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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

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

Grab life by the ball.

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story Box Office

Opening Weekend
$30.1M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$114M
Final
Worldwide Total
$168M
$54.1M international
Domestic Legs3.80x
Budget$20.0M
2004 Rank#19
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Jun 18-20 1 $30.07M $30.07M 2,694 $11.2K 1
Jun 25-27 3 $18.79M -37.5% $67.46M 3,020 $6.2K 2
Jul 2-4 4 $8.11M -56.8% $84.37M 2,953 $2.7K 3
Jul 9-11 7 $5.71M -29.6% $97.87M 2,444 $2.3K 4
Jul 16-18 8 $3.81M -33.2% $105.17M 1,945 $2.0K 5
Jul 23-25 11 $2.02M -47.0% $109.34M 1,373 $1.5K 6
Jul 30-Aug 1 19 $590K -70.8% $111.09M 555 $1.1K 7
Aug 6-8 23 $434K -26.4% $111.94M 389 $1.1K 8
Aug 13-15 24 $306K -29.4% $112.54M 320 $957 9
Aug 20-22 27 $283K -7.8% $113.01M 283 $998 10
Aug 27-29 31 $188K -33.5% $113.34M 247 $760 11
Sep 3-5 32 $226K +20.2% $113.67M 238 $949 12
Sep 10-12 34 $151K -33.0% $113.92M 191 $792 13
Sep 17-19 44 $101K -33.2% $114.06M 181 $558 14
Sep 24-26 46 $82K -18.7% $114.17M 124 $663 15

Performance Charts

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

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Profitability

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

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Cast & Crew

Directed byRawson Marshall Thurber
ScreenplayRawson Marshall Thurber
Produced byBen Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld
CinematographyJerzy Zieliński
MusicTheodore Shapiro
Prod. DesignMaher Ahmad
StarringVince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Ben Stiller, Rip Torn, Justin Long, Stephen Root
Studio20th Century Fox

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