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Sideways

2004 R 2h 7m Comedy, Drama, Romance Fox Searchlight Pictures

In search of wine. In search of women. In search of themselves.

Compare to other movies
Domestic Total
$71.5M
Final
Opening Weekend
$6.3M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
11.3x
Opening → Total
Budget
$16.0M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$110M
$38.2M international
2004 Rank
#39
Domestic

Box Office Performance

Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Nov 12-14 12 $1.4M $3.8M 144 $10K 1
Nov 19-21 12 $1.8M +29.3% $6.0M 279 $7K 2
Nov 26-28 11 $2.9M +59.3% $10.0M 497 $6K 3
Dec 3-5 11 $1.8M -38.1% $12.5M 499 $4K 4
Dec 10-12 11 $1.2M -31.2% $14.3M 475 $3K 5
Dec 17-19 13 $1.5M +21.1% $16.5M 424 $4K 6
Dec 24-26 18 $1.2M -22.2% $18.5M 359 $3K 7
Dec 31-Jan 2 17 $2.2M +83.9% $22.4M 370 $6K 8
Jan 7-9 16 $1.9M -11.3% $25.1M 365 $5K 9
Jan 14-16 13 $2.2M +13.5% $28.0M 370 $6K 10
Jan 21-23 11 $2.9M +31.8% $32.1M 699 $4K 11
Jan 28-30 8 $6.3M +122.6% $40.1M 1,694 $4K 12
Feb 4-6 8 $4.7M -26.6% $46.7M 1,786 $3K 13
Feb 11-13 9 $4.5M -4.0% $52.8M 1,619 $3K 14
Feb 18-20 11 $3.8M -14.4% $58.0M 1,300 $3K 15
Feb 25-27 11 $3.5M -7.6% $63.2M 1,229 $3K 16
Mar 4-6 12 $2.1M -40.8% $66.2M 1,057 $2K 17
Mar 11-13 14 $1.3M -36.7% $68.1M 807 $2K 18
Mar 18-20 13 $928K -30.0% $69.5M 585 $2K 19
Mar 25-27 15 $578K -37.7% $70.4M 413 $1K 20
Apr 1-3 19 $321K -44.5% $71.0M 304 $1K 21
Apr 8-10 26 $142K -55.8% $71.2M 172 $824 22
Apr 15-17 37 $94K -34.1% $71.4M 127 $736 23

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 byAlexander Payne
ScreenplayAlexander Payne, Jim Taylor
StarringPaul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh, Marylouise Burke, Jessica Hecht
StudioFox Searchlight Pictures