Safe House backdrop
Safe House movie poster

Safe House

2012 R 1h 55m Action, Thriller Universal Pictures

No one is safe

Box office summary
Opening Weekend
$40.2M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$126M
Final
Worldwide Total
$208M
$81.7M international
Domestic Legs3.15x
Budget$85.0M
2012 Rank#25
Compare with other movies
Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Feb 10-12 2 $40.2M $40.2M 3,119 $13K 1
Feb 17-19 1 $23.6M -41.2% $77.9M 3,121 $8K 2
Feb 24-26 4 $10.9M -53.8% $97.6M 3,052 $4K 3
Mar 2-4 4 $7.4M -32.4% $108.4M 2,553 $3K 4
Mar 9-11 7 $4.8M -35.0% $115.6M 2,144 $2K 5
Mar 16-18 7 $2.7M -43.4% $120.2M 1,920 $1K 6
Mar 23-25 9 $1.4M -48.4% $122.6M 1,330 $1K 7
Mar 30-Apr 1 12 $780K -44.4% $123.9M 729 $1K 8
Apr 6-8 11 $576K -26.2% $124.7M 482 $1K 9
Apr 13-15 18 $338K -41.4% $125.3M 371 $910 10
Apr 20-22 21 $230K -31.8% $125.6M 301 $765 11
Apr 27-29 25 $166K -27.9% $125.9M 229 $725 12
May 4-6 29 $107K -35.7% $126.0M 175 $610 13
May 11-13 32 $85K -20.4% $126.1M 136 $625 14

Performance Charts

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

Daily Gross

Cumulative Total

Weekend Gross Trend

Theater Count

Profitability

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

Domestic vs International Split

Week-over-Week Drop

Weekly Gross Decline (%)

Cast & Crew

Directed byDaniel Espinosa
ScreenplayDavid Guggenheim
StarringDenzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard, Rubén Blades
StudioUniversal Pictures