Name: The Manchurian Candidate
Director: Jonathan Demme
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Released: 2004
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Simon McBurney, Kimberly Elise

Box Office Performance

Date	Rank	Gross	Daily Chg	Weekly Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Days
Fri Jul 30	#3	$6.1M		—	$6.1M	2,867	$2K	1
Sat Jul 31	#3	$8.0M	+31%	—	$14.1M	2,867	$3K	2
Sun Aug 1	#3	$5.9M	-26%	—	$20.0M	2,867	$2K	3
Mon Aug 2	#3	$2.1M	-64%	—	$22.1M	2,867	$737	4
Tue Aug 3	#3	$1.9M	-10%	—	$24.0M	2,867	$665	5
Wed Aug 4	#3	$1.8M	-4%	—	$25.9M	2,867	$639	6
Thu Aug 5	#3	$1.8M	n/c	—	$27.7M	2,867	$640	7
Fri Aug 6	#4	$3.2M	+74%	-48%	$30.9M	2,867	$1K	8
Sat Aug 7	#4	$4.4M	+37%	-45%	$35.1M	2,867	$2K	9
Sun Aug 8	#4	$2.8M	-35%	-52%	$38.0M	2,867	$989	10
Mon Aug 9	#5	$1.0M	-64%	-52%	$39.0M	2,867	$351	11
Tue Aug 10	#5	$1.0M	+4%	-45%	$40.0M	2,867	$364	12
Wed Aug 11	#5	$993K	-5%	-46%	$41.0M	2,867	$346	13
Thu Aug 12	#5	$964K	-3%	-47%	$42.0M	2,867	$336	14
Fri Aug 13	#7	$1.7M	+76%	-47%	$43.7M	2,612	$648	15
Sat Aug 14	#7	$2.6M	+52%	-41%	$46.2M	2,612	$984	16
Sun Aug 15	#7	$1.7M	-32%	-38%	$48.0M	2,612	$668	17
Mon Aug 16	#7	$648K	-63%	-36%	$48.6M	2,612	$248	18
Tue Aug 17	#7	$622K	-4%	-40%	$49.3M	2,612	$238	19
Wed Aug 18	#6	$637K	+2%	-36%	$49.9M	2,612	$243	20
Thu Aug 19	#6	$629K	-1%	-35%	$50.5M	2,612	$240	21
Fri Aug 20	#8	$1.2M	+91%	-29%	$51.7M	1,920	$625	22
Sat Aug 21	#8	$1.8M	+52%	-29%	$53.5M	1,920	$947	23
Sun Aug 22	#8	$1.1M	-42%	-40%	$54.5M	1,920	$547	24
Mon Aug 23	#10	$403K	-62%	-38%	$54.9M	1,920	$209	25
Tue Aug 24	#8	$432K	+7%	-31%	$55.4M	1,920	$225	26
Wed Aug 25	#8	$403K	-7%	-37%	$55.8M	1,920	$209	27
Thu Aug 26	#8	$392K	-3%	-38%	$56.2M	1,920	$204	28

Weekend	Rank	Gross	Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Wks
Jul 30-Aug 1	3	$20.0M	—	$20.0M	2,867	$7K	1
Aug 6-8	4	$10.3M	-48.8%	$38.0M	2,867	$4K	2
Aug 13-15 Athens Olympics	7	$6.0M	-41.4%	$48.0M	2,612	$2K	3
Aug 20-22 Athens Olympics	8	$4.0M	-33.2%	$54.5M	1,920	$2K	4
Aug 27-29 Athens Olympics	12	$2.8M	-29.3%	$59.0M	1,484	$2K	5
Sep 3-5	16	$2.0M	-29.2%	$61.9M	1,085	$2K	6
Sep 10-12	17	$1.0M	-49.6%	$63.9M	886	$1K	7
Sep 17-19	18	$563K	-44.4%	$64.8M	628	$896	8
Sep 24-26	24	$251K	-55.4%	$65.3M	389	$645	9
Oct 1-3	37	$92K	-63.2%	$65.4M	156	$592	10
Oct 22-24	33	$103K	+11.4%	$65.7M	208	$494	11
Oct 29-31	37	$65K	-37.0%	$65.8M	140	$462	12
Nov 5-7	39	$56K	-12.8%	$65.9M	109	$518	13

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Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byJonathan Demme

ScreenplayDaniel Pyne, Dean Georgaris

StarringDenzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Simon McBurney, Kimberly Elise, Bruno Ganz

StudioParamount Pictures