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The Notebook

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

Behind every great love is a great story.

Box office summary
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
Compare with other movies
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 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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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
Produced byMark Johnson, Lynn Harris
CinematographyRobert Fraisse
MusicAaron Zigman
StarringRyan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Joan Allen, David Thornton
StudioNew Line Cinema