March of the PenguinsFollow

Name: March of the Penguins
Director: Luc Jacquet
Genre: Documentary, Family
Released: 2005
Cast: Charles Berling, Romane Bohringer, Jules Sitruk, Morgan Freeman

2005 • 1h 20m • Documentary, Family • Warner Independent Pictures (WIP)

In the harshest place on Earth, love finds a way.

🍅 94% 81%

3.60

7.5

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$7.10M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$77.40M

Final

Worldwide total

$127.00M

$50.00M international

Domestic legs17.7x from $4.4M first wide weekend

Budget$8.0M

2005 rank#28

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Cast & crew

Directed byLuc Jacquet ScreenplayLuc Jacquet, Michel Fessler Produced byYves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud, Emmanuel Priou CinematographyLaurent Chalet, Jérôme Maison MusicÉmilie Simon & Alex Wurman (United States) StarringCharles Berling, Romane Bohringer, Jules Sitruk, Morgan Freeman StudioWarner Independent Pictures (WIP)

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Jul 15-17 12 $1.5M — 132 $11,477 $4.0M

2 Jul 22-24 10 $4.4M +189.3% 695 $6,305 $9.3M

3 Jul 29-31 10 $4.0M −8.0% 778 $5,181 $16.3M

4 Aug 5-7 6 $7.1M +76.6% 1,867 $3,812 $26.4M

5 Aug 12-14 7 $6.8M −3.8% 2,063 $3,319 $37.7M

6 Aug 19-21 6 $6.5M −5.3% 2,102 $3,086 $48.4M

7 Aug 26-28 7 $4.7M −26.9% 2,394 $1,981 $55.9M

8 Sep 2-4 8 $4.1M −14.4% 2,506 $1,619 $62.1M

9 Sep 9-11 10 $2.6M −35.0% 2,403 $1,098 $67.0M

10 Sep 16-18 9 $2.5M −4.6% 1,876 $1,342 $70.4M

11 Sep 23-25 11 $1.7M −30.6% 1,405 $1,244 $72.8M

12 Sep 30-Oct 2 15 $1.1M −36.2% 1,078 $1,034 $74.5M

13 Oct 7-9 19 $473.1K −57.6% 469 $1,008 $75.4M

14 Oct 14-16 26 $260.2K −45.0% 303 $858 $75.9M

15 Oct 21-23 33 $239.2K −8.1% 288 $830 $76.2M

16 Oct 28-30 35 $197.7K −17.3% 313 $631 $76.5M

17 Nov 4-6 27 $222.4K +12.5% 310 $717 $76.8M

18 Nov 11-13 27 $225.2K +1.3% 257 $876 $77.1M

19 Nov 18-20 34 $106.0K −52.9% 221 $479 $77.3M

20 Nov 25-27 39 $89.2K −15.9% 136 $656 $77.4M

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

Weekend grossWk 10 · $2.5M

$1.5M

$4.4M

$4.0M

$7.1M

$6.8M

$6.5M

$4.7M

$4.1M

$2.6M

$2.5M

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −4.6%

+189.3%

W1→2

−8.0%

W2→3

+76.6%

W3→4

−3.8%

W4→5

−5.3%

W5→6

−26.9%

W6→7

−14.4%

W7→8

−35.0%

W8→9

−4.6%

W9→10

Steepest −35.0%Biggest gain +189.3%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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