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2010 • R • 1h 58m • Action, Adventure, Drama • Warner Bros.

Some will kill to have it. He will kill to protect it.

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3.29

6.8

CS B+

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$32.80M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$94.80M

Final

Worldwide total

$157.00M

$62.30M international

Domestic legs2.89x

Budget$80.0M

2010 rank#34

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Cast & crew

Full Hughes filmography

Albert Hughes

Albert Hughes Director

Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington Starring

Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman Starring

Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis Starring

Ray Stevenson

Ray Stevenson Starring

Jennifer Beals

Jennifer Beals Starring

ScreenplayGary Whitta Produced byJoel Silver, Denzel Washington, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, David Valdes CinematographyDon Burgess MusicAtticus Ross, Leopold Ross, Claudia Sarne StudioWarner Bros.

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Jan 15-17 2 $32.8M — 3,111 $10,539 $32.8M

2 Jan 22-24 3 $15.7M −52.0% 3,111 $5,057 $60.7M

3 Jan 29-31 5 $8.9M −43.4% 3,075 $2,897 $74.5M

4 Feb 5-7 7 $4.7M −47.0% 2,820 $1,672 $82.0M

5 Feb 12-14 11 $3.6M −23.0% 1,825 $1,990 $87.6M

6 Feb 19-21 11 $1.9M −48.0% 1,455 $1,297 $90.8M

7 Feb 26-28 12 $1.1M −41.1% 975 $1,141 $92.5M

8 Mar 5-7 19 $533.2K −52.1% 555 $960 $93.4M

9 Mar 12-14 28 $186.3K −65.1% 220 $846 $93.8M

10 Mar 19-21 36 $77.8K −58.2% 100 $777 $94.0M

11 Apr 2-4 26 $189.0K +143.0% 218 $866 $94.3M

12 Apr 9-11 31 $135.0K −28.6% 187 $721 $94.5M

13 Apr 16-18 35 $85.1K −37.0% 146 $582 $94.6M

14 Apr 23-25 40 $63.3K −25.5% 111 $570 $94.7M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Jan 15 #1 $11.7M — $11.7M 3,111 $3,752 1

