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2004 • PG-13 • 1h 32m • Comedy, Sport • 20th Century Fox

Grab life by the ball.

🍅 72% 76%

55

3.23

6.7

CS B+

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$30.10M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$114.00M

Final

Worldwide total

$168.00M

$54.10M international

Domestic legs3.80x

Budget$20.0M

2004 rank#19

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Cast & crew

Full Thurber filmography

Rawson Marshall Thurber

Rawson Marshall Thurber Director

Vince Vaughn

Vince Vaughn Starring

Christine Taylor

Christine Taylor Starring

Ben Stiller

Ben Stiller Starring

Rip Torn

Rip Torn Starring

Justin Long

Justin Long Starring

ScreenplayRawson Marshall Thurber Produced byBen Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld CinematographyJerzy Zieliński MusicTheodore Shapiro Prod. DesignMaher Ahmad Studio20th Century Fox

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Jun 18-20 1 $30.1M — 2,694 $11,161 $30.1M

2 Jun 25-27 3 $18.8M −37.5% 3,020 $6,220 $67.5M

3 Jul 2-4 4 $8.1M −56.8% 2,953 $2,747 $84.4M

4 Jul 9-11 7 $5.7M −29.6% 2,444 $2,336 $97.9M

5 Jul 16-18 8 $3.8M −33.2% 1,945 $1,960 $105.2M

6 Jul 23-25 11 $2.0M −47.0% 1,373 $1,472 $109.3M

7 Jul 30-Aug 1 19 $590.0K −70.8% 555 $1,063 $111.1M

8 Aug 6-8 23 $434.3K −26.4% 389 $1,116 $111.9M

9 Aug 13-15 24 $306.4K −29.4% 320 $957 $112.5M

10 Aug 20-22 27 $282.6K −7.8% 283 $998 $113.0M

11 Aug 27-29 31 $187.9K −33.5% 247 $760 $113.3M

12 Sep 3-5 32 $225.9K +20.2% 238 $949 $113.7M

13 Sep 10-12 34 $151.3K −33.0% 191 $792 $113.9M

14 Sep 17-19 44 $101.1K −33.2% 181 $558 $114.1M

15 Sep 24-26 46 $82.2K −18.7% 124 $663 $114.2M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Jun 18 #1 $11.3M — $11.7M 2,694 $4,194 1

Sat Jun 19 #1 $10.6M −6% $21.9M 2,694 $3,922 2

Sun Jun 20 #1 $8.2M −23% $30.1M 2,694 $3,033 3

Mon Jun 21 #1 $5.6M −32% $35.6M 2,694 $2,064 4

Tue Jun 22 #1 $5.2M −6% $40.9M 2,694 $1,939 5

Wed Jun 23 #2 $4.0M −23% $44.9M 2,694 $1,487 6

Thu Jun 24 #1 $3.8M −5% $48.7M 2,694 $1,412 7

Fri Jun 25 #3 $6.5M +71% −42% $55.2M 3,020 $2,152 8

Sat Jun 26 #3 $7.0M +8% −34% $62.2M 3,020 $2,326 9

Sun Jun 27 #3 $5.2M −26% −36% $67.5M 3,020 $1,725 10

Mon Jun 28 #2 $2.8M −46% −49% $70.3M 3,020 $937 11

Tue Jun 29 #2 $2.4M −14% −53% $72.7M 3,020 $809 12

Wed Jun 30 #4 $1.8M −26% −55% $74.5M 3,020 $598 13

Thu Jul 1 #4 $1.7M −5% −55% $76.3M 3,020 $568 14

Fri Jul 2 #4 $3.0M +77% −53% $79.3M 2,953 $1,026 15

Sat Jul 3 #4 $3.1M +4% −55% $82.4M 2,953 $1,066 16

Sun Jul 4 #5 $1.9M −39% −63% $84.4M 2,953 $654 17

Mon Jul 5 #3 $3.2M +68% +15% $87.6M 2,953 $1,097 18

Tue Jul 6 #4 $1.6M −50% −33% $89.2M 2,953 $551 19

Wed Jul 7 #5 $1.5M −9% −18% $90.7M 2,953 $499 20

Thu Jul 8 #5 $1.4M −2% −16% $92.2M 2,953 $488 21

Fri Jul 9 #7 $1.9M +31% −38% $94.0M 2,444 $771 22

Sat Jul 10 #7 $2.2M +17% −30% $96.3M 2,444 $904 23

Sun Jul 11 #7 $1.6M −27% −17% $97.9M 2,444 $659 24

Mon Jul 12 #6 $906.0K −44% −72% $98.8M 2,444 $370 25

Tue Jul 13 #6 $906.0K n/c −44% $99.7M 2,444 $370 26

Wed Jul 14 #6 $874.0K −4% −41% $100.6M 2,444 $357 27

Thu Jul 15 #7 $801.0K −8% −44% $101.4M 2,444 $327 28

Fri Jul 16 #8 $1.1M +37% −42% $102.5M 1,945 $565 29

Sat Jul 17 #8 $1.5M +37% −32% $104.1M 1,945 $773 30

Sun Jul 18 #9 $1.1M −26% −31% $105.2M 1,945 $572 31

Mon Jul 19 #8 $567.0K −49% −37% $105.7M 1,945 $291 32

Tue Jul 20 #8 $545.0K −4% −40% $106.3M 1,945 $280 33

Wed Jul 21 #8 $520.0K −5% −41% $106.8M 1,945 $267 34

Thu Jul 22 #9 $516.0K −1% −36% $107.3M 1,945 $265 35

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

Cumulative total$107.3M

Jun 18Jun 27Jul 5Jul 14Jul 22

Weekend grossWk 10 · $282.6K

$30.1M

$18.8M

$8.1M

$5.7M

$3.8M

$2.0M

$590.0K

$434.3K

$306.4K

$282.6K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,020 → 1,945 −35.6%

2,694 open1,945 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −7.8%

−37.5%

W1→2

−56.8%

W2→3

−29.6%

W3→4

−33.2%

W4→5

−47.0%

W5→6

−70.8%

W6→7

−26.4%

W7→8

−29.4%

W8→9

−7.8%

W9→10

Steepest −70.8%Best hold −7.8%

Run milestones

$100M in 27 days

$100M

Day 27

Jul 14

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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