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A Complete Unknown

2024 R 158 min Biography, Drama, Music

The Bob Dylan Story

Box office summary
Opening Weekend
$11.7M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$75.0M
Final
Worldwide Total
$140.5M
Global total
Budget
$70M
Production
Domestic Legs
6.4x
Opening → Total
2024 Rank
#28
Domestic
Compare with other movies
Predicted Final Domestic
$64M–$69M
$58M $67M $75M
$75M so far

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

$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
0%
Sequel
Franchise
+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 $11.7M $23.2M 2,835 $4K 1
Jan 3-5 6 $8.2M -29.8% $41.8M 2,835 $3K 2
Jan 10-12 6 $5.1M -37.4% $51.0M 2,810 $2K 3
Jan 17-19 8 $3.7M -26.8% $57.5M 2,500 $1K 4
Jan 24-26 8 $3.1M -17.8% $62.9M 2,010 $2K 5
Jan 31-Feb 2 8 $2.3M -25% $66.8M 1,515 $2K 6
Feb 7-9 11 $1.2M -47.2% $69.0M 1,305 $933 7
Feb 14-16 13 $1.1M -6.7% $70.9M 730 $2K 8
Feb 21-23 13 $807K -29% $72.4M 730 $1K 9
Feb 28-Mar 2 13 $834K +3.3% $73.7M 865 $963 10
Mar 7-9 17 $362K -56.6% $74.4M 440 $823 11
Mar 14-16 25 $143K -60.4% $74.8M 220 $651 12
Mar 21-23 26 $66K -53.8% $74.9M 110 $602 13
Mar 28-30 39 $17K -74.2% $75.0M 45 $380 14
Apr 4-6 48 $7K -61% $75.0M 20 $334 15
Apr 11-13 49 $4K -34.4% $75.0M 10 $438 16
Apr 18-20 52 $4K -0.2% $75.0M 15 $291 17

Performance Charts

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