High School Musical 3: Senior Year backdrop

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2008 • G • 1h 52m • Comedy, Drama, Family • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The Biggest Year of Their Lives Begins

🍅 64% 72%

57

3.29

5.0

CS A

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$42.00M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$90.60M

Final

Worldwide total

$253.00M

$162.00M international

Domestic legs2.15x

Budget$11.0M

2008 rank#34

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Cast & crew

Full Ortega filmography

Kenny Ortega

Kenny Ortega Director

Zac Efron

Zac Efron Starring

Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Hudgens Starring

ScreenplayPeter Barsocchini Produced byBill Borden, Barry Rosenbush CinematographyDaniel Aranyò MusicDavid Lawrence Prod. DesignMark Hofeling StudioWalt Disney Studios

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Oct 24-26 1 $42.0M — 3,623 $11,600 $42.0M

2 Oct 31-Nov 2 1 $15.3M −63.6% 3,626 $4,223 $62.0M

3 Nov 7-9 3 $9.2M −40.2% 3,464 $2,644 $75.6M

4 Nov 14-16 4 $5.7M −38.2% 3,202 $1,766 $84.2M

5 Nov 21-23 7 $2.0M −63.8% 2,361 $867 $86.9M

6 Nov 28-30 13 $1.1M −48.2% 1,385 $766 $88.8M

7 Dec 5-7 18 $244.7K −76.9% 632 $387 $89.1M

8 Dec 12-14 31 $101.5K −58.5% 260 $390 $89.3M

9 Dec 19-21 33 $56.4K −44.4% 161 $350 $89.4M

10 Dec 26-28 27 $216.1K +282.9% 295 $732 $89.7M

11 Jan 2-4 27 $243.4K +12.7% 295 $825 $90.2M

12 Jan 9-11 31 $123.3K −49.3% 251 $491 $90.4M

13 Jan 16-18 43 $52.2K −57.7% 155 $336 $90.5M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Oct 24 #1 $17.0M — $17.0M 3,623 $4,681 1

Sat Oct 25 #1 $15.3M −10% $32.3M 3,623 $4,224 2

Sun Oct 26 #1 $9.8M −36% $42.0M 3,623 $2,694 3

Mon Oct 27 #2 $1.5M −85% $43.5M 3,623 $401 4

Tue Oct 28 #2 $1.2M −20% $44.6M 3,623 $320 5

Wed Oct 29 #2 $1.0M −12% $45.7M 3,623 $283 6

Thu Oct 30 #2 $1.0M +2% $46.7M 3,623 $288 7

Fri Oct 31 #5 $1.7M +61% −90% $48.4M 3,626 $463 8

Sat Nov 1 #1 $8.2M +389% −46% $56.6M 3,626 $2,266 9

Sun Nov 2 #1 $5.4M −34% −45% $62.0M 3,626 $1,493 10

Mon Nov 3 #2 $1.1M −79% −22% $63.2M 3,626 $315 11

Tue Nov 4 #1 $1.9M +66% +64% $65.1M 3,626 $524 12

Wed Nov 5 #4 $570.7K −70% −44% $65.6M 3,626 $157 13

Thu Nov 6 #3 $765.4K +34% −27% $66.4M 3,626 $211 14

Fri Nov 7 #3 $2.6M +236% +53% $69.0M 3,464 $743 15

Sat Nov 8 #3 $4.2M +63% −49% $73.2M 3,464 $1,210 16

Sun Nov 9 #3 $2.4M −43% −56% $75.6M 3,464 $690 17

Mon Nov 10 #3 $846.8K −65% −26% $76.4M 3,464 $244 18

Tue Nov 11 #3 $1.6M +89% −16% $78.0M 3,464 $462 19

Wed Nov 12 #8 $236.9K −85% −58% $78.3M 3,464 $68 20

Thu Nov 13 #8 $254.5K +7% −67% $78.5M 3,464 $73 21

Fri Nov 14 #4 $1.3M +425% −48% $79.8M 3,202 $417 22

Sat Nov 15 #4 $3.0M +126% −28% $82.9M 3,202 $942 23

Sun Nov 16 #4 $1.3M −57% −46% $84.2M 3,202 $406 24

Mon Nov 17 #8 $151.5K −88% −82% $84.3M 3,202 $47 25

Tue Nov 18 #7 $172.3K +14% −89% $84.5M 3,202 $53 26

Wed Nov 19 #7 $156.3K −9% −34% $84.6M 3,202 $48 27

Thu Nov 20 #7 $165.6K +6% −35% $84.8M 3,202 $51 28

Fri Nov 21 #7 $548.7K +231% −59% $85.4M 2,361 $232 29

Sat Nov 22 #7 $952.5K +74% −68% $86.3M 2,361 $403 30

Sun Nov 23 #7 $547.9K −42% −58% $86.9M 2,361 $232 31

Mon Nov 24 #8 $180.4K −67% +19% $87.0M 2,361 $76 32

Tue Nov 25 #7 $261.7K +45% +52% $87.3M 2,361 $110 33

Wed Nov 26 #10 $260.0K −1% +66% $87.6M 2,361 $110 34

Thu Nov 27 #13 $130.1K −50% −21% $87.7M 2,361 $55 35

Fri Nov 28 #13 $416.7K +220% −24% $88.1M 2,361 $176 36

Sat Nov 29 #13 $410.2K −2% −57% $88.5M 2,361 $173 37

Sun Nov 30 #12 $234.8K −43% −57% $88.8M 2,361 $99 38

Mon Dec 1 #13 $46.4K −80% −74% $88.8M 2,361 $19 39

Tue Dec 2 #14 $30.4K −34% −88% $88.8M 2,361 $12 40

Wed Dec 3 #15 $30.0K −1% −88% $88.9M 2,361 $12 41

Mon Jan 19 #36 $18.0K — $90.5M 155 $116 88

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

Cumulative total$88.9M

Oct 24Nov 3Nov 13Nov 23Dec 3

Weekend grossWk 10 · $216.1K

$42.0M

$15.3M

$9.2M

$5.7M

$2.0M

$1.1M

$244.7K

$101.5K

$56.4K

$216.1K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,626 → 2,361 −34.9%

3,623 open2,361 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · +282.9%

−63.6%

W1→2

−40.2%

W2→3

−38.2%

W3→4

−63.8%

W4→5

−48.2%

W5→6

−76.9%

W6→7

−58.5%

W7→8

−44.4%

W8→9

+282.9%

W9→10

Steepest −76.9%Biggest gain +282.9%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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