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The HauntingFollow

1999 • PG-13 • 1h 53m • Horror, Thriller • DreamWorks

Some houses are born bad.

🍅 17% 28%

42

2.38

5.1

CS C+

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$33.40M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$91.20M

Final

Worldwide total

$180.20M

$89.00M international

Domestic legs2.7x

Budget$80M

1999 rank#23

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Cast & crew

Full Bont filmography

Jan de Bont

Jan de Bont Director

Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson Starring

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones Starring

Lili Taylor

Lili Taylor Starring

Owen Wilson

Owen Wilson Starring

Bruce Dern

Bruce Dern Starring

ScreenplayDavid Self Produced byDonna Arkoff Roth, Colin Wilson, Susan Arnold CinematographyKarl Walter Lindenlaub Music byJerry Goldsmith StudioDreamWorks

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Jul 23-25 1 $33.4M — 2,808 $11,907 $33.4M

2 Jul 30-Aug 1 4 $15.3M −54.4% 2,864 $5,327 $64.0M

3 Aug 6-8 8 $6.4M −57.8% 2,881 $2,235 $77.3M

4 Aug 13-15 11 $3.3M −48.7% 2,239 $1,476 $83.6M

5 Aug 20-22 15 $1.7M −49.4% 1,587 $1,054 $86.8M

6 Aug 27-29 22 $717.5K −57.1% 889 $807 $88.1M

7 Sep 3-5 26 $678.2K −5.5% 622 $1,090 $89.1M

8 Sep 10-12 33 $233.5K −65.6% 391 $597 $89.4M

9 Sep 17-19 40 $129.3K −44.6% 258 $501 $89.6M

10 Sep 24-26 44 $91.3K −29.4% 198 $461 $89.7M

11 Oct 1-3 17 $350.4K +283.9% 508 $690 $90.1M

12 Oct 8-10 20 $360.4K +2.9% 393 $917 $90.6M

13 Oct 15-17 26 $213.7K −40.7% 318 $672 $90.9M

14 Oct 22-24 35 $166.2K −22.2% 248 $670 $91.2M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Jul 23 #1 $11.8M — $11.8M 2,808 $4,202 1

Sat Jul 24 #1 $12.0M +1.8% $23.8M 2,808 $4,279 2

Sun Jul 25 #1 $9.3M −22.7% $33.4M 2,808 $3,307 3

Mon Jul 26 #1 $4.5M −51.2% $38.3M 2,808 $1,613 4

Tue Jul 27 #1 $4.2M −6.9% $42.5M 2,808 $1,502 5

Wed Jul 28 #1 $3.3M −21.1% $45.8M 2,808 $1,185 6

Thu Jul 29 #1 $3.2M −3.9% $49.0M 2,808 $1,139 7

Fri Jul 30 #4 $4.7M +45.4% −60.6% $53.7M 2,864 $1,624 8

Sat Jul 31 #4 $5.7M +23.3% −52.3% $59.4M 2,864 $2,002 9

Sun Aug 1 #4 $4.3M −25.0% −53.7% $64.0M 2,864 $1,501 10

Mon Aug 2 #4 $1.9M −55.6% −57.8% $65.9M 2,864 $667 11

Tue Aug 3 #5 $1.8M −5.0% −56.9% $67.7M 2,864 $634 12

Wed Aug 4 #5 $1.6M −10.0% −50.9% $69.3M 2,864 $570 13

Thu Aug 5 #5 $1.6M −3.6% −50.8% $70.9M 2,864 $550 14

Fri Aug 6 #8 $2.1M +32.1% −55.3% $73.0M 2,881 $722 15

Sat Aug 7 #8 $2.6M +23.1% −55.4% $75.5M 2,881 $889 16

Sun Aug 8 #9 $1.9M −25.4% −55.6% $77.3M 2,881 $663 17

Mon Aug 9 #8 $780.2K −59.2% −59.2% $78.1M 2,881 $271 18

Tue Aug 10 #8 $849.8K +8.9% −53.2% $79.0M 2,881 $295 19

Wed Aug 11 #9 $699.4K −17.7% −57.2% $79.7M 2,881 $243 20

Thu Aug 12 #9 $661.1K −5.5% −58.0% $80.3M 2,881 $229 21

Fri Aug 13 #10 $1.0M +52.8% −51.4% $81.3M 2,239 $451 22

Sat Aug 14 #11 $1.3M +26.7% −50.0% $82.6M 2,239 $572 23

Sun Aug 15 #11 $919.0K −28.2% −51.9% $83.6M 2,239 $410 24

Mon Aug 16 #12 $367.8K −60.0% −52.9% $84.0M 2,239 $164 25

Tue Aug 17 #12 $392.8K +6.8% −53.8% $84.4M 2,239 $175 26

Wed Aug 18 #12 $342.7K −12.7% −51.0% $84.7M 2,239 $153 27

Thu Aug 19 #12 $337.5K −1.5% −48.9% $85.1M 2,239 $151 28

Sun Aug 22 #15 $467.0K — −49.2% $86.8M 1,587 $294 31

Mon Aug 23 #15 $174.1K −62.7% −52.7% $86.9M 1,587 $110 32

Tue Aug 24 #16 $182.4K +4.8% −53.6% $87.1M 1,587 $115 33

Wed Aug 25 #17 $159.2K −12.7% −53.6% $87.3M 1,587 $100 34

Thu Aug 26 #17 $151.3K −4.9% −55.2% $87.4M 1,587 $95 35

Thu Sep 9 #20 $36.9K — $89.2M 622 $59 49

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

Cumulative total$89.2M

Jul 23Jul 31Aug 9Aug 17Sep 9

Weekend grossWk 10 · $91.3K

$33.4M

$15.3M

$6.4M

$3.3M

$1.7M

$717.5K

$678.2K

$233.5K

$129.3K

$91.3K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 2,881 → 622 −78.4%

2,808 open622 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −29.4%

−54.4%

W1→2

−57.8%

W2→3

−48.7%

W3→4

−49.4%

W4→5

−57.1%

W5→6

−5.5%

W6→7

−65.6%

W7→8

−44.6%

W8→9

−29.4%

W9→10

Steepest −65.6%Best hold −5.5%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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