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Taken 2

2012 PG-13 1h 32m Action, Crime, Thriller 20th Century Fox

First they took his daughter. Now they're coming for him.

Box office summary
Opening Weekend
$49.5M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$140M
Final
Worldwide Total
$376M
$236M international
Domestic Legs2.82x
Budget$45.0M
2012 Rank#20
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Oct 5-7 1 $49.5M $49.5M 3,661 $14K 1
Oct 12-14 1 $21.9M -55.8% $86.1M 3,706 $6K 2
Oct 19-21 3 $13.3M -39.4% $105.8M 3,489 $4K 3
Oct 26-28 6 $7.7M -41.8% $117.1M 2,995 $3K 4
Nov 2-4 5 $5.9M -23.3% $125.6M 2,639 $2K 5
Nov 9-11 5 $4.0M -32.2% $131.3M 2,487 $2K 6
Nov 16-18 7 $2.1M -47.0% $134.7M 2,063 $1K 7
Nov 23-25 11 $950K -55.3% $136.5M 763 $1K 8
Nov 30-Dec 2 15 $468K -50.7% $137.2M 496 $943 9
Dec 7-9 18 $387K -17.3% $137.7M 430 $900 10
Dec 14-16 18 $289K -25.4% $138.1M 339 $851 11
Dec 21-23 25 $205K -29.1% $138.5M 275 $744 12
Dec 28-30 27 $243K +18.8% $138.9M 232 $1K 13
Jan 4-6 28 $208K -14.5% $139.3M 213 $975 14
Jan 11-13 31 $146K -29.5% $139.5M 190 $770 15
Jan 18-20 37 $105K -28.0% $139.7M 156 $675 16
Jan 25-27 42 $66K -37.4% $139.8M 124 $531 17

Performance Charts

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

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Profitability

Return on Budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byOlivier Megaton
ScreenplayRobert Mark Kamen, Luc Besson
StarringLiam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser, D. B. Sweeney, Jon Gries
Studio20th Century Fox