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2013 • PG-13 • 1h 56m • Action, Adventure, Horror • Paramount Pictures

There will come a day when the world we know will end.

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63

3.21

7.0

CS B+

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$66.40M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$202.00M

Final

Worldwide total

$540.00M

$338.00M international

Domestic legs3.05x

Budget$190M

2013 rank#13

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Cast & crew

Full Forster filmography

Marc Forster

Marc Forster Director

Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt Starring

James Badge Dale

James Badge Dale Starring

Matthew Fox

Matthew Fox Starring

ScreenplayMatthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, Damon Lindelof Produced byBrad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Ian Bryce CinematographyBen Seresin MusicMarco Beltrami StudioParamount Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Jun 21-23 2 $66.4M — 3,607 $18,411 $66.4M

2 Jun 28-30 3 $29.8M −55.2% 3,607 $8,254 $123.7M

3 Jul 5-7 5 $18.4M −38.2% 3,316 $5,551 $159.0M

4 Jul 12-14 7 $9.3M −49.4% 3,003 $3,101 $177.0M

5 Jul 19-21 9 $5.2M −44.3% 2,066 $2,512 $186.9M

6 Jul 26-28 13 $2.8M −46.1% 1,440 $1,944 $192.7M

7 Aug 2-4 15 $1.8M −35.4% 912 $1,982 $195.9M

8 Aug 9-11 21 $654.5K −63.8% 505 $1,295 $197.5M

9 Aug 16-18 25 $437.4K −33.2% 307 $1,424 $198.3M

10 Aug 23-25 29 $314.9K −28.0% 239 $1,317 $198.9M

11 Aug 30-Sep 1 22 $1.3M +301.0% 1,247 $1,012 $200.3M

12 Sep 6-8 27 $438.5K −65.3% 374 $1,172 $201.4M

13 Sep 13-15 27 $316.8K −27.7% 280 $1,131 $201.8M

14 Sep 20-22 39 $187.2K −40.9% 203 $922 $202.1M

15 Sep 27-29 43 $88.1K −52.9% 160 $550 $202.3M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Jun 21 #2 $25.2M — $25.2M 3,607 $6,985 1

