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The Road to El DoradoFollow

2000 • PG • 1h 29m • Adventure, Animation, Comedy • DreamWorks Distribution

They came for the gold. They stayed for the adventure.

🍅 49% 67%

51

3.63

6.9

CS B+

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$12.80M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$50.90M

Final

Worldwide total

$65.70M

$14.80M international

Domestic legs3.96x

Budget$95.0M

2000 rank#50

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Cast & crew

Full Bergeron filmography

Bibo Bergeron

Bibo Bergeron Director

Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh Starring

Kevin Kline

Kevin Kline Starring

Rosie Perez

Rosie Perez Starring

Armand Assante

Armand Assante Starring

Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos Starring

ScreenplayTed Elliott, Terry Rossio Produced byBonne Radford, Brooke Breton MusicHans Zimmer & John Powell StudioDreamWorks

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Mar 31-Apr 2 2 $12.8M — 3,218 $3,992 $12.8M

2 Apr 7-9 3 $9.1M −29.3% 3,223 $2,819 $25.1M

3 Apr 14-16 5 $6.2M −32.2% 3,223 $1,910 $33.0M

4 Apr 21-23 7 $5.2M −15.1% 3,170 $1,648 $41.9M

5 Apr 28-30 13 $2.0M −61.6% 2,247 $892 $46.4M

6 May 5-7 14 $908.0K −54.7% 1,528 $594 $47.8M

7 May 12-14 18 $1.0M +15.0% 1,027 $1,017 $49.1M

8 May 19-21 31 $182.8K −82.5% 451 $405 $49.5M

9 May 26-28 12 $309.1K +69.1% 602 $513 $49.9M

10 Jun 2-4 26 $168.4K −45.5% 490 $343 $50.2M

11 Jun 9-11 30 $145.8K −13.4% 314 $464 $50.5M

12 Jun 16-18 42 $79.0K −45.8% 249 $317 $50.6M

13 Jun 23-25 36 $104.1K +31.7% 225 $462 $50.8M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Mar 31 #3 $3.7M — $3.7M 3,218 $1,142 1

Sat Apr 1 #2 $5.4M +47% $9.1M 3,218 $1,676 2

Sun Apr 2 #1 $4.1M −23% $12.8M 3,218 $1,288 3

Mon Apr 3 #1 $840.5K −80% $13.7M 3,218 $261 4

Tue Apr 4 #2 $872.7K +4% $14.6M 3,218 $271 5

Wed Apr 5 #2 $762.3K −13% $15.3M 3,218 $236 6

Thu Apr 6 #2 $715.7K −6% $16.0M 3,218 $222 7

Fri Apr 7 #5 $1.9M +167% −48% $17.9M 3,218 $592 8

Sat Apr 8 #3 $4.0M +108% −27% $21.9M 2,880 $1,376 9

Sun Apr 9 #1 $3.1M −21% −25% $25.1M 3,223 $969 10

Mon Apr 10 #4 $436.2K −86% −48% $25.6M 3,223 $135 11

Tue Apr 11 #4 $456.6K +5% −48% $26.0M 3,223 $141 12

Wed Apr 12 #4 $433.5K −5% −43% $26.4M 3,223 $134 13

Thu Apr 13 #4 $439.1K +1% −39% $26.9M 3,223 $136 14

Fri Apr 14 #8 $1.2M +175% −37% $28.1M 3,223 $374 15

Sat Apr 15 #5 $2.6M +114% −35% $30.7M 2,670 $966 16

Sun Apr 16 #4 $2.1M −20% −34% $33.0M 3,223 $637 17

Mon Apr 17 #3 $871.3K −58% +100% $33.9M 3,223 $270 18

Tue Apr 18 #3 $965.8K +11% +111% $34.9M 3,223 $299 19

Wed Apr 19 #3 $850.7K −12% +96% $35.7M 3,223 $263 20

Thu Apr 20 #4 $900.0K +6% +105% $36.6M 3,223 $279 21

Fri Apr 21 #6 $2.3M +154% +90% $38.9M 2,820 $812 22

Sat Apr 22 #7 $1.8M −21% −29% $40.7M 2,820 $645 23

Sun Apr 23 #7 $1.2M −33% −41% $41.9M 3,223 $376 24

Mon Apr 24 #2 $853.5K −30% −2% $42.8M 3,223 $264 25

Tue Apr 25 #5 $556.8K −35% −42% $43.3M 3,223 $172 26

Wed Apr 26 #4 $568.5K +2% −33% $43.9M 3,223 $176 27

Thu Apr 27 #4 $545.6K −4% −39% $44.4M 3,223 $169 28

Sun Apr 30 #11 $594.0K — −51% $46.4M 2,247 $264 31

Mon May 1 #13 $112.5K −81% −87% $46.6M 2,247 $50 32

Tue May 2 #16 $104.3K −7% −81% $46.7M 2,247 $46 33

Wed May 3 #13 $100.5K −4% −82% $46.8M 2,247 $44 34

Thu May 4 #14 $102.5K +2% −81% $46.9M 2,247 $45 35

Sun May 7 #14 $351.0K — −41% $47.8M 1,528 $229 38

Mon May 8 #14 $72.4K −79% −36% $47.8M 1,528 $47 39

Tue May 9 #16 $64.9K −10% −38% $47.9M 1,528 $42 40

Wed May 10 #15 $73.4K +13% −27% $48.0M 1,528 $48 41

Thu May 11 #14 $74.8K +2% −27% $48.1M 1,528 $48 42

Sun May 14 #18 $242.0K — −31% $49.1M 1,027 $235 45

Mon May 15 #18 $85.8K −65% +18% $49.2M 1,027 $83 46

Tue May 16 #20 $40.3K −53% −38% $49.2M 1,027 $39 47

Wed May 17 #19 $38.2K −5% −48% $49.3M 1,027 $37 48

Thu May 18 #19 $39.3K +3% −47% $49.3M 1,027 $38 49

Mon May 29 #19 $82.0K — $50.0M 602 $136 60

Wed May 31 #19 $32.5K — $50.0M 602 $54 62

Thu Jun 1 #18 $33.4K +3% $50.0M 602 $55 63

Sun Jun 4 #19 $57.0K — $50.2M 490 $116 66

Mon Jun 5 #17 $27.6K −52% −66% $50.2M 490 $56 67

Tue Jun 6 #19 $28.9K +5% $50.3M 490 $58 68

Wed Jun 7 #17 $25.9K −10% −20% $50.3M 490 $52 69

Thu Jun 8 #18 $29.2K +13% −12% $50.3M 490 $59 70

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

Cumulative total$50.3M

Mar 31Apr 13Apr 25May 14Jun 8

Weekend grossWk 10 · $168.4K

$12.8M

$9.1M

$6.2M

$5.2M

$2.0M

$908.0K

$1.0M

$182.8K

$309.1K

$168.4K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,223 → 490 −84.8%

3,218 open490 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −45.5%

−29.3%

W1→2

−32.2%

W2→3

−15.1%

W3→4

−61.6%

W4→5

−54.7%

W5→6

+15.0%

W6→7

−82.5%

W7→8

+69.1%

W8→9

−45.5%

W9→10

Steepest −82.5%Biggest gain +69.1%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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