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Tuesday, May 21, 2013


"Political" Movies

Release DateTitleOpening WeekendDomestic Box OfficeWorldwide Box OfficeProduction Budget
12/5/1925 Bronyenosyets Potyomkin   $51,198 $51,198  
1/1/1946 Notorious   $24,464,742 $24,464,742 $2,000,000
12/31/1948 Conspirator   $0 $0  
4/30/1951 The Man in the White Suit   $3,874 $3,874  
10/24/1962 The Manchurian Candidate   $7,716,923 $7,716,923  
10/21/1983 The Dead Zone $4,556,083 $20,766,000 $20,766,000 $10,000,000
1/31/1986 Power $1,854,200 $3,800,000 $3,800,000  
5/7/1993 Dave $7,306,755 $63,270,710 $63,270,710  
5/3/1995 Panther $2,354,847 $6,834,000 $6,834,000  
11/17/1995 The American President $10,014,558 $60,022,813 $107,822,813 $62,000,000
12/25/1997 Wag the Dog $92,079 $43,057,470 $64,252,038 $15,000,000
3/20/1998 Primary Colors $12,045,395 $39,017,984 $39,017,984 $65,000,000
5/15/1998 Bulworth $141,816 $26,528,684 $29,203,383 $30,000,000
12/31/1998 Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World   $0 $0  
4/23/1999 Election $119,080 $14,943,582 $17,202,854 $8,500,000
5/19/1999 Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace $64,810,970 $474,544,677 $1,007,044,677 $115,000,000
12/10/1999 The Cider House Rules $110,098 $57,547,209 $88,547,209  
1/4/2002 Impostor $3,022,523 $6,114,237 $6,114,237 $40,000,000
2/15/2002 John Q $20,275,194 $71,026,631 $102,226,631 $36,000,000
4/4/2003 What a Girl Wants $11,434,964 $35,990,505 $35,990,505 $25,000,000
2/20/2004 Welcome to Mooseport $6,775,132 $14,469,428 $14,469,428 $26,000,000
7/30/2004 The Manchurian Candidate $20,018,620 $65,948,711 $96,148,711 $80,000,000
9/17/2004 Silver City $337,484 $1,017,376 $1,017,376  
4/21/2006 American Dreamz $3,667,420 $7,314,027 $16,510,971 $17,000,000
5/5/2006 Commune $2,055 $41,714 $41,714  
8/9/2006 Poster Boy $3,806 $62,062 $62,062  
10/13/2006 Man of the Year $12,299,380 $37,442,180 $41,342,180 $20,000,000
10/20/2006 Conventioneers   $0 $0  
2/2/2007 Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?   $0 $0  
5/4/2007 Civic Duty $54,902 $95,953 $95,953  
8/3/2007 La faute à Fidel $9,004 $168,065 $168,065  
10/26/2007 Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains $10,413 $108,807 $108,807  
11/23/2007 Everything's Cool: A Toxic Comedy About Global Warming $2,641 $4,890 $4,890  
12/21/2007 National Treasure: The Book of Secrets $44,783,772 $219,961,501 $457,325,804  
12/31/2007 King Naresuan 2   $0 $0  
12/31/2007 Den Vyborov   $0 $5,336,377  
2/22/2008 Vantage Point $22,874,936 $72,266,306 $150,792,579  
2/29/2008 Chicago 10 $42,724 $176,545 $176,545  
5/9/2008 Unsettled   $0 $0  
5/23/2008 War, Inc. $35,336 $580,862 $1,296,184 $10,000,000
8/1/2008 Swing Vote $6,230,669 $16,289,867 $17,589,867 $21,000,000
9/26/2008 Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story $10,939 $60,332 $60,332  
10/10/2008 Choose Connor $1,441 $5,788 $5,788  
4/17/2009 State of Play $14,071,280 $37,017,955 $91,445,389 $60,000,000
4/24/2009 Il Divo $13,867 $240,159 $6,420,093  
7/31/2009 The Cove $57,640 $869,730 $1,264,619  
12/31/2009 Shi Yue Wei Cheng   $0 $44,195,779 $23,000,000
2/19/2010 The Ghost Writer $183,009 $15,541,549 $63,241,549 $45,000,000
4/23/2010 Behind the Burly Q $3,958 $23,889 $23,889  
5/7/2010 Casino Jack and the United States of Money $28,234 $176,865 $176,865  
6/18/2010 8: The Mormon Proposition $42,566 $100,280 $100,280  
8/13/2010 Neshoba: The Price of Freedom $4,645 $19,245 $19,245  
