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What's Love Got to Do with ItFollow

1993 • R • 1h 58m • Biography, Drama, Music • Touchstone Pictures

Who Needs A Heart When A Heart Can Be Broken?

🍅 97% 88% MC 76 LB 3.74 IMDb 7.4

Box office summary

Opening weekend
$1.20M
Limited · 58 theaters
Domestic total
$39.10M
Final
Domestic legs7.1x from $5.5M first wide weekend
Budget$15M
1993 rank#39
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Cast & crew

Angela Bassett Angela Bassett Starring Laurence Fishburne Laurence Fishburne Starring Vanessa Bell Calloway Vanessa Bell Calloway Starring Richard T. Jones Richard T. Jones Starring Chi McBride Chi McBride Starring
ScreenplayKate Lanier Produced byDoug Chapin, Barry Krost CinematographyJamie Anderson Music byStanley Clarke StudioTouchstone Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal
1 Jun 11-13 12 $1.2M — 58 $21,081 $1.3M
2 Jun 18-20 4 $3.6M +196.0% 428 $8,455 $5.6M
3 Jun 25-27 5 $5.5M +51.5% 1,091 $5,026 $13.2M
4 Jul 2-4 8 $5.7M +4.8% 1,100 $5,225 $21.7M
5 Jul 9-11 10 $3.3M −41.8% 1,038 $3,220 $26.9M
Weekend grossWk 5 · $3.3M
$1.2M
$3.6M
$5.5M
$5.7M
$3.3M
W1W2W3W4W5
Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 5 · −41.8%
+196.0%
W1→2
+51.5%
W2→3
+4.8%
W3→4
−41.8%
W4→5
Steepest −41.8%Biggest gain +196.0%

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