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Night at the Museum

2006 PG 1h 48m Adventure, Comedy, Family 20th Century Fox

Where history comes to life.

Compare to other movies
Domestic Total
$251M
Final
Opening Weekend
$30.4M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
8.24x
Opening → Total
Budget
$110M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$574M
$324M international
2006 Rank
#2
Domestic

Box Office Performance

Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 22-24 1 $30.4M $30.4M 3,685 $8K 1
Dec 29-31 1 $36.8M +20.8% $115.8M 3,768 $10K 2
Jan 5-7 1 $23.7M -35.4% $163.8M 3,730 $6K 3
Jan 12-14 2 $17.2M -27.7% $185.8M 3,612 $5K 4
Jan 19-21 2 $12.0M -30.0% $204.9M 3,483 $3K 5
Jan 26-28 3 $9.6M -20.4% $216.8M 3,241 $3K 6
Feb 2-4 4 $6.4M -33.2% $225.0M 3,003 $2K 7
Feb 9-11 5 $5.8M -9.9% $232.2M 2,702 $2K 8
Feb 16-18 10 $3.7M -35.6% $237.3M 2,042 $2K 9
Feb 23-25 12 $2.2M -41.4% $241.6M 1,371 $2K 10
Mar 2-4 14 $1.5M -32.9% $243.5M 927 $2K 11
Mar 9-11 16 $922K -36.6% $244.8M 739 $1K 12
Mar 16-18 14 $840K -8.9% $246.1M 610 $1K 13
Mar 23-25 21 $564K -32.9% $246.9M 427 $1K 14
Mar 30-Apr 1 18 $603K +6.9% $247.7M 414 $1K 15
Apr 6-8 20 $540K -10.3% $248.5M 367 $1K 16
Apr 13-15 22 $523K -3.3% $249.3M 355 $1K 17
Apr 20-22 23 $391K -25.2% $249.9M 321 $1K 18
Apr 27-29 30 $261K -33.2% $250.2M 284 $918 19
May 4-6 25 $179K -31.2% $250.4M 245 $732 20
May 11-13 33 $116K -35.3% $250.6M 200 $580 21
May 18-20 41 $74K -36.1% $250.7M 128 $579 22
May 25-27 44 $37K -49.7% $250.8M 129 $289 23

Performance Charts

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Cumulative Total

Weekend Gross Trend

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Profitability

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

Domestic vs International Split

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Cast & Crew

Directed byShawn Levy
ScreenplayRobert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon
StarringBen Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Jake Cherry
Studio20th Century Fox