Name: Children of Men
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Drama
Released: 2006
Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam

Date	Rank	Gross	Daily Chg	Weekly Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Days
Mon Dec 25	#21	$179K		—	$179K	16	$11.2K	1
Fri Dec 29	#-	$180K		—	$180K	16	$11.3K	5
Fri Jan 5	#3	$3.57M		+1%	$5.18M	1,209	$3.0K	12
Sat Jan 6	#3	$4.04M	+13%	—	$9.22M	1,209	$3.3K	13
Sun Jan 7	#3	$2.58M	-36%	—	$11.81M	1,209	$2.1K	14
Mon Jan 8	#2	$822K	-68%	—	$12.63M	1,209	$680	15
Tue Jan 9	#3	$840K	+2%	—	$13.47M	1,209	$695	16
Wed Jan 10	#3	$750K	-11%	—	$14.22M	1,209	$620	17
Thu Jan 11	#3	$749K		—	$14.97M	1,209	$620	18
Fri Jan 12	#8	$1.89M	+153%	-47%	$16.86M	1,510	$1.3K	19
Sat Jan 13	#6	$2.57M	+36%	-36%	$19.43M	1,510	$1.7K	20
Sun Jan 14	#6	$1.91M	-26%	-26%	$21.34M	1,510	$1.3K	21
Mon Jan 15	#9	$1.08M	-43%	+31%	$22.42M	1,510	$714	22
Tue Jan 16	#6	$475K	-56%	-43%	$22.89M	1,510	$315	23
Wed Jan 17	#6	$460K	-3%	-39%	$23.35M	1,510	$305	24
Thu Jan 18	#5	$430K	-7%	-43%	$23.78M	1,510	$285	25
Fri Jan 19	#8	$1.12M	+161%	-41%	$24.90M	1,524	$735	26
Sat Jan 20	#8	$1.77M	+58%	-31%	$26.67M	1,524	$1.2K	27
Sun Jan 21	#10	$823K	-53%	-57%	$27.49M	1,524	$540	28
Mon Jan 22	#10	$290K	-65%	-73%	$27.78M	1,524	$190	29
Tue Jan 23	#8	$320K	+10%	-33%	$28.10M	1,524	$210	30
Wed Jan 24	#8	$312K	-2%	-32%	$28.41M	1,524	$205	31
Thu Jan 25	#9	$313K		-27%	$28.73M	1,524	$205	32
Fri Jan 26	#16	$580K	+86%	-48%	$29.31M	717	$809	33
Fri Feb 16	#-	$89K		—	$34.26M	210	$425	54
Sat Feb 17	#-	$148K	+66%	—	$34.41M	210	$705	55
Sun Feb 18	#-	$127K	-14%	—	$34.54M	210	$605	56
Mon Feb 19	#29	$71K	-44%	—	$34.61M	210	$340	57
Tue Feb 20	#-	$29K	-59%	—	$34.64M	210	$140	58

Weekend	Rank	Gross	Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Wks
Dec 29-31	22	$501K	—	$1.08M	16	$31.3K	1
Jan 5-7	3	$10.20M	+1,935.5%	$11.81M	1,209	$8.4K	2
Jan 12-14	7	$6.37M	-37.5%	$21.34M	1,508	$4.2K	3
Jan 19-21	8	$3.71M	-41.8%	$27.49M	1,524	$2.4K	4
Jan 26-28	15	$2.18M	-41.2%	$30.91M	1,273	$1.7K	5
Feb 2-4	18	$1.12M	-48.5%	$32.73M	829	$1.4K	6
Feb 9-11	20	$809K	-28.0%	$33.92M	486	$1.7K	7
Feb 16-18	26	$364K	-55.0%	$34.54M	210	$1.7K	8
Feb 23-25	35	$199K	-45.5%	$34.91M	154	$1.3K	9
Mar 2-4	37	$134K	-32.7%	$35.14M	99	$1.4K	10
Mar 9-11	42	$97K	-27.6%	$35.29M	88	$1.1K	11

Performance Charts

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

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byAlfonso Cuarón

ScreenplayAlfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby

Produced byMarc Abraham, Eric Newman, Hilary Shor, Iain Smith, Tony Smith

CinematographyEmmanuel Lubezki

Music byJohn Tavener

StarringClive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam, Clare-Hope Ashitey

StudioUniversal Pictures

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