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War of the WorldsFollow

2005 • PG-13 • 1h 57m • Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi • Paramount Pictures

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3.35

6.6

CS B+

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$64.90M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$234.00M

Final

Worldwide total

$604.00M

$370.00M international

Domestic legs3.61x

Budget$132M

2005 rank#4

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Cast & crew

Full Spielberg filmography

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg Director

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise Starring

Dakota Fanning

Dakota Fanning Starring

Justin Chatwin

Justin Chatwin Starring

Miranda Otto

Miranda Otto Starring

Tim Robbins

Tim Robbins Starring

ScreenplayJosh Friedman, David Koepp Produced byKathleen Kennedy, Colin Wilson CinematographyJanusz Kamiński MusicJohn Williams StudioParamount Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Jul 1-3 1 $64.9M — 3,908 $16,601 $100.6M

2 Jul 8-10 2 $30.5M −53.0% 3,910 $7,792 $165.0M

3 Jul 15-17 4 $15.2M −50.0% 3,724 $4,093 $192.4M

4 Jul 22-24 6 $8.9M −41.5% 3,265 $2,733 $208.4M

5 Jul 29-31 9 $5.5M −38.6% 2,324 $2,358 $218.4M

6 Aug 5-7 9 $3.5M −35.3% 1,940 $1,829 $224.6M

7 Aug 12-14 12 $2.2M −39.2% 1,340 $1,610 $228.6M

8 Aug 19-21 16 $1.1M −51.0% 713 $1,482 $230.6M

9 Aug 26-28 17 $758.1K −28.3% 579 $1,309 $231.8M

10 Sep 2-4 24 $447.1K −41.0% 408 $1,095 $232.5M

11 Sep 9-11 28 $226.7K −49.3% 307 $738 $232.9M

12 Sep 16-18 38 $149.1K −34.2% 157 $949 $233.1M

13 Sep 23-25 45 $87.1K −41.6% 117 $744 $233.3M

14 Oct 7-9 32 $222.1K +155.1% 245 $906 $233.6M

15 Oct 14-16 32 $172.7K −22.3% 216 $799 $233.8M

16 Oct 21-23 42 $119.8K −30.6% 169 $709 $234.0M

17 Oct 28-30 50 $62.1K −48.2% 119 $521 $234.1M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Wed Jun 29 #1 $21.3M — $21.3M 3,908 $5,439 1

Thu Jun 30 #1 $14.4M −32% $35.7M 3,908 $3,691 2

Fri Jul 1 #1 $21.9M +52% $57.6M 3,908 $5,609 3

Sat Jul 2 #1 $23.2M +6% $80.8M 3,908 $5,931 4

Sun Jul 3 #1 $19.8M −15% $100.6M 3,908 $5,060 5

Mon Jul 4 #1 $12.2M −38% $112.7M 3,908 $3,117 6

Tue Jul 5 #1 $8.5M −31% $121.2M 3,908 $2,163 7

Wed Jul 6 #1 $7.1M −16% −66% $128.3M 3,908 $1,822 8

Thu Jul 7 #1 $6.2M −13% −57% $134.5M 3,908 $1,583 9

Fri Jul 8 #2 $9.7M +57% −56% $144.2M 3,910 $2,484 10

Sat Jul 9 #2 $12.3M +27% −47% $156.5M 3,910 $3,143 11

Sun Jul 10 #2 $8.5M −31% −57% $165.0M 3,910 $2,164 12

Mon Jul 11 #2 $3.3M −61% −73% $168.3M 3,910 $838 13

Tue Jul 12 #2 $3.1M −6% −64% $171.3M 3,910 $787 14

Wed Jul 13 #2 $3.0M −3% −58% $174.3M 3,910 $763 15

Thu Jul 14 #2 $2.9M −4% −54% $177.2M 3,910 $734 16

Fri Jul 15 #4 $4.4M +53% −55% $181.6M 3,724 $1,181 17

Sat Jul 16 #4 $6.2M +42% −49% $187.8M 3,724 $1,674 18

Sun Jul 17 #4 $4.6M −26% −46% $192.4M 3,724 $1,235 19

Mon Jul 18 #4 $1.9M −58% −41% $194.3M 3,724 $515 20

Tue Jul 19 #4 $1.8M −5% −41% $196.2M 3,724 $487 21

Wed Jul 20 #4 $1.6M −9% −45% $197.8M 3,724 $442 22

Thu Jul 21 #4 $1.7M +2% −41% $199.5M 3,724 $453 23

Fri Jul 22 #8 $2.6M +55% −40% $202.1M 3,264 $802 24

Sat Jul 23 #6 $3.7M +42% −40% $205.8M 3,264 $1,137 25

Sun Jul 24 #6 $2.6M −30% −44% $208.4M 3,264 $794 26

Mon Jul 25 #6 $1.2M −55% −40% $209.6M 3,265 $354 27

Tue Jul 26 #6 $1.2M +2% −35% $210.8M 3,265 $362 28

Wed Jul 27 #6 $1.1M −9% −35% $211.8M 3,265 $330 29

Thu Jul 28 #6 $1.0M −3% −38% $212.9M 3,265 $321 30

Fri Jul 29 #9 $1.6M +50% −40% $214.5M 2,324 $675 31

Sat Jul 30 #7 $2.3M +44% −39% $216.7M 2,324 $972 32

Sun Jul 31 #9 $1.7M −27% −36% $218.4M 2,324 $710 33

Mon Aug 1 #9 $731.1K −56% −37% $219.1M 2,324 $314 34

Tue Aug 2 #10 $682.4K −7% −42% $219.8M 2,324 $293 35

Wed Aug 3 #10 $632.2K −7% −41% $220.4M 2,324 $272 36

Thu Aug 4 #10 $642.7K +2% −39% $221.1M 2,324 $276 37

Fri Aug 5 #9 $1.0M +61% −34% $222.1M 1,940 $534 38

Sat Aug 6 #9 $1.5M +41% −35% $223.6M 1,940 $753 39

Sun Aug 7 #9 $1.0M −28% −36% $224.6M 1,940 $540 40

Mon Aug 8 #10 $452.6K −57% −38% $225.1M 1,940 $233 41

Tue Aug 9 #10 $478.0K +6% −30% $225.5M 1,940 $246 42

Wed Aug 10 #10 $441.0K −8% −30% $226.0M 1,940 $227 43

Thu Aug 11 #10 $425.3K −4% −34% $226.4M 1,940 $219 44

Mon Sep 5 #23 $106.2K — $232.6M 408 $260 69

Mon Oct 10 #32 $28.5K — $233.6M 245 $116 104

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

Cumulative total$232.6M

Jun 29Jul 10Jul 21Aug 1Sep 5

Weekend grossWk 10 · $447.1K

$64.9M

$30.5M

$15.2M

$8.9M

$5.5M

$3.5M

$2.2M

$1.1M

$758.1K

$447.1K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,910 → 408 −89.6%

3,908 open408 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −41.0%

−53.0%

W1→2

−50.0%

W2→3

−41.5%

W3→4

−38.6%

W4→5

−35.3%

W5→6

−39.2%

W6→7

−51.0%

W7→8

−28.3%

W8→9

−41.0%

W9→10

Steepest −53.0%Best hold −28.3%

Run milestones

$200M in 24 days

$100M

Day 5

Jul 3

$200M

Day 24

Jul 22

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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