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The 40-Year-Old VirginFollow

2005 • R • 1h 56m • Comedy, Romance • Universal Pictures

Better late than never.

🍅 85% 84%

73

3.33

7.1

CS A-

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$21.40M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$109.00M

Final

Worldwide total

$177.00M

$67.90M international

Domestic legs5.11x

Budget$26.0M

2005 rank#19

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Cast & crew

Full Apatow filmography

Judd Apatow

Judd Apatow Director

Steve Carell

Steve Carell Starring

Catherine Keener

Catherine Keener Starring

Paul Rudd

Paul Rudd Starring

Romany Malco

Romany Malco Starring

Seth Rogen

Seth Rogen Starring

ScreenplayJudd Apatow, Steve Carell Produced byJudd Apatow, Clayton Townsend, Shauna Robertson CinematographyJack N. Green MusicLyle Workman StudioUniversal Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Aug 19-21 1 $21.4M — 2,845 $7,529 $21.4M

2 Aug 26-28 1 $16.3M −24.0% 2,868 $5,674 $48.6M

3 Sep 2-4 2 $13.3M −18.3% 2,901 $4,585 $68.7M

4 Sep 9-11 2 $7.7M −42.0% 2,974 $2,595 $82.1M

5 Sep 16-18 4 $6.0M −22.7% 3,006 $1,985 $90.7M

6 Sep 23-25 7 $4.3M −27.8% 2,581 $1,670 $96.9M

7 Sep 30-Oct 2 10 $3.1M −27.6% 2,152 $1,449 $101.4M

8 Oct 7-9 14 $1.9M −40.1% 1,135 $1,645 $104.4M

9 Oct 14-16 17 $1.0M −45.1% 725 $1,414 $106.0M

10 Oct 21-23 19 $623.7K −39.2% 466 $1,338 $107.0M

11 Oct 28-30 27 $302.7K −51.5% 328 $922 $107.5M

12 Nov 4-6 23 $303.5K +0.3% 305 $994 $107.9M

13 Nov 11-13 26 $282.1K −7.0% 285 $990 $108.3M

14 Nov 18-20 24 $200.7K −28.9% 252 $796 $108.6M

15 Nov 25-27 29 $175.1K −12.8% 199 $879 $108.9M

16 Dec 2-4 30 $119.6K −31.7% 197 $606 $109.1M

17 Dec 9-11 32 $98.4K −17.7% 160 $615 $109.2M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Aug 19 #1 $7.1M — $7.1M 2,845 $2,479 1

