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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.

Box office summary
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
Compare with other movies
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 17 $1.3M -39.8% $213.9M 1,057 $1K 8
Feb 19-21 15 $935K -27.0% $215.6M 841 $1K 9
Feb 26-28 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
Produced byJanice Karman, Ross Bagdasarian Jr.
CinematographyAnthony B. Richmond
MusicDavid Newman
Prod. DesignMarcia Hinds
StarringZachary Levi, David Cross, Jason Lee, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney
Studio20th Century Fox