Name: About a Boy
Director: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 2002
Cast: Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Natalia Tena

Box Office Performance

Date	Rank	Gross	Daily Chg	Weekly Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Days
Fri May 17	#4	$2.6M		—	$2.6M	1,207	$2K	1
Sat May 18	#4	$3.6M	+38%	—	$6.2M	1,207	$3K	2
Sun May 19	#4	$2.4M	-35%	—	$8.6M	1,207	$2K	3
Mon May 20	#4	$984K	-58%	—	$9.5M	1,207	$815	4
Tue May 21	#4	$821K	-17%	—	$10.4M	1,207	$680	5
Wed May 22	#4	$760K	-7%	—	$11.1M	1,207	$629	6
Thu May 23	#4	$808K	+6%	—	$11.9M	1,207	$669	7
Fri May 24	#6	$2.0M	+150%	-23%	$13.9M	1,749	$1K	8
Sat May 25	#6	$2.9M	+46%	-18%	$17.0M	1,749	$2K	9
Sun May 26	#6	$2.7M	-8%	+15%	$19.7M	1,749	$2K	10
Mon May 27	#6	$2.0M	-27%	+99%	$21.8M	1,749	$1K	11
Tue May 28	#6	$648K	-67%	-21%	$22.4M	1,749	$370	12
Wed May 29	#6	$638K	-2%	-16%	$23.0M	1,749	$364	13
Thu May 30	#6	$681K	+7%	-16%	$23.7M	1,749	$389	14
Fri May 31	#8	$1.3M	+84%	-38%	$25.0M	1,753	$715	15
Sat Jun 1	#8	$1.8M	+43%	-39%	$26.8M	1,753	$1K	16
Sun Jun 2	#8	$1.1M	-41%	-61%	$27.8M	1,756	$605	17
Mon Jun 3	#8	$429K	-60%	-78%	$28.3M	1,756	$244	18
Tue Jun 4	#8	$535K	+25%	-17%	$28.8M	1,756	$304	19
Wed Jun 5	#8	$502K	-6%	-21%	$29.3M	1,756	$285	20
Thu Jun 6	#8	$484K	-4%	-29%	$29.8M	1,756	$275	21
Fri Jun 7	#10	$845K	+75%	-33%	$30.6M	1,605	$526	22
Sat Jun 8	#10	$1.1M	+30%	-39%	$31.7M	1,605	$684	23
Sun Jun 9	#10	$720K	-34%	-32%	$32.4M	1,618	$444	24
Mon Jun 10	#10	$291K	-60%	-32%	$32.7M	1,618	$179	25
Tue Jun 11	#10	$364K	+25%	-32%	$33.1M	1,618	$224	26
Wed Jun 12	#10	$348K	-4%	-31%	$33.5M	1,618	$215	27
Thu Jun 13	#10	$356K	+2%	-26%	$33.8M	1,618	$220	28
Fri Jun 14	#13	$464K	+30%	-45%	$34.3M	947	$490	29
Sat Jun 15	#13	$649K	+40%	-41%	$34.9M	947	$684	30
Sun Jun 16	#13	$369K	-43%	-49%	$35.3M	947	$390	31

Weekend	Rank	Gross	Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Wks
May 17-19	4	$8.6M	—	$8.6M	1,207	$7K	1
May 24-26	6	$7.9M	-8.1%	$19.8M	1,749	$4K	2
May 31-Jun 2 World Cup (Korea/Japan)	8	$4.1M	-47.5%	$27.8M	1,756	$2K	3
Jun 7-9 World Cup (Korea/Japan)	10	$2.7M	-35.7%	$32.4M	1,618	$2K	4
Jun 14-16 World Cup (Korea/Japan)	14	$1.5M	-44.1%	$35.3M	947	$2K	5
Jun 21-23 World Cup (Korea/Japan)	16	$1.2M	-18.4%	$37.3M	804	$2K	6
Jun 28-30 World Cup (Korea/Japan)	15	$940K	-22.3%	$38.9M	696	$1K	7
Jul 5-7	19	$580K	-38.3%	$40.1M	487	$1K	8
Jul 12-14	25	$198K	-65.8%	$40.6M	220	$900	9

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Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byChris Weitz, Paul Weitz

ScreenplayChris Weitz, Paul Weitz, Peter Hedges

StarringHugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Natalia Tena, Victoria Smurfit

StudioUniversal Pictures