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Double JeopardyFollow

1999 • R • 1h 45m • Thriller, Crime, Drama • Paramount Pictures

Murder isn't always a crime.

🍅 28% 61%

41

3.22

6.6

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$23.20M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$116.70M

Final

Worldwide total

$177.80M

$61.10M international

Domestic legs5.0x

Budget$40M

1999 rank#15

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Cast & crew

Full Beresford filmography

Bruce Beresford

Bruce Beresford Director

Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones Starring

Ashley Judd

Ashley Judd Starring

Bruce Greenwood

Bruce Greenwood Starring

Spencer Treat Clark

Spencer Treat Clark Starring

ScreenplayDavid Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook Produced byLeonard Goldberg CinematographyPeter James Music byNormand Corbeil StudioParamount Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Sep 24-26 1 $23.2M — 2,547 $9,094 $23.2M

2 Oct 1-3 1 $17.0M −26.5% 2,884 $5,901 $47.2M

3 Oct 8-10 1 $13.5M −20.4% 2,913 $4,649 $65.8M

4 Oct 15-17 2 $10.2M −24.4% 2,936 $3,485 $80.3M

5 Oct 22-24 2 $7.6M −25.5% 3,002 $2,539 $91.0M

6 Oct 29-31 3 $5.4M −29.1% 2,986 $1,810 $98.3M

7 Nov 5-7 6 $4.3M −19.9% 2,722 $1,590 $104.3M

8 Nov 12-14 9 $3.0M −30.1% 2,110 $1,432 $108.7M

9 Nov 19-21 13 $1.4M −52.4% 1,340 $1,073 $110.8M

10 Nov 26-28 17 $1.0M −29.8% 840 $1,200 $112.3M

11 Dec 3-5 17 $538.0K −46.6% 708 $760 $113.0M

12 Dec 10-12 17 $311.9K −42.0% 573 $544 $113.5M

13 Dec 17-19 25 $168.8K −45.9% 375 $450 $113.8M

14 Dec 24-26 45 $45.0K −73.3% 119 $378 $113.9M

15 Dec 31-Jan 2 47 $57.8K +28.5% 117 $494 $114.0M

16 Jan 7-9 51 $58.9K +1.8% 91 $647 $114.1M

17 Jan 14-16 23 $590.9K +903.7% 516 $1,145 $114.7M

18 Jan 21-23 29 $328.2K −44.4% 438 $749 $115.2M

19 Jan 28-30 32 $242.4K −26.2% 388 $625 $115.5M

20 Feb 4-6 37 $210.8K −13.0% 350 $602 $115.8M

21 Feb 11-13 42 $171.6K −18.6% 303 $566 $116.1M

22 Feb 18-20 45 $135.3K −21.1% 228 $594 $116.3M

23 Feb 25-27 44 $94.6K −30.1% 228 $415 $116.4M

24 Mar 3-5 50 $74.6K −21.2% 149 $501 $116.5M

25 Mar 10-12 63 $33.9K −54.6% 102 $332 $116.6M

26 Mar 17-19 34 $168.2K +396.8% 62 $2,714 $116.7M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Sep 24 #1 $7.5M — $7.5M 2,549 $2,950 1

