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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

2004 PG-13 1h 32m Comedy, Sport 20th Century Fox

Grab life by the ball.

Box office summary
Domestic Total
$114M
Final
Opening Weekend
$30.1M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
3.80x
Opening → Total
Budget
$20.0M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$168M
$54.1M international
2004 Rank
#19
Domestic
Compare with other movies
Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Jun 18-20 1 $30.1M $30.1M 2,694 $11K 1
Jun 25-27 3 $18.8M -37.5% $67.5M 3,020 $6K 2
Jul 2-4 4 $8.1M -56.8% $84.4M 2,953 $3K 3
Jul 9-11 7 $5.7M -29.6% $97.9M 2,444 $2K 4
Jul 16-18 8 $3.8M -33.2% $105.2M 1,945 $2K 5
Jul 23-25 11 $2.0M -47.0% $109.3M 1,373 $1K 6
Jul 30-Aug 1 19 $590K -70.8% $111.1M 555 $1K 7
Aug 6-8 23 $434K -26.4% $111.9M 389 $1K 8
Aug 13-15 24 $306K -29.4% $112.5M 320 $957 9
Aug 20-22 27 $283K -7.8% $113.0M 283 $998 10
Aug 27-29 31 $188K -33.5% $113.3M 247 $760 11
Sep 3-5 32 $226K +20.2% $113.7M 238 $949 12
Sep 10-12 34 $151K -33.0% $113.9M 191 $792 13
Sep 17-19 44 $101K -33.2% $114.1M 181 $558 14
Sep 24-26 46 $82K -18.7% $114.2M 124 $663 15

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Profitability

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

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Cast & Crew

Directed byRawson Marshall Thurber
ScreenplayRawson Marshall Thurber
Produced byBen Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld
CinematographyJerzy Zieliński
MusicTheodore Shapiro
Prod. DesignMaher Ahmad
StarringVince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Ben Stiller, Rip Torn, Justin Long, Stephen Root
Studio20th Century Fox