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National TreasureFollow

2004 • PG • 2h 11m • Action, Adventure, Mystery • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

In order to break the code, one man will have to break all the rules.

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3.34

6.9

CS A-

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$35.10M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$173.00M

Final

Worldwide total

$348.00M

$175.00M international

Domestic legs4.92x

Budget$100M

2004 rank#9

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Cast & crew

Full Turteltaub filmography

Jon Turteltaub

Jon Turteltaub Director

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage Starring

Diane Kruger

Diane Kruger Starring

Justin Bartha

Justin Bartha Starring

Sean Bean

Sean Bean Starring

Jon Voight

Jon Voight Starring

ScreenplayJim Kouf, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley Produced byJerry Bruckheimer, Jon Turteltaub CinematographyCaleb Deschanel MusicTrevor Rabin StudioWalt Disney Studios

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Nov 19-21 1 $35.1M — 3,017 $11,648 $35.1M

2 Nov 26-28 1 $32.2M −8.5% 3,243 $9,915 $87.3M

3 Dec 3-5 1 $17.0M −47.1% 3,243 $5,243 $110.1M

4 Dec 10-12 3 $9.8M −42.2% 3,203 $3,069 $124.1M

5 Dec 17-19 6 $6.0M −38.7% 2,772 $2,172 $132.7M

6 Dec 24-26 11 $4.0M −34.2% 2,201 $1,801 $141.1M

7 Dec 31-Jan 2 6 $6.8M +70.7% 2,282 $2,965 $154.5M

8 Jan 7-9 8 $4.3M −37.2% 2,177 $1,952 $160.5M

9 Jan 14-16 12 $2.7M −37.5% 1,610 $1,650 $164.2M

10 Jan 21-23 16 $1.3M −51.9% 1,071 $1,192 $166.5M

11 Jan 28-30 19 $781.6K −38.8% 644 $1,213 $167.7M

12 Feb 4-6 18 $488.0K −37.6% 458 $1,065 $168.4M

13 Feb 11-13 21 $367.1K −24.8% 332 $1,105 $168.9M

14 Feb 18-20 26 $278.5K −24.1% 249 $1,118 $169.3M

15 Feb 25-27 32 $179.6K −35.5% 173 $1,037 $169.6M

16 Mar 4-6 35 $116.3K −35.2% 133 $874 $169.8M

17 Mar 11-13 25 $321.0K +176.1% 319 $1,006 $170.1M

18 Mar 18-20 24 $307.5K −4.2% 310 $991 $170.6M

19 Mar 25-27 23 $303.7K −1.2% 293 $1,036 $171.1M

20 Apr 1-3 22 $258.1K −15.0% 284 $908 $171.6M

21 Apr 8-10 23 $218.2K −15.4% 264 $826 $171.9M

22 Apr 15-17 24 $194.2K −11.0% 251 $773 $172.2M

23 Apr 22-24 27 $190.6K −1.9% 232 $821 $172.4M

24 Apr 29-May 1 29 $162.6K −14.7% 211 $770 $172.6M

25 May 6-8 31 $111.2K −31.6% 165 $673 $172.8M

26 May 13-15 36 $72.7K −34.7% 137 $530 $172.9M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Nov 19 #1 $11.0M — $11.0M 3,017 $3,646 1

