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Mean Girls

2004 PG-13 1h 37m Comedy Paramount Pictures

Watch your back.

Mean Girls Box Office

Opening Weekend
$24.4M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$86.1M
Final
Worldwide Total
$130M
$44.1M international
Domestic Legs3.52x
Budget$17.0M
2004 Rank#27
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Apr 30-May 2 1 $24.43M $24.43M 2,839 $8.6K 1
May 7-9 2 $13.68M -44.0% $42.07M 2,972 $4.6K 2
May 14-16 3 $10.18M -25.5% $55.40M 3,015 $3.4K 3
May 21-23 4 $6.91M -32.2% $64.71M 3,054 $2.3K 4
May 28-30 7 $5.03M -27.2% $72.31M 2,618 $1.9K 5
Jun 4-6 6 $2.93M -41.8% $78.16M 1,817 $1.6K 6
Jun 11-13 10 $1.49M -49.2% $81.30M 944 $1.6K 7
Jun 18-20 14 $557K -62.5% $82.81M 616 $904 8
Jun 25-27 22 $256K -54.0% $83.48M 291 $880 9
Jul 2-4 27 $125K -51.4% $83.77M 220 $566 10
Jul 9-11 22 $331K +165.7% $84.26M 311 $1.1K 11
Jul 16-18 26 $256K -22.7% $84.82M 268 $954 12
Jul 23-25 28 $183K -28.6% $85.22M 236 $773 13
Jul 30-Aug 1 35 $136K -25.7% $85.52M 196 $691 14
Aug 6-8 43 $93K -31.2% $85.75M 153 $610 15
Aug 13-15 53 $55K -40.6% $85.89M 102 $544 16

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

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Profitability

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

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Cast & Crew

Directed byMark Waters
ScreenplayTina Fey
Produced byLorne Michaels
CinematographyDaryn Okada
MusicRolfe Kent
Prod. DesignCary White
StarringLindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lizzy Caplan, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried, Daniel Franzese
StudioParamount Pictures

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