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Horton Hears a Who!

2008 1h 26m Adventure, Animation, Comedy 20th Century Fox

Horton hears more than anyone believes.

Box office summary
Opening Weekend
$45.0M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$155M
Final
Worldwide Total
$299M
$144M international
Domestic Legs3.43x
Budget$85.0M
2008 Rank#10
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Mar 14-16 1 $45.0M $45.0M 3,954 $11K 1
Mar 21-23 1 $24.6M -45.4% $86.0M 3,961 $6K 2
Mar 28-30 2 $17.7M -27.9% $117.6M 3,826 $5K 3
Apr 4-6 4 $9.1M -48.6% $131.1M 3,571 $3K 4
Apr 11-13 6 $5.9M -35.1% $139.5M 3,209 $2K 5
Apr 18-20 8 $3.5M -40.7% $144.4M 2,670 $1K 6
Apr 25-27 9 $2.5M -29.2% $148.0M 2,159 $1K 7
May 2-4 11 $1.3M -46.2% $149.8M 1,463 $914 8
May 9-11 14 $605K -54.7% $150.7M 770 $786 9
May 16-18 15 $412K -32.0% $151.3M 543 $758 10
May 23-25 11 $478K +16.1% $151.9M 488 $979 11
May 30-Jun 1 13 $368K -23.0% $152.6M 428 $859 12
Jun 6-8 15 $254K -30.8% $153.0M 347 $733 13
Jun 13-15 15 $189K -25.8% $153.4M 294 $641 14
Jun 20-22 21 $147K -22.0% $153.6M 249 $591 15
Jun 27-29 22 $113K -23.5% $153.9M 209 $538 16
Jul 4-6 37 $72K -35.9% $154.0M 181 $398 17
Jul 11-13 34 $71K -2.2% $154.2M 150 $470 18
Jul 18-20 38 $55K -22.2% $154.3M 122 $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 bySteve Martino, Jimmy Hayward
ScreenplayKen Daurio, Cinco Paul
Produced byBob Gordon, Bruce Anderson
MusicJohn Powell
Prod. DesignMarcin Jakubowski
StarringJim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen, Dan Fogler
Studio20th Century Fox