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Spy KidsFollow

2001 • PG • 1h 28m • Action, Adventure, Comedy • Miramax

Real spies... only smaller

🍅 92% 47%

71

3.05

5.6

CS A

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$26.50M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$112.70M

Final

Worldwide total

$197.70M

$85.00M international

Domestic legs4.25x

Budget$35.0M

2001 rank#18

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Cast & crew

Full Rodriguez filmography

Robert Rodriguez

Robert Rodriguez Director

Alexa PenaVega

Alexa PenaVega Starring

Daryl Sabara

Daryl Sabara Starring

Antonio Banderas

Antonio Banderas Starring

Carla Gugino

Carla Gugino Starring

Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming Starring

ScreenplayRobert Rodriguez Produced byElizabeth Avellán, Robert Rodriguez CinematographyGuillermo Navarro MusicDanny Elfman, Gavin Greenaway, Heitor Pereira, John Debney, Robert Rodriguez, Los Lobos StudioMiramax SeriesSpy Kids

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Mar 30-Apr 1 1 $26.5M — 3,104 $8,552 $26.5M

2 Apr 6-8 1 $17.1M −35.7% 3,133 $5,451 $48.3M

3 Apr 13-15 1 $12.5M −26.8% 3,172 $3,941 $68.3M

4 Apr 20-22 2 $10.1M −19.5% 3,191 $3,155 $86.5M

5 Apr 27-29 3 $5.8M −42.6% 3,105 $1,863 $93.7M

6 May 4-6 4 $3.8M −34.1% 2,815 $1,354 $98.4M

7 May 11-13 6 $2.7M −30.1% 2,599 $1,025 $101.7M

8 May 18-20 9 $1.3M −51.7% 2,035 $632 $103.5M

9 May 25-27 11 $925.7K −28.0% 1,301 $711 $104.9M

10 Jun 1-3 12 $438.3K −52.6% 731 $599 $105.9M

11 Jun 8-10 18 $172.7K −60.6% 467 $369 $106.3M

12 Aug 10-12 12 $1.6M +813.0% 1,676 $940 $109.2M

13 Aug 17-19 16 $764.7K −51.5% 1,202 $636 $110.8M

14 Aug 24-26 32 $161.7K −78.9% 279 $579 $111.5M

15 Aug 31-Sep 3 29 $561.9K +247.6% 1,105 $508 $112.2M

16 Sep 7-9 35 $159.9K −71.5% 493 $324 $112.4M

17 Sep 14-16 38 $126.5K −20.9% 369 $342 $112.6M

18 Sep 21-23 50 $83.3K −34.2% 262 $317 $112.7M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Mar 30 #1 $6.8M — $6.8M 3,104 $2,187 1