Sat Jun 22 #2 $22.6M −10% $47.8M 3,607 $6,270 2

Sun Jun 23 #2 $18.6M −18% $66.4M 3,607 $5,155 3

Mon Jun 24 #2 $7.7M −59% $74.1M 3,607 $2,127 4

Tue Jun 25 #2 $8.0M +4% $82.1M 3,607 $2,212 5

Wed Jun 26 #2 $6.2M −22% $88.3M 3,607 $1,726 6

Thu Jun 27 #2 $5.6M −10% $93.9M 3,607 $1,560 7

Fri Jun 28 #4 $9.0M +60% −64% $102.9M 3,607 $2,493 8

Sat Jun 29 #3 $11.6M +29% −49% $114.6M 3,607 $3,227 9

Sun Jun 30 #3 $9.1M −22% −51% $123.7M 3,607 $2,533 10

Mon Jul 1 #3 $4.4M −52% −43% $128.1M 3,607 $1,216 11

Tue Jul 2 $4.1M −6% −49% $132.2M 3,607 $1,138 12

Wed Jul 3 #5 $4.0M −2% −35% $136.2M 3,405 $1,184 13

Thu Jul 4 #4 $4.4M +8% −23% $140.5M 3,405 $1,279 14

Fri Jul 5 #4 $6.4M +47% −29% $146.9M 3,316 $1,926 15

Sat Jul 6 #4 $6.8M +6% −42% $153.7M 3,316 $2,047 16

Sun Jul 7 #4 $5.2M −23% −43% $159.0M 3,316 $1,577 17

Mon Jul 8 #5 $2.3M −57% −49% $161.2M 3,316 $678 18

Tue Jul 9 #5 $2.5M +12% −39% $163.7M 3,316 $761 19

Wed Jul 10 #5 $2.1M −18% −49% $165.8M 3,316 $623 20

Thu Jul 11 #5 $1.8M −12% −58% $167.6M 3,316 $550 21

Fri Jul 12 #7 $2.8M +53% −56% $170.4M 3,003 $928 22

Sat Jul 13 #7 $3.8M +35% −45% $174.2M 3,003 $1,248 23

Sun Jul 14 #7 $2.8M −26% −47% $177.0M 3,003 $924 24

Mon Jul 15 #7 $1.2M −56% −46% $178.2M 3,003 $405 25

Tue Jul 16 #7 $1.4M +18% −43% $179.6M 3,003 $476 26

Wed Jul 17 #8 $1.2M −20% −44% $180.8M 3,003 $383 27

Thu Jul 18 #8 $970.5K −16% −47% $181.7M 3,003 $323 28

Fri Jul 19 #9 $1.6M +60% −44% $183.3M 2,066 $750 29

Sat Jul 20 #9 $2.1M +36% −44% $185.4M 2,066 $1,019 30

Sun Jul 21 #10 $1.5M −27% −45% $186.9M 2,066 $742 31

Mon Jul 22 #10 $720.0K −53% −41% $187.7M 2,066 $348 32

Tue Jul 23 #10 $876.4K +22% −39% $188.5M 2,066 $424 33

Wed Jul 24 #10 $695.4K −21% −40% $189.2M 2,066 $336 34

Thu Jul 25 #10 $635.1K −9% −35% $189.9M 2,066 $307 35

Fri Jul 26 #12 $812.1K +28% −48% $190.7M 1,440 $563 36

Sat Jul 27 #12 $1.1M +40% −46% $191.8M 1,440 $787 37

Sun Jul 28 #13 $854.2K −25% −44% $192.7M 1,440 $593 38

Mon Jul 29 #13 $387.6K −55% −46% $193.0M 1,440 $269 39

Tue Jul 30 #13 $438.5K +13% −50% $193.5M 1,440 $304 40

Wed Jul 31 #14 $293.8K −33% −58% $193.8M 1,440 $204 41

Thu Aug 1 #14 $293.8K n/c −54% $194.1M 1,440 $204 42

Fri Aug 2 $516.2K +76% −36% $194.6M 912 $566 43

Sat Aug 3 $743.6K +44% −34% $195.3M 912 $815 44

Sun Aug 4 $548.4K −26% −36% $195.9M 912 $601 45

Mon Aug 5 $276.2K −50% −29% $196.2M 912 $302 46

Tue Aug 6 $266.3K −4% −39% $196.4M 912 $292 47

Wed Aug 7 $205.9K −23% −30% $196.6M 912 $225 48

Thu Aug 8 $173.0K −16% −41% $196.8M 912 $189 49

Fri Aug 9 $200.1K +16% −61% $197.0M 505 $396 50

Sat Aug 10 $271.2K +36% −64% $197.3M 505 $537 51

Sun Aug 11 $183.1K −32% −67% $197.5M 505 $362 52

Mon Aug 12 $100.8K −45% −64% $197.6M 505 $199 53

Tue Aug 13 $122.0K +21% −54% $197.7M 505 $241 54

Wed Aug 14 $98.1K −20% −52% $197.8M 505 $194 55

Thu Aug 15 $87.2K −11% −50% $197.9M 505 $172 56

Fri Aug 16 $132.9K +52% −34% $198.0M 307 $432 57

Sat Aug 17 $184.7K +39% −32% $198.2M 307 $601 58

Sun Aug 18 $119.8K −35% −35% $198.3M 307 $390 59

Mon Aug 19 $58.6K −51% −42% $198.4M 307 $190 60

Tue Aug 20 $66.6K +14% −45% $198.4M 307 $217 61

Wed Aug 21 $54.3K −19% −45% $198.5M 307 $176 62

Thu Aug 22 $57.1K +5% −35% $198.5M 307 $185 63

