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What Women Want

2000 PG-13 2h 7m Comedy, Fantasy, Romance Paramount Pictures

He has the power to hear everything women are thinking. Finally... a man is listening.

Compare to other movies
Domestic Total
$183M
Final
Opening Weekend
$33.6M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
5.44x
Opening → Total
Budget
$70.0M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$374M
$191M international
2000 Rank
#5
Domestic

Box Office Performance

Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 15-17 1 $33.6M $33.6M 3,012 $11K 1
Dec 22-24 2 $15.9M -52.7% $64.5M 3,044 $5K 2
Dec 29-31 2 $20.8M +31.1% $110.2M 3,046 $7K 3
Jan 5-7 2 $15.6M -25.3% $137.9M 3,052 $5K 4
Jan 12-14 3 $10.3M -33.9% $152.2M 3,092 $3K 5
Jan 19-21 5 $6.9M -33.3% $162.2M 3,025 $2K 6
Jan 26-28 9 $4.4M -36.2% $168.4M 2,611 $2K 7
Feb 2-4 13 $3.3M -25.6% $172.8M 1,932 $2K 8
Feb 9-11 13 $2.1M -35.0% $175.6M 1,542 $1K 9
Feb 16-19 Presidents' Day 16 $1.5M -28.0% $177.8M 984 $2K 10
Feb 23-25 16 $904K -40.7% $178.9M 746 $1K 11
Mar 2-4 20 $523K -42.1% $179.7M 512 $1K 12
Mar 9-11 20 $373K -28.7% $180.2M 395 $944 13
Mar 16-18 23 $314K -15.9% $180.6M 322 $974 14
Mar 23-25 28 $207K -34.1% $180.9M 240 $861 15
Mar 30-Apr 1 33 $126K -39.1% $181.1M 175 $719 16
Apr 6-8 24 $313K +148.7% $181.5M 355 $882 17
Apr 13-15 27 $260K -17.1% $181.9M 332 $782 18
Apr 20-22 28 $232K -10.7% $182.2M 302 $767 19
Apr 27-29 32 $144K -37.8% $182.4M 241 $598 20
May 4-6 35 $116K -19.6% $182.6M 206 $562 21
May 11-13 44 $61K -47.3% $182.7M 144 $424 22
May 18-20 48 $43K -29.2% $182.7M 115 $376 23

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Profitability

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

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Cast & Crew

Directed byNancy Meyers
ScreenplayJosh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa
StarringMel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda, Ashley Johnson, Mark Feuerstein
StudioParamount Pictures