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Arrival

2016 PG-13 1h 56m Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller Paramount Pictures

Why Are They Here?

Box office summary
Domestic Total
$100.5M
Final
Opening Weekend
$24.1M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
4.17x
Opening → Total
Budget
$47M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$202.1M
$101.6M international
2016 Rank
#29
Domestic
Compare with other movies
Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Nov 11-13 3 $24.1M $24.1M 2,317 $10K 1
Nov 18-20 4 $12.1M -49.6% $43.7M 2,335 $5K 2
Nov 25-27 5 $11.5M -5.6% $62.6M 2,442 $5K 3
Dec 2-4 3 $7.3M -36.6% $73.0M 2,915 $2K 4
Dec 9-11 4 $5.6M -23.1% $81.4M 3,115 $2K 5
Dec 16-18 8 $3.0M -46.8% $86.7M 2,157 $1K 6
Dec 23-25 15 $1.1M -63.8% $89.4M 456 $2K 7
Dec 30-Jan 1 16 $1.4M +26.2% $92.2M 545 $2K 8
Jan 6-8 17 $866K -36.3% $94.1M 381 $2K 9
Jan 13-15 22 $552K -36.2% $95.1M 247 $2K 10
Jan 20-22 28 $321K -41.8% $95.7M 180 $2K 11
Jan 27-29 19 $1.5M +358.4% $97.3M 1,221 $1K 12
Feb 3-5 23 $796K -46.0% $98.6M 685 $1K 13
Feb 10-12 25 $449K -43.6% $99.4M 271 $2K 14
Feb 17-19 27 $304K -32.4% $99.9M 329 $923 15
Feb 24-26 26 $245K -19.3% $100.3M 443 $553 16
Mar 3-5 35 $89K -63.9% $100.5M 79 $1K 17

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

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 byDenis Villeneuve
ScreenplayJon Spaihts
Produced byShawn Levy, Dan Cohen
CinematographyBradford Young
MusicJóhann Jóhannsson
Prod. DesignPatrice Vermette
StarringAmy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael O'Shea Jackson Jr.
StudioParamount Pictures