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The Imitation Game

2014 PG-13 1h 54m Biography, Drama, Thriller, War The Weinstein Company

The true enigma was the man who cracked the code.

Compare to other movies
Domestic Total
$91.1M
Final
Opening Weekend
$6.9M
3-day opening (wide)
Domestic Legs
13.12x
Opening → Total
Budget
$15.0M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$227.3M
$136.2M international
2014 Rank
#35
Domestic

Box Office Performance

Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Nov 28-30 16 $479K $479K 4 $120K 1
Dec 5-7 18 $389K -18.8% $1.0M 8 $49K 2
Dec 12-14 13 $850K +118.4% $2.0M 25 $34K 3
Dec 19-21 16 $859K +1.0% $3.2M 34 $25K 4
Dec 26-28 8 $7.9M +823.8% $14.6M 747 $11K 5
Jan 2-4 7 $7.8M -2.0% $30.5M 754 $10K 6
Jan 9-11 6 $7.2M -7.2% $40.4M 1,566 $5K 7
Jan 16-18 6 $6.8M -5.7% $50.4M 1,611 $4K 8
Jan 23-25 6 $6.9M +2.1% $60.5M 2,025 $3K 9
Jan 30-32 7 $5.0M -27.9% $67.8M 2,402 $2K 10
Feb 6-8 8 $4.7M -6.5% $74.5M 1,963 $2K 11
Feb 13-15 8 $3.5M -25.6% $79.6M 1,551 $2K 12
Feb 20-22 9 $2.5M -27.5% $83.9M 1,408 $2K 13
Feb 27-29 13 $1.9M -25.9% $86.8M 1,103 $2K 14
Mar 6-8 14 $1.1M -40.2% $88.4M 862 $1K 15
Mar 13-15 16 $665K -40.6% $89.5M 525 $1K 16
Mar 20-22 18 $372K -44.1% $90.1M 337 $1K 17
Mar 27-29 22 $250K -32.6% $90.5M 271 $924 18
Apr 3-5 29 $140K -44.3% $90.8M 202 $691 19
Apr 10-12 32 $83K -40.4% $90.9M 128 $650 20
Apr 17-19 36 $41K -50.3% $91.0M 75 $552 21
Apr 24-26 45 $34K -16.6% $91.1M 60 $575 22
May 1-3 53 $18K -48.4% $91.1M 34 $524 23
May 8-10 64 $8K -54.5% $91.1M 22 $369 24

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byMorten Tyldum
ScreenplayGraham Moore
StarringBenedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance
StudioThe Weinstein Company
Produced byNora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman