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2009 • R • 1h 36m • Comedy, Romance • Sony Pictures Releasing

The battle of the sexes is on.

🍅 14% 60%

28

2.67

6.4

CS A-

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$27.60M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$88.90M

Final

Worldwide total

$205.00M

$116.00M international

Domestic legs3.22x

Budget$38.0M

2009 rank#37

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Cast & crew

Full Luketic filmography

Robert Luketic

Robert Luketic Director

Katherine Heigl

Katherine Heigl Starring

Gerard Butler

Gerard Butler Starring

John Michael Higgins

John Michael Higgins Starring

ScreenplayKaren McCullah, Nicole Eastman Produced byTom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Steven Reuther, Kimberly di Bonaventura, Deborah Jelin Newmyer CinematographyRussell Carpenter MusicAaron Zigman StudioSony Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Jul 24-26 3 $27.6M — 2,882 $9,578 $27.6M

2 Jul 31-Aug 2 4 $13.2M −52.2% 2,882 $4,575 $54.7M

3 Aug 7-9 6 $6.8M −48.8% 2,975 $2,268 $68.8M

4 Aug 14-16 8 $4.4M −34.1% 2,733 $1,627 $77.5M

5 Aug 21-23 9 $2.8M −37.6% 1,971 $1,407 $82.8M

6 Aug 28-30 14 $1.6M −42.8% 1,252 $1,268 $85.7M

7 Sep 4-6 18 $912.0K −42.6% 773 $1,179 $87.4M

8 Sep 11-13 25 $373.3K −59.1% 385 $969 $88.1M

9 Sep 18-20 37 $150.2K −59.8% 168 $894 $88.4M

10 Sep 25-27 33 $201.1K +33.9% 268 $750 $88.7M

11 Oct 2-4 42 $124.5K −38.1% 213 $584 $88.9M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Jul 24 #2 $10.8M — $10.8M 2,882 $3,760 1

Sat Jul 25 #3 $9.3M −14% $20.2M 2,882 $3,242 2

Sun Jul 26 #3 $7.4M −21% $27.6M 2,882 $2,576 3

Mon Jul 27 #3 $3.6M −51% $31.2M 2,882 $1,259 4

Tue Jul 28 #3 $3.8M +5% $35.0M 2,882 $1,321 5

Wed Jul 29 #3 $3.4M −10% $38.5M 2,882 $1,183 6

Thu Jul 30 #3 $3.0M −11% $41.5M 2,882 $1,050 7

Fri Jul 31 #4 $4.4M +47% −59% $45.9M 2,882 $1,543 8

Sat Aug 1 #4 $4.8M +8% −49% $50.7M 2,882 $1,660 9

Sun Aug 2 #4 $4.0M −17% −47% $54.7M 2,882 $1,371 10

Mon Aug 3 #4 $2.0M −50% −46% $56.6M 2,882 $684 11

Tue Aug 4 #4 $2.1M +4% −46% $58.7M 2,882 $713 12

Wed Aug 5 #4 $1.7M −15% −49% $60.4M 2,882 $605 13

Thu Aug 6 #4 $1.6M −6% −46% $62.1M 2,882 $570 14

Fri Aug 7 #6 $2.2M +36% −50% $64.3M 2,975 $750 15

Sat Aug 8 #6 $2.6M +14% −47% $66.9M 2,975 $857 16

Sun Aug 9 #6 $2.0M −23% −50% $68.8M 2,975 $660 17

Mon Aug 10 #6 $1.1M −46% −47% $69.9M 2,975 $353 18

Tue Aug 11 #6 $1.2M +11% −43% $71.1M 2,975 $393 19

Wed Aug 12 #6 $1.0M −15% −43% $72.1M 2,975 $336 20

Thu Aug 13 #5 $939.9K −6% −43% $73.0M 2,975 $315 21

Fri Aug 14 #7 $1.5M +57% −34% $74.5M 2,733 $541 22

Sat Aug 15 #8 $1.8M +19% −31% $76.2M 2,733 $645 23

Sun Aug 16 #8 $1.2M −32% −39% $77.5M 2,733 $440 24

Mon Aug 17 #8 $639.4K −47% −39% $78.1M 2,733 $233 25

Tue Aug 18 #8 $717.2K +12% −39% $78.8M 2,733 $262 26

Wed Aug 19 #8 $629.6K −12% −37% $79.4M 2,733 $230 27

Thu Aug 20 #7 $601.1K −5% −36% $80.0M 2,733 $219 28

Fri Aug 21 #10 $917.4K +53% −38% $81.0M 1,971 $465 29

Sat Aug 22 #9 $1.2M +28% −34% $82.1M 1,971 $594 30

Sun Aug 23 #11 $685.8K −41% −43% $82.8M 1,971 $347 31

Mon Aug 24 #10 $323.2K −53% −49% $83.1M 1,971 $163 32

Tue Aug 25 #10 $365.4K +13% −49% $83.5M 1,971 $185 33

Wed Aug 26 #9 $333.3K −9% −47% $83.8M 1,971 $169 34

Thu Aug 27 #9 $326.7K −2% −46% $84.2M 1,971 $165 35

Fri Aug 28 #13 $506.6K +55% −45% $84.7M 1,252 $404 36

Sat Aug 29 #14 $700.9K +38% −40% $85.4M 1,252 $559 37

Sun Aug 30 #14 $380.2K −46% −45% $85.7M 1,252 $303 38

Mon Sep 7 #19 $209.2K — $87.6M 773 $270 46

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

Cumulative total$87.6M

Jul 24Aug 3Aug 12Aug 22Sep 7

Weekend grossWk 10 · $201.1K

$27.6M

$13.2M

$6.8M

$4.4M

$2.8M

$1.6M

$912.0K

$373.3K

$150.2K

$201.1K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 2,975 → 773 −74.0%

2,882 open773 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · +33.9%

−52.2%

W1→2

−48.8%

W2→3

−34.1%

W3→4

−37.6%

W4→5

−42.8%

W5→6

−42.6%

W6→7

−59.1%

W7→8

−59.8%

W8→9

+33.9%

W9→10

Steepest −59.8%Biggest gain +33.9%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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