Name: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Director: Wes Anderson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2004
Cast: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe

Date	Rank	Gross	Daily Chg	Weekly Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Days
Sat Dec 25	#7	$2.41M		—	$2.41M	1,103	$2.2K	16
Sun Dec 26	#8	$2.12M	-12%	—	$4.96M	1,103	$1.9K	17
Mon Dec 27	#10	$1.51M	-28%	—	$6.47M	1,103	$1.4K	18
Tue Dec 28	#10	$1.34M	-11%	—	$7.81M	1,105	$1.2K	19
Sat Jan 1	#8	$2.07M		-14%	$13.43M	1,105	$1.9K	23
Sun Jan 2	#10	$1.37M	-34%	-35%	$14.79M	1,105	$1.2K	24
Mon Jan 3	#8	$623K	-54%	-59%	$15.42M	1,105	$564	25
Tue Jan 4	#8	$438K	-30%	-67%	$15.86M	1,105	$396	26
Wed Jan 5	#6	$423K	-3%	—	$16.28M	1,105	$383	27
Thu Jan 6	#7	$425K		—	$16.70M	1,105	$385	28
Fri Jan 7	#10	$900K	+112%	—	$17.60M	1,105	$814	29
Sat Jan 8	#10	$1.16M	+29%	-44%	$18.73M	1,105	$1.0K	30
Sun Jan 9	#10	$716K	-38%	-48%	$19.45M	1,105	$648	31
Mon Jan 10	#8	$268K	-63%	-57%	$19.72M	1,105	$243	32
Tue Jan 11	#8	$293K	+9%	-33%	$20.01M	1,105	$265	33
Wed Jan 12	#8	$249K	-15%	-41%	$20.26M	1,105	$225	34
Thu Jan 13	#9	$249K		-41%	$20.51M	1,105	$225	35
Fri Jan 14	#12	$600K	+141%	-33%	$21.10M	907	$662	36
Sat Jan 15	#18	$540K	-10%	-53%	$21.46M	907	$596	37
Sun Jan 16	#19	$402K	-26%	-44%	$21.86M	907	$443	38
Mon Jan 17	#21	$262K	-35%	-2%	$22.12M	907	$289	39
Mon Feb 21	#48	$10K		—	$23.97M	51	$190	74

Weekend	Rank	Gross	Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Wks
Dec 10-12	27	$113K	—	$113K	2	$56.5K	1
Dec 17-19	31	$99K	-12.6%	$312K	2	$49.4K	2
Dec 24-26	9	$4.55M	+4,503.0%	$4.96M	1,105	$4.1K	3
Dec 31-Jan 2	11	$4.42M	-2.7%	$14.79M	1,105	$4.0K	4
Jan 7-9	10	$2.74M	-38.0%	$19.45M	1,105	$2.5K	5
Jan 14-16	19	$1.35M	-50.8%	$21.86M	907	$1.5K	6
Jan 21-23	21	$527K	-61.0%	$22.97M	425	$1.2K	7
Jan 28-30	28	$270K	-48.8%	$23.46M	206	$1.3K	8
Feb 4-6	35	$147K	-45.5%	$23.71M	126	$1.2K	9
Feb 11-13	45	$88K	-40.1%	$23.87M	74	$1.2K	10
Feb 18-20	52	$45K	-49.0%	$23.96M	51	$881	11
Feb 25-27	62	$24K	-47.2%	$24.01M	32	$742	12

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byWes Anderson

ScreenplayWes Anderson, Noah Baumbach

Produced byWes Anderson, Barry Mendel, Scott Rudin

CinematographyRobert Yeoman

Music byMark Mothersbaugh

StarringBill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum

StudioTouchstone Pictures

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