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2018 • PG-13 • 1h 53m • Action • Warner Bros.

🍅 47% 44%

46

2.44

5.7

CS B+

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$45.40M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$145.40M

Final

Worldwide total

$529.20M

Global total

Budget$178.0M

Domestic legs3.2x

2018 rank#22

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Cast & crew

Full Turteltaub filmography

Jon Turteltaub

Jon Turteltaub Director

Jason Statham

Jason Statham Starring

Rainn Wilson

Rainn Wilson Starring

Cliff Curtis

Cliff Curtis Starring

Ruby Rose

Ruby Rose Starring

Jessica McNamee

Jessica McNamee Starring

ScreenplayJon Hoeber, Dean Georgaris, Erich Hoeber Produced byBelle Avery, Colin Wilson, Lorenzo di Bonaventura CinematographyTom Stern MusicHarry Gregson-Williams Prod. DesignGrant Major StudioWarner Bros.

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Aug 10-12 1 $45.4M — 4118 $3,675 $45.4M

3 Aug 17-19 2 $21.2M −65% 4118 $1,712 $83.8M

5 Aug 24-26 3 $12.8M −43% 4031 $1,059 $105.1M

8 Aug 31-Sep 2 2 $10.5M −29% 3761 $933 $120.5M

10 Sep 7-9 5 $6.1M −41% 3511 $578 $131.6M

12 Sep 14-16 7 $3.9M −24% 2851 $451 $137.1M

15 Sep 21-23 11 $2.3M −44% 2003 $377 $140.4M

17 Sep 28-30 14 $1.0M −52% 1243 $276 $142.0M

19 Oct 5-7 10 $266.0K −75% 533 $166 $142.5M

22 Oct 12-14 10 $75.6K −71% 202 $124 $142.7M

24 Oct 19-21 10 $138.5K +74% 203 $227 $142.8M

26 Oct 26-28 10 $95.9K −30% 168 $190 $143.0M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Aug 10 #1 $16.6M — $16.6M 4118 4032 1