Sat Sep 25 #1 $10.1M +34.4% $17.6M 2,547 $3,969 2

Sun Sep 26 #1 $5.5M −46.0% $23.2M 2,547 $2,143 3

Mon Sep 27 #1 $1.7M −68.5% $24.9M 2,547 $676 4

Tue Sep 28 #1 $2.0M +14.0% $26.8M 2,547 $771 5

Wed Sep 29 #1 $1.7M −12.3% $28.6M 2,547 $676 6

Thu Sep 30 #1 $1.6M −4.5% $30.2M 2,547 $646 7

Fri Oct 1 #1 $5.1M +208.0% −32.6% $35.3M 2,884 $1,756 8

Sat Oct 2 #1 $7.8M +54.4% −22.6% $43.1M 2,884 $2,712 9

Sun Oct 3 #2 $4.0M −48.4% −26.1% $47.2M 2,884 $1,398 10

Mon Oct 4 #2 $1.2M −69.7% −29.0% $48.5M 2,884 $424 11

Tue Oct 5 #1 $1.4M +14.1% −29.0% $49.8M 2,884 $484 12

Wed Oct 6 #1 $1.2M −12.8% −29.4% $51.1M 2,884 $422 13

Thu Oct 7 #1 $1.2M +0.9% −25.4% $52.3M 2,884 $425 14

Fri Oct 8 #2 $3.8M +210.1% −24.9% $56.1M 2,913 $1,306 15

Sat Oct 9 #1 $6.1M +59.4% −22.4% $62.2M 2,913 $2,082 16

Sun Oct 10 #1 $3.6M −39.9% −9.7% $65.8M 2,913 $1,251 17

Mon Oct 11 #1 $1.5M −60.1% +18.8% $67.3M 2,913 $498 18

Tue Oct 12 #1 $1.0M −30.6% −27.8% $68.3M 2,913 $346 19

Wed Oct 13 #1 $888.5K −11.8% −26.9% $69.2M 2,913 $305 20

Thu Oct 14 #1 $927.9K +4.4% −24.4% $70.1M 2,913 $319 21

Fri Oct 15 #3 $2.8M +200.7% −26.7% $72.9M 2,936 $950 22

Sat Oct 16 #1 $5.0M +78.7% −17.8% $77.9M 2,936 $1,698 23

Sun Oct 17 #2 $2.4M −51.5% −33.7% $80.3M 2,936 $823 24

Mon Oct 18 #2 $678.8K −71.9% −53.3% $81.0M 2,936 $231 25

Tue Oct 19 #2 $804.2K +18.5% −20.1% $81.8M 2,936 $274 26

Wed Oct 20 #2 $761.9K −5.3% −14.3% $82.6M 2,936 $259 27

Thu Oct 21 #2 $742.4K −2.6% −20.0% $83.3M 2,936 $253 28

Fri Oct 22 #2 $2.3M +208.5% −17.9% $85.6M 3,002 $763 29

Sat Oct 23 #2 $3.6M +57.6% −27.6% $89.2M 3,002 $1,203 30

Sun Oct 24 #3 $1.7M −53.7% −30.8% $91.0M 3,002 $557 31

Mon Oct 25 #4 $442.5K −73.5% −34.8% $91.4M 3,002 $147 32

Tue Oct 26 #3 $532.4K +20.3% −33.8% $91.9M 3,002 $177 33

Wed Oct 27 #3 $464.2K −12.8% −39.1% $92.4M 3,002 $155 34

Thu Oct 28 #3 $507.4K +9.3% −31.7% $92.9M 3,002 $169 35

Fri Oct 29 #3 $1.6M +225.2% −27.9% $94.5M 2,986 $553 36

Sat Oct 30 #3 $2.6M +60.6% −26.6% $97.2M 2,986 $887 37

Sun Oct 31 #3 $1.1M −58.9% −34.8% $98.3M 2,986 $365 38

Mon Nov 1 #4 $355.7K −67.4% −19.6% $98.7M 2,986 $119 39

Tue Nov 2 #3 $477.7K +34.3% −10.3% $99.1M 2,986 $160 40

Wed Nov 3 #3 $411.7K −13.8% −11.3% $99.5M 2,986 $138 41

Thu Nov 4 #4 $416.9K +1.3% −17.8% $100.0M 2,986 $140 42

Fri Nov 5 #5 $1.3M +199.8% −24.2% $101.2M 2,720 $460 43

Sat Nov 6 #5 $2.2M +76.0% −17.0% $103.4M 2,720 $809 44

Sun Nov 7 #6 $836.0K −62.0% −23.3% $104.3M 2,986 $280 45

