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The Descendants

2011 R 1h 55m Comedy, Drama Fox Searchlight Pictures

The South Pacific ain't that terrific.

Compare to other movies
Domestic Total
$82.6M
Final
Opening Weekend
$6.4M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
12.9x
Opening → Total
Budget
$20.0M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$177M
$94.7M international
2011 Rank
#38
Domestic

Box Office Performance

Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 9-11 7 $4.4M $23.6M 876 $5K 1
Dec 16-18 11 $3.3M -25.4% $28.6M 878 $4K 2
Dec 23-25 12 $2.1M -36.6% $32.4M 753 $3K 3
Dec 30-Jan 1 10 $3.4M +63.8% $39.4M 758 $4K 4
Jan 6-8 12 $2.6M -23.9% $44.0M 737 $4K 5
Jan 13-15 14 $2.1M -18.7% $47.1M 660 $3K 6
Jan 20-22 16 $2.4M +13.0% $51.3M 560 $4K 7
Jan 27-29 8 $6.4M +170.0% $58.7M 2,001 $3K 8
Feb 3-5 8 $4.6M -28.9% $65.5M 2,038 $2K 9
Feb 10-12 9 $3.4M -24.4% $70.7M 1,581 $2K 10
Feb 17-19 11 $2.9M -14.8% $75.0M 1,243 $2K 11
Feb 24-26 15 $2.1M -27.3% $78.5M 889 $2K 12
Mar 2-4 15 $1.3M -39.4% $80.4M 694 $2K 13
Mar 9-11 19 $677K -47.6% $81.5M 517 $1K 14
Mar 16-18 24 $291K -57.0% $82.0M 347 $839 15
Mar 23-25 33 $146K -49.9% $82.3M 199 $732 16
Mar 30-Apr 1 42 $88K -39.8% $82.4M 118 $744 17

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Profitability

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

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Cast & Crew

Directed byAlexander Payne
ScreenplayAlexander Payne, Jim Rash, Nat Faxon
StarringGeorge Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Patricia Hastie, Grace A. Cruz
StudioFox Searchlight Pictures