Fri Aug 23 $91.9K +61% −31% $198.6M 239 $384 64

Sat Aug 24 $134.8K +47% −27% $198.8M 239 $563 65

Sun Aug 25 $88.3K −34% −26% $198.9M 239 $369 66

Mon Aug 26 $45.6K −48% −22% $198.9M 239 $190 67

Tue Aug 27 $46.7K +2% −30% $198.9M 239 $195 68

Wed Aug 28 $39.8K −15% −27% $199.0M 239 $166 69

Thu Aug 29 $36.8K −8% −36% $199.0M 239 $153 70

Fri Aug 30 $280.3K +662% +205% $199.3M 1,247 $224 71

Sat Aug 31 $489.9K +75% +264% $199.8M 1,247 $392 72

Sun Sep 1 $492.6K +1% +458% $200.3M 1,247 $395 73

Mon Sep 2 $387.7K −21% +749% $200.7M 1,247 $310 74

Tue Sep 3 $91.3K −76% +96% $200.8M 1,247 $73 75

Wed Sep 4 $75.8K −17% +90% $200.8M 1,247 $60 76

Thu Sep 5 $79.2K +5% +115% $200.9M 1,247 $63 77

Fri Sep 6 $117.8K +49% −58% $201.0M 374 $315 78

Sat Sep 7 $201.0K +71% −59% $201.2M 374 $537 79

Sun Sep 8 $119.6K −40% −76% $201.4M 374 $319 80

Mon Sep 9 $37.9K −68% −90% $201.4M 374 $101 81

Tue Sep 10 $44.2K +16% −52% $201.4M 374 $118 82

Wed Sep 11 $39.7K −10% −48% $201.5M 374 $106 83

Thu Sep 12 $38.0K −4% −52% $201.5M 374 $101 84

Fri Sep 13 $93.5K +146% −21% $201.6M 280 $333 85

Sat Sep 14 $130.5K +40% −35% $201.7M 280 $466 86

Sun Sep 15 $92.9K −29% −22% $201.8M 280 $331 87

Mon Sep 16 $31.1K −67% −18% $201.9M 280 $110 88

Tue Sep 17 $30.9K n/c −30% $201.9M 280 $110 89

Wed Sep 18 $25.1K −19% −37% $201.9M 280 $89 90

Thu Sep 19 $26.2K +5% −31% $201.9M 280 $93 91

Fri Sep 20 $51.6K +97% −45% $202.0M 203 $254 92

Sat Sep 21 $86.1K +67% −34% $202.1M 203 $424 93

Sun Sep 22 $49.5K −43% −47% $202.1M 203 $243 94

Mon Sep 23 $12.6K −74% −59% $202.1M 203 $62 95

Tue Sep 24 $15.5K +23% −50% $202.2M 203 $76 96

Wed Sep 25 $13.7K −12% −45% $202.2M 203 $67 97

Thu Sep 26 $12.8K −7% −51% $202.2M 203 $62 98

Fri Sep 27 $23.6K +84% −54% $202.2M 160 $147 99

Sat Sep 28 $41.5K +76% −52% $202.3M 160 $259 100

Sun Sep 29 $23.0K −45% −53% $202.3M 160 $144 101

Mon Sep 30 $6.4K −72% −49% $202.3M 160 $40 102

Tue Oct 1 $7.9K +23% −49% $202.3M 160 $49 103

Wed Oct 2 $7.1K −10% −48% $202.3M 160 $44 104

Thu Oct 3 $8.2K +16% −36% $202.3M 160 $50 105

Fri Oct 4 $12.1K +48% −49% $202.3M 75 $161 106

Sat Oct 5 $19.6K +62% −53% $202.3M 75 $261 107

Sun Oct 6 $9.4K −52% −59% $202.3M 75 $125 108

Mon Oct 7 $2.4K −75% −63% $202.4M 75 $32 109

Tue Oct 8 $2.5K +4% −68% $202.4M 75 $33 110

Wed Oct 9 $2.4K −4% −66% $202.4M 75 $32 111

Thu Oct 10 $2.9K +20% −65% $202.4M 75 $38 112

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

Cumulative total$199.0M

Jun 21Jul 8Jul 26Aug 12Aug 29

Weekend grossWk 10 · $314.9K

$66.4M

$29.8M

$18.4M

$9.3M

$5.2M

$2.8M

$1.8M

$654.5K

$437.4K

$314.9K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,607 → 239 −93.4%

3,607 open239 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −28.0%

−55.2%

W1→2

−38.2%

W2→3

−49.4%

W3→4

−44.3%

W4→5

−46.1%

W5→6

−35.4%

W6→7

−63.8%

W7→8

−33.2%

W8→9

−28.0%

W9→10

Steepest −63.8%Best hold −28.0%

Run milestones

$200M in 73 days

$100M

Day 8

Jun 28

$200M

Day 73

Sep 1

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

Records held

#5 Biggest openings not at #1All-time $66.4M #11 Biggest grossers never #1All-time $202.4M

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