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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

2019 PG-13 1h 51m Horror, Mystery, Thriller CBS Films/Lionsgate
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Opening Weekend
$20.8M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$68.95M
Final
Worldwide Total
$104.9M
Budget
$28M
Production
Domestic Legs
3.31x
Opening → Total
2019 Rank
#42
Domestic yearly rank

Box Office Performance

Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Aug 9-11 2 $20.9M $20.9M 3,135 $7K 1
Aug 16-18 5 $10.0M -52.1% $40.2M 3,135 $3K 2
Aug 23-25 8 $5.9M -41.4% $50.4M 2,927 $2K 3
Aug 30-Sep 1 7 $5.0M -14.8% $57.6M 2,747 $2K 4
Sep 6-8 9 $2.3M -54.0% $62.1M 2,101 $1K 5
Sep 13-15 11 $1.7M -26.0% $64.4M 1,494 $1K 6
Sep 20-22 14 $955K -43.8% $65.8M 932 $1K 7
Sep 27-29 13 $801K -16.1% $66.8M 759 $1K 8
Oct 4-6 16 $472K -41.1% $67.5M 577 $818 9
Oct 11-13 20 $246K -47.9% $67.9M 346 $710 10
Oct 18-20 23 $139K -43.5% $68.1M 219 $633 11
Oct 25-27 21 $534K +285.4% $68.7M 1,567 $341 12

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byAndré Øvredal
ScreenplayDan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Guillermo del Toro, Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan
StarringZoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Zajur, Natalie Ganzhorn, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows
StudioCBS Films/Lionsgate
Produced byGuillermo del Toro, Sean Daniel, Jason F. Brown, J. Miles Dale, Elizabeth Grave