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Love & BasketballFollow

2000 • PG-13 • 2h 4m • Drama, Romance, Sport • 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks

All's fair in love and basketball.

🍅 86% 95% MC 73 LB 3.66 IMDb 7.2

Box office summary

Opening weekend
$8.10M
3-day opening
Domestic total
$27.40M
Final
Domestic legs3.4x
Budget$15M
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Cast & crew

Full Prince-Bythewood filmography
Gina Prince-Bythewood Gina Prince-Bythewood Director Sanaa Lathan Sanaa Lathan Starring Omar Epps Omar Epps Starring Kyla Pratt Kyla Pratt Starring Alfre Woodard Alfre Woodard Starring Regina Hall Regina Hall Starring
ScreenplayGina Prince-Bythewood Produced bySpike Lee, Sam Kitt CinematographyReynaldo Villalobos MusicTerence Blanchard Studio40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal
1 Apr 21-23 2 $8.1M — 1,237 $6,580 $8.1M
2 Apr 28-30 5 $5.1M −37.3% 1,245 $4,099 $15.4M
3 May 5-8 6 $3.1M −38.5% 1,192 $2,631 $19.6M
4 May 12-14 9 $1.9M −38.1% 1,047 $1,855 $22.2M
5 May 19-21 12 $1.3M −31.2% 833 $1,603 $24.1M
6 May 26-29 14 $986.3K −26.2% 540 $1,826 $25.4M
7 Jun 2-4 15 $348.0K −64.7% 450 $773 $26.0M
8 Jun 9-11 20 $212.9K −38.8% 292 $729 $26.3M
9 Jun 16-18 42 $82.0K −61.5% 126 $651 $26.5M
10 Jun 23-25 49 $54.6K −33.4% 73 $748 $26.6M
11 Jun 30-Jul 2 59 $40.0K −26.8% 45 $889 $26.7M
12 Jul 7-9 72 $15.7K −60.8% 32 $490 $26.7M
13 Jul 14-16 27 $158.1K +909.0% 264 $599 $26.9M
14 Jul 21-23 30 $137.7K −12.9% 246 $560 $27.1M
15 Jul 28-30 47 $61.7K −55.2% 173 $357 $27.3M
16 Aug 4-6 47 $55.5K −10.1% 110 $504 $27.4M
17 Aug 11-13 68 $36.6K −34.1% 77 $475 $27.4M
Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record
Weekend grossWk 10 · $54.6K
$8.1M
$5.1M
$3.1M
$1.9M
$1.3M
$986.3K
$348.0K
$212.9K
$82.0K
$54.6K
W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10
Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −33.4%
−37.3%
W1→2
−38.5%
W2→3
−38.1%
W3→4
−31.2%
W4→5
−26.2%
W5→6
−64.7%
W6→7
−38.8%
W7→8
−61.5%
W8→9
−33.4%
W9→10
Steepest −64.7%Best hold −26.2%

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