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Night at the Museum

2006 PG 1h 48m Adventure, Comedy, Family 20th Century Fox

Where history comes to life.

Night at the Museum Box Office

Opening Weekend
$30.4M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$251M
Final
Worldwide Total
$574M
$324M international
Domestic Legs8.24x
Budget$110M
2006 Rank#2
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 22-24 1 $30.43M $30.43M 3,685 $8.3K 1
Dec 29-31 1 $36.77M +20.8% $115.82M 3,768 $9.8K 2
Jan 5-7 1 $23.74M -35.4% $163.84M 3,730 $6.4K 3
Jan 12-14 2 $17.16M -27.7% $185.82M 3,612 $4.8K 4
Jan 19-21 2 $12.01M -30.0% $204.85M 3,483 $3.4K 5
Jan 26-28 3 $9.56M -20.4% $216.85M 3,241 $2.9K 6
Feb 2-4 4 $6.39M -33.2% $225.00M 3,003 $2.1K 7
Feb 9-11 5 $5.75M -9.9% $232.15M 2,702 $2.1K 8
Feb 16-18 10 $3.70M -35.6% $237.34M 2,042 $1.8K 9
Feb 23-25 12 $2.17M -41.4% $241.64M 1,371 $1.6K 10
Mar 2-4 14 $1.46M -32.9% $243.53M 927 $1.6K 11
Mar 9-11 16 $922K -36.6% $244.77M 739 $1.2K 12
Mar 16-18 14 $840K -8.9% $246.09M 610 $1.4K 13
Mar 23-25 21 $564K -32.9% $246.93M 427 $1.3K 14
Mar 30-Apr 1 18 $603K +6.9% $247.72M 414 $1.5K 15
Apr 6-8 20 $540K -10.3% $248.53M 367 $1.5K 16
Apr 13-15 22 $523K -3.3% $249.33M 355 $1.5K 17
Apr 20-22 23 $391K -25.2% $249.87M 321 $1.2K 18
Apr 27-29 30 $261K -33.2% $250.21M 284 $918 19
May 4-6 25 $179K -31.2% $250.45M 245 $732 20
May 11-13 33 $116K -35.3% $250.60M 200 $580 21
May 18-20 41 $74K -36.1% $250.71M 128 $579 22
May 25-27 44 $37K -49.7% $250.77M 129 $289 23

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

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Profitability

Return on Budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byShawn Levy
ScreenplayRobert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon
Produced byShawn Levy, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan
CinematographyGuillermo Navarro
MusicAlan Silvestri
StarringBen Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Jake Cherry
Studio20th Century Fox

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