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The King's Speech

2010 R 1h 58m Biography, Drama, History The Weinstein Company

Find your voice.

Box office summary
Domestic Total
$135M
Final
Opening Weekend
$9.2M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
14.7x
Opening → Total
Budget
$15.0M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$411M
$275M international
2010 Rank
#18
Domestic
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 24-26 11 $4.5M $8.3M 700 $6K 1
Dec 31-Jan 2 10 $7.8M +73.4% $22.9M 700 $11K 2
Jan 7-9 9 $6.4M -17.5% $32.9M 758 $8K 3
Jan 14-16 4 $9.2M +43.2% $44.7M 1,543 $6K 4
Jan 21-23 4 $7.9M -14.5% $57.3M 1,680 $5K 5
Jan 28-30 5 $11.1M +40.9% $72.2M 2,557 $4K 6
Feb 4-6 4 $7.7M -30.3% $83.5M 2,584 $3K 7
Feb 11-13 6 $7.2M -6.2% $93.7M 2,263 $3K 8
Feb 18-20 7 $6.5M -9.7% $103.2M 2,086 $3K 9
Feb 25-27 8 $7.3M +12.4% $114.2M 2,386 $3K 10
Mar 4-6 8 $6.2M -15.1% $123.5M 2,240 $3K 11
Mar 11-13 10 $3.6M -42.6% $129.0M 1,768 $2K 12
Mar 18-20 13 $2.0M -43.1% $132.5M 1,249 $2K 13
Mar 25-27 13 $1.6M -23.4% $134.9M 1,062 $1K 14

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byTom Hooper
ScreenplayDavid Seidler
Produced byIain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
CinematographyDanny Cohen
MusicAlexandre Desplat
StarringColin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon
StudioThe Weinstein Company