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2001 • PG-13 • 1h 30m • Action, Comedy, Crime • New Line Cinema

Get ready for a second Rush!

🍅 50% 74%

48

3.45

6.7

CS A

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$67.40M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$226.20M

Final

Worldwide total

$347.40M

$121.30M international

Domestic legs3.36x

Budget$90.0M

2001 rank#5

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Cast & crew

Full Ratner filmography

Brett Ratner

Brett Ratner Director

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan Starring

Chris Tucker

Chris Tucker Starring

John Lone

John Lone Starring

Roselyn Sánchez

Roselyn Sánchez Starring

Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi Starring

ScreenplayJeff Nathanson Produced byRoger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman, Arthur M. Sarkissian, Jay Stern CinematographyMatthew F. Leonetti MusicLalo Schifrin StudioNew Line Cinema SeriesRush Hour

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Aug 3-5 1 $67.4M — 3,118 $21,619 $67.4M

2 Aug 10-12 2 $33.1M −50.9% 3,118 $10,621 $133.5M

3 Aug 17-19 2 $19.0M −42.6% 3,080 $6,176 $164.7M

4 Aug 24-26 2 $11.6M −39.1% 3,001 $3,859 $183.4M

5 Aug 31-Sep 2 2 $9.3M −19.7% 2,825 $3,290 $196.5M

6 Sep 7-9 6 $5.8M −38.1% 2,546 $2,259 $206.0M

7 Sep 14-16 6 $4.1M −28.9% 2,268 $1,804 $211.1M

8 Sep 21-23 5 $3.5M −14.0% 2,129 $1,653 $215.6M

9 Sep 28-30 6 $2.5M −29.4% 2,086 $1,191 $219.2M

10 Oct 5-7 10 $1.7M −30.6% 1,549 $1,113 $221.5M

11 Oct 12-14 13 $968.7K −43.8% 1,012 $957 $223.0M

12 Oct 19-21 17 $622.3K −35.8% 659 $944 $223.9M

13 Oct 26-28 21 $349.5K −43.8% 446 $783 $224.4M

14 Nov 2-4 24 $258.2K −26.1% 333 $775 $224.7M

15 Nov 9-11 27 $222.1K −14.0% 285 $779 $225.0M

16 Nov 16-18 24 $212.4K −4.4% 281 $755 $225.3M

17 Nov 23-25 23 $224.3K +5.6% 255 $879 $225.7M

18 Nov 30-Dec 2 24 $153.9K −31.4% 241 $638 $225.9M

19 Dec 7-9 23 $125.2K −18.7% 197 $635 $226.0M

20 Dec 14-16 31 $78.3K −37.4% 150 $522 $226.1M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Aug 3 #1 $22.6M — $22.6M 3,118 $7,253 1

