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2003 • R • 1h 42m • Comedy, Drama • Focus Features

Everyone wants to be found.

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3.76

7.7

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$925K

Limited · 23 theaters

Domestic total

$44.60M

Final

Worldwide total

$119.00M

$74.10M international

Domestic legs10.7x from $4.2M first wide weekend

Budget$4.0M

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Cast & crew

Full Coppola filmography

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola Director

Bill Murray

Bill Murray Starring

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson Starring

Giovanni Ribisi

Giovanni Ribisi Starring

Anna Faris

Anna Faris Starring

ScreenplaySofia Coppola Produced byRoss Katz, Sofia Coppola CinematographyLance Acord MusicKevin Shields, Brian Reitzell, Roger Joseph Manning Jr. Prod. DesignAnne Ross, K.K. Barrett StudioFocus Features

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Sep 12-14 15 $925.1K — 23 $40,221 $925.1K

2 Sep 19-21 10 $2.6M +184% 183 $14,331 $4.0M

3 Sep 26-28 10 $3.7M +41% 488 $7,558 $8.6M

4 Oct 3-5 7 $4.2M +13% 864 $4,818 $14.0M

5 Oct 10-12 10 $2.8M −32% 882 $3,200 $18.1M

6 Oct 17-19 11 $1.9M −33% 771 $2,468 $21.0M

7 Oct 24-26 13 $1.5M −22% 568 $2,611 $23.1M

8 Oct 31-Nov 2 13 $1.2M −17% 522 $2,362 $24.8M

9 Nov 7-9 13 $943.0K −24% 380 $2,481 $26.2M

10 Nov 14-16 15 $706.3K −25% 301 $2,346 $27.3M

11 Nov 21-23 18 $531.8K −25% 228 $2,332 $28.1M

12 Nov 28-30 19 $544.4K +2% 177 $3,075 $28.9M

13 Dec 5-7 20 $283.8K −48% 156 $1,818 $29.3M

14 Dec 12-14 23 $217.0K −24% 148 $1,466 $29.6M

15 Dec 19-21 22 $263.1K +21% 130 $2,023 $30.0M

16 Dec 26-28 26 $370.5K +41% 117 $3,166 $30.7M

17 Jan 2-4 25 $499.5K +35% 123 $4,061 $31.6M

18 Jan 9-11 20 $747.5K +50% 342 $2,185 $32.5M

19 Jan 16-18 21 $763.0K +2% 366 $2,084 $33.6M

20 Jan 23-25 22 $725.8K −5% 357 $2,032 $34.7M

21 Jan 30-Feb 1 15 $2.2M +197% 632 $3,412 $37.4M

22 Feb 6-8 15 $1.7M −20% 630 $2,749 $39.9M

23 Feb 13-15 15 $1.5M −14% 600 $2,488 $41.8M

24 Feb 20-22 18 $831.3K −44% 481 $1,728 $43.2M

25 Feb 27-29 23 $432.1K −48% 291 $1,484 $43.9M

26 Mar 5-7 29 $243.1K −44% 179 $1,358 $44.2M

27 Mar 12-14 37 $120.0K −51% 111 $1,081 $44.5M

28 Mar 19-21 50 $43.0K −64% 51 $842 $44.6M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Sep 19 #10 $883.0K — $2.3M 183 $4,825 8

Mon Sep 22 #8 $242.0K — $4.2M 183 $1,322 11

Tue Sep 23 #8 $265.0K +10% $4.5M 183 $1,448 12

Wed Sep 24 #8 $235.0K −11% $4.7M 183 $1,284 13

Thu Sep 25 #8 $235.0K n/c $5.0M 183 $1,284 14

Fri Sep 26 #10 $1.0M +337% +16% $6.0M 488 $2,102 15

Sat Sep 27 #10 $1.7M +61% $7.6M 488 $3,385 16

Sun Sep 28 #9 $1.0M −39% $8.6M 488 $2,063 17

Mon Sep 29 #9 $288.0K −71% +19% $8.9M 488 $590 18

Tue Sep 30 #8 $320.0K +11% +21% $9.2M 488 $655 19

Wed Oct 1 #8 $284.0K −11% +21% $9.5M 488 $581 20

Thu Oct 2 #6 $332.0K +17% +41% $9.9M 488 $680 21

Fri Oct 3 #7 $1.3M +278% +22% $11.1M 864 $1,453 22

Sat Oct 4 #7 $2.0M +59% +21% $13.0M 864 $2,305 23

Sun Oct 5 #7 $979.0K −51% −3% $14.0M 864 $1,133 24

Mon Oct 6 #7 $331.0K −66% +15% $14.3M 864 $383 25

Tue Oct 7 #7 $335.0K +1% +5% $14.7M 864 $387 26

Wed Oct 8 #7 $294.0K −12% +4% $15.0M 864 $340 27

Thu Oct 9 #7 $331.0K +13% n/c $15.3M 864 $383 28

Fri Oct 10 #10 $800.0K +142% −36% $16.1M 882 $907 29

Sat Oct 11 #10 $1.2M +52% −39% $17.3M 882 $1,379 30

Sun Oct 12 #10 $804.0K −34% −18% $18.1M 882 $911 31

Mon Oct 13 #10 $343.0K −57% +4% $18.5M 882 $388 32

Tue Oct 14 #10 $224.0K −35% −33% $18.7M 882 $253 33

Tue Oct 21 #10 $183.0K — −18% $21.3M 771 $237 40

Wed Oct 22 #10 $169.0K −8% $21.5M 771 $219 41

Thu Oct 23 #10 $171.0K +1% $21.6M 771 $221 42

Mon Jan 19 #22 $164.7K — $33.7M 366 $450 130

Mon Feb 16 #15 $256.4K — $42.1M 600 $427 158

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

Cumulative total$21.6M

Sep 19Sep 28Oct 4Oct 11Oct 23

Weekend grossWk 10 · $706.3K

$925.1K

$2.6M

$3.7M

$4.2M

$2.8M

$1.9M

$1.5M

$1.2M

$943.0K

$706.3K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 882 → 771 −12.6%

183 open771 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −25%

+184%

W1→2

+41%

W2→3

+13%

W3→4

−32%

W4→5

−33%

W5→6

−22%

W6→7

−17%

W7→8

−24%

W8→9

−25%

W9→10

Steepest −33%Biggest gain +184%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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