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2003 • PG • 1h 37m • Adventure, Comedy, Family • New Line Cinema

Discover your inner elf.

🍅 85% 79%

66

3.47

7.1

CS A-

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$31.10M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$173.00M

Final

Worldwide total

$220.00M

$47.00M international

Domestic legs5.6x

Budget$33.0M

2003 rank#7

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Cast & crew

Full Favreau filmography

Jon Favreau

Jon Favreau Director

Will Ferrell

Will Ferrell Starring

James Caan

James Caan Starring

Bob Newhart

Bob Newhart Starring

Ed Asner

Ed Asner Starring

Mary Steenburgen

Mary Steenburgen Starring

ScreenplayJon Favreau Produced byJon Berg, Todd Komarnicki, Shauna Robertson CinematographyGreg Gardiner MusicJohn Debney Prod. DesignRusty Smith StudioNew Line Cinema

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

11 Jan 16-18 32 $217.9K — 273 $798 $172.1M

12 Jan 23-25 28 $247.0K +13.4% 301 $820 $172.4M

13 Jan 30-Feb 1 31 $205.8K −16.7% 306 $672 $172.7M

14 Feb 6-8 32 $196.1K −4.7% 295 $664 $173.0M

15 Feb 13-15 38 $143.0K −27.1% 245 $583 $173.1M

16 Feb 20-22 45 $93.6K −34.5% 173 $541 $173.3M

17 Feb 27-29 54 $51.4K −45.1% 121 $424 $173.4M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Nov 7 #2 $9.2M — $9.2M 3,337 $2,742 1

Sat Nov 8 #2 $13.0M +43% $22.1M 3,337 $3,910 2

Sun Nov 9 #2 $9.0M −31% $31.1M 3,337 $2,706 3

Mon Nov 10 #2 $3.9M −57% $35.0M 3,337 $1,157 4

Tue Nov 11 #1 $5.9M +53% $40.9M 3,337 $1,769 5

Wed Nov 12 #2 $1.7M −71% $42.6M 3,337 $521 6

Thu Nov 13 #2 $1.8M +1% $44.0M 3,337 $525 7

Fri Nov 14 #2 $7.3M +315% −20% $51.3M 3,381 $2,152 8

Sat Nov 15 #1 $11.8M +62% −9% $63.1M 3,381 $3,495 9

Sun Nov 16 #1 $7.2M −39% −20% $70.4M 3,381 $2,134 10

Mon Nov 17 #2 $1.4M −81% −64% $71.7M 3,381 $408 11

Tue Nov 18 #2 $1.6M +13% −74% $73.3M 3,381 $459 12

Wed Nov 19 #2 $1.3M −15% −25% $74.6M 3,381 $388 13

Thu Nov 20 #2 $1.4M +6% −20% $76.0M 3,381 $412 14

Fri Nov 21 #3 $5.5M +294% −24% $81.5M 3,381 $1,626 15

Sat Nov 22 #2 $8.3M +51% −30% $89.8M 3,381 $2,454 16

Sun Nov 23 #2 $5.1M −39% −29% $94.7M 3,381 $1,508 17

Mon Nov 24 #3 $1.4M −73% −1% $96.1M 3,381 $406 18

Tue Nov 25 #2 $2.1M +56% +38% $98.3M 3,381 $635 19

Wed Nov 26 #3 $4.0M +86% +204% $102.3M 3,202 $1,249 20

Thu Nov 27 #1 $5.7M +43% +309% $108.0M 3,202 $1,780 21

Fri Nov 28 #3 $9.4M +65% +71% $117.4M 3,202 $2,935 22

Sat Nov 29 #3 $8.3M −12% n/c $125.2M 3,202 $2,598 23

Sun Nov 30 #3 $3.8M −54% −25% $129.0M 3,202 $1,189 24

Mon Dec 1 #4 $693.0K −82% −50% $129.7M 3,202 $216 25

Tue Dec 2 #4 $648.0K −6% −70% $130.4M 3,202 $202 26

Wed Dec 3 #4 $571.0K −12% −86% $130.9M 3,202 $178 27

Thu Dec 4 #3 $593.0K +4% −90% $131.5M 3,202 $185 28

Fri Dec 5 #3 $2.3M +288% −76% $133.8M 3,119 $737 29

Sat Dec 6 #4 $3.6M +57% −57% $137.4M 3,119 $1,159 30

Sun Dec 7 #5 $2.1M −42% −45% $139.5M 3,119 $674 31

Mon Dec 8 #4 $457.0K −78% −34% $140.0M 3,119 $146 32

Tue Dec 9 #4 $508.0K +11% −22% $140.5M 3,119 $162 33

Wed Dec 10 #3 $500.0K −2% −12% $141.0M 3,119 $160 34

Thu Dec 11 #3 $508.0K +2% −14% $141.5M 3,119 $162 35

Fri Dec 12 #7 $1.7M +235% −26% $143.2M 2,876 $591 36

Sat Dec 13 #6 $2.8M +65% −23% $146.0M 2,876 $972 37

Sun Dec 14 #6 $1.6M −45% −26% $147.5M 2,876 $538 38

Mon Dec 15 #5 $405.0K −74% −11% $147.9M 2,876 $140 39

Tue Dec 16 #6 $441.0K +9% −13% $148.4M 2,876 $153 40

Wed Dec 17 #6 $454.0K +3% −9% $148.8M 2,876 $157 41

Thu Dec 18 #6 $534.0K +18% +5% $149.3M 2,876 $185 42

Fri Dec 19 #6 $1.5M +181% −12% $150.8M 2,451 $611 43

Sat Dec 20 #5 $2.2M +46% −22% $152.9M 2,451 $895 44

Sun Dec 21 #5 $1.9M −14% +21% $154.8M 2,451 $766 45

Mon Dec 22 #4 $1.5M −18% +282% $156.4M 2,451 $630 46

Tue Dec 23 #4 $1.9M +23% +331% $158.3M 2,451 $775 47

Wed Dec 24 #3 $1.2M −34% +175% $159.5M 2,451 $509 48

Thu Dec 25 #10 $1.2M −3% +127% $160.7M 2,015 $601 49

Fri Dec 26 #10 $1.5M +24% n/c $162.2M 2,015 $744 50

Sat Dec 27 #10 $1.4M −9% −38% $163.6M 2,015 $674 51

Sun Dec 28 #11 $1.1M −22% −44% $164.6M 2,015 $524 52

Mon Dec 29 #9 $912.0K −14% −41% $165.6M 2,015 $452 53

Tue Dec 30 #9 $1.1M +19% −43% $166.7M 2,015 $538 54

Wed Dec 31 #9 $900.0K −17% −28% $167.6M 2,015 $446 55

Mon Jan 19 #29 $69.8K — $172.1M 273 $255 74

Fri Dec 16 #15 $46.0K — $175.6M 270 $170

Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record

Cumulative total$175.6M

Nov 7Nov 21Dec 5Dec 18Dec 16

Theater countPeak 3,381 → 270 −92.0%

3,337 open270 now

Run milestones

$100M in 20 days

$100M

Day 20

Nov 26

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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