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Jack ReacherFollow

2012 • PG-13 • 2h 10m • Action, Thriller • Paramount Pictures

The law has limits. He does not.

🍅 64% 67%

50

3.21

7.0

CS A-

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$15.20M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$80.10M

Final

Worldwide total

$218.00M

$138.00M international

Domestic legs5.26x

Budget$60.0M

2012 rank#37

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Cast & crew

Full McQuarrie filmography

Christopher McQuarrie

Christopher McQuarrie Director

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise Starring

Rosamund Pike

Rosamund Pike Starring

Richard Jenkins

Richard Jenkins Starring

David Oyelowo

David Oyelowo Starring

Jai Courtney

Jai Courtney Starring

ScreenplayChristopher McQuarrie Produced byTom Cruise, Don Granger, Paula Wagner, Gary Levinsohn CinematographyCaleb Deschanel MusicJoe Kraemer Prod. DesignJames D. Bissell StudioParamount Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Dec 21-23 2 $15.2M — 3,352 $4,537 $15.2M

2 Dec 28-30 5 $13.6M −10.6% 3,352 $4,058 $44.2M

3 Jan 4-6 6 $9.2M −32.4% 3,288 $2,795 $64.7M

4 Jan 11-13 11 $4.8M −47.6% 2,707 $1,780 $72.6M

5 Jan 18-20 16 $2.2M −53.6% 1,707 $1,311 $76.4M

6 Jan 25-27 21 $820.4K −63.3% 888 $923 $78.2M

7 Feb 1-3 27 $328.0K −60.0% 450 $728 $78.8M

8 Feb 8-10 30 $235.7K −28.1% 307 $767 $79.1M

9 Feb 15-17 33 $128.2K −45.6% 175 $732 $79.3M

10 Feb 22-24 37 $70.4K −45.1% 100 $704 $79.5M

11 Mar 1-3 31 $190.3K +170.3% 225 $845 $79.7M

12 Mar 8-10 33 $134.7K −29.2% 194 $694 $79.9M

13 Mar 15-17 38 $79.5K −41.0% 130 $611 $80.0M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Dec 21 #2 $5.0M — $5.0M 3,352 $1,498 1

