 $1.3K 13
Feb 2-4 31 $212K +4.0% $19.37M 127 $1.7K 14
Feb 9-11 33 $175K -17.5% $19.62M 108 $1.6K 15
Feb 16-19 Presidents' Day 34 $301K +71.9% $19.99M 138 $2.2K 16
Feb 23-25 32 $240K -20.1% $20.31M 148 $1.6K 17
Mar 2-4 32 $213K -11.3% $20.63M 135 $1.6K 18
Mar 9-11 36 $184K -13.9% $20.89M 153 $1.2K 19
Mar 16-18 31 $176K -4.2% $21.17M 153 $1.1K 20
Mar 23-25 30 $182K +3.5% $21.44M 159 $1.1K 21
Mar 30-Apr 1 34 $120K -34.3% $21.65M 114 $1.0K 22

Performance Charts

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

Daily Gross

Cumulative Total

Weekend Gross Trend

Theater Count

Profitability

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

Domestic vs International Split

Cast & Crew

Directed byStephen Daldry
ScreenplayLee Hall
Produced byGreg Brenman, Jon Finn
CinematographyBrian Tufano
MusicStephen Warbeck
Prod. DesignMaria Djurkovic
StarringJamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven, Stuart Wells
StudioFocus Features

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