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Bend It Like Beckham

2003 PG-13 1h 52m Comedy, Drama, Sport Fox Searchlight Pictures

Who wants to cook Aloo Gobi when you can bend a ball like Beckham?

Bend It Like Beckham Box Office

Opening Weekend
$161.5K
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$32.5M
Final
Worldwide Total
$74.6M
$42.0M international
Domestic Legs201.5x
Budget$5.6M
2003 Rank#88
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Mar 14-16 38 $162K $192K 6 $26.9K 1
Mar 21-23 32 $178K +10.2% $438K 8 $22.3K 2
Mar 28-30 18 $656K +268.2% $1.17M 46 $14.3K 3
Apr 4-6 16 $1.17M +78.4% $2.56M 117 $10.0K 4
Apr 11-13 14 $1.38M +17.6% $4.28M 216 $6.4K 5
Apr 18-20 14 $1.95M +42.0% $6.80M 392 $5.0K 6
Apr 25-27 13 $1.54M -21.2% $9.06M 421 $3.7K 7
May 2-4 10 $1.47M -4.5% $10.97M 483 $3.0K 8
May 9-11 9 $1.74M +18.1% $13.17M 555 $3.1K 9
May 16-18 10 $1.37M -21.0% $15.04M 553 $2.5K 10
May 23-25 11 $1.73M +26.3% $17.26M 522 $3.3K 11
May 30-Jun 1 11 $1.07M -38.0% $19.20M 491 $2.2K 12
Jun 6-8 10 $942K -12.3% $20.55M 493 $1.9K 13
Jun 13-15 12 $801K -15.0% $21.75M 387 $2.1K 14
Jun 20-22 14 $741K -7.6% $22.96M 315 $2.4K 15
Jun 27-29 18 $567K -23.4% $23.88M 301 $1.9K 16
Jul 4-6 18 $487K -14.0% $24.70M 239 $2.0K 17
Jul 11-13 18 $385K -21.1% $25.34M 195 $2.0K 18
Jul 18-20 21 $305K -20.8% $25.88M 156 $2.0K 19
Jul 25-27 24 $224K -26.7% $26.31M 119 $1.9K 20
Aug 1-3 12 $1.81M +711.0% $28.29M 1,002 $1.8K 21
Aug 8-10 14 $915K -49.5% $30.11M 849 $1.1K 22
Aug 15-17 26 $317K -65.4% $30.94M 277 $1.1K 23
Aug 22-24 37 $194K -38.8% $31.33M 161 $1.2K 24
Aug 29-31 35 $215K +11.1% $31.65M 152 $1.4K 25
Sep 5-7 34 $190K -11.8% $31.98M 173 $1.1K 26
Sep 12-14 38 $145K -23.9% $32.20M 164 $882 27
Sep 19-21 47 $89K -38.1% $32.34M 117 $765 28
Sep 26-28 50 $68K -23.6% $32.44M 99 $691 29
Oct 3-5 63 $36K -47.2% $32.51M 54 $669 30
Oct 10-12 66 $15K -58.2% $32.53M 26 $581 31
Oct 17-19 85 $5K -66.0% $32.54M 16 $321 32

Profitability

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

Domestic vs International Split

Cast & Crew

Directed byGurinder Chadha
ScreenplayGurinder Chadha, Guljit Bindra, Paul Mayeda Berges
Produced byDeepak Nayar, Gurinder Chadha
CinematographyJong Lin
Music byCraig Pruess
StarringParminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis, Frank Harper, Juliet Stevenson

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