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The Wedding Singer

1998 • PG-13 • 1h 37m • Comedy, Music, Romance • New Line Cinema

He's gonna party like it's 1985!

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60

3.44

6.9

Box office summary

Opening Weekend

$18.9M

3-day opening

Domestic Total

$80.2M

Final

Worldwide Total

$123.3M

$43.1M international

Domestic Legs4.3x

Budget$18M

1998 Rank#21

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Cast & Crew

Full Coraci filmography

Frank Coraci Director

Adam Sandler Starring

Drew Barrymore Starring

Christine Taylor

Christine Taylor Starring

Allen Covert Starring

ScreenplayTim Herlihy Produced byRobert Simonds, Jack Giarraputo CinematographyTim Suhrstedt Music byTeddy Castellucci StudioNew Line Cinema

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Feb 13-16 2 $21.9M — 2,821 $7,769 $21.9M

2 Feb 20-22 2 $12.2M −44.2% 2,837 $4,311 $37.7M

3 Feb 27-Mar 1 2 $8.7M −28.7% 2,826 $3,086 $48.8M

4 Mar 6-8 3 $6.2M −28.9% 2,826 $2,194 $57.1M

5 Mar 13-15 5 $4.7M −24.7% 2,550 $1,830 $63.5M

6 Mar 20-22 9 $3.3M −30.3% 2,065 $1,576 $68.4M

7 Mar 27-29 13 $1.8M −44.0% 1,686 $1,080 $71.2M

8 Apr 3-5 14 $1.2M −35.3% 1,026 $1,148 $72.9M

9 Apr 10-12 19 $601.7K −48.9% 772 $779 $74.0M

10 Apr 17-19 24 $397.8K −33.9% 407 $977 $74.7M

11 Apr 24-26 28 $287.8K −27.7% 325 $885 $75.1M

12 May 1-3 27 $258.8K −10.1% 279 $928 $75.4M

13 May 8-10 27 $244.9K −5.4% 261 $938 $75.7M

14 May 15-17 27 $206.7K −15.6% 217 $952 $76.0M

15 May 22-24 15 $813.0K +293.4% 653 $1,245 $76.9M

16 May 29-31 17 $436.3K −46.3% 599 $728 $77.5M

17 Jun 5-7 16 $394.2K −9.7% 523 $754 $78.2M

18 Jun 12-14 19 $286.4K −27.4% 435 $658 $78.7M

19 Jun 19-21 21 $201.4K −29.7% 345 $584 $79.1M

20 Jun 26-28 28 $144.1K −28.4% 248 $581 $79.4M

21 Jul 3-5 35 $109.4K −24.1% 235 $466 $79.6M

22 Jul 10-12 36 $81.2K −25.8% 226 $359 $79.8M

23 Jul 17-19 37 $67.8K −16.5% 114 $595 $80.0M

24 Jul 24-26 38 $60.1K −11.3% 98 $614 $80.1M

25 Jul 31-Aug 2 49 $39.1K −35.0% 68 $575 $80.2M

26 Aug 7-9 51 $29.7K −24.0% 50 $594 $80.2M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Feb 13 #2 $5.2M — $5.2M 2,812 $1,849 1

