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1997 • PG • 1h 38m • Comedy, Family • DreamWorks

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53

3.32

6.5

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$6.10M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$61.90M

Final

Domestic legs10.2x

Budget$38M

1997 rank#25

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Cast & crew

Full Verbinski filmography

Gore Verbinski

Gore Verbinski Director

Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Starring

Maury Chaykin

Maury Chaykin Starring

Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken Starring

Michael Jeter

Michael Jeter Starring

ScreenplayAdam Rifkin Produced byAlan Riche, Tony Ludwig, Bruce Cohen CinematographyPhedon Papamichael Music byAlan Silvestri StudioDreamWorks

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Dec 19-21 5 $6.1M — 2,152 $2,817 $6.1M

2 Dec 26-28 4 $9.7M +60.0% 2,191 $4,428 $21.5M

3 Jan 2-4 4 $8.4M −13.2% 2,213 $3,804 $40.0M

4 Jan 9-11 6 $4.6M −45.3% 2,233 $2,061 $45.8M

5 Jan 16-18 9 $4.2M −9.6% 2,003 $2,077 $50.7M

6 Jan 23-25 11 $2.2M −46.9% 1,776 $1,244 $54.7M

7 Jan 30-Feb 1 13 $1.5M −31.0% 1,350 $1,129 $56.6M

8 Feb 6-8 14 $972.0K −36.2% 1,082 $898 $57.8M

9 Feb 13-15 20 $665.6K −31.5% 729 $913 $58.7M

10 Feb 20-22 23 $288.3K −56.7% 515 $560 $59.2M

11 Feb 27-Mar 1 28 $193.4K −32.9% 379 $510 $59.4M

12 Mar 6-8 33 $138.7K −28.3% 275 $504 $59.6M

13 Mar 13-15 51 $59.7K −56.9% 251 $238 $59.7M

14 Mar 20-22 53 $44.5K −25.4% 203 $219 $59.9M

15 Mar 27-29 19 $443.5K +895.7% 713 $622 $60.3M

16 Apr 3-5 21 $368.0K −17.0% 670 $549 $60.9M

17 Apr 10-12 27 $198.1K −46.2% 562 $353 $61.2M

18 Apr 17-19 30 $185.1K −6.6% 439 $422 $61.6M

19 Apr 24-26 46 $70.9K −61.7% 439 $162 $61.7M

20 May 1-3 48 $63.0K −11.1% 105 $600 $61.8M

21 May 8-10 53 $42.8K −32.0% 87 $492 $61.8M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Dec 19 #4 $1.4M — $1.4M 2,152 $644 1

Sat Dec 20 #4 $2.9M +111.1% $4.3M 2,152 $1,359 2

Sun Dec 21 #4 $1.8M −40.0% $6.1M 2,152 $815 3

Mon Dec 22 #4 $1.3M −28.4% $7.3M 2,152 $584 4

Tue Dec 23 #4 $1.4M +11.9% $8.7M 2,152 $653 5

Wed Dec 24 #3 $1.1M −22.8% $9.8M 2,152 $504 6

Thu Dec 25 #7 $1.8M +62.2% $11.6M 2,152 $818 7

Mon Dec 29 #4 $2.2M — +71.3% $23.7M 2,191 $982 11

Tue Dec 30 #4 $2.3M +9.0% +66.9% $26.0M 2,191 $1,070 12

Wed Dec 31 #4 $2.6M +10.5% +138.8% $28.6M 2,191 $1,183 13

Thu Jan 1 #4 $3.0M +14.6% +68.8% $31.6M 2,191 $1,356 14

Fri Jan 2 #4 $3.3M +9.4% $34.8M 2,213 $1,469 15

Sat Jan 3 #4 $3.2M −0.6% $38.0M 2,213 $1,460 16

Sun Jan 4 #4 $2.1M −36.2% $40.0M 2,213 $931 17

Mon Jan 5 #7 $340.4K −83.5% −84.2% $40.4M 2,213 $154 18

Tue Jan 6 #10 $285.7K −16.1% −87.8% $40.5M 2,213 $129 19

Wed Jan 7 #9 $258.3K −9.6% −90.0% $40.9M 2,213 $117 20

Thu Jan 8 #8 $257.1K −0.4% −91.3% $41.2M 2,213 $116 21

Fri Jan 9 #9 $955.0K +271.5% −70.6% $42.1M 2,233 $428 22

Sat Jan 10 #6 $2.2M +133.0% −31.1% $44.3M 2,233 $996 23

Sun Jan 11 #6 $1.3M −41.1% −36.4% $45.8M 2,233 $587 24

Mon Jan 12 #10 $174.0K −86.7% −48.9% $45.9M 2,233 $78 25

Tue Jan 13 #10 $209.9K +20.6% −26.5% $46.1M 2,233 $94 26

Wed Jan 14 #10 $187.2K −10.8% −27.5% $46.3M 2,233 $84 27

Thu Jan 15 #10 $206.4K +10.3% −19.7% $46.5M 2,233 $92 28

Fri Jan 16 #9 $800.0K +287.6% −16.2% $47.3M 2,003 $399 29

Sat Jan 17 #9 $1.8M +129.4% −17.5% $49.2M 2,003 $916 30

Sun Jan 18 #9 $1.4M −21.8% +9.5% $50.6M 2,003 $716 31

Mon Jan 19 #4 $1.3M −7.3% +664.8% $52.9M 2,003 $664 32

Tue Jan 20 #9 $258.4K −80.6% +23.1% $53.2M 2,003 $129 33

Wed Jan 21 #10 $122.7K −52.5% −34.5% $53.3M 2,003 $61 34

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

Cumulative total$53.3M

Dec 19Dec 30Jan 6Jan 14Jan 21

Weekend grossWk 10 · $288.3K

$6.1M

$9.7M

$8.4M

$4.6M

$4.2M

$2.2M

$1.5M

$972.0K

$665.6K

$288.3K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 2,233 → 2,003 −10.3%

2,152 open2,003 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −56.7%

+60.0%

W1→2

−13.2%

W2→3

−45.3%

W3→4

−9.6%

W4→5

−46.9%

W5→6

−31.0%

W6→7

−36.2%

W7→8

−31.5%

W8→9

−56.7%

W9→10

Steepest −56.7%Biggest gain +60.0%

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