Sideways backdrop
Sideways movie poster

Sideways

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

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

Box office summary
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
Compare with other movies
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

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 byAlexander Payne
ScreenplayAlexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Produced byMichael London
CinematographyPhedon Papamichael
MusicRolfe Kent
StarringPaul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh, Marylouise Burke, Jessica Hecht
StudioFox Searchlight Pictures