Sat Mar 31 #1 $11.7M +72% $18.4M 3,104 $3,753 2

Sun Apr 1 #1 $8.1M −30% $26.5M 3,104 $2,611 3

Mon Apr 2 #1 $1.3M −85% $27.8M 3,104 $403 4

Tue Apr 3 #1 $1.2M −2% $29.0M 3,104 $394 5

Wed Apr 4 #1 $1.1M −10% $30.1M 3,104 $354 6

Thu Apr 5 #1 $1.1M −2% $31.2M 3,104 $348 7

Fri Apr 6 #2 $4.3M +295% −37% $35.5M 3,133 $1,363 8

Sat Apr 7 #1 $7.5M +77% −35% $43.0M 3,133 $2,406 9

Sun Apr 8 #1 $5.1M −32% −37% $48.3M 3,133 $1,629 10

Mon Apr 9 #1 $1.5M −71% +20% $49.8M 3,133 $479 11

Tue Apr 10 #1 $1.7M +16% +42% $51.5M 3,133 $555 12

Wed Apr 11 #1 $1.9M +9% +72% $53.4M 3,133 $605 13

Thu Apr 12 #1 $3.3M +73% +204% $56.7M 3,133 $1,048 14

Fri Apr 13 #1 $5.2M +59% +22% $61.9M 3,172 $1,646 15

Sat Apr 14 #2 $4.3M −17% −43% $66.2M 3,172 $1,361 16

Sun Apr 15 #2 $2.8M −35% −45% $68.3M 3,172 $890 17

Mon Apr 16 #1 $3.0M +7% +101% $71.3M 3,172 $949 18

Tue Apr 17 #1 $1.9M −35% +12% $73.3M 3,172 $612 19

Wed Apr 18 #1 $1.8M −5% −3% $75.1M 3,172 $580 20

Thu Apr 19 #1 $1.5M −18% −54% $76.6M 3,172 $473 21

Fri Apr 20 #3 $2.8M +87% −46% $79.4M 3,109 $903 22

Sat Apr 21 #2 $4.4M +58% +3% $83.7M 3,109 $1,429 23

Sun Apr 22 #1 $2.8M −38% −2% $86.5M 3,109 $889 24

Mon Apr 23 #6 $358.6K −87% −88% $86.9M 3,109 $115 25

Tue Apr 24 #6 $365.7K +2% −81% $87.2M 3,191 $114 26

Wed Apr 25 #6 $354.8K −3% −81% $87.6M 3,191 $111 27

Thu Apr 26 #4 $340.6K −4% −77% $87.9M 3,191 $106 28

Fri Apr 27 #4 $1.3M +285% −53% $89.2M 3,105 $421 29

Sat Apr 28 #3 $2.8M +111% −38% $92.0M 3,105 $891 30

Sun Apr 29 #2 $1.7M −38% −38% $93.7M 3,105 $553 31

Mon Apr 30 #5 $262.7K −85% −27% $93.9M 3,105 $84 32

Tue May 1 #9 $235.8K −10% −36% $94.2M 3,105 $75 33

Wed May 2 #5 $221.4K −6% −38% $94.4M 3,105 $71 34

Thu May 3 #6 $210.4K −5% −38% $94.6M 3,105 $67 35

Fri May 4 #5 $913.3K +334% −30% $95.5M 2,815 $324 36

Sat May 5 #4 $1.9M +112% −30% $97.5M 2,815 $687 37

Sun May 6 #4 $1.1M −42% −34% $98.4M 2,815 $400 38

Mon May 7 #6 $169.3K −85% −36% $98.6M 2,815 $60 39

Tue May 8 #7 $162.9K −4% −31% $98.7M 2,815 $57 40

Wed May 9 #6 $157.8K −3% −29% $98.9M 2,815 $56 41

Thu May 10 #6 $153.4K −3% −27% $99.0M 2,815 $54 42

Fri May 11 #6 $580.0K +278% −36% $99.6M 2,599 $223 43

Sat May 12 #6 $1.2M +107% −38% $100.8M 2,599 $461 44

Sun May 13 #4 $831.0K −31% −26% $101.7M 2,599 $319 45

Mon May 14 #7 $142.0K −83% −16% $101.8M 2,599 $54 46

Tue May 15 #7 $155.8K +10% −4% $102.0M 2,599 $59 47

Wed May 16 #7 $153.5K −1% −3% $102.1M 2,599 $59 48

Thu May 17 #7 $146.0K −5% −5% $102.3M 2,599 $56 49

Sat May 19 #8 $635.5K — −47% $103.2M 2,035 $312 51

Sun May 20 #9 $366.5K −42% −56% $103.5M 2,036 $180 52

Mon May 21 #10 $140.6K −62% −1% $103.7M 2,035 $69 53

Tue May 22 #11 $82.2K −42% −47% $103.8M 2,035 $40 54

Wed May 23 #11 $82.8K +1% −46% $103.8M 2,035 $40 55

Sat May 26 #9 $420.0K — −34% $104.5M 1,301 $322 58

Sun May 27 #10 $363.0K −14% −1% $104.9M 1,301 $279 59

Mon May 28 #9 $371.1K +2% +164% $105.2M 1,301 $285 60

Tue May 29 #11 $72.3K −81% −12% $105.3M 1,301 $55 61

Wed May 30 #11 $73.6K +2% −11% $105.4M 1,301 $56 62

Sun Jun 3 #12 $124.0K — −66% $105.9M 731 $169 66

Mon Jun 4 #12 $59.2K −52% −84% $105.9M 731 $80 67

Tue Jun 5 #13 $54.4K −8% −25% $106.0M 731 $74 68

Wed Jun 6 #14 $35.8K −34% −51% $106.0M 731 $48 69

Thu Jun 7 #12 $63.8K +78% $106.1M 731 $87 70

Sun Jun 10 #16 $50.0K — −60% $106.3M 467 $107 73

Mon Jun 11 #15 $31.5K −37% −47% $106.3M 467 $67 74

Tue Jun 12 #14 $41.1K +30% −24% $106.3M 467 $88 75

Wed Jun 13 #14 $40.8K −1% +14% $106.4M 467 $87 76

Thu Jun 14 #14 $42.0K +3% −34% $106.4M 467 $89 77

Wed Aug 8 #7 $838.7K — $107.2M 1,501 $558 132

Thu Aug 9 #10 $391.6K −53% $107.6M 1,501 $260 133

Sun Aug 12 #12 $527.0K — $109.2M 1,676 $314 136

Mon Aug 13 #12 $239.6K −55% $109.4M 1,676 $142 137

Tue Aug 14 #12 $209.9K −12% $109.6M 1,676 $125 138

Sun Aug 19 #15 $274.0K — −48% $110.8M 1,202 $227 143

Wed Aug 22 #15 $118.7K — $111.2M 1,202 $98 146

Thu Aug 23 #15 $124.6K +5% $111.3M 1,202 $103 147

Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record

Cumulative total$106.1M

Mar 30Apr 15May 1May 16Jun 7

Weekend grossWk 10 · $438.3K

$26.5M

$17.1M

$12.5M

$10.1M

$5.8M

$3.8M

$2.7M

$1.3M

$925.7K

$438.3K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,191 → 731 −77.1%

3,104 open731 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −52.6%

−35.7%

W1→2

−26.8%

W2→3

−19.5%

W3→4

−42.6%

W4→5

−34.1%

W5→6

−30.1%

W6→7

−51.7%

W7→8

−28.0%

W8→9

−52.6%

W9→10

Steepest −52.6%Best hold −19.5%

Run milestones

$100M in 44 days

$100M

Day 44

May 12

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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