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The GreyFollow

2011 • R • 1h 57m • Action, Adventure, Drama • Open Road Films

Live or Die on This Day.

🍅 80% 61%

64

3.34

6.7

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$19.70M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$51.60M

Final

Worldwide total

$81.20M

$29.70M international

Domestic legs2.6x

Budget$25M

2012 rank#63

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Cast & crew

Full Carnahan filmography

Joe Carnahan

Joe Carnahan Director

Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson Starring

Frank Grillo

Frank Grillo Starring

Dermot Mulroney

Dermot Mulroney Starring

Dallas Roberts

Dallas Roberts Starring

ScreenplayJoe Carnahan Produced byJoe Carnahan, Jules Daly, Ridley Scott CinematographyMasanobu Takayanagi Music byMarc Streitenfeld StudioOpen Road Films

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Jan 27-29 1 $19.7M — 3,185 $6,174 $19.7M

2 Feb 3-5 3 $9.3M −52.7% 3,207 $2,900 $34.6M

3 Feb 10-12 7 $5.0M −45.8% 2,801 $1,801 $42.8M

4 Feb 17-19 10 $3.1M −37.7% 2,107 $1,491 $48.0M

5 Feb 24-26 18 $800.3K −74.5% 917 $873 $50.2M

6 Mar 2-4 26 $259.0K −67.6% 308 $841 $50.7M

7 Mar 9-11 35 $123.7K −52.2% 151 $819 $51.0M

8 Mar 16-18 30 $152.8K +23.5% 219 $698 $51.2M

9 Mar 23-25 37 $118.9K −22.2% 204 $583 $51.4M

10 Mar 30-Apr 1 45 $61.4K −48.4% 131 $469 $51.5M

11 Apr 6-8 54 $26.6K −56.7% 67 $397 $51.5M

12 Apr 13-15 58 $23.5K −11.5% 41 $573 $51.6M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Jan 27 #1 $6.5M — $6.5M 3,185 $2,035 1