Sat Aug 20 #1 $8.0M +13% $15.1M 2,845 $2,810 2

Sun Aug 21 #1 $6.4M −20% $21.4M 2,845 $2,240 3

Mon Aug 22 #1 $3.0M −53% $24.4M 2,845 $1,060 4

Tue Aug 23 #1 $2.9M −4% $27.3M 2,845 $1,019 5

Wed Aug 24 #1 $2.6M −10% $29.9M 2,845 $915 6

Thu Aug 25 #1 $2.3M −10% $32.3M 2,845 $825 7

Fri Aug 26 #2 $4.8M +107% −31% $37.1M 2,870 $1,688 8

Sat Aug 27 #1 $6.7M +39% −16% $43.9M 2,870 $2,348 9

Sun Aug 28 #1 $4.7M −30% −26% $48.6M 2,870 $1,633 10

Mon Aug 29 #1 $1.8M −61% −39% $50.4M 2,870 $639 11

Tue Aug 30 #1 $1.9M +4% −34% $52.3M 2,868 $664 12

Wed Aug 31 #1 $1.6M −14% −37% $53.9M 2,868 $570 13

Thu Sep 1 #1 $1.4M −14% −40% $55.4M 2,868 $489 14

Fri Sep 2 #2 $3.5M +146% −29% $58.8M 2,901 $1,190 15

Sat Sep 3 #2 $4.9M +41% −28% $63.7M 2,901 $1,675 16

Sun Sep 4 #2 $5.0M +3% +6% $68.7M 2,901 $1,720 17

Mon Sep 5 #2 $3.2M −35% +76% $71.9M 2,901 $1,115 18

Tue Sep 6 #2 $928.3K −71% −51% $72.8M 2,901 $320 19

Wed Sep 7 #2 $840.0K −10% −49% $73.7M 2,901 $289 20

Thu Sep 8 #2 $754.3K −10% −46% $74.4M 2,901 $260 21

Fri Sep 9 #2 $2.5M +225% −29% $76.9M 2,975 $824 22

Sat Sep 10 #2 $3.4M +40% −29% $80.3M 2,975 $1,154 23

Sun Sep 11 #3 $1.8M −47% −63% $82.1M 2,975 $614 24

Mon Sep 12 #2 $594.5K −67% −82% $82.7M 2,974 $199 25

Tue Sep 13 #2 $684.0K +15% −26% $83.4M 2,974 $230 26

Wed Sep 14 #2 $685.0K n/c −18% $84.1M 2,974 $230 27

Thu Sep 15 #2 $669.1K −2% −11% $84.8M 2,974 $225 28

Fri Sep 16 #4 $1.8M +176% −25% $86.6M 3,006 $615 29

Sat Sep 17 #4 $2.8M +50% −19% $89.4M 3,006 $920 30

Sun Sep 18 #4 $1.4M −51% −26% $90.7M 3,006 $450 31

Mon Sep 19 #4 $435.9K −68% −27% $91.2M 3,006 $145 32

Tue Sep 20 #4 $524.5K +20% −23% $91.7M 3,006 $174 33

Wed Sep 21 #4 $466.1K −11% −32% $92.2M 3,006 $155 34

Thu Sep 22 #4 $481.0K +3% −28% $92.6M 3,006 $160 35

Fri Sep 23 #7 $1.3M +169% −30% $93.9M 2,581 $500 36

Sat Sep 24 #7 $2.0M +56% −27% $95.9M 2,581 $779 37

Sun Sep 25 #7 $1.0M −50% −26% $96.9M 2,581 $390 38

Mon Sep 26 #7 $348.4K −65% −20% $97.3M 2,581 $135 39

Tue Sep 27 #6 $355.0K +2% −32% $97.6M 2,581 $137 40

Wed Sep 28 #6 $321.3K −9% −31% $97.9M 2,581 $124 41

Thu Sep 29 #6 $336.1K +5% −30% $98.3M 2,581 $130 42

Fri Sep 30 #10 $925.0K +175% −28% $99.2M 2,152 $429 43

Sat Oct 1 #10 $1.5M +58% −27% $100.7M 2,152 $680 44

Sun Oct 2 #10 $731.7K −50% −27% $101.4M 2,152 $340 45

Mon Oct 3 #9 $247.5K −66% −29% $101.7M 2,152 $115 46

Tue Oct 4 #9 $290.5K +17% −18% $101.9M 2,154 $134 47

Wed Oct 5 #9 $259.1K −11% −19% $102.2M 2,154 $120 48

Thu Oct 6 #8 $279.8K +8% −17% $102.5M 2,154 $129 49

Mon Oct 10 #14 $220.7K — −11% $104.6M 1,132 $195 53

Fri Aug 22 $35.0K — $109.5M 800 $43

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

Cumulative total$109.5M

Aug 19Sep 1Sep 13Sep 26Aug 22

Weekend grossWk 10 · $623.7K

$21.4M

$16.3M

$13.3M

$7.7M

$6.0M

$4.3M

$3.1M

$1.9M

$1.0M

$623.7K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,006 → 1,132 −62.3%

2,845 open1,132 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −39.2%

−24.0%

W1→2

−18.3%

W2→3

−42.0%

W3→4

−22.7%

W4→5

−27.8%

W5→6

−27.6%

W6→7

−40.1%

W7→8

−45.1%

W8→9

−39.2%

W9→10

Steepest −45.1%Best hold −18.3%

Run milestones

$100M in 44 days

$100M

Day 44

Oct 1

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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