Sat Nov 20 #1 $14.6M +33% $25.7M 3,017 $4,835 2

Sun Nov 21 #1 $9.4M −35% $35.1M 3,017 $3,127 3

Mon Nov 22 #1 $3.0M −68% $38.1M 3,017 $990 4

Tue Nov 23 #1 $3.5M +18% $41.7M 3,017 $1,169 5

Wed Nov 24 #1 $5.6M +60% $47.3M 3,243 $1,741 6

Thu Nov 25 #1 $7.8M +38% $55.1M 3,243 $2,408 7

Fri Nov 26 #1 $12.9M +66% +18% $68.1M 3,243 $3,992 8

Sat Nov 27 #1 $12.7M −2% −13% $80.8M 3,243 $3,912 9

Sun Nov 28 #1 $6.5M −49% −31% $87.3M 3,243 $2,009 10

Mon Nov 29 #1 $1.6M −75% −46% $88.9M 3,243 $496 11

Tue Nov 30 #1 $1.5M −6% −57% $90.4M 3,243 $464 12

Wed Dec 1 #1 $1.4M −9% −76% $91.8M 3,243 $421 13

Thu Dec 2 #1 $1.4M −1% −83% $93.1M 3,243 $417 14

Fri Dec 3 #1 $5.0M +269% −61% $98.1M 3,243 $1,541 15

Sat Dec 4 #1 $7.7M +53% −40% $105.8M 3,243 $2,364 16

Sun Dec 5 #1 $4.3M −44% −34% $110.1M 3,243 $1,318 17

Mon Dec 6 #1 $1.1M −74% −31% $111.2M 3,243 $341 18

Tue Dec 7 #1 $1.1M +2% −25% $112.3M 3,243 $347 19

Wed Dec 8 #3 $959.0K −15% −30% $113.3M 3,243 $295 20

Thu Dec 9 #3 $932.0K −3% −31% $114.2M 3,243 $287 21

Fri Dec 10 #4 $2.6M +179% −48% $116.8M 3,203 $811 22

Sat Dec 11 #3 $4.5M +75% −41% $121.7M 3,203 $1,419 23

Sun Dec 12 #4 $2.4M −47% −44% $124.1M 3,203 $745 24

Mon Dec 13 #4 $611.0K −74% −45% $124.7M 3,203 $190 25

Tue Dec 14 #4 $659.0K +8% −42% $125.3M 3,203 $205 26

Wed Dec 15 #4 $671.0K +2% −30% $126.0M 3,203 $209 27

Thu Dec 16 #4 $712.0K +6% −24% $126.7M 3,203 $222 28

Fri Dec 17 #6 $1.7M +139% −35% $128.4M 2,772 $613 29

Sat Dec 18 #6 $2.6M +51% −43% $131.0M 2,772 $927 30

Sun Dec 19 #6 $1.7M −33% −27% $132.7M 2,772 $625 31

Mon Dec 20 #5 $1.0M −42% +65% $133.8M 2,772 $363 32

Tue Dec 21 #6 $1.1M +11% +69% $134.9M 2,772 $402 33

Wed Dec 22 #7 $934.0K −16% +39% $135.8M 2,478 $376 34

Thu Dec 23 #5 $1.3M +39% +83% $137.1M 2,772 $468 35

Fri Dec 24 #5 $900.0K −31% −47% $138.0M 2,772 $324 36

Sat Dec 25 #11 $1.4M +58% −45% $139.4M 2,772 $512 37

Sun Dec 26 #11 $1.7M +16% −5% $141.1M 2,772 $596 38

Mon Dec 27 #9 $1.5M −8% +51% $142.6M 2,772 $549 39

Tue Dec 28 #8 $1.6M +5% +43% $144.2M 2,201 $726 40

Wed Dec 29 #7 $1.6M +3% +76% $145.8M 2,201 $747 41

Thu Dec 30 #7 $1.8M +9% +38% $147.6M 2,201 $817 42

Fri Dec 31 #6 $2.7M +50% +200% $150.3M 2,282 $1,183 43

Sat Jan 1 #6 $2.7M +1% +92% $152.8M 2,282 $1,194 44

Sun Jan 2 #7 $1.7M −39% +1% $154.5M 2,282 $733 45

Mon Jan 3 #7 $651.0K −61% −57% $155.2M 2,282 $285 46

Tue Jan 4 #9 $381.0K −41% −76% $155.6M 2,282 $166 47

Wed Jan 5 #8 $333.0K −13% −80% $155.9M 2,282 $145 48

Thu Jan 6 #8 $384.0K +15% −79% $156.3M 2,282 $168 49

Fri Jan 7 #9 $1.0M +160% −63% $157.3M 2,177 $459 50

Sat Jan 8 #7 $2.0M +105% −25% $159.6M 2,177 $940 51

Sun Jan 9 #8 $953.7K −53% −43% $160.5M 2,177 $438 52

Mon Jan 10 #9 $248.0K −74% −62% $160.8M 2,177 $113 53

Tue Jan 11 #9 $281.0K +13% −26% $161.1M 2,177 $129 54

Wed Jan 12 #9 $248.0K −12% −26% $161.3M 2,177 $113 55

Thu Jan 13 #8 $265.0K +7% −31% $161.6M 2,177 $121 56

Fri Jan 14 #13 $500.0K +89% −50% $162.1M 1,610 $310 57

Sat Jan 15 #12 $1.2M +134% −43% $163.5M 1,610 $726 58

Sun Jan 16 #12 $754.6K −36% −21% $164.2M 1,610 $468 59

Mon Jan 17 #11 $637.9K −15% +157% $164.9M 1,610 $396 60

Mon Feb 21 #24 $65.7K — $169.4M 249 $264 95

Mon May 30 #52 $3.8K — $173.0M 32 $118 193

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

Cumulative total$164.9M

Nov 19Dec 4Dec 19Jan 2Jan 17

Weekend grossWk 10 · $1.3M

$35.1M

$32.2M

$17.0M

$9.8M

$6.0M

$4.0M

$6.8M

$4.3M

$2.7M

$1.3M

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,243 → 1,610 −50.4%

3,017 open1,610 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −51.9%

−8.5%

W1→2

−47.1%

W2→3

−42.2%

W3→4

−38.7%

W4→5

−34.2%

W5→6

+70.7%

W6→7

−37.2%

W7→8

−37.5%

W8→9

−51.9%

W9→10

Steepest −51.9%Biggest gain +70.7%

Run milestones

$100M in 16 days

$100M

Day 16

Dec 4

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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