Sat Feb 14 #2 $7.8M +49% $12.9M 2,812 $2,756 2

Sun Feb 15 #2 $9.3M +19% $18.8M 2,812 $3,289 3

Mon Feb 16 #2 $3.1M −66% $21.9M 2,821 $1,101 4

Tue Feb 17 #2 $1.5M −53% $23.4M 2,821 $518 5

Wed Feb 18 #2 $1.2M −18% $24.6M 2,821 $425 6

Thu Feb 19 #2 $1.3M +6% $25.8M 2,821 $449 7

Fri Feb 20 #2 $3.9M +207% −25% $29.3M 2,837 $1,369 8

Sat Feb 21 #2 $5.6M +45% −27% $34.9M 2,837 $1,986 9

Sun Feb 22 #2 $3.3M −41% −64% $38.2M 2,837 $1,165 10

Mon Feb 23 #2 $744.9K −77% −76% $38.4M 2,837 $263 11

Tue Feb 24 #2 $810.3K +9% −45% $39.1M 2,837 $286 12

Wed Feb 25 #2 $650.5K −20% −46% $40.0M 2,837 $229 13

Thu Feb 26 #2 $680.0K +5% −46% $40.4M 2,837 $240 14

Fri Feb 27 #2 $2.6M +283% −33% $43.0M 2,836 $917 15

Sat Feb 28 #2 $4.3M +63% −25% $47.2M 2,836 $1,499 16

Sun Mar 1 #2 $2.1M −51% −37% $48.8M 2,826 $735 17

Mon Mar 2 #2 $579.4K −72% −22% $49.4M 2,826 $205 18

Tue Mar 3 #2 $722.0K +25% −11% $50.1M 2,826 $255 19

Wed Mar 4 #2 $554.9K −23% −15% $50.7M 2,826 $196 20

Thu Mar 5 #2 $598.4K +8% −12% $51.3M 2,826 $212 21

Fri Mar 6 #4 $1.8M +202% −30% $52.7M 2,826 $640 22

Sat Mar 7 #3 $2.7M +48% −37% $55.4M 2,826 $947 23

Sun Mar 8 #3 $1.5M −43% −26% $57.1M 2,826 $540 24

Mon Mar 9 #3 $461.2K −70% −20% $57.5M 2,826 $163 25

Tue Mar 10 #5 $430.0K −7% −40% $57.9M 2,826 $152 26

Wed Mar 11 #3 $447.0K +4% −19% $58.5M 2,826 $158 27

Thu Mar 12 #3 $511.8K +14% −14% $59.0M 2,826 $181 28

Fri Mar 13 #5 $1.4M +167% −25% $60.4M 2,550 $535 29

Sat Mar 14 #5 $2.1M +56% −21% $62.3M 2,550 $833 30

Sun Mar 15 #5 $1.2M −45% −24% $63.5M 2,550 $455 31

Mon Mar 16 #4 $451.1K −61% −2% $63.9M 2,550 $177 32

Tue Mar 17 #4 $495.4K +10% +15% $64.4M 2,550 $194 33

Wed Mar 18 #5 $464.1K −6% +4% $64.9M 2,550 $182 34

Thu Mar 19 #5 $495.7K +7% −3% $65.4M 2,550 $194 35

Fri Mar 20 #8 $990.0K +100% −27% $66.1M 2,065 $479 36

Sat Mar 21 #9 $1.5M +48% −31% $67.6M 2,065 $712 37

Sun Mar 22 #9 $774.0K −47% −33% $68.4M 2,065 $375 38

Mon Mar 23 #8 $206.0K −73% −54% $68.6M 2,065 $100 39

Tue Mar 24 #9 $235.0K +14% −53% $68.8M 2,065 $114 40

Wed Mar 25 #9 $258.9K +10% −44% $69.1M 2,065 $125 41

Thu Mar 26 #8 $280.7K +8% −43% $69.4M 2,065 $136 42

Wed Apr 1 #10 $170.4K — −34% $71.7M 1,686 $101 48

Thu Apr 2 #10 $174.6K +2% −38% $71.8M 1,686 $104 49

Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record

Cumulative total$71.8M

Feb 13Feb 24Mar 7Mar 17Apr 2

Weekend grossWk 10 · $397.8K

$21.9M

$12.2M

$8.7M

$6.2M

$4.7M

$3.3M

$1.8M

$1.2M

$601.7K

$397.8K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 2,837 → 1,686 −40.6%

2,812 open1,686 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −33.9%

−44.2%

W1→2

−28.7%

W2→3

−28.9%

W3→4

−24.7%

W4→5

−30.3%

W5→6

−44.0%

W6→7

−35.3%

W7→8

−48.9%

W8→9

−33.9%

W9→10

Steepest −48.9%Best hold −24.7%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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