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Domestic Total Gross:
$749,766,139
Domestic Lifetime Gross: $754,612,474
Distributor:
Fox
Release Date:
December 18, 2009
Genre:
Sci-Fi Adventure
Runtime:
2 hrs. 40 min.
MPAA Rating:
PG-13
Production Budget:
N/A
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Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic:
$754,612,474
27.4%
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Foreign:
$1,997,900,000
72.6%
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Worldwide:
$2,752,512,474
Domestic Summary
Opening Weekend:
$77,025,481
(#1 rank, 3,452 theaters, $22,313 average)
% of Total Gross:
10.3%
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Widest Release:
3,461 theaters
Close Date:
August 12, 2010
In Release:
238 days / 34 weeks
The Players
Director:
James Cameron
Writer:
James Cameron
Actors:
Sam Worthington
Zoe Saldana
Sigourney Weaver
Michelle Rodriguez
Giovanni Ribisi
Producers:
James Cameron
Jon Landau
Composer:
James Horner
2009 Academy Awards®
Nominated for Nine Oscars, Including Three Wins.
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Genres
Genre
Rank
3D
2
CGI Star
1
Disability - Paraplegic / Quadriplegic
1
Environmentalist
1
IMAX (Feature-length)
1
Sci-Fi - Adventure
1
Franchises
Franchise
Rank
Showdown: All Time Grossers
1
Showdown: Cameron Clash
1
Charts
Chart
Rank
All Time Domestic
1
All Time Adjusted
14
All Time Worldwide
1
Top Movies in the Past 365 Days
1
Yearly 2009
1
Yearly Opening Weekends 2009
5
Yearly PG-13 Rated 2009
1
Worldwide Openings
9
Worldwide Yearly 2009
1
Foreign Opening Weekends
6
Opening Weeks
18
Opening Day Gross
39
Single Day Gross
87
Non-Opening Friday Gross
10
Non-Opening Thursday Gross
14
Non-Opening Tuesday Gross
2
Non-Opening Wednesday Gross
2
Single Day Friday Gross
36
Single Day Monday Gross
7
Single Day Saturday Gross
33
Single Day Sunday Gross
22
Single Day Thursday Gross
19
Single Day Tuesday Gross
3
Single Day Wednesday Gross
16
Non-Holiday Monday Gross
2
Theater Averages (Wide Releases) - All Time
32
Theater Averages (Wide Releases) - All Time
199
Theater Averages (Wide Releases) - All Time
34
Theater Averages (Wide Releases) - All Time
49
Theater Averages (Wide Releases) - All Time
138
Theater Averages - Wide Opening Weekends
32
New Years Days
1
Christmas Days
2
Sunday Share of Opening Weekends
122
Opening Weekends
31
Opening Weekends - December
2
Opening Weekends - Holiday
6
Eleventh Weekends
2
Ninth Weekends
2
Tenth Weekends
2
Top 10-Day Grosses
11
Top 3-Day Grosses
30
Top 4-Day Grosses
30
Top 6-Day Grosses
26
Top 7-Day Grosses
25
Top 8-Day Grosses
20
Top 9-Day Grosses
16
Twelfth Weekends
2
Twelfth Weekends
3
Top 5-Day Grosses
27
Most Weekends at #1 (non-consecutive)
12
Most Weekends in Top 10 (non-consecutive)
63
Most Weekends in Top 5 (non-consecutive)
23
Consecutive Weekends At #1
10
Consecutive Weekends In Top 10
49
Consecutive Weekends In Top 5
17
Martin Lurther King 4-Day Holiday Weekends
1
President's Day 4-Day Holiday Weekends
13
Second Weekends
1
Third Weekends
1
Fourth Weekends
1
Fifth Weekends
1
Sixth Weekends
1
Seventh Weekends
1
Eighth Weekends
2
Smallest Drops, 3,000+ theaters (Super-Saturation)
10
Smallest Drops, 2,500+ theaters (Saturation)
20
Smallest Drops, 2,000+ theaters (Very Wide)
32
Smallest Drops, All Wide Releases
203
Rated PG-13
1
Rated PG-13, Opening Weekends
20
Widest Releases
179
Widest Opening Releases
166
Widest PG-13 Rated Openings
85
Widest PG-13 Rated Releases
95
Fastest to $100 million
28
Fastest to $150 million
22
Fastest to $200 million
12
Fastest to $250 million
6
Fastest to $300 million
3
Fastest to $350 million
2
Fastest to $400 million
2
Fastest to $450 million
2
Fastest to $500 million
1
Slowest to $100 million
400
Slowest to $200 million
91
Best Picture Nomination Effect
83
BOM Users' Grades
38
BOM Users' Grades (2009 Releases)
8
Charts (Premier Pass Users Only)
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Highest All Time Rank (on February 4, 2010)
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76.4%
B
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796
11.8%
C
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210
3.1%
D
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85
1.3%
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506
7.5%
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