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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

2009 PG 1h 28m Adventure, Animation, Comedy 20th Century Fox

The Boys are back in town... and they have competition.

Compare to other movies
Domestic Total
$220M
Final
Opening Weekend
$48.9M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
4.49x
Opening → Total
Budget
$75.0M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$443M
$224M international
2009 Rank
#9
Domestic

Box Office Performance

Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 25-27 3 $48.9M $75.6M 3,700 $13K 1
Jan 1-3 3 $35.2M -28.0% $155.9M 3,747 $9K 2
Jan 8-10 3 $16.6M -52.9% $178.5M 3,641 $5K 3
Jan 15-17 4 $11.6M -29.9% $192.7M 3,296 $4K 4
Jan 22-24 7 $6.4M -44.9% $204.1M 2,973 $2K 5
Jan 29-31 9 $4.0M -37.6% $209.3M 2,526 $2K 6
Feb 5-7 14 $2.1M -46.8% $212.2M 1,965 $1K 7
Feb 12-14 Vancouver Olympics 17 $1.3M -39.8% $213.9M 1,057 $1K 8
Feb 19-21 Vancouver Olympics 15 $935K -27.0% $215.6M 841 $1K 9
Feb 26-28 Vancouver Olympics 19 $771K -17.5% $216.6M 707 $1K 10
Mar 5-7 18 $544K -29.4% $217.4M 562 $968 11
Mar 12-14 19 $462K -15.2% $218.0M 408 $1K 12
Mar 19-21 22 $379K -18.0% $218.6M 380 $996 13
Mar 26-28 26 $276K -27.1% $219.0M 297 $929 14
Apr 2-4 33 $135K -51.1% $219.3M 255 $529 15
Apr 9-11 38 $79K -41.6% $219.5M 151 $522 16
Apr 16-18 47 $38K -51.7% $219.5M 169 $225 17

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Profitability

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

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Cast & Crew

Directed byBetty Thomas
ScreenplayJon Vitti, Glenn Berger, Jonathan Aibel
StarringZachary Levi, David Cross, Jason Lee, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney
Studio20th Century Fox