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2000 • PG-13 • 2h 10m • Action, Adventure, Thriller • Warner Bros.

Space will never be the same.

🍅 78% 53%

73

3.09

6.5

CS A-

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$18.10M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$90.50M

Final

Worldwide total

$129.00M

$38.40M international

Domestic legs5.00x

Budget$65.0M

2000 rank#24

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Cast & crew

Full Eastwood filmography

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood Director

Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones Starring

Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland Starring

James Garner

James Garner Starring

James Cromwell

James Cromwell Starring

Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden Starring

ScreenplayHoward Klausner, Ken Kaufman Produced byAndrew Lazar, Clint Eastwood CinematographyJack N. Green MusicLennie Niehaus StudioWarner Bros.

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Aug 4-6 3 $18.1M — 2,805 $6,450 $18.1M

2 Aug 11-13 2 $13.0M −28.1% 2,835 $4,591 $39.0M

3 Aug 18-20 3 $9.5M −27.2% 2,835 $3,342 $53.8M

4 Aug 25-27 4 $6.5M −31.2% 2,795 $2,330 $63.7M

5 Sep 1-3 2 $6.7M +3.1% 2,795 $2,402 $72.6M

6 Sep 8-10 5 $3.3M −50.3% 2,607 $1,281 $78.8M

7 Sep 15-17 5 $2.5M −24.7% 2,461 $1,022 $82.2M

8 Sep 22-24 9 $2.2M −14.3% 2,170 $993 $85.1M

9 Sep 29-Oct 1 11 $1.4M −35.0% 2,006 $699 $87.0M

10 Oct 6-8 12 $882.8K −37.1% 1,503 $587 $88.2M

11 Oct 13-15 15 $543.4K −38.4% 1,002 $542 $89.1M

12 Oct 20-22 24 $236.7K −56.4% 601 $393 $89.4M

13 Oct 27-29 36 $103.3K −56.3% 311 $332 $89.6M

14 Nov 3-5 53 $48.1K −53.4% 173 $278 $89.7M

15 Dec 22-25 31 $109.2K +126.8% 482 $226 $89.9M

16 Dec 29-Jan 1 32 $169.5K +55.3% 482 $351 $90.2M

17 Jan 5-7 34 $120.9K −28.7% 240 $503 $90.4M

18 Jan 12-15 47 $54.3K −55.1% 102 $532 $90.5M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Aug 4 #3 $5.2M — $5.4M 2,805 $1,855 1