Sat Jan 16 #2 $11.8M +1% $23.5M 3,111 $3,786 2

Sun Jan 17 #2 $9.3M −21% $32.8M 3,111 $3,001 3

Mon Jan 18 #2 $5.6M −40% $38.4M 3,111 $1,815 4

Tue Jan 19 #2 $2.5M −56% $40.9M 3,111 $799 5

Wed Jan 20 #2 $2.0M −18% $43.0M 3,111 $653 6

Thu Jan 21 #2 $2.0M +1% $45.0M 3,111 $657 7

Fri Jan 22 #3 $4.9M +141% −58% $49.9M 3,111 $1,585 8

Sat Jan 23 #2 $7.5M +52% −36% $57.4M 3,111 $2,411 9

Sun Jan 24 #4 $3.3M −56% −65% $60.7M 3,111 $1,060 10

Mon Jan 25 #2 $1.3M −60% −77% $62.0M 3,111 $420 11

Tue Jan 26 #2 $1.3M +1% −47% $63.4M 3,111 $424 12

Wed Jan 27 #2 $1.1M −16% −45% $64.5M 3,111 $358 13

Thu Jan 28 #2 $1.1M +1% −45% $65.6M 3,111 $360 14

Fri Jan 29 #4 $2.5M +120% −50% $68.1M 3,075 $803 15

Sat Jan 30 #5 $3.9M +59% −48% $72.0M 3,075 $1,273 16

Sun Jan 31 #5 $2.5M −36% −24% $74.5M 3,075 $820 17

Mon Feb 1 #4 $744.2K −70% −43% $75.3M 3,075 $242 18

Tue Feb 2 #4 $729.1K −2% −45% $76.0M 3,075 $237 19

Wed Feb 3 #4 $668.3K −8% −40% $76.7M 3,075 $217 20

Thu Feb 4 #4 $674.4K +1% −40% $77.3M 3,075 $219 21

Fri Feb 5 #7 $1.5M +125% −39% $78.8M 2,820 $537 22

Sat Feb 6 #7 $2.4M +62% −37% $81.3M 2,820 $868 23

Sun Feb 7 #7 $751.6K −69% −70% $82.0M 2,820 $266 24

Mon Feb 8 #5 $521.2K −31% −30% $82.6M 2,820 $184 25

Tue Feb 9 #5 $474.2K −9% −35% $83.0M 2,820 $168 26

Wed Feb 10 #5 $411.3K −13% −38% $83.5M 2,820 $145 27

Thu Feb 11 #5 $502.4K +22% −26% $84.0M 2,820 $178 28

Fri Feb 12 #11 $723.9K +44% −52% $84.7M 1,825 $396 29

Sat Feb 13 #10 $1.3M +85% −45% $86.0M 1,825 $734 30

Sun Feb 14 #11 $1.6M +17% +109% $87.6M 1,825 $858 31

Mon Feb 15 #11 $579.4K −63% +11% $88.2M 1,825 $317 32

Tue Feb 16 #11 $247.5K −57% −48% $88.4M 1,825 $135 33

Wed Feb 17 #10 $230.1K −7% −44% $88.6M 1,825 $126 34

Thu Feb 18 #11 $244.1K +6% −51% $88.9M 1,825 $133 35

Fri Feb 19 #12 $519.0K +113% −28% $89.4M 1,455 $356 36

Sat Feb 20 #11 $864.5K +67% −36% $90.3M 1,455 $594 37

Sun Feb 21 #11 $504.8K −42% −68% $90.8M 1,455 $346 38

Mon Feb 22 #11 $158.3K −69% −73% $90.9M 1,455 $108 39

Tue Feb 23 #11 $153.4K −3% −38% $91.1M 1,455 $105 40

Wed Feb 24 #11 $144.2K −6% −37% $91.2M 1,455 $99 41

Thu Feb 25 #11 $163.2K +13% −33% $91.4M 1,455 $112 42

Fri Feb 26 $297.7K +82% −43% $91.7M 975 $305 43

Sat Feb 27 $526.8K +77% −39% $92.2M 975 $540 44

Sun Feb 28 $288.0K −45% −43% $92.5M 975 $295 45

Mon Mar 1 #11 $94.1K −67% −41% $92.6M 975 $96 46

Tue Mar 2 $93.1K −1% −39% $92.7M 975 $95 47

Wed Mar 3 $91.2K −2% −37% $92.8M 975 $93 48

Thu Mar 4 #12 $94.3K +3% −42% $92.9M 975 $96 49

Fri Mar 5 $155.9K +65% −48% $93.0M 555 $280 50

Sat Mar 6 $239.2K +53% −55% $93.3M 555 $430 51

Sun Mar 7 $138.1K −42% −52% $93.4M 555 $248 52

Mon Mar 8 $47.5K −66% −50% $93.5M 555 $85 53

Tue Mar 9 $47.0K −1% −50% $93.5M 555 $84 54

Wed Mar 10 $45.5K −3% −50% $93.6M 555 $81 55

Thu Mar 11 $48.2K +6% −49% $93.6M 555 $86 56

Fri Mar 12 $54.4K +13% −65% $93.7M 220 $247 57

Sat Mar 13 $82.5K +52% −66% $93.7M 220 $374 58

Sun Mar 14 $49.4K −40% −64% $93.8M 220 $224 59

Mon Mar 15 $21.7K −56% −54% $93.8M 220 $98 60

Tue Mar 16 $23.8K +10% −49% $93.8M 220 $108 61

Wed Mar 17 $20.1K −16% −56% $93.9M 220 $91 62

Thu Mar 18 $22.1K +10% −54% $93.9M 220 $100 63

Fri Mar 19 $23.9K +8% −56% $93.9M 100 $238 64

