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The Day After Tomorrow

2004 PG-13 2h 4m Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi 20th Century Fox

Where will you be?

Box office summary
Domestic Total
$187M
Final
Opening Weekend
$68.7M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
2.72x
Opening → Total
Budget
$125M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$553M
$366M international
2004 Rank
#7
Domestic
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
May 28-30 2 $68.7M $68.7M 3,425 $20K 1
Jun 4-6 3 $27.9M -59.5% $128.5M 3,444 $8K 2
Jun 11-13 6 $14.5M -47.8% $153.1M 3,210 $5K 3
Jun 18-20 8 $8.1M -44.3% $167.3M 2,667 $3K 4
Jun 25-27 11 $4.8M -41.3% $175.6M 2,212 $2K 5
Jul 2-4 12 $2.0M -57.2% $179.5M 1,518 $1K 6
Jul 9-11 16 $1.1M -47.0% $182.1M 728 $1K 7
Jul 16-18 18 $617K -42.8% $183.3M 487 $1K 8
Jul 23-25 21 $464K -24.8% $184.1M 374 $1K 9
Jul 30-Aug 1 26 $294K -36.6% $184.7M 296 $994 10
Aug 6-8 25 $324K +9.9% $185.2M 298 $1K 11
Aug 13-15 28 $230K -28.9% $185.7M 263 $875 12
Aug 20-22 33 $207K -10.0% $186.0M 233 $889 13
Aug 27-29 40 $107K -48.5% $186.2M 178 $600 14
Sep 3-5 43 $97K -9.2% $186.3M 129 $752 15
Sep 17-19 47 $87K -10.1% $186.6M 184 $473 16

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byRoland Emmerich
ScreenplayRoland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Produced byMark Gordon, Roland Emmerich
CinematographyUeli Steiger
MusicHarald Kloser
StarringDennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders, Sela Ward
Studio20th Century Fox