Sat Aug 5 #3 $6.7M +29% $12.1M 2,805 $2,392 2

Sun Aug 6 #2 $5.7M −15% $18.1M 2,805 $2,029 3

Mon Aug 7 #3 $2.1M −62% $20.2M 2,805 $765 4

Tue Aug 8 #3 $2.0M −6% $22.3M 2,805 $720 5

Wed Aug 9 #3 $1.9M −8% $24.1M 2,805 $662 6

Thu Aug 10 #2 $1.9M +2% $26.0M 2,805 $672 7

Fri Aug 11 #3 $3.4M +81% −34% $29.4M 2,835 $1,202 8

Sat Aug 12 #1 $5.3M +55% −21% $34.7M 2,835 $1,865 9

Sun Aug 13 #2 $3.8M −28% −33% $39.0M 2,835 $1,343 10

Mon Aug 14 #3 $1.4M −63% −35% $40.4M 2,835 $494 11

Tue Aug 15 #2 $1.4M +1% −30% $41.8M 2,835 $500 12

Wed Aug 16 #1 $1.2M −15% −35% $43.1M 2,835 $425 13

Thu Aug 17 #1 $1.3M +4% −34% $44.3M 2,835 $442 14

Fri Aug 18 #3 $2.6M +109% −23% $46.9M 2,835 $925 15

Sat Aug 19 #2 $4.1M +57% −22% $51.1M 2,835 $1,457 16

Sun Aug 20 #3 $2.5M −41% −36% $53.8M 2,835 $866 17

Mon Aug 21 #3 $822.6K −67% −41% $54.6M 2,835 $290 18

Tue Aug 22 #3 $933.0K +13% −34% $55.5M 2,835 $329 19

Wed Aug 23 #2 $818.1K −12% −32% $56.4M 2,835 $288 20

Thu Aug 24 #2 $838.3K +2% −33% $57.2M 2,835 $295 21

Fri Aug 25 #5 $1.6M +95% −38% $58.8M 2,795 $585 22

Sat Aug 26 #4 $2.8M +69% −33% $61.6M 2,795 $988 23

Sun Aug 27 #4 $1.8M −37% −29% $63.7M 2,795 $627 24

Mon Aug 28 #5 $510.3K −71% −38% $64.2M 2,795 $182 25

Tue Aug 29 #4 $587.9K +15% −37% $64.8M 2,795 $210 26

Wed Aug 30 #4 $532.6K −9% −35% $65.3M 2,795 $190 27

Thu Aug 31 #4 $553.7K +4% −34% $65.9M 2,795 $198 28

Fri Sep 1 #5 $1.4M +158% −13% $67.3M 2,795 $510 29

Sat Sep 2 #3 $2.5M +73% −11% $69.8M 2,795 $882 30

Sun Sep 3 #3 $2.2M −10% +27% $72.0M 2,795 $797 31

Mon Sep 4 #2 $1.9M −14% +277% $74.5M 2,795 $688 32

Tue Sep 5 #5 $343.3K −82% −42% $74.9M 2,795 $122 33

Wed Sep 6 #4 $301.8K −12% −43% $75.2M 2,795 $107 34

Thu Sep 7 #4 $304.6K +1% −45% $75.5M 2,795 $108 35

Fri Sep 8 #5 $817.0K +168% −43% $76.3M 2,607 $313 36

Sat Sep 9 #5 $1.5M +89% −37% $77.8M 2,607 $591 37

Sun Sep 10 #5 $807.0K −48% −64% $78.8M 2,607 $309 38

Mon Sep 11 #6 $186.4K −77% −90% $79.0M 2,607 $71 39

Tue Sep 12 #6 $243.5K +31% −29% $79.3M 2,607 $93 40

Wed Sep 13 #5 $202.8K −17% −33% $79.5M 2,607 $77 41

Thu Sep 14 #5 $228.4K +13% −25% $79.7M 2,607 $87 42

Fri Sep 15 #9 $646.0K +183% −21% $80.3M 2,461 $262 43

Sat Sep 16 #5 $1.2M +88% −21% $81.5M 2,461 $493 44

Sun Sep 17 #7 $574.0K −53% −29% $82.2M 2,461 $233 45

Mon Sep 18 #7 $154.7K −73% −17% $82.4M 2,461 $62 46

Tue Sep 19 #7 $186.6K +21% −23% $82.5M 2,461 $75 47

Wed Sep 20 #7 $181.9K −3% −10% $82.7M 2,461 $73 48

Thu Sep 21 #7 $190.2K +5% −17% $82.9M 2,461 $77 49

Fri Sep 22 #9 $574.0K +202% −11% $83.5M 2,170 $264 50

Sat Sep 23 #9 $1.1M +89% −11% $84.6M 2,170 $500 51

Sun Sep 24 #9 $484.0K −55% −16% $85.1M 2,170 $223 52

Mon Sep 25 #11 $112.0K −77% −28% $85.2M 2,170 $51 53

Tue Sep 26 #11 $131.6K +18% −29% $85.3M 2,170 $60 54

Wed Sep 27 #10 $124.7K −5% −31% $85.4M 2,170 $57 55

Thu Sep 28 #11 $132.0K +6% −31% $85.6M 2,170 $60 56

Sat Sep 30 #10 $704.0K — −35% $86.7M 2,006 $350 58

Sun Oct 1 #11 $306.0K −57% −37% $87.0M 2,006 $152 59

Mon Oct 2 #12 $82.4K −73% −26% $87.1M 2,006 $41 60

Tue Oct 3 #13 $91.2K +11% −31% $87.1M 2,006 $45 61

Wed Oct 4 #11 $94.0K +3% −25% $87.2M 2,006 $46 62

Thu Oct 5 #10 $109.8K +17% −17% $87.4M 2,006 $54 63

Sun Oct 8 #13 $213.0K — −30% $88.2M 1,503 $141 66

Mon Oct 9 #14 $93.4K −56% +13% $88.3M 1,503 $62 67

Tue Oct 10 #13 $64.2K −31% −30% $88.4M 1,503 $42 68

Wed Oct 11 #13 $56.7K −12% −40% $88.4M 1,503 $37 69

Thu Oct 12 #13 $63.4K +12% −42% $88.5M 1,503 $42 70

Sun Oct 15 #17 $109.0K — −49% $89.1M 1,002 $108 73

Mon Oct 16 #17 $37.6K −65% −60% $89.1M 1,002 $37 74

Tue Oct 17 #18 $34.5K −8% −46% $89.1M 1,002 $34 75

Wed Oct 18 #17 $36.0K +5% −36% $89.2M 1,002 $35 76

Thu Oct 19 #17 $41.2K +14% −35% $89.2M 1,002 $41 77

Mon Jan 15 #48 $6.9K — $90.5M 102 $68 165

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

Cumulative total$88.5M

Aug 4Aug 21Sep 6Sep 23Oct 12

Weekend grossWk 10 · $882.8K

$18.1M

$13.0M

$9.5M

$6.5M

$6.7M

$3.3M

$2.5M

$2.2M

$1.4M

$882.8K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 2,835 → 1,503 −47.0%

2,805 open1,503 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −37.1%

−28.1%

W1→2

−27.2%

W2→3

−31.2%

W3→4

+3.1%

W4→5

−50.3%

W5→6

−24.7%

W6→7

−14.3%

W7→8

−35.0%

W8→9

−37.1%

W9→10

Steepest −50.3%Biggest gain +3.1%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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