Name: The Manchurian Candidate
Director: Jonathan Demme
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Released: 2004
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Simon McBurney, Kimberly Elise

Date	Rank	Gross	Daily Chg	Weekly Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Days
Fri Jul 30	#3	$6.10M		—	$6.10M	2,867	$2.1K	1
Sat Jul 31	#3	$8.01M	+31%	—	$14.11M	2,867	$2.8K	2
Sun Aug 1	#3	$5.91M	-26%	—	$20.02M	2,867	$2.1K	3
Mon Aug 2	#3	$2.11M	-64%	—	$22.13M	2,867	$737	4
Tue Aug 3	#3	$1.91M	-10%	—	$24.04M	2,867	$665	5
Wed Aug 4	#3	$1.83M	-4%	—	$25.87M	2,867	$639	6
Thu Aug 5	#3	$1.84M	n/c	—	$27.71M	2,867	$640	7
Fri Aug 6	#4	$3.20M	+74%	-48%	$30.90M	2,867	$1.1K	8
Sat Aug 7	#4	$4.38M	+37%	-45%	$35.13M	2,867	$1.5K	9
Sun Aug 8	#4	$2.84M	-35%	-52%	$37.97M	2,867	$989	10
Mon Aug 9	#5	$1.01M	-64%	-52%	$38.97M	2,867	$351	11
Tue Aug 10	#5	$1.04M	+4%	-45%	$40.02M	2,867	$364	12
Wed Aug 11	#5	$993K	-5%	-46%	$41.01M	2,867	$346	13
Thu Aug 12	#5	$964K	-3%	-47%	$41.98M	2,867	$336	14
Fri Aug 13	#7	$1.69M	+76%	-47%	$43.67M	2,612	$648	15
Sat Aug 14	#7	$2.57M	+52%	-41%	$46.24M	2,612	$984	16
Sun Aug 15	#7	$1.75M	-32%	-38%	$47.99M	2,612	$668	17
Mon Aug 16	#7	$648K	-63%	-36%	$48.64M	2,612	$248	18
Tue Aug 17	#7	$622K	-4%	-40%	$49.26M	2,612	$238	19
Wed Aug 18	#6	$637K	+2%	-36%	$49.90M	2,612	$243	20
Thu Aug 19	#6	$629K	-1%	-35%	$50.53M	2,612	$240	21
Fri Aug 20	#8	$1.20M	+91%	-29%	$51.70M	1,920	$625	22
Sat Aug 21	#8	$1.82M	+52%	-29%	$53.49M	1,920	$947	23
Sun Aug 22	#8	$1.05M	-42%	-40%	$54.54M	1,920	$547	24
Mon Aug 23	#10	$403K	-62%	-38%	$54.95M	1,920	$209	25
Tue Aug 24	#8	$432K	+7%	-31%	$55.38M	1,920	$225	26
Wed Aug 25	#8	$403K	-7%	-37%	$55.78M	1,920	$209	27
Thu Aug 26	#8	$392K	-3%	-38%	$56.17M	1,920	$204	28

Weekend	Rank	Gross	Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Wks
Jul 30-Aug 1	3	$20.02M	—	$20.02M	2,867	$7.0K	1
Aug 6-8	4	$10.26M	-48.8%	$37.97M	2,867	$3.6K	2
Aug 13-15	7	$6.01M	-41.4%	$47.99M	2,612	$2.3K	3
Aug 20-22	8	$4.02M	-33.2%	$54.54M	1,920	$2.1K	4
Aug 27-29	12	$2.84M	-29.3%	$59.01M	1,484	$1.9K	5
Sep 3-5	16	$2.01M	-29.2%	$61.92M	1,085	$1.9K	6
Sep 10-12	17	$1.01M	-49.6%	$63.88M	886	$1.1K	7
Sep 17-19	18	$563K	-44.4%	$64.82M	628	$896	8
Sep 24-26	24	$251K	-55.4%	$65.26M	389	$645	9
Oct 1-3	37	$92K	-63.2%	$65.43M	156	$592	10
Oct 22-24	33	$103K	+11.4%	$65.70M	208	$494	11
Oct 29-31	37	$65K	-37.0%	$65.81M	140	$462	12
Nov 5-7	39	$56K	-12.8%	$65.90M	109	$518	13

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 byJonathan Demme

ScreenplayDaniel Pyne, Dean Georgaris

Produced byJonathan Demme, Ilona Herzberg, Scott Rudin, Tina Sinatra

CinematographyTak Fujimoto

MusicRachel Portman

StarringDenzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Simon McBurney, Kimberly Elise, Bruno Ganz

StudioParamount Pictures

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