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Slumdog Millionaire

2008 R 2h Crime, Drama, Romance Fox Searchlight Pictures

What does it take to find a lost love?

Box office summary
Opening Weekend
$10.7M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$141M
Final
Worldwide Total
$378M
$237M international
Domestic Legs13.2x
Budget$15.0M
2008 Rank#16
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 12-14 11 $2.2M $8.0M 169 $13K 1
Dec 19-21 8 $3.1M +40.4% $12.0M 589 $5K 2
Dec 26-28 13 $4.3M +40.9% $19.5M 614 $7K 3
Jan 2-4 10 $4.7M +9.0% $28.7M 612 $8K 4
Jan 9-11 11 $3.8M -19.4% $34.1M 601 $6K 5
Jan 16-18 10 $5.8M +54.6% $42.7M 582 $10K 6
Jan 23-25 5 $10.7M +82.9% $56.1M 1,411 $8K 7
Jan 30-Feb 1 6 $7.6M -28.7% $67.2M 1,633 $5K 8
Feb 6-8 7 $7.2M -5.9% $77.2M 1,724 $4K 9
Feb 13-15 9 $7.3M +1.5% $86.7M 1,634 $4K 10
Feb 20-22 5 $8.4M +15.1% $98.4M 2,244 $4K 11
Feb 27-Mar 1 3 $12.0M +43.4% $115.0M 2,943 $4K 12
Mar 6-8 4 $6.8M -43.4% $125.3M 2,890 $2K 13
Mar 13-15 6 $5.0M -26.5% $132.6M 2,578 $2K 14
Mar 20-22 8 $2.7M -46.5% $137.2M 2,067 $1K 15
Mar 27-29 12 $1.2M -56.5% $139.3M 840 $1K 16
Apr 3-5 14 $499K -57.1% $140.2M 498 $1K 17
Apr 10-12 20 $282K -43.4% $140.8M 306 $922 18
Apr 17-19 27 $143K -49.4% $141.0M 212 $673 19
Apr 24-26 37 $71K -50.0% $141.2M 131 $545 20

Performance Charts

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

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byDanny Boyle
ScreenplaySimon Beaufoy
Produced byChristian Colson
CinematographyAnthony Dod Mantle
MusicA. R. Rahman
StarringDev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, Mahesh Manjrekar, Saurabh Shukla
StudioFox Searchlight Pictures