Sat Aug 11 #1 $16.3M −2% $32.9M 4118 3953 2

Sun Aug 12 #1 $12.5M −23% $45.4M 4118 3041 3

Mon Aug 13 #1 $4.6M −64% $50.0M 4118 1106 4

Tue Aug 14 #1 $6.0M +33% $56.0M 4118 1466 5

Wed Aug 15 #2 $3.4M −43% $59.4M 4118 828 6

Thu Aug 16 #2 $3.2M −6% $62.6M 4118 779 7

Fri Aug 17 #2 $5.8M +81% −65% $68.4M 4118 1406 8

Sat Aug 18 #2 $9.0M +55% −45% $77.4M 4118 2179 9

Sun Aug 19 #2 $6.4M −29% −49% $83.8M 4118 1550 10

Mon Aug 20 #2 $2.2M −66% −52% $85.9M 4118 530 11

Tue Aug 21 #2 $2.9M +35% −51% $88.9M 4118 715 12

Wed Aug 22 #2 $1.9M −35% −44% $90.8M 4118 465 13

Thu Aug 23 #2 $1.5M −23% −54% $92.3M 4118 357 14

Fri Aug 24 #3 $3.3M +125% −43% $95.6M 4031 819 15

Sat Aug 25 #2 $5.7M +73% −36% $101.3M 4031 1420 16

Sun Aug 26 #2 $3.8M −34% −41% $105.1M 4031 939 17

Mon Aug 27 #2 $1.2M −68% −44% $106.3M 4031 301 18

Tue Aug 28 #2 $1.6M +35% −44% $107.9M 4031 406 19

Wed Aug 29 #2 $1.1M −31% −41% $109.1M 4031 281 20

Thu Aug 30 #2 $921.5K −19% −37% $110.0M 4031 229 21

Fri Aug 31 #2 $2.3M +154% −29% $112.3M 3761 621 22

Sat Sep 1 #2 $4.0M +72% −30% $116.3M 3761 1066 23

Sun Sep 2 #2 $4.2M +4% +11% $120.5M 3761 1113 24

Mon Sep 3 #2 $3.3M −22% +170% $123.8M 3761 872 25

Tue Sep 4 #2 $832.8K −75% −49% $124.6M 3761 221 26

Wed Sep 5 #3 $496.7K −40% −56% $125.1M 3761 132 27

Thu Sep 6 #3 $410.4K −17% −55% $125.5M 3761 109 28

Fri Sep 7 #5 $1.4M +237% −41% $126.9M 3511 394 29

Sat Sep 8 #4 $3.0M +120% −24% $130.0M 3511 868 30

Sun Sep 9 #4 $1.7M −45% −60% $131.6M 3511 474 31

Mon Sep 10 #5 $442.4K −73% −87% $132.1M 3511 126 32

Tue Sep 11 #6 $540.7K +22% −35% $132.6M 3511 154 33

Wed Sep 12 #5 $380.1K −30% −23% $133.0M 3511 108 34

Thu Sep 13 #5 $281.9K −26% −31% $133.3M 3511 80 35

Fri Sep 14 #7 $1.0M +272% −24% $134.3M 2851 368 36

Sat Sep 15 #7 $1.8M +69% −42% $136.1M 2851 622 37

Sun Sep 16 #7 $1.0M −41% −37% $137.1M 2851 365 38

Mon Sep 17 #8 $232.6K −78% −47% $137.4M 2851 82 39

Tue Sep 18 #9 $372.9K +60% −31% $137.8M 2851 131 40

Wed Sep 19 #9 $256.9K −31% −32% $138.0M 2851 90 41

Thu Sep 20 #10 $165.5K −36% −41% $138.2M 2851 58 42

Fri Sep 21 #11 $582.8K +252% −44% $138.8M 2003 291 43

Sat Sep 22 #9 $1.1M +91% −37% $139.9M 2003 556 44

Sun Sep 23 #10 $569.4K −49% −45% $140.4M 2003 284 45

Mon Sep 24 #13 $128.6K −77% −45% $140.6M 2003 64 46

Tue Sep 25 #13 $187.0K +45% −50% $140.8M 2003 93 47

Wed Sep 26 #13 $116.3K −38% −55% $140.9M 2003 58 48

Thu Sep 27 #14 $77.7K −33% −53% $140.9M 2003 39 49

Fri Sep 28 #14 $279.5K +260% −52% $141.2M 1243 225 50

Sat Sep 29 #12 $496.8K +78% −55% $141.7M 1243 400 51

Sun Sep 30 #12 $255.8K −49% −55% $142.0M 1243 206 52

Mon Oct 1 #10+ $63.2K −75% −51% $142.0M 1243 51 53

Tue Oct 2 #10+ $86.4K +37% −54% $142.1M 1243 70 54

Wed Oct 3 #15 $57.5K −33% −51% $142.2M 1243 46 55

Thu Oct 4 #10+ $38.4K −33% −51% $142.2M 1243 31 56

Fri Oct 5 #10+ $70.6K +84% −75% $142.3M 533 133 57

Sat Oct 6 #10+ $116.8K +65% −76% $142.4M 533 219 58

Sun Oct 7 #10+ $78.6K −33% −69% $142.5M 533 147 59

Mon Oct 8 #10+ $40.8K −48% −35% $142.5M 533 77 60

Tue Oct 9 #10+ $28.7K −30% −67% $142.6M 533 54 61

Wed Oct 10 #10+ $19.8K −31% −66% $142.6M 533 37 62

Thu Oct 11 #10+ $17.2K −13% −55% $142.6M 533 32 63

Fri Oct 12 #10+ $20.7K +20% −71% $142.6M 202 102 64

Sat Oct 13 #10+ $35.0K +69% −70% $142.7M 202 173 65

Sun Oct 14 #10+ $19.9K −43% −75% $142.7M 202 98 66

Mon Oct 15 #10+ $7.6K −62% −81% $142.7M 202 37 67

Tue Oct 16 #10+ $8.0K +6% −72% $142.7M 202 40 68

Wed Oct 17 #10+ $5.4K −33% −73% $142.7M 202 27 69

Thu Oct 18 #10+ $5.9K +10% −66% $142.7M 202 29 70

Fri Oct 19 #10+ $36.1K +510% +74% $142.7M 203 178 71

Sat Oct 20 #10+ $61.5K +71% +76% $142.8M 203 303 72

Sun Oct 21 #10+ $40.8K −34% +106% $142.8M 203 201 73

Mon Oct 22 #10+ $9.7K −76% +28% $142.8M 203 48 74

Tue Oct 23 #10+ $11.5K +19% +44% $142.9M 203 57 75

Wed Oct 24 #10+ $9.0K −22% +68% $142.9M 203 44 76

Thu Oct 25 #10+ $10.6K +18% +80% $142.9M 203 52 77

Fri Oct 26 #10+ $25.2K +138% −30% $142.9M 168 150 78

Sat Oct 27 #10+ $43.0K +70% −30% $142.9M 168 256 79

Sun Oct 28 #10+ $27.7K −36% −32% $143.0M 168 165 80

Mon Oct 29 #10+ $7.0K −75% −28% $143.0M 168 42 81

Tue Oct 30 #10+ $6.8K −3% −41% $143.0M 168 40 82

Wed Oct 31 #10+ $8.0K +17% −12% $143.0M 168 47 83

Thu Nov 1 #10+ $8.1K +2% −24% $143.0M 168 48 84

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

Cumulative total$142.7M

Aug 10Aug 27Sep 14Oct 1Oct 18

Weekend grossWk 10 · $6.1M

$45.4M

$21.2M

$12.8M

$10.5M

$6.1M

W1W3W5W8W10

Theater countPeak 4,118 → 202 −95.1%

4,118 open202 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −41%

−65%

W1→3

−43%

W3→5

−29%

W5→8

−41%

W8→10

Steepest −65%Best hold −29%

Run milestones

$100M in 16 days

$100M

Day 16

Aug 25

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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