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2003 • PG-13 • 1h 53m • Comedy, Crime, Musical • Miramax

If you can't be famous, be infamous.

🍅 87% 83%

81

4.02

7.2

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$2.10M

Limited · 77 theaters

Domestic total

$171.00M

Final

Worldwide total

$307.00M

$136.00M international

Domestic legs20.8x from $8.2M first wide weekend

Budget$45.0M

2003 rank#8

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Cast & crew

Full Marshall filmography

Rob Marshall

Rob Marshall Director

Renée Zellweger

Renée Zellweger Starring

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones Starring

Richard Gere

Richard Gere Starring

Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah Starring

John C. Reilly

John C. Reilly Starring

ScreenplayBill Condon Produced byMartin Richards CinematographyDion Beebe MusicDanny Elfman Prod. DesignJohn Myhre StudioMiramax

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Dec 27-29 13 $2.1M — 77 $26,947 $2.1M

2 Jan 3-5 9 $5.0M +139% 304 $16,332 $9.2M

3 Jan 10-12 6 $5.7M +15% 362 $15,720 $17.2M

4 Jan 17-19 6 $7.6M +34% 557 $13,648 $29.4M

5 Jan 24-26 3 $8.2M +8% 616 $13,374 $40.4M

6 Jan 31-Feb 2 5 $7.1M −14% 623 $11,321 $50.6M

7 Feb 7-9 3 $10.8M +53% 1,841 $5,859 $63.8M

8 Feb 14-16 3 $12.7M +18% 2,268 $5,603 $82.6M

9 Feb 21-23 5 $8.2M −35% 2,355 $3,499 $94.1M

10 Feb 28-Mar 2 5 $7.9M −5% 2,447 $3,209 $104.9M

11 Mar 7-9 4 $6.8M −13% 2,600 $2,632 $114.4M

12 Mar 14-16 5 $7.1M +4% 2,600 $2,732 $124.8M

13 Mar 21-23 6 $6.2M −13% 2,565 $2,407 $134.0M

14 Mar 28-30 5 $7.2M +17% 2,701 $2,669 $144.7M

15 Apr 4-6 8 $5.1M −29% 2,395 $2,130 $152.0M

16 Apr 11-13 9 $3.2M −37% 2,114 $1,517 $156.9M

17 Apr 18-20 10 $2.5M −22% 1,711 $1,461 $160.7M

18 Apr 25-27 12 $1.6M −37% 1,209 $1,310 $163.5M

19 May 2-4 15 $978.2K −38% 825 $1,185 $165.0M

20 May 9-11 11 $1.1M +14% 761 $1,459 $166.5M

21 May 16-18 12 $573.0K −48% 520 $1,101 $167.4M

22 May 23-25 16 $456.0K −20% 340 $1,341 $168.1M

23 May 30-Jun 1 19 $265.3K −42% 290 $914 $168.6M

24 Jun 6-8 25 $187.1K −29% 250 $748 $169.0M

25 Jun 13-15 31 $126.5K −32% 181 $698 $169.2M

26 Jun 20-22 34 $83.6K −34% 131 $638 $169.4M

27 Jun 27-29 39 $63.8K −24% 115 $555 $169.5M

28 Jul 4-6 39 $62.2K −3% 91 $683 $169.6M

29 Jul 11-13 26 $189.7K +205% 262 $724 $169.8M

30 Jul 18-20 28 $157.6K −17% 230 $685 $170.1M

31 Jul 25-27 36 $105.2K −33% 172 $611 $170.3M

32 Aug 1-3 42 $73.1K −31% 135 $541 $170.4M

33 Aug 8-10 50 $55.1K −25% 108 $510 $170.5M

34 Aug 15-17 53 $33.6K −39% 76 $441 $170.6M

35 Aug 22-24 64 $21.2K −37% 54 $393 $170.7M

36 Aug 29-31 79 $11.7K −45% 26 $448 $170.7M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Jan 3 #9 $1.5M — $5.8M 304 $4,944 8

