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2003 • PG-13 • 1h 24m • Comedy • Dimension Films

Great trilogies come in threes.

🍅 36% 54%

49

2.78

5.6

CS B

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$48.10M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$110.00M

Final

Worldwide total

$221.00M

$111.00M international

Domestic legs2.3x

Budget$48.0M

2003 rank#23

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Cast & crew

Full Zucker filmography

David Zucker

David Zucker Director

Anna Faris

Anna Faris Starring

Regina Hall

Regina Hall Starring

Anthony Anderson

Anthony Anderson Starring

Charlie Sheen

Charlie Sheen Starring

Leslie Nielsen

Leslie Nielsen Starring

ScreenplayPat Proft, Craig Mazin Produced byRobert K. Weiss CinematographyMark Irwin MusicJames L. Venable StudioDimension Films SeriesScary Movie

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

7 Dec 5-7 24 $218.7K — 473 $462 $108.9M

8 Dec 12-14 36 $83.2K −62.0% 228 $364 $109.0M

9 Dec 19-21 51 $35.3K −57.5% 121 $291 $109.1M

10 Dec 26-28 39 $164.3K +365.0% 195 $842 $109.3M

11 Jan 2-4 38 $158.0K −3.8% 201 $786 $109.6M

12 Jan 9-11 38 $107.7K −31.8% 184 $585 $109.7M

13 Jan 16-18 44 $77.6K −28.0% 140 $554 $109.8M

14 Jan 23-25 56 $46.6K −39.9% 102 $457 $109.9M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Oct 24 #1 $18.6M — $18.6M 3,503 $5,314 1

Sat Oct 25 #1 $19.0M +2% $37.4M 3,505 $5,421 2

Sun Oct 26 #1 $10.7M −44% $48.1M 3,505 $3,056 3

Mon Oct 27 #1 $2.6M −76% $50.7M 3,505 $731 4

Tue Oct 28 #1 $2.3M −10% $53.0M 3,505 $657 5

Wed Oct 29 #1 $1.9M −17% $54.9M 3,505 $548 6

Thu Oct 30 #1 $2.1M +9% $57.5M 3,505 $597 7

Fri Oct 31 #1 $4.7M +123% −75% $62.2M 3,505 $1,332 8

Sat Nov 1 #2 $10.2M +119% −46% $72.2M 3,505 $2,917 9

Sun Nov 2 #2 $5.4M −47% −50% $77.5M 3,505 $1,533 10

Mon Nov 3 #2 $1.5M −73% −43% $79.0M 3,505 $413 11

Tue Nov 4 #2 $1.4M −4% −40% $80.4M 3,505 $396 12

Wed Nov 5 #3 $926.0K −33% −52% $81.3M 3,505 $264 13

Thu Nov 6 #3 $999.0K +8% −52% $82.2M 3,505 $285 14

Fri Nov 7 #4 $3.3M +229% −30% $85.5M 3,288 $999 15

Sat Nov 8 #4 $4.8M +47% −53% $90.5M 3,288 $1,469 16

Sun Nov 9 #4 $2.5M −48% −53% $93.1M 3,288 $770 17

Mon Nov 10 #4 $1.1M −58% −27% $94.1M 3,288 $321 18

Tue Nov 11 #4 $1.4M +37% +4% $95.6M 3,288 $440 19

Wed Nov 12 #5 $409.0K −72% −56% $96.0M 3,288 $124 20

Thu Nov 13 #8 $291.0K −29% −71% $96.2M 3,288 $88 21

Fri Nov 14 #8 $2.0M +596% −38% $98.3M 2,960 $684 22

Sat Nov 15 #7 $2.8M +41% −41% $101.0M 2,960 $962 23

Sun Nov 16 #7 $1.3M −53% −47% $102.3M 2,960 $453 24

Mon Nov 17 #7 $291.0K −78% −72% $102.6M 2,960 $98 25

Tue Nov 18 #7 $313.0K +8% −78% $102.9M 2,968 $105 26

Wed Nov 19 #7 $267.0K −15% −35% $103.2M 2,968 $89 27

Thu Nov 20 #8 $238.0K −11% −18% $103.3M 2,968 $80 28

Fri Nov 21 #8 $1.0M +320% −51% $104.3M 2,359 $423 29

Sat Nov 22 #9 $1.5M +50% −47% $105.8M 2,359 $635 30

Sun Nov 23 #9 $700.0K −53% −48% $106.5M 2,359 $296 31

Mon Nov 24 #9 $194.0K −72% −33% $106.7M 2,359 $82 32

Tue Nov 25 #9 $313.0K +61% n/c $107.0M 2,359 $132 33

Mon Jan 19 #46 $14.7K — $109.8M 140 $105 88

Mon Feb 16 #64 $2.5K — $110.0M 37 $68 116

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

Cumulative total$107.0M

Oct 24Nov 1Nov 9Nov 17Nov 25

Weekend grossWk 10 · $164.3K

$218.7K

$83.2K

$35.3K

$164.3K

W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,505 → 2,359 −32.7%

3,503 open2,359 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · +365.0%

−62.0%

W7→8

−57.5%

W8→9

+365.0%

W9→10

Steepest −62.0%Biggest gain +365.0%

Run milestones

$100M in 23 days

$100M

Day 23

Nov 15

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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