Name: First Blood
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Released: 1982
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney, David Caruso

Cast & crew

Sylvester Stallone Starring

Richard Crenna Starring

Brian Dennehy Starring

David Caruso Starring Rambo Franchise Orion Pictures Studio

ScreenplayMichael Kozoll, William Sackheim, Sylvester Stallone Based onFirst Blood by David Morrell Produced byBuzz Feitshans Music byJerry Goldsmith StudioOrion Pictures SeriesRambo

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The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Oct 22-24 1 $6.6M — 901 $7,372 $6.6M

2 Oct 29-31 1 $4.6M −31.3% 908 $5,029 $13.7M

3 Nov 5-7 1 $4.4M −3.3% 902 $4,896 $20.2M

4 Nov 12-14 2 $3.6M −17.8% 896 $4,053 $25.5M

5 Nov 19-21 2 $3.4M −7.1% 1,047 $3,221 $30.0M

6 Nov 26-28 3 $3.7M +8.5% 1,010 $3,621 $35.7M

7 Dec 3-5 3 $2.3M −37.1% 814 $2,824 $38.9M

8 Dec 10-12 6 $1.0M −55.5% 812 $1,259 $40.5M

9 Dec 17-19 15 $360.4K −64.8% 312 $1,155 $41.3M

10 Dec 24-26 17 $327.3K −9.2% 289 $1,133 $42.0M

11 Dec 31-Jan 2 15 $671.7K +105.2% 465 $1,445 $43.2M

12 Jan 7-9 13 $725.4K +8.0% 511 $1,420 $44.3M

13 Jan 14-16 12 $771.6K +6.4% 550 $1,403 $45.4M

14 Jan 21-23 16 $488.1K −36.7% 574 $850 $46.2M

15 Jan 28-30 16 $374.4K −23.3% 534 $701 $46.8M

16 Feb 4-6 18 $254.4K −32.0% 289 $880 $47.2M

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

Weekend grossWk 10 · $327.3K

$6.6M

$4.6M

$4.4M

$3.6M

$3.4M

$3.7M

$2.3M

$1.0M

$360.4K

$327.3K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −9.2%

−31.3%

W1→2

−3.3%

W2→3

−17.8%

W3→4

−7.1%

W4→5

+8.5%

W5→6

−37.1%

W6→7

−55.5%

W7→8

−64.8%

W8→9

−9.2%

W9→10

Steepest −64.8%Biggest gain +8.5%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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