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The Notebook

2004 PG-13 2h 3m Drama, Romance New Line Cinema

Behind every great love is a great story.

Compare to other movies
Domestic Total
$81.0M
Final
Opening Weekend
$13.5M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
6.02x
Opening → Total
Budget
$29.0M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$118M
$37.1M international
2004 Rank
#31
Domestic

Box Office Performance

Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Jun 25-27 4 $13.5M $13.5M 2,303 $6K 1
Jul 2-5 6 $10.4M -23.0% $31.7M 2,323 $4K 2
Jul 23-25 8 $4.3M -58.8% $62.3M 2,003 $2K 3
Aug 20-22 Athens Olympics 17 $774K -81.9% $76.3M 621 $1K 4
Sep 3-5 22 $650K -16.0% $78.5M 562 $1K 5
Sep 10-12 22 $446K -31.5% $79.1M 468 $952 6
Sep 17-19 23 $350K -21.4% $79.7M 390 $897 7
Sep 24-26 28 $232K -33.8% $80.0M 323 $717 8
Oct 1-3 30 $161K -30.5% $80.3M 245 $657 9
Oct 8-10 35 $99K -38.4% $80.5M 170 $583 10
Oct 15-17 40 $80K -19.7% $80.6M 144 $553 11
Oct 22-24 44 $66K -17.1% $80.8M 116 $569 12

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Profitability

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

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Cast & Crew

Directed byNick Cassavetes
ScreenplayJan Sardi, Jeremy Leven
StarringRyan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Joan Allen, David Thornton
StudioNew Line Cinema