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

If you can't be famous, be infamous.

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

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
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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