Mon Nov 8 #7 $226.1K −73.0% −36.4% $104.5M 2,986 $76 46

Tue Nov 9 #5 $297.6K +31.6% −37.7% $104.8M 2,986 $100 47

Wed Nov 10 #6 $370.3K +24.4% −10.1% $105.2M 2,722 $136 48

Thu Nov 11 #6 $478.9K +29.3% +14.9% $105.7M 2,722 $176 49

Fri Nov 12 #9 $980.0K +104.6% −21.6% $106.6M 2,110 $464 50

Sat Nov 13 #9 $1.5M +50.0% −33.2% $108.1M 2,110 $697 51

Sun Nov 14 #12 $572.0K −61.1% −31.6% $108.7M 2,110 $271 52

Mon Nov 15 #12 $153.4K −73.2% −32.2% $108.8M 2,110 $73 53

Tue Nov 16 #11 $193.5K +26.2% −35.0% $109.0M 2,110 $92 54

Wed Nov 17 #11 $168.5K −12.9% −54.5% $109.2M 2,110 $80 55

Thu Nov 18 #11 $168.6K +0.1% −64.8% $109.4M 2,110 $80 56

Fri Nov 19 #13 $428.0K +153.8% −56.3% $109.8M 1,340 $319 57

Sat Nov 20 #12 $692.0K +61.7% −52.9% $110.5M 1,340 $516 58

Sun Nov 21 #15 $279.0K −59.7% −51.2% $110.8M 1,340 $208 59

Mon Nov 22 #15 $87.4K −68.7% −43.0% $110.9M 1,340 $65 60

Tue Nov 23 #14 $123.7K +41.5% −36.1% $111.0M 1,340 $92 61

Sun Nov 28 #18 $142.0K — −49.1% $112.3M 840 $169 66

Mon Nov 29 #19 $36.4K −74.4% −58.3% $112.4M 840 $43 67

Tue Nov 30 #18 $43.6K +19.8% −64.7% $112.4M 840 $52 68

Wed Dec 1 #19 $38.5K −11.7% $112.5M 840 $46 69

Thu Dec 2 #19 $42.3K +9.7% $112.5M 840 $50 70

Sun Dec 5 #18 $103.0K — −27.5% $113.0M 708 $145 73

Mon Dec 6 #19 $35.9K −65.2% −1.5% $113.1M 708 $51 74

Tue Dec 7 #17 $39.9K +11.3% −8.5% $113.1M 708 $56 75

Wed Dec 8 #17 $38.3K −4.1% −0.5% $113.1M 708 $54 76

Thu Dec 9 #17 $41.3K +7.9% −2.1% $113.2M 708 $58 77

Sun Dec 12 #18 $64.0K — −37.9% $113.5M 573 $112 80

Mon Dec 13 #17 $24.9K −61.2% −30.7% $113.5M 573 $43 81

Tue Dec 14 #19 $26.8K +7.8% −32.9% $113.6M 573 $47 82

Wed Dec 15 #16 $28.1K +4.9% −26.6% $113.6M 573 $49 83

Mon Jan 17 #23 $73.9K — $114.7M 516 $143 116

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

Cumulative total$112.5M

Sep 24Oct 10Oct 27Nov 12Dec 2

Weekend grossWk 10 · $1.0M

$23.2M

$17.0M

$13.5M

$10.2M

$7.6M

$5.4M

$4.3M

$3.0M

$1.4M

$1.0M

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,002 → 840 −72.0%

2,549 open840 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −29.8%

−26.5%

W1→2

−20.4%

W2→3

−24.4%

W3→4

−25.5%

W4→5

−29.1%

W5→6

−19.9%

W6→7

−30.1%

W7→8

−52.4%

W8→9

−29.8%

W9→10

Steepest −52.4%Best hold −19.9%

Run milestones

$100M in 43 days

$100M

Day 43

Nov 5

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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