Sat Aug 4 #1 $23.6M +5% $46.3M 3,118 $7,580 2

Sun Aug 5 #1 $20.0M −16% $67.4M 3,118 $6,400 3

Mon Aug 6 #1 $9.5M −53% $76.9M 3,118 $3,037 4

Tue Aug 7 #1 $8.8M −7% $85.7M 3,118 $2,832 5

Wed Aug 8 #1 $7.3M −17% $93.0M 3,118 $2,342 6

Thu Aug 9 #1 $6.9M −6% $100.4M 3,118 $2,197 7

Fri Aug 10 #2 $10.6M +54% −53% $111.0M 3,118 $3,392 8

Sat Aug 11 #2 $13.0M +23% −45% $123.9M 3,118 $4,156 9

Sun Aug 12 #2 $10.0M −23% −50% $133.5M 3,118 $3,212 10

Mon Aug 13 #2 $4.0M −60% −58% $137.5M 3,118 $1,277 11

Tue Aug 14 #2 $4.0M n/c −55% $141.5M 3,118 $1,282 12

Wed Aug 15 #2 $3.3M −18% −55% $144.8M 3,118 $1,049 13

Thu Aug 16 #2 $2.7M −19% −61% $145.6M 3,118 $853 14

Fri Aug 17 #2 $5.3M +101% −50% $151.0M 3,080 $1,733 15

Sat Aug 18 #1 $7.9M +48% −39% $158.7M 3,080 $2,557 16

Sun Aug 19 #2 $5.8M −27% −42% $164.7M 3,080 $1,877 17

Mon Aug 20 #2 $2.3M −61% −43% $166.9M 3,080 $741 18

Tue Aug 21 #2 $2.4M +6% −39% $169.4M 3,080 $785 19

Wed Aug 22 #2 $1.9M −21% −42% $171.3M 3,080 $617 20

Thu Aug 23 #2 $1.5M −22% −44% $172.8M 3,080 $482 21

Fri Aug 24 #3 $3.4M +126% −37% $176.1M 3,001 $1,121 22

Sat Aug 25 #1 $4.7M +40% −40% $180.8M 3,001 $1,567 23

Sun Aug 26 #2 $3.3M −29% −43% $183.4M 3,001 $1,106 24

Mon Aug 27 #3 $1.2M −64% −48% $184.6M 3,001 $394 25

Tue Aug 28 #1 $1.3M +14% −44% $186.0M 3,001 $448 26

Wed Aug 29 #1 $1.0M −24% −46% $187.0M 3,001 $343 27

Thu Aug 30 #3 $792.0K −23% −47% $187.8M 3,001 $263 28

Fri Aug 31 #2 $2.5M +219% −25% $189.7M 2,825 $893 29

Sat Sep 1 #2 $3.9M +53% −18% $193.6M 2,825 $1,365 30

Sun Sep 2 #2 $3.7M −4% +12% $197.3M 2,825 $1,315 31

Mon Sep 3 #2 $2.4M −35% +104% $198.9M 2,825 $855 32

Tue Sep 4 #2 $705.4K −71% −48% $199.6M 2,825 $249 33

Wed Sep 5 #2 $524.7K −26% −49% $200.1M 2,825 $185 34

Thu Sep 6 #2 $484.5K −8% −39% $200.6M 2,825 $171 35

Fri Sep 7 #7 $1.4M +187% −45% $202.0M 2,546 $546 36

Sat Sep 8 #5 $2.5M +80% −35% $204.5M 2,546 $985 37

Sun Sep 9 #2 $1.8M −28% −52% $206.3M 2,546 $706 38

Mon Sep 10 #7 $271.1K −85% −89% $206.6M 2,546 $106 39

Tue Sep 11 #6 $257.4K −5% −64% $206.6M 2,546 $101 40

Wed Sep 12 #6 $352.8K +37% −33% $207.0M 2,546 $138 41

Thu Sep 13 #7 $279.5K −21% −42% $207.1M 2,546 $109 42

Fri Sep 14 #6 $1.2M +315% −17% $208.2M 2,268 $511 43

Sat Sep 15 #6 $2.1M +81% −16% $210.3M 2,268 $925 44

Sun Sep 16 #6 $1.1M −49% −40% $211.1M 2,268 $471 45

Mon Sep 17 #6 $293.3K −73% +8% $211.4M 2,268 $129 46

Tue Sep 18 #5 $372.3K +27% +45% $211.8M 2,266 $164 47

Wed Sep 19 #5 $286.6K −23% −19% $212.1M 2,266 $126 48

Thu Sep 20 #9 $210.0K −27% −25% $212.1M 2,266 $92 49

Fri Sep 21 #2 $1.3M +541% +16% $213.4M 2,129 $631 50

Sat Sep 22 #4 $1.8M +31% −16% $215.2M 2,129 $826 51

Sun Sep 23 #4 $930.0K −47% −13% $215.6M 2,129 $436 52

Mon Sep 24 #4 $247.0K −73% −16% $215.9M 2,129 $116 53

Tue Sep 25 #4 $393.0K +59% +6% $216.3M 2,129 $184 54

Wed Sep 26 #4 $268.0K −32% −7% $216.5M 2,129 $125 55

Thu Sep 27 #3 $296.0K +10% +41% $216.8M 2,129 $139 56

Fri Sep 28 #6 $710.0K +140% −47% $217.5M 2,086 $340 57

Sat Sep 29 #6 $1.3M +76% −29% $218.8M 2,086 $599 58

Sun Sep 30 #6 $630.0K −50% −32% $219.2M 2,086 $302 59

Mon Oct 1 #6 $175.0K −72% −29% $219.4M 2,086 $83 60

Tue Oct 2 #6 $189.0K +8% −52% $219.6M 2,086 $90 61

Wed Oct 3 #6 $165.0K −13% −38% $219.7M 2,086 $79 62

Thu Oct 4 #6 $147.0K −11% −50% $219.8M 2,086 $70 63

Fri Oct 5 #10 $480.0K +227% −32% $220.3M 1,549 $309 64

Sat Oct 6 #10 $870.0K +81% −30% $221.2M 1,549 $561 65

Sun Oct 7 #10 $430.0K −51% −32% $221.5M 1,549 $277 66

Mon Oct 8 #10 $213.0K −50% +22% $221.7M 1,549 $137 67

Tue Oct 9 #10 $115.0K −46% −39% $221.9M 1,549 $74 68

Wed Oct 10 #10 $107.0K −7% −35% $222.0M 1,549 $69 69

Thu Oct 11 #10 $109.0K +2% −26% $222.0M 1,549 $70 70

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

Cumulative total$222.0M

Aug 3Aug 20Sep 7Sep 24Oct 11

Weekend grossWk 10 · $1.7M

$67.4M

$33.1M

$19.0M

$11.6M

$9.3M

$5.8M

$4.1M

$3.5M

$2.5M

$1.7M

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,118 → 1,549 −50.3%

3,118 open1,549 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −30.6%

−50.9%

W1→2

−42.6%

W2→3

−39.1%

W3→4

−19.7%

W4→5

−38.1%

W5→6

−28.9%

W6→7

−14.0%

W7→8

−29.4%

W8→9

−30.6%

W9→10

Steepest −50.9%Best hold −14.0%

Run milestones

$200M in 34 days

$100M

Day 7

Aug 9

$200M

Day 34

Sep 5

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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