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Charlie Wilson's War

2007 R 1h 42m Biography, Comedy, Drama Universal Pictures

A stiff drink. A little mascara. A lot of nerve. Who said they couldn't bring down the Soviet empire.

Box office summary
Domestic Total
$66.7M
Final
Opening Weekend
$9.7M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
6.90x
Opening → Total
Budget
$75.0M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$119M
$52.8M international
2007 Rank
#39
Domestic
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 21-23 4 $9.7M $9.7M 2,575 $4K 1
Dec 28-30 4 $12.0M +24.4% $34.8M 2,575 $5K 2
Jan 4-6 6 $8.1M -32.5% $52.6M 2,594 $3K 3
Jan 11-13 11 $4.1M -49.1% $59.4M 2,408 $2K 4
Jan 18-20 15 $2.0M -52.4% $62.8M 1,352 $1K 5
Jan 25-27 21 $932K -52.6% $64.7M 605 $2K 6
Feb 1-3 25 $486K -47.8% $65.4M 412 $1K 7
Feb 8-10 31 $359K -26.1% $66.0M 318 $1K 8
Feb 15-17 34 $214K -40.4% $66.3M 180 $1K 9
Feb 22-24 40 $112K -47.7% $66.5M 135 $829 10

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byMike Nichols
ScreenplayAaron Sorkin
Produced byTom Hanks, Gary Goetzman
CinematographyStephen Goldblatt
MusicJames Newton Howard
Prod. DesignVictor Kempster
StarringTom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Om Puri
StudioUniversal Pictures