Sat Jan 4 #9 $2.1M +41% $7.9M 304 $6,957 9

Sun Jan 5 #9 $1.4M −36% $9.2M 304 $4,472 10

Mon Jan 6 #7 $514.0K −62% $9.8M 304 $1,690 11

Tue Jan 7 #7 $567.0K +10% $10.3M 304 $1,865 12

Wed Jan 8 #7 $564.0K −1% $10.9M 304 $1,855 13

Thu Jan 9 #6 $580.0K +3% $11.5M 304 $1,907 14

Fri Jan 10 #6 $1.6M +184% +9% $13.1M 362 $4,544 15

Sat Jan 11 #6 $2.5M +52% +18% $15.6M 362 $6,892 16

Sun Jan 12 #6 $1.6M −38% +14% $17.2M 362 $4,281 17

Mon Jan 13 #4 $524.0K −66% +2% $17.7M 362 $1,447 18

Tue Jan 14 #4 $641.0K +22% +13% $18.3M 362 $1,770 19

Wed Jan 15 #4 $608.0K −5% +8% $18.9M 362 $1,679 20

Thu Jan 16 #4 $637.0K +5% +10% $19.7M 362 $1,759 21

Fri Jan 17 #7 $2.0M +209% +20% $21.6M 557 $3,538 22

Sat Jan 18 #6 $3.3M +66% +31% $24.9M 557 $5,870 23

Sun Jan 19 #6 $2.3M −30% +48% $27.2M 557 $4,120 24

Mon Jan 20 #4 $2.1M −7% +309% $29.3M 557 $3,845 25

Tue Jan 21 #1 $952.0K −56% +49% $30.4M 557 $1,709 26

Wed Jan 22 #1 $862.0K −9% +42% $31.2M 557 $1,547 27

Thu Jan 23 #1 $925.0K +7% +45% $32.1M 557 $1,660 28

Fri Jan 24 #2 $2.6M +182% +32% $34.8M 629 $4,141 29

Sat Jan 25 #3 $3.9M +50% +20% $38.7M 629 $6,220 30

Sun Jan 26 #3 $1.7M −56% −24% $40.4M 629 $2,756 31

Mon Jan 27 #2 $692.0K −60% −68% $41.1M 616 $1,123 32

Tue Jan 28 #1 $834.0K +21% −12% $41.9M 616 $1,353 33

Wed Jan 29 #1 $800.0K −4% −7% $42.7M 616 $1,298 34

Thu Jan 30 #1 $853.0K +7% −8% $43.6M 616 $1,384 35

Fri Jan 31 #5 $1.9M +127% −26% $45.5M 616 $3,149 36

Sat Feb 1 #5 $3.1M +62% −19% $48.7M 623 $5,056 37

Sun Feb 2 #5 $2.0M −38% +13% $50.6M 623 $3,146 38

Mon Feb 3 #4 $482.0K −75% −30% $51.1M 623 $773 39

Tue Feb 4 #3 $639.0K +33% −23% $51.8M 623 $1,025 40

Wed Feb 5 #3 $635.0K −1% −21% $52.4M 623 $1,019 41

Thu Feb 6 #3 $629.0K −1% −26% $53.0M 623 $1,009 42

Fri Feb 7 #3 $3.0M +370% +52% $56.0M 1,841 $1,605 43

Sat Feb 8 #3 $5.0M +69% +59% $61.0M 1,841 $2,718 44

Sun Feb 9 #3 $2.8M −43% +45% $63.8M 1,841 $1,539 45

Mon Feb 10 #3 $759.0K −73% +57% $64.6M 1,841 $412 46

Tue Feb 11 #2 $1.1M +47% +74% $65.7M 1,841 $605 47

Wed Feb 12 #1 $1.2M +7% +88% $66.9M 1,841 $646 48

Thu Feb 13 #2 $1.2M +1% +91% $68.1M 1,841 $652 49

Fri Feb 14 #3 $4.0M +233% +35% $72.1M 2,268 $1,761 50

Sat Feb 15 #3 $5.2M +29% +3% $77.3M 2,268 $2,279 51

