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A Complete Unknown

2024 R 158 min Biography, Drama, Music

The Bob Dylan Story

A Complete Unknown Box Office

Opening Weekend
$11.7M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$75.0M
Final
Worldwide Total
$140.5M
Global total
Budget$70M
Domestic Legs6.4x
2024 Rank#28
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Predicted Final Domestic
$64M–$69M
$58M $67M $75M
$75.0M so far

The prediction model updated after a -30% second-weekend drop. The wider range of $58M–$75M accounts for 90% of films. Learn more about how the prediction model works

$35M
Baseline
Drama Franchise — 3.00 baseline opening
0%
CinemaScore
A: Drama avg is A
+5%
Audience
Elite — RT 96%, LB 3.80, IMDB 7.3
+31%
Seasonality
Christmas
+10%
Release Day
Wednesday (pre-weekend)
+17%
2nd Weekend
-30% drop
+15%
Genre
Drama Franchise legs
Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 27-29 6 $11.66M $23.23M 2,835 $4.1K 1
Jan 3-5 6 $8.18M -29.8% $41.81M 2,835 $2.9K 2
Jan 10-12 6 $5.12M -37.4% $50.97M 2,810 $1.8K 3
Jan 17-19 8 $3.75M -26.8% $57.53M 2,500 $1.5K 4
Jan 24-26 8 $3.08M -17.8% $62.93M 2,010 $1.5K 5
Jan 31-Feb 2 8 $2.31M -25% $66.84M 1,515 $1.5K 6
Feb 7-9 11 $1.22M -47.2% $68.99M 1,305 $933 7
Feb 14-16 13 $1.14M -6.7% $70.86M 730 $1.6K 8
Feb 21-23 13 $807K -29% $72.36M 730 $1.1K 9
Feb 28-Mar 2 13 $834K +3.3% $73.69M 865 $963 10
Mar 7-9 17 $362K -56.6% $74.44M 440 $823 11
Mar 14-16 25 $143K -60.4% $74.77M 220 $651 12
Mar 21-23 26 $66K -53.8% $74.91M 110 $602 13
Mar 28-30 39 $17K -74.2% $74.96M 45 $380 14
Apr 4-6 48 $7K -61% $74.98M 20 $334 15
Apr 11-13 49 $4K -34.4% $74.99M 10 $438 16
Apr 18-20 52 $4K -0.2% $75.00M 15 $291 17

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

Daily Gross

Cumulative Total

Weekend Gross Trend

Theater Count

Profitability

Return on Budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

Week-over-Week Drop

Weekly Gross Decline (%)

Cast & Crew

Directed byJames Mangold
ScreenplayJames Mangold, John Logan
Produced byAmy Pascal, Rachel O'Connor, Luca Guadagnino
CinematographyPhedon Papamichael
MusicNicholas Britell
Prod. DesignJudy Becker
StarringTimothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro

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