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Chicago

2003 PG-13 1h 53m Comedy, Crime, Musical Miramax

If you can't be famous, be infamous.

Chicago Box Office

Opening Weekend
$12.7M
3-day wide opening
Domestic Total
$171M
Final
Worldwide Total
$307M
$136M international
Domestic Legs13.4x
Budget$45.0M
2003 Rank#8
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Jan 17-20 6 $9.74M $29.40M 557 $17.5K 1
Feb 14-17 Presidents' Day 3 $14.50M +48.8% $82.61M 2,268 $6.4K 2
May 23-25 16 $456K -96.9% $168.14M 340 $1.3K 3
May 30-Jun 1 21 $265K -41.8% $168.65M 290 $914 4
Jun 6-8 26 $187K -29.5% $168.96M 250 $748 5
Jun 13-15 34 $126K -32.4% $169.20M 181 $698 6
Jun 20-22 36 $84K -33.9% $169.36M 131 $638 7
Jun 27-29 41 $64K -23.6% $169.48M 115 $555 8
Jul 11-13 27 $190K +197.2% $169.80M 262 $724 9
Jul 18-20 29 $158K -16.9% $170.10M 230 $685 10
Jul 25-27 35 $105K -33.2% $170.31M 172 $611 11
Aug 1-3 43 $73K -30.6% $170.45M 135 $541 12
Aug 8-10 50 $55K -24.6% $170.55M 108 $510 13

Performance Charts

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

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Profitability

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

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Cast & Crew

Directed byRob Marshall
ScreenplayBill Condon
Produced byMartin Richards
CinematographyDion Beebe
MusicDanny Elfman
Prod. DesignJohn Myhre
StarringRenée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, Ekaterina Chtchelkanova, John C. Reilly
StudioMiramax

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