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Mean Girls

2004 PG-13 1h 37m Comedy Paramount Pictures

Watch your back.

Compare to other movies
Domestic Total
$86.1M
Final
Opening Weekend
$24.4M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
3.52x
Opening → Total
Budget
$17.0M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$130M
$44.1M international
2004 Rank
#27
Domestic

Box Office Performance

Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Apr 30-May 2 1 $24.4M $24.4M 2,839 $9K 1
May 7-9 2 $13.7M -44.0% $42.1M 2,972 $5K 2
May 14-16 3 $10.2M -25.5% $55.4M 3,015 $3K 3
May 21-23 4 $6.9M -32.2% $64.7M 3,054 $2K 4
May 28-30 7 $5.0M -27.2% $72.3M 2,618 $2K 5
Jun 4-6 6 $2.9M -41.8% $78.2M 1,817 $2K 6
Jun 11-13 10 $1.5M -49.2% $81.3M 944 $2K 7
Jun 18-20 14 $557K -62.5% $82.8M 616 $904 8
Jun 25-27 22 $256K -54.0% $83.5M 291 $880 9
Jul 2-4 27 $125K -51.4% $83.8M 220 $566 10
Jul 9-11 22 $331K +165.7% $84.3M 311 $1K 11
Jul 16-18 26 $256K -22.7% $84.8M 268 $954 12
Jul 23-25 28 $183K -28.6% $85.2M 236 $773 13
Jul 30-Aug 1 35 $136K -25.7% $85.5M 196 $691 14
Aug 6-8 43 $93K -31.2% $85.8M 153 $610 15
Aug 13-15 Athens Olympics 53 $55K -40.6% $85.9M 102 $544 16

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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
StarringLindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lizzy Caplan, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried, Daniel Franzese
StudioParamount Pictures