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Cheaper by the Dozen

2003 PG 1h 38m Comedy, Family 20th Century Fox

The more...the scarier!

Box office summary
Opening Weekend
$27.6M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$139M
Final
Worldwide Total
$190M
$51.6M international
Domestic Legs5.03x
Budget$40.0M
2003 Rank#11
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 26-28 2 $27.6M $35.4M 3,298 $8K 1
Jan 2-4 2 $21.6M -21.5% $85.6M 3,307 $7K 2
Jan 9-11 3 $11.8M -45.7% $101.1M 3,238 $4K 3
Jan 16-18 5 $9.0M -23.4% $112.2M 3,025 $3K 4
Jan 23-25 6 $6.4M -29.1% $122.5M 2,810 $2K 5
Jan 30-Feb 1 9 $4.3M -32.8% $128.0M 2,396 $2K 6
Feb 6-8 14 $2.5M -41.2% $131.3M 1,662 $2K 7
Feb 13-15 14 $1.9M -24.3% $133.8M 1,335 $1K 8
Feb 20-22 19 $726K -61.9% $135.4M 801 $906 9
Feb 27-29 26 $316K -56.5% $135.9M 375 $842 10
Mar 5-7 27 $287K -9.3% $136.3M 306 $936 11
Mar 12-14 22 $322K +12.3% $136.7M 336 $958 12
Mar 19-21 20 $307K -4.8% $137.1M 309 $992 13
Mar 26-28 20 $282K -7.9% $137.5M 306 $923 14
Apr 2-4 21 $245K -13.4% $137.9M 279 $876 15
Apr 9-11 30 $146K -40.4% $138.1M 215 $678 16
Apr 16-18 35 $110K -24.4% $138.3M 165 $668 17
Apr 23-25 41 $71K -35.3% $138.4M 141 $506 18
Apr 30-May 2 57 $45K -36.8% $138.5M 100 $450 19

Performance Charts

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

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

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Cast & Crew

Directed byShawn Levy
ScreenplayJoel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, Sam Harper
Produced byRobert Simonds, Michael Barnathan, Ben Myron
CinematographyJonathan Brown
MusicChristophe Beck
Prod. DesignNina Ruscio
StarringSteve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff, Tom Welling, Piper Perabo, Kevin G. Schmidt
Studio20th Century Fox