Sat Dec 22 #2 $5.7M +13% $10.7M 3,352 $1,689 2

Sun Dec 23 #2 $4.5M −20% $15.2M 3,352 $1,349 3

Mon Dec 24 #2 $2.6M −42% $17.9M 3,352 $788 4

Tue Dec 25 #5 $5.3M +101% $23.1M 3,352 $1,580 5

Wed Dec 26 #5 $3.8M −27% $27.0M 3,352 $1,146 6

Thu Dec 27 #5 $3.6M −7% $30.6M 3,352 $1,061 7

Fri Dec 28 #5 $4.5M +27% −10% $35.1M 3,352 $1,348 8

Sat Dec 29 #5 $5.2M +15% −8% $40.3M 3,352 $1,556 9

Sun Dec 30 #5 $3.9M −26% −15% $44.2M 3,352 $1,153 10

Mon Dec 31 #5 $3.4M −12% +28% $47.6M 3,352 $1,012 11

Tue Jan 1 #5 $4.3M +26% −19% $51.8M 3,352 $1,272 12

Wed Jan 2 #5 $1.9M −54% −49% $53.8M 3,352 $580 13

Thu Jan 3 #5 $1.7M −10% −51% $55.5M 3,352 $520 14

Fri Jan 4 #6 $3.0M +70% −34% $58.5M 3,288 $902 15

Sat Jan 5 #6 $4.0M +35% −23% $62.5M 3,288 $1,219 16

Sun Jan 6 #6 $2.2M −45% −43% $64.7M 3,288 $673 17

Mon Jan 7 #5 $713.7K −68% −79% $65.4M 3,288 $217 18

Tue Jan 8 #5 $971.8K +36% −77% $66.4M 3,288 $295 19

Wed Jan 9 #5 $733.6K −25% −62% $67.1M 3,288 $223 20

Thu Jan 10 #6 $691.9K −6% −60% $67.8M 3,288 $210 21

Fri Jan 11 #10 $1.5M +123% −48% $69.4M 2,707 $570 22

Sat Jan 12 #11 $2.2M +41% −46% $71.5M 2,707 $801 23

Sun Jan 13 #11 $1.1M −49% −50% $72.6M 2,707 $408 24

Mon Jan 14 #9 $354.9K −68% −50% $73.0M 2,707 $131 25

Tue Jan 15 #9 $461.7K +30% −52% $73.4M 2,707 $170 26

Wed Jan 16 #9 $360.0K −22% −51% $73.8M 2,707 $132 27

Thu Jan 17 #9 $372.2K +3% −46% $74.2M 2,707 $137 28

Fri Jan 18 #15 $644.7K +73% −58% $74.8M 1,707 $377 29

Sat Jan 19 #16 $1.0M +57% −53% $75.8M 1,707 $592 30

Sun Jan 20 #16 $581.6K −43% −47% $76.4M 1,707 $340 31

Mon Jan 21 #17 $448.0K −23% +26% $76.9M 1,707 $262 32

Tue Jan 22 #15 $186.3K −58% −60% $77.0M 1,707 $109 33

Wed Jan 23 #16 $149.0K −20% −59% $77.2M 1,707 $87 34

Thu Jan 24 #16 $154.6K +4% −58% $77.4M 1,707 $90 35

Fri Jan 25 $220.9K +43% −66% $77.6M 888 $248 36

Sat Jan 26 $406.6K +84% −60% $78.0M 888 $457 37

Sun Jan 27 $192.9K −53% −67% $78.2M 888 $217 38

Mon Jan 28 $64.0K −67% −86% $78.2M 888 $72 39

Tue Jan 29 $69.0K +8% −63% $78.3M 888 $77 40

Wed Jan 30 $57.8K −16% −61% $78.4M 888 $65 41

Thu Jan 31 $62.1K +7% −60% $78.4M 888 $69 42

Fri Feb 1 $113.6K +83% −49% $78.5M 450 $252 43

Sat Feb 2 $174.8K +54% −57% $78.7M 450 $388 44

Sun Feb 3 $39.6K −77% −79% $78.8M 450 $88 45

Mon Feb 4 $29.8K −25% −54% $78.8M 450 $66 46

Tue Feb 5 $35.6K +20% −48% $78.8M 450 $79 47

Wed Feb 6 $30.4K −15% −47% $78.9M 450 $67 48

Thu Feb 7 $31.0K +2% −50% $78.9M 450 $68 49

Fri Feb 8 $70.5K +128% −38% $79.0M 307 $229 50

Sat Feb 9 $111.1K +58% −36% $79.1M 307 $361 51

Sun Feb 10 $54.1K −51% +37% $79.1M 307 $176 52

Mon Feb 11 $20.5K −62% −31% $79.1M 307 $66 53

Tue Feb 12 $21.7K +5% −39% $79.2M 307 $70 54

Wed Feb 13 $19.8K −9% −35% $79.2M 307 $64 55

Thu Feb 14 $27.0K +36% −13% $79.2M 223 $121 56

Fri Feb 15 $37.1K +38% −47% $79.2M 175 $212 57

Sat Feb 16 $56.2K +51% −49% $79.3M 175 $321 58

Sun Feb 17 $34.9K −38% −35% $79.3M 175 $199 59

Mon Feb 18 $26.3K −25% +28% $79.4M 175 $150 60

Tue Feb 19 $11.7K −56% −46% $79.4M 175 $66 61

Wed Feb 20 $11.6K −1% −41% $79.4M 175 $66 62

Thu Feb 21 $11.6K n/c −57% $79.4M 175 $66 63

Fri Feb 22 $23.0K +98% −38% $79.4M 100 $230 64

Sat Feb 23 $33.3K +45% −41% $79.5M 100 $332 65

Sun Feb 24 $14.1K −58% −60% $79.5M 100 $141 66

Mon Feb 25 $6.4K −55% −76% $79.5M 100 $63 67

Tue Feb 26 $7.3K +14% −38% $79.5M 100 $72 68

Wed Feb 27 $6.0K −18% −48% $79.5M 100 $59 69

Thu Feb 28 $6.9K +16% −40% $79.5M 100 $69 70

Fri Mar 1 $56.2K +710% +144% $79.5M 225 $249 71

Sat Mar 2 $86.8K +55% +161% $79.6M 225 $385 72

Sun Mar 3 $47.4K −45% +236% $79.7M 225 $210 73

Mon Mar 4 $17.3K −64% +172% $79.7M 225 $76 74

Tue Mar 5 $20.0K +15% +175% $79.7M 225 $88 75

Wed Mar 6 $18.8K −6% +214% $79.7M 225 $83 76

Thu Mar 7 $18.7K −1% +170% $79.8M 225 $83 77

Fri Mar 8 $40.3K +116% −28% $79.8M 194 $207 78

Sat Mar 9 $61.5K +53% −29% $79.9M 194 $317 79

Sun Mar 10 $32.9K −47% −31% $79.9M 194 $169 80

Mon Mar 11 $15.3K −53% −12% $79.9M 194 $78 81

Tue Mar 12 $16.0K +5% −20% $79.9M 194 $82 82

Wed Mar 13 $14.8K −8% −21% $79.9M 194 $76 83

Thu Mar 14 $15.8K +6% −16% $80.0M 194 $81 84

Fri Mar 15 $25.1K +59% −38% $80.0M 130 $193 85

Sat Mar 16 $35.0K +39% −43% $80.0M 130 $268 86

Sun Mar 17 $19.5K −44% −41% $80.0M 130 $149 87

Mon Mar 18 $8.9K −54% −42% $80.0M 130 $68 88

Tue Mar 19 $10.1K +14% −37% $80.1M 130 $77 89

Wed Mar 20 $9.2K −9% −38% $80.1M 130 $70 90

Thu Mar 21 $8.9K −2% −43% $80.1M 130 $68 91

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

Cumulative total$79.5M

Dec 21Jan 7Jan 25Feb 11Feb 28

Weekend grossWk 10 · $70.4K

$15.2M

$13.6M

$9.2M

$4.8M

$2.2M

$820.4K

$328.0K

$235.7K

$128.2K

$70.4K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,352 → 100 −97.0%

3,352 open100 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −45.1%

−10.6%

W1→2

−32.4%

W2→3

−47.6%

W3→4

−53.6%

W4→5

−63.3%

W5→6

−60.0%

W6→7

−28.1%

W7→8

−45.6%

W8→9

−45.1%

W9→10

Steepest −63.3%Best hold −10.6%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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