Sun Feb 16 #4 $3.5M −32% +24% $80.8M 2,268 $1,547 52

Mon Feb 17 #4 $1.8M −49% +136% $82.6M 2,268 $791 53

Tue Feb 18 #3 $1.1M −38% n/c $83.7M 2,268 $491 54

Wed Feb 19 #3 $984.0K −12% −17% $84.7M 2,268 $433 55

Thu Feb 20 #3 $1.1M +10% −10% $85.9M 2,268 $475 56

Fri Feb 21 #4 $2.5M +130% −38% $88.3M 2,268 $1,091 57

Sat Feb 22 #5 $3.7M +48% −29% $92.0M 2,355 $1,560 58

Sun Feb 23 #5 $2.1M −42% −40% $94.1M 2,355 $898 59

Mon Feb 24 #4 $583.0K −72% −68% $94.7M 2,355 $247 60

Tue Feb 25 #3 $781.0K +34% −30% $95.5M 2,355 $331 61

Wed Feb 26 #3 $723.0K −7% −27% $96.2M 2,355 $307 62

Thu Feb 27 #3 $783.0K +8% −27% $97.0M 2,355 $332 63

Fri Feb 28 #5 $2.2M +181% −11% $99.2M 2,447 $897 64

Sat Mar 1 #5 $3.7M +68% n/c $102.9M 2,447 $1,507 65

Sun Mar 2 #6 $2.0M −46% −6% $104.9M 2,447 $811 66

Mon Mar 3 #3 $614.0K −69% +5% $105.5M 2,355 $260 67

Tue Mar 4 #3 $746.0K +21% −4% $106.3M 2,355 $316 68

Wed Mar 5 #3 $679.0K −9% −6% $106.9M 2,447 $277 69

Thu Mar 6 #3 $696.0K +3% −11% $107.6M 2,447 $284 70

Fri Mar 7 #6 $1.8M +158% −18% $109.4M 2,600 $690 71

Sat Mar 8 #4 $3.1M +74% −16% $112.5M 2,600 $1,198 72

Sun Mar 9 #4 $1.9M −38% −3% $114.4M 2,600 $743 73

Mon Mar 10 #4 $770.0K −60% +25% $115.2M 2,600 $296 74

Tue Mar 11 #3 $900.0K +17% +21% $116.1M 2,600 $346 75

Wed Mar 12 #3 $856.0K −5% +26% $117.0M 2,600 $329 76

Thu Mar 13 #3 $824.0K −4% +18% $117.7M 2,600 $316 77

Fri Mar 14 #6 $2.0M +142% +11% $119.7M 2,600 $767 78

Sat Mar 15 #5 $3.2M +61% +3% $122.9M 2,600 $1,235 79

Sun Mar 16 #5 $1.9M −40% n/c $124.9M 2,600 $745 80

Mon Mar 17 #5 $631.0K −67% −18% $125.5M 2,600 $242 81

Tue Mar 18 #3 $850.0K +35% −6% $126.3M 2,600 $326 82

Wed Mar 19 #4 $764.0K −10% −11% $127.1M 2,600 $293 83

Thu Mar 20 #3 $770.0K +1% −7% $127.8M 2,600 $296 84

Fri Mar 21 #6 $1.8M +132% −10% $129.6M 2,565 $697 85

Sat Mar 22 #5 $2.9M +64% −9% $132.6M 2,565 $1,142 86

Sun Mar 23 #6 $1.5M −49% −23% $134.0M 2,565 $584 87

Mon Mar 24 #3 $835.0K −44% +32% $134.8M 2,565 $325 88

Tue Mar 25 #3 $932.0K +12% +10% $135.8M 2,565 $363 89

Wed Mar 26 #3 $850.0K −9% +11% $136.6M 2,565 $331 90

Thu Mar 27 #3 $879.0K +3% +14% $137.4M 2,565 $342 91

Fri Mar 28 #5 $2.1M +135% +15% $139.5M 2,701 $763 92

Sat Mar 29 #5 $3.3M +60% +12% $142.8M 2,701 $1,218 93