Sat Jan 28 #1 $8.2M +26% $14.7M 3,185 $2,569 2

Sun Jan 29 #1 $5.0M −39% $19.7M 3,185 $1,571 3

Mon Jan 30 #1 $1.5M −71% $21.1M 3,185 $456 4

Tue Jan 31 #1 $1.6M +12% $22.7M 3,185 $510 5

Wed Feb 1 #1 $1.3M −23% $24.0M 3,185 $393 6

Thu Feb 2 #1 $1.3M +1% $25.3M 3,185 $397 7

Fri Feb 3 #3 $3.1M +143% −53% $28.3M 3,207 $957 8

Sat Feb 4 #3 $4.8M +57% −41% $33.2M 3,207 $1,507 9

Sun Feb 5 #4 $1.4M −71% −72% $34.6M 3,207 $436 10

Mon Feb 6 #3 $819.7K −41% −44% $35.4M 3,207 $256 11

Tue Feb 7 #3 $950.9K +16% −41% $36.3M 3,207 $296 12

Wed Feb 8 #3 $713.1K −25% −43% $37.0M 3,207 $222 13

Thu Feb 9 #3 $701.0K −2% −45% $37.7M 3,207 $219 14

Fri Feb 10 #7 $1.4M +94% −56% $39.1M 2,801 $486 15

Sat Feb 11 #7 $2.3M +70% −52% $41.4M 2,801 $829 16

Sun Feb 12 #7 $1.4M −41% −3% $42.8M 2,801 $486 17

Mon Feb 13 #7 $405.0K −70% −51% $43.2M 2,801 $145 18

Tue Feb 14 #7 $874.0K +116% −8% $44.1M 2,801 $312 19

Wed Feb 15 #7 $405.0K −54% −43% $44.5M 2,801 $145 20

Thu Feb 16 #7 $421.1K +4% −40% $44.9M 2,801 $150 21

Fri Feb 17 #10 $777.1K +85% −43% $45.7M 2,107 $369 22

Sat Feb 18 #10 $1.3M +70% −43% $47.0M 2,107 $627 23

Sun Feb 19 #10 $1.0M −21% −23% $48.0M 2,107 $495 24

Mon Feb 20 #11 $575.1K −45% +42% $48.6M 2,107 $273 25

Tue Feb 21 #10 $289.0K −50% −67% $48.9M 2,107 $137 26

Wed Feb 22 #11 $235.5K −19% −42% $49.1M 2,107 $112 27

Thu Feb 23 #12 $244.0K +4% −42% $49.4M 2,107 $116 28

Fri Feb 24 - $221.6K −9% −71% $49.6M 917 $242 29

Sat Feb 25 - $369.3K +67% −72% $50.0M 917 $403 30

Sun Feb 26 - $209.4K −43% −80% $50.2M 917 $228 31

Mon Feb 27 - $72.0K −66% −87% $50.3M 917 $79 32

Tue Feb 28 - $75.9K +5% −74% $50.3M 917 $83 33

Wed Feb 29 - $70.1K −8% −70% $50.4M 917 $76 34

Thu Mar 1 - $76.4K +9% −69% $50.5M 917 $83 35

Fri Mar 2 - $73.0K −4% −67% $50.5M 308 $237 36

Sat Mar 3 - $119.8K +64% −68% $50.7M 308 $389 37

Sun Mar 4 - $66.1K −45% −68% $50.7M 308 $215 38

Mon Mar 5 - $25.2K −62% −65% $50.8M 308 $82 39

Tue Mar 6 - $28.5K +13% −62% $50.8M 308 $93 40

Wed Mar 7 - $23.4K −18% −67% $50.8M 308 $76 41

Thu Mar 8 - $26.7K +14% −65% $50.8M 308 $87 42

Fri Mar 9 - $33.2K +25% −54% $50.9M 151 $220 43

Sat Mar 10 - $54.5K +64% −55% $50.9M 151 $361 44

Sun Mar 11 - $36.0K −34% −46% $51.0M 151 $238 45

Mon Mar 12 - $13.1K −64% −48% $51.0M 151 $87 46

Tue Mar 13 - $16.0K +22% −44% $51.0M 151 $106 47

Wed Mar 14 - $13.9K −13% −41% $51.0M 151 $92 48

Thu Mar 15 - $14.3K +3% −46% $51.0M 151 $95 49

Fri Mar 16 - $44.8K +213% +35% $51.1M 219 $205 50

Sat Mar 17 - $63.9K +43% +17% $51.1M 219 $292 51

Sun Mar 18 - $44.1K −31% +22% $51.2M 219 $201 52

Mon Mar 19 - $16.5K −63% +26% $51.2M 219 $75 53

Tue Mar 20 - $19.6K +19% +23% $51.2M 219 $89 54

Wed Mar 21 - $16.9K −14% +22% $51.2M 219 $77 55

Thu Mar 22 - $17.1K +1% +20% $51.2M 219 $78 56

Fri Mar 23 - $32.3K +89% −28% $51.3M 204 $158 57

Sat Mar 24 - $53.2K +65% −17% $51.3M 204 $261 58

Sun Mar 25 - $33.4K −37% −24% $51.4M 204 $164 59

Mon Mar 26 - $12.7K −62% −23% $51.4M 204 $62 60

Tue Mar 27 - $14.6K +15% −25% $51.4M 204 $72 61

Wed Mar 28 - $13.6K −7% −20% $51.4M 204 $67 62

Thu Mar 29 - $13.8K +2% −19% $51.4M 204 $68 63

Fri Mar 30 - $16.9K +22% −48% $51.4M 131 $129 64

Sat Mar 31 - $26.4K +56% −50% $51.5M 131 $201 65

Sun Apr 1 - $18.1K −31% −46% $51.5M 131 $138 66

Mon Apr 2 - $6.6K −64% −48% $51.5M 131 $50 67

Tue Apr 3 - $8.2K +24% −44% $51.5M 131 $62 68

Wed Apr 4 - $7.3K −10% −46% $51.5M 131 $56 69

Thu Apr 5 - $9.8K +34% −29% $51.5M 131 $75 70

Fri Apr 6 - $8.6K −12% −49% $51.5M 67 $129 71

Sat Apr 7 - $11.3K +31% −57% $51.5M 67 $168 72

Sun Apr 8 - $6.7K −41% −63% $51.5M 67 $99 73

Mon Apr 9 - $3.7K −45% −44% $51.5M 67 $55 74

Tue Apr 10 - $3.5K −6% −57% $51.5M 67 $52 75

Wed Apr 11 - $3.8K +9% −48% $51.5M 67 $57 76

Thu Apr 12 - $3.8K −1% −62% $51.5M 67 $56 77

Fri Apr 13 - $7.1K +88% −18% $51.6M 41 $172 78

Sat Apr 14 - $10.8K +53% −4% $51.6M 41 $264 79

Sun Apr 15 - $5.6K −48% −16% $51.6M 41 $137 80

Mon Apr 16 - $1.6K −71% −56% $51.6M 41 $40 81

Tue Apr 17 - $2.6K +58% −26% $51.6M 41 $63 82

Wed Apr 18 - $2.1K −20% −46% $51.6M 41 $50 83

Thu Apr 19 - $2.0K −3% −47% $51.6M 41 $49 84

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

Cumulative total$51.5M

Jan 27Feb 13Mar 2Mar 19Apr 5

Weekend grossWk 10 · $61.4K

$19.7M

$9.3M

$5.0M

$3.1M

$800.3K

$259.0K

$123.7K

$152.8K

$118.9K

$61.4K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,207 → 131 −95.9%

3,185 open131 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −48.4%

−52.7%

W1→2

−45.8%

W2→3

−37.7%

W3→4

−74.5%

W4→5

−67.6%

W5→6

−52.2%

W6→7

+23.5%

W7→8

−22.2%

W8→9

−48.4%

W9→10

Steepest −74.5%Biggest gain +23.5%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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