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Pete's Dragon

2016 PG 1h 43m Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family Walt Disney Pictures

Believe.

Compare to other movies
Domestic Total
$76.2M
Final
Opening Weekend
$21.5M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
3.54x
Opening → Total
Budget
$65M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$137.8M
$61.5M international
2016 Rank
#40
Domestic

Box Office Performance

Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Aug 12-14 3 $21.5M $21.5M 3,702 $6K 1
Aug 19-21 5 $11.3M -47.2% $42.9M 3,702 $3K 2
Aug 26-28 6 $7.4M -34.4% $54.9M 3,244 $2K 3
Sep 2-4 4 $6.3M -14.7% $64.1M 3,272 $2K 4
Sep 9-11 7 $3.1M -51.2% $70.2M 2,685 $1K 5
Sep 16-18 10 $2.2M -30.6% $72.9M 1,948 $1K 6
Sep 23-25 13 $870K -59.6% $74.2M 1,230 $707 7
Sep 30-Oct 2 22 $316K -63.7% $74.7M 440 $718 8
Oct 7-9 32 $165K -47.7% $75.0M 224 $738 9
Oct 14-16 32 $121K -27.0% $75.2M 165 $732 10
Oct 21-23 38 $98K -19.0% $75.3M 134 $730 11
Oct 28-30 40 $82K -16.5% $75.4M 134 $610 12
Nov 4-6 34 $97K +18.6% $75.6M 90 $1K 13
Nov 11-13 27 $204K +110.8% $75.8M 179 $1K 14
Nov 18-20 35 $124K -39.0% $76.0M 162 $768 15
Nov 25-27 36 $101K -18.4% $76.2M 127 $799 16
Dec 2-4 43 $34K -66.4% $76.2M 86 $396 17
Dec 9-11 48 $14K -59.6% $76.2M 52 $265 18

Performance Charts

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Cumulative Total

Weekend Gross Trend

Theater Count

Profitability

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

Domestic vs International Split

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Cast & Crew

Directed byDavid Lowery
Written byDavid Lowery, Toby Halbrooks
StarringBryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley
StudioWalt Disney Pictures