Sun Mar 30 #6 $1.9M −44% +24% $144.7M 2,701 $687 94

Mon Mar 31 #5 $558.0K −70% −33% $145.2M 2,701 $206 95

Tue Apr 1 #5 $604.0K +8% −35% $145.8M 2,701 $223 96

Wed Apr 2 #5 $560.0K −7% −34% $146.4M 2,701 $207 97

Thu Apr 3 #5 $552.0K −1% −37% $146.9M 2,701 $204 98

Fri Apr 4 #8 $1.5M +166% −29% $148.3M 2,395 $613 99

Sat Apr 5 #7 $2.4M +65% −26% $150.8M 2,395 $1,011 100

Sun Apr 6 #8 $1.3M −48% −32% $152.0M 2,395 $528 101

Mon Apr 7 #8 $356.0K −72% −36% $152.3M 2,395 $148 102

Tue Apr 8 #8 $452.0K +27% −25% $152.8M 2,395 $188 103

Wed Apr 9 #5 $444.0K −2% −21% $153.2M 2,395 $185 104

Thu Apr 10 #5 $444.0K n/c −20% $153.6M 2,395 $185 105

Fri Apr 11 #8 $970.0K +118% −34% $154.6M 2,114 $458 106

Sat Apr 12 #7 $1.5M +57% −37% $156.1M 2,114 $722 107

Sun Apr 13 #9 $741.0K −51% −41% $156.9M 2,114 $350 108

Mon Apr 14 #7 $293.0K −60% −18% $157.1M 2,114 $138 109

Tue Apr 15 #7 $334.0K +14% −26% $157.5M 2,114 $157 110

Wed Apr 16 #8 $336.0K +1% −24% $157.8M 2,114 $158 111

Thu Apr 17 #7 $414.0K +23% −7% $158.2M 2,114 $195 112

Fri Apr 18 #10 $872.5K +111% −10% $159.1M 1,711 $509 113

Mon Apr 21 #9 $322.0K — +10% $161.1M 1,711 $188 116

Tue Apr 22 #8 $308.0K −4% −8% $161.4M 1,711 $180 117

Wed Apr 23 #8 $298.0K −3% −11% $161.7M 1,711 $174 118

Thu Apr 24 #8 $287.0K −4% −31% $161.9M 1,711 $167 119

Tue Apr 29 #10 $144.0K — −53% $163.8M 1,209 $119 124

Wed Apr 30 #10 $147.0K +2% −51% $163.9M 1,209 $121 125

Thu May 1 #9 $142.0K −3% −51% $164.0M 1,209 $117 126

Wed May 14 #10 $89.0K — $166.8M 761 $116 139

Mon May 26 #14 $130.0K — $168.3M 340 $382 151

Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record

Cumulative total$107.6M

Jan 3Jan 19Feb 3Feb 19Mar 6

Weekend grossWk 10 · $7.9M

$2.1M

$5.0M

$5.7M

$7.6M

$8.2M

$7.1M

$10.8M

$12.7M

$8.2M

$7.9M

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 2,447 → 2,447 +0.0%

304 open2,447 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −5%

+139%

W1→2

+15%

W2→3

+34%

W3→4

+8%

W4→5

−14%

W5→6

+53%

W6→7

+18%

W7→8

−35%

W8→9

−5%

W9→10

Steepest −35%Biggest gain +139%

Run milestones

$100M in 65 days

$100M

Day 65

Mar 1

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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