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Iron Man

2008 PG-13 2h 6m Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi Paramount Pictures

Heroes aren't born. They're built.

Iron Man Box Office

Opening Weekend
$98.6M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$319M
Final
Worldwide Total
$585M
$267M international
Domestic Legs3.23x
Budget$140M
2008 Rank#2
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
May 2-4 1 $98.62M $102.12M 4,105 $24.0K 1
May 9-11 1 $51.19M -48.1% $177.83M 4,111 $12.5K 2
May 16-18 2 $31.84M -37.8% $223.12M 4,154 $7.7K 3
May 23-25 3 $20.45M -35.8% $252.61M 3,915 $5.2K 4
May 30-Jun 1 4 $13.54M -33.8% $276.17M 3,650 $3.7K 5
Jun 6-8 6 $7.48M -44.8% $288.85M 2,931 $2.6K 6
Jun 13-15 7 $5.62M -24.8% $297.92M 2,403 $2.3K 7
Jun 20-22 9 $4.03M -28.3% $304.82M 1,912 $2.1K 8
Jun 27-29 11 $2.26M -44.0% $309.18M 1,379 $1.6K 9
Jul 4-6 12 $1.46M -35.3% $311.71M 1,019 $1.4K 10
Jul 11-13 14 $939K -35.7% $313.42M 710 $1.3K 11
Jul 18-20 16 $452K -51.9% $314.38M 375 $1.2K 12
Jul 25-27 22 $311K -31.2% $314.93M 274 $1.1K 13
Aug 1-3 16 $580K +86.8% $315.69M 407 $1.4K 14
Aug 8-10 19 $427K -26.5% $316.47M 345 $1.2K 15
Aug 15-17 23 $341K -20.0% $317.06M 315 $1.1K 16
Aug 22-24 29 $243K -28.7% $317.47M 257 $946 17
Aug 29-31 33 $224K -8.1% $317.79M 220 $1.0K 18
Sep 5-7 39 $127K -43.3% $318.01M 205 $618 19
Sep 12-14 39 $95K -25.2% $318.13M 156 $607 20
Sep 19-21 43 $59K -37.7% $318.22M 124 $476 21
Sep 26-28 48 $58K -1.1% $318.30M 121 $482 22

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

Domestic vs International Split

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Cast & Crew

Directed byJon Favreau
ScreenplayArt Marcum, Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Matt Holloway
Produced byAvi Arad, Kevin Feige
CinematographyMatthew Libatique
MusicRamin Djawadi
Prod. DesignJ. Michael Riva
StarringRobert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub
StudioParamount Pictures

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