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Mr. Popper's Penguins

2011 PG 1h 34m Comedy, Family, Fantasy 20th Century Fox
Box office summary
Domestic Total
$68.2M
Final
Opening Weekend
$18.4M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
3.70x
Opening → Total
Budget
$55.0M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$187M
$119M international
Compare with other movies
Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Jun 17-19 3 $18.4M $18.4M 3,339 $6K 1
Jun 24-26 5 $10.1M -45.0% $39.3M 3,342 $3K 2
Jul 1-3 8 $5.5M -45.4% $50.6M 2,861 $2K 3
Jul 8-10 9 $3.2M -43.0% $58.1M 1,996 $2K 4
Jul 15-17 12 $1.4M -56.6% $61.5M 1,002 $1K 5
Jul 22-24 13 $935K -31.7% $63.5M 591 $2K 6
Jul 29-31 17 $468K -50.0% $64.6M 412 $1K 7
Aug 5-7 19 $407K -12.9% $65.4M 327 $1K 8
Aug 12-14 21 $387K -5.0% $66.1M 294 $1K 9
Aug 19-21 25 $302K -21.9% $66.6M 273 $1K 10
Aug 26-28 24 $261K -13.6% $67.0M 242 $1K 11
Sep 2-4 33 $305K +16.8% $67.4M 252 $1K 12
Sep 9-11 37 $163K -46.7% $67.7M 226 $719 13
Sep 16-18 34 $162K -0.4% $67.9M 213 $759 14
Sep 23-25 37 $109K -32.6% $68.0M 153 $712 15
Sep 30-Oct 2 43 $69K -36.3% $68.1M 103 $674 16

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byMark Waters
ScreenplayJohn Morris, Jared Stern, Sean Anders
Produced byJohn Davis
CinematographyFlorian Ballhaus
MusicRolfe Kent
StarringJim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury, Ophelia Lovibond, Madeline Carroll, Clark Gregg
Studio20th Century Fox