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The SpongeBob SquarePants MovieFollow

2004 • PG • 1h 27m • Adventure, Animation, Comedy • Paramount Pictures

Hero. Legend. Sponge.

🍅 68% 79%

67

3.94

7.2

CS B+

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$32.00M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$85.40M

Final

Worldwide total

$140.00M

$54.90M international

Domestic legs2.67x

Budget$30.0M

2004 rank#28

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Cast & crew

Tom Kenny

Tom Kenny Starring

Clancy Brown

Clancy Brown Starring

Bill Fagerbakke

Bill Fagerbakke Starring

ScreenplayStephen Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, Tim Hill, Kent Osborne Produced byStephen Hillenburg, Julia Pistor CinematographyJerzy Zieliński MusicGregor Narholz StudioParamount Pictures SeriesSpongeBob

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Nov 19-21 2 $32.0M — 3,212 $9,968 $32.0M

2 Nov 26-28 5 $17.8M −44.3% 3,307 $5,395 $58.8M

3 Dec 3-5 6 $7.7M −57.1% 3,307 $2,315 $68.2M

4 Dec 10-12 7 $4.4M −43.1% 3,307 $1,317 $73.6M

5 Dec 17-19 11 $2.0M −54.0% 2,115 $946 $76.4M

6 Dec 24-26 19 $714.5K −64.3% 1,316 $542 $78.8M

7 Dec 31-Jan 2 20 $1.2M +74.4% 1,068 $1,166 $81.9M

8 Jan 7-9 22 $858.3K −31.1% 842 $1,019 $83.1M

9 Jan 14-16 30 $317.9K −63.0% 440 $722 $83.6M

10 Jan 21-23 34 $152.9K −51.9% 310 $493 $83.9M

11 Jan 28-30 29 $265.0K +73.4% 310 $854 $84.2M

12 Feb 4-6 26 $268.5K +1.3% 358 $749 $84.5M

13 Feb 11-13 27 $232.7K −13.3% 296 $786 $84.8M

14 Feb 18-20 31 $184.8K −20.6% 245 $754 $85.1M

15 Feb 25-27 39 $96.5K −47.8% 212 $455 $85.3M

16 Mar 4-6 48 $61.8K −35.9% 127 $486 $85.4M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Nov 19 #2 $9.4M — $9.4M 3,212 $2,927 1

Sat Nov 20 #2 $13.8M +47% $23.3M 3,212 $4,287 2

Sun Nov 21 #2 $8.7M −37% $32.0M 3,212 $2,705 3

Mon Nov 22 #3 $1.5M −82% $33.6M 3,212 $479 4

Tue Nov 23 #4 $1.7M +11% $35.3M 3,212 $531 5

Wed Nov 24 #4 $3.5M +103% $38.7M 3,307 $1,048 6

Thu Nov 25 #6 $2.2M −36% $40.9M 3,307 $672 7

Fri Nov 26 #5 $7.1M +219% −25% $48.0M 3,307 $2,146 8

Sat Nov 27 #5 $6.7M −5% −51% $54.8M 3,307 $2,038 9

Sun Nov 28 #5 $4.0M −41% −54% $58.8M 3,307 $1,212 10

Mon Nov 29 #6 $553.0K −86% −64% $59.3M 3,307 $167 11

Tue Nov 30 #7 $412.0K −25% −76% $59.8M 3,307 $125 12

Wed Dec 1 #7 $403.0K −2% −88% $60.2M 3,307 $122 13

Thu Dec 2 #6 $392.0K −3% −82% $60.6M 3,307 $119 14

Fri Dec 3 #6 $1.8M +359% −75% $62.4M 3,307 $544 15

Sat Dec 4 #5 $3.6M +99% −47% $65.9M 3,307 $1,081 16

Sun Dec 5 #5 $2.3M −35% −42% $68.2M 3,307 $700 17

Mon Dec 6 #7 $258.0K −89% −53% $68.5M 3,307 $78 18

Tue Dec 7 #8 $263.0K +2% −36% $68.7M 3,307 $80 19

Wed Dec 8 #8 $274.0K +4% −32% $69.0M 3,307 $83 20

Thu Dec 9 #8 $234.0K −15% −40% $69.2M 3,307 $71 21

Fri Dec 10 #8 $1.1M +370% −39% $70.3M 3,307 $333 22

Sat Dec 11 #7 $2.1M +91% −41% $72.3M 3,307 $636 23

Sun Dec 12 #7 $1.3M −37% −42% $73.6M 3,307 $403 24

Mon Dec 13 #8 $178.0K −87% −31% $73.8M 3,307 $54 25

Tue Dec 14 #10 $189.0K +6% −28% $74.0M 3,307 $57 26

Wed Dec 15 #9 $192.0K +2% −30% $74.2M 3,307 $58 27

Thu Dec 16 #8 $205.0K +7% −12% $74.4M 3,307 $62 28

Fri Dec 17 #12 $400.0K +95% −64% $74.8M 2,115 $189 29

Sat Dec 18 #11 $899.7K +125% −57% $75.7M 2,115 $425 30

Sun Dec 19 #11 $684.7K −24% −49% $76.4M 2,115 $324 31

Mon Jan 17 #23 $138.7K — $83.7M 440 $315 60

Mon Feb 21 #28 $51.7K — $85.2M 245 $211 95

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

Cumulative total$83.7M

Nov 19Nov 27Dec 5Dec 12Jan 17

Weekend grossWk 10 · $152.9K

$32.0M

$17.8M

$7.7M

$4.4M

$2.0M

$714.5K

$1.2M

$858.3K

$317.9K

$152.9K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,307 → 440 −86.7%

3,212 open440 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −51.9%

−44.3%

W1→2

−57.1%

W2→3

−43.1%

W3→4

−54.0%

W4→5

−64.3%

W5→6

+74.4%

W6→7

−31.1%

W7→8

−63.0%

W8→9

−51.9%

W9→10

Steepest −64.3%Biggest gain +74.4%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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