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Iron Man

2008 PG-13 2h 6m Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi Paramount Pictures

Heroes aren't born. They're built.

Box office summary
Domestic Total
$319M
Final
Opening Weekend
$98.6M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
3.23x
Opening → Total
Budget
$140M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$585M
$267M international
2008 Rank
#2
Domestic
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
May 2-4 1 $98.6M $102.1M 4,105 $24K 1
May 9-11 1 $51.2M -48.1% $177.8M 4,111 $12K 2
May 16-18 2 $31.8M -37.8% $223.1M 4,154 $8K 3
May 23-25 3 $20.4M -35.8% $252.6M 3,915 $5K 4
May 30-Jun 1 4 $13.5M -33.8% $276.2M 3,650 $4K 5
Jun 6-8 6 $7.5M -44.8% $288.8M 2,931 $3K 6
Jun 13-15 7 $5.6M -24.8% $297.9M 2,403 $2K 7
Jun 20-22 9 $4.0M -28.3% $304.8M 1,912 $2K 8
Jun 27-29 11 $2.3M -44.0% $309.2M 1,379 $2K 9
Jul 4-6 12 $1.5M -35.3% $311.7M 1,019 $1K 10
Jul 11-13 14 $939K -35.7% $313.4M 710 $1K 11
Jul 18-20 16 $452K -51.9% $314.4M 375 $1K 12
Jul 25-27 22 $311K -31.2% $314.9M 274 $1K 13
Aug 1-3 16 $580K +86.8% $315.7M 407 $1K 14
Aug 8-10 19 $427K -26.5% $316.5M 345 $1K 15
Aug 15-17 23 $341K -20.0% $317.1M 315 $1K 16
Aug 22-24 29 $243K -28.7% $317.5M 257 $946 17
Aug 29-31 33 $224K -8.1% $317.8M 220 $1K 18
Sep 5-7 39 $127K -43.3% $318.0M 205 $618 19
Sep 12-14 39 $95K -25.2% $318.1M 156 $607 20
Sep 19-21 43 $59K -37.7% $318.2M 124 $476 21
Sep 26-28 48 $58K -1.1% $318.3M 121 $482 22

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

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Cast & Crew

Directed byJon Favreau
ScreenplayArt Marcum, Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Matt Holloway
Produced byAvi Arad, Kevin Feige
CinematographyMatthew Libatique
MusicRamin Djawadi
Prod. DesignJ. Michael Riva
StarringRobert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub
StudioParamount Pictures