Sat Mar 20 $34.1K +43% −59% $93.9M 100 $340 65

Sun Mar 21 $19.8K −42% −60% $94.0M 100 $198 66

Mon Mar 22 $7.1K −64% −67% $94.0M 100 $71 67

Tue Mar 23 $7.3K +2% −69% $94.0M 100 $73 68

Wed Mar 24 $7.7K +5% −62% $94.0M 100 $76 69

Thu Mar 25 $8.0K +5% −64% $94.0M 100 $80 70

Fri Mar 26 $15.5K +93% −35% $94.0M 77 $201 71

Sat Mar 27 $23.3K +50% −32% $94.0M 77 $302 72

Sun Mar 28 $15.3K −34% −23% $94.0M 77 $199 73

Mon Mar 29 $7.2K −53% +1% $94.0M 77 $93 74

Tue Mar 30 $7.5K +4% +3% $94.1M 77 $97 75

Wed Mar 31 $6.2K −17% −19% $94.1M 77 $80 76

Thu Apr 1 $8.2K +32% +2% $94.1M 77 $106 77

Fri Apr 2 $72.5K +782% +368% $94.1M 218 $332 78

Sat Apr 3 $70.4K −3% +203% $94.2M 218 $322 79

Sun Apr 4 $46.1K −34% +200% $94.3M 218 $211 80

Mon Apr 5 $22.8K −51% +216% $94.3M 218 $104 81

Tue Apr 6 $23.3K +2% +210% $94.3M 218 $106 82

Wed Apr 7 $22.7K −2% +265% $94.3M 218 $104 83

Thu Apr 8 $23.9K +5% +190% $94.3M 218 $109 84

Fri Apr 9 $42.4K +78% −41% $94.4M 187 $226 85

Sat Apr 10 $56.6K +34% −20% $94.4M 187 $302 86

Sun Apr 11 $36.0K −36% −22% $94.5M 187 $192 87

Mon Apr 12 $12.3K −66% −46% $94.5M 187 $65 88

Tue Apr 13 $12.6K +3% −46% $94.5M 187 $67 89

Wed Apr 14 $12.2K −4% −46% $94.5M 187 $65 90

Thu Apr 15 $12.9K +6% −46% $94.5M 187 $68 91

Fri Apr 16 $24.8K +92% −41% $94.6M 146 $169 92

Sat Apr 17 $36.5K +47% −35% $94.6M 146 $250 93

Sun Apr 18 $23.7K −35% −34% $94.6M 146 $162 94

Mon Apr 19 $8.0K −66% −35% $94.6M 146 $54 95

Tue Apr 20 $8.8K +10% −30% $94.6M 146 $60 96

Wed Apr 21 $8.9K +1% −27% $94.6M 146 $60 97

Thu Apr 22 $8.9K n/c −31% $94.7M 146 $60 98

Fri Apr 23 $18.8K +112% −24% $94.7M 111 $169 99

Sat Apr 24 $27.8K +48% −24% $94.7M 111 $250 100

Sun Apr 25 $16.8K −40% −29% $94.7M 111 $151 101

Mon Apr 26 $6.1K −64% −24% $94.7M 111 $54 102

Tue Apr 27 $7.1K +16% −20% $94.7M 111 $63 103

Wed Apr 28 $6.4K −9% −28% $94.7M 111 $57 104

Thu Apr 29 $6.8K +6% −23% $94.7M 111 $61 105

Fri Apr 30 $11.0K +62% −41% $94.8M 77 $143 106

Sat May 1 $16.9K +53% −39% $94.8M 77 $219 107

Sun May 2 $11.3K −33% −33% $94.8M 77 $146 108

Mon May 3 $4.2K −63% −31% $94.8M 77 $54 109

Tue May 4 $4.0K −5% −44% $94.8M 77 $51 110

Wed May 5 $4.0K +2% −37% $94.8M 77 $52 111

Thu May 6 $4.4K +9% −35% $94.8M 77 $57 112

Fri May 7 $6.3K +44% −42% $94.8M 61 $104 113

Sat May 8 $10.3K +62% −39% $94.8M 61 $168 114

Sun May 9 $8.1K −21% −28% $94.8M 61 $132 115

Mon May 10 $2.8K −65% −32% $94.8M 61 $46 116

Tue May 11 $3.0K +7% −23% $94.8M 61 $49 117

Wed May 12 $3.3K +10% −17% $94.8M 61 $54 118

Thu May 13 $3.1K −6% −29% $94.8M 61 $51 119

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

Cumulative total$94.0M

Jan 15Feb 1Feb 19Mar 8Mar 25

Weekend grossWk 10 · $77.8K

$32.8M

$15.7M

$8.9M

$4.7M

$3.6M

$1.9M

$1.1M

$533.2K

$186.3K

$77.8K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,111 → 100 −96.8%

3,111 open100 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −58.2%

−52.0%

W1→2

−43.4%

W2→3

−47.0%

W3→4

−23.0%

W4→5

−48.0%

W5→6

−41.1%

W6→7

−52.1%

W7→8

−65.1%

W8→9

−58.2%

W9→10

Steepest −65.1%Best hold −23.0%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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