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Name: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Director: Tom Shadyac
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1994
Cast: Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young, Tone Loc, Dan Marino

1994 • PG-13 • 1h 26m • Comedy • Warner Bros.

He's the best there is! (Actually, he's the only one there is.)

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Box office summary

Opening weekend

$12.10M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$72.20M

Final

Worldwide total

$107.20M

$35.00M international

Domestic legs6.0x

Budget$12M

1994 rank#15

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Cast & crew

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Tom Shadyac Director

Jim Carrey Starring

Courteney Cox Starring

Sean Young Starring Warner Bros. Studio

ScreenplayJack Bernstein, Tom Shadyac, Jim Carrey Produced byJames G. Robinson CinematographyJulio Macat Music byIra Newborn StudioWarner Bros.

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The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Feb 4-6 1 $12.1M — 1,750 $6,922 $12.1M

2 Feb 11-13 1 $9.7M −20.2% 1,906 $5,075 $24.6M

3 Feb 18-21 2 $10.2M — 1,923 $5,309 $37.7M

4 Feb 25-27 1 $6.5M — 1,963 $3,317 $45.8M

5 Mar 4-6 1 $5.1M −21.8% 1,963 $2,595 $52.4M

6 Mar 11-13 3 $4.1M −19.1% 1,810 $2,277 $57.9M

7 Mar 18-20 6 $2.7M −34.8% 1,747 $1,538 $62.0M

8 Mar 25-27 11 $1.6M −39.4% 1,507 $1,079 $64.4M

9 Apr 1-3 16 $831.6K −48.9% 1,057 $786 $65.3M

10 May 6-8 14 $749.8K −23.1% 881 $851 $69.5M

11 May 13-15 16 $632.2K −15.7% 745 $848 $70.4M

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

Weekend grossWk 10 · $749.8K

$12.1M

$9.7M

$10.2M

$6.5M

$5.1M

$4.1M

$2.7M

$1.6M

$831.6K

$749.8K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −23.1%

−20.2%

W1→2

−21.8%

W4→5

−19.1%

W5→6

−34.8%

W6→7

−39.4%

W7→8

−48.9%

W8→9

−23.1%

W9→10

Steepest −48.9%Best hold −19.1%

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Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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