Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted backdrop
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted movie poster

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

2012 PG 1h 35m Adventure, Animation, Comedy DreamWorks

They have one shot to get back home.

Compare to other movies
Domestic Total
$216M
Final
Opening Weekend
$60.3M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
3.59x
Opening → Total
Budget
$145M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$747M
$531M international
2012 Rank
#10
Domestic

Box Office Performance

Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Jun 8-10 1 $60.3M $60.3M 4,258 $14K 1
Jun 15-17 1 $34.1M -43.5% $119.0M 4,263 $8K 2
Jun 22-24 2 $19.7M -42.1% $157.1M 3,920 $5K 3
Jun 29-Jul 1 5 $11.8M -39.9% $180.0M 3,715 $3K 4
Jul 6-8 7 $7.5M -36.5% $195.9M 2,861 $3K 5
Jul 13-15 10 $3.7M -51.2% $203.9M 2,285 $2K 6
Jul 20-22 11 $1.4M -63.2% $207.6M 1,261 $1K 7
Jul 27-29 London Olympics 14 $901K -33.3% $209.6M 808 $1K 8
Aug 3-5 London Olympics 17 $588K -34.8% $210.9M 504 $1K 9
Aug 10-12 London Olympics 19 $421K -28.3% $211.7M 306 $1K 10
Aug 17-19 18 $708K +68.0% $212.7M 406 $2K 11
Aug 24-26 17 $606K -14.4% $213.7M 374 $2K 12
Aug 31-Sep 2 24 $630K +4.0% $214.5M 505 $1K 13
Sep 7-9 25 $381K -39.5% $215.2M 345 $1K 14
Sep 14-16 30 $289K -24.1% $215.6M 306 $944 15
Sep 21-23 33 $224K -22.6% $215.9M 240 $931 16
Sep 28-30 35 $149K -33.3% $216.1M 203 $734 17
Oct 5-7 38 $101K -32.0% $216.2M 155 $654 18
Oct 12-14 38 $87K -14.6% $216.4M 122 $710 19

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Profitability

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

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Cast & Crew

Directed byEric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon
ScreenplayEric Darnell, Noah Baumbach
StarringBen Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Frances McDormand, Sacha Baron Cohen
StudioDreamWorks