8/13/2010 Peepli Live $350,054 $754,836 $8,544,969  
8/20/2010 Altiplano $1,269 $3,063 $3,063  
8/20/2010 Mao's Last Dancer $199,657 $4,806,750 $12,949,849 $18,000,000
8/20/2010 The Tillman Story $52,185 $798,940 $798,940  
9/3/2010 Machete $11,416,164 $26,593,646 $44,331,957 $12,500,000
9/10/2010 Dabangg $628,137 $1,288,549 $47,017,018  
9/15/2010 GasLand $2,641 $30,846 $49,846  
9/17/2010 The Other City $10,396 $22,539 $22,539  
9/24/2010 Waiting for Superman $139,033 $6,417,135 $6,417,135  
10/8/2010 Inside Job $39,649 $4,311,834 $8,043,783 $2,000,000
10/8/2010 Rachel   $0 $0  
10/8/2010 Budrus   $68,353 $68,353  
10/8/2010 GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Ho's Please Stand Up? $10,087 $10,229 $10,229  
10/15/2010 Legacy   $0 $0  
10/15/2010 Gerrymandering   $0 $0  
10/15/2010 I Want Your Money $249,428 $433,588 $433,588 $400,000
10/20/2010 11/4/08   $0 $0  
11/3/2010 Hors la loi   $0 $1,459,269  
11/5/2010 Four Lions $41,512 $310,007 $2,436,111  
11/5/2010 Fair*Game $651,082 $9,540,691 $21,792,905  
11/5/2010 Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer $16,962 $189,416 $189,416  
11/12/2010 Disko ja tuumasoda   $0 $0  
11/12/2010 Cool It $26,847 $62,713 $62,713  
11/19/2010 Guzaarish $488,121 $1,026,589 $9,573,725  
11/19/2010 Made in Dagenham $37,563 $1,095,369 $12,395,369 $8,000,000
12/3/2010 Bhutto $8,275 $100,202 $100,202  
12/3/2010 Night Catches Us $13,562 $76,185 $76,185  
12/17/2010 Casino Jack $34,528 $2,039,869 $2,080,869 $12,500,000
12/17/2010 Chuzhaya   $0 $1,849,944  
12/29/2010 Det rode kapel $2,459 $6,196 $6,196  
12/31/2010 The Trial of the Chicago 7   $0 $0  
12/31/2010 Dirty Tricks   $0 $0  
1/5/2011 Phil Ochs $18,211 $263,723 $263,723  
1/7/2011 No One Killed Jessica $227,473 $442,036 $4,566,803  
2/2/2011 Into Eternity $3,530 $55,366 $55,366  
2/16/2011 Zero Bridge $3,927 $10,357 $10,357  
2/18/2011 I Am $10,500 $1,591,034 $1,591,034  
2/18/2011 Immigration Tango $14,432 $24,554 $24,554  
2/18/2011 Now & Later $1,516 $1,808 $1,808  
2/18/2011 Even the Rain $53,730 $558,132 $558,132  
2/25/2011 Des Hommes et Des Dieux $308,895 $3,954,651 $46,263,525 $5,000,000
2/25/2011 Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story   $4,726 $4,726  
3/4/2011 The Adjustment Bureau $21,157,730 $62,495,645 $127,793,502 $50,200,000
3/11/2011 Elektra Luxx $5,601 $11,514 $11,514  
3/11/2011 Making the Boys $7,513 $33,833 $33,833  
3/11/2011 The Desert of Forbidden Art   $0 $0  
3/18/2011 Limitless $18,907,302 $79,249,455 $169,739,455 $27,000,000
3/18/2011 Nostalgia de la luz $10,681 $142,285 $142,285  
3/23/2011 My Perestroika $17,680 $242,706 $242,706  
3/25/2011 Miral $66,244 $377,014 $377,014  
4/1/2011 Hop $37,543,710 $108,085,305 $184,924,333 $63,000,000
4/1/2011 Game   $132,035 $132,035  
4/1/2011 An Affirmative Act   $0 $0  
4/15/2011 The Imperialists Are Still Alive! $2,832 $5,874 $5,874  
4/15/2011 Square Grouper   $0 $0  
4/15/2011 La princesse de Montpensier $23,456 $352,428 $7,392,496  
4/15/2011 The Conspirator $3,506,602 $11,538,204 $15,245,627 $25,000,000
4/15/2011 Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 $1,686,347 $4,752,353 $4,752,353  
4/22/2011 Dharti   $317,505 $317,505  
4/22/2011 POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold $118,294 $638,476 $638,476 $1,800,000
4/29/2011 Jûsan-nin no shikaku $45,854 $802,778 $17,555,141  
4/29/2011 Exporting Raymond $35,292 $87,727 $87,727  
5/6/2011 Kyatapira $2,109 $4,157 $4,157  
5/6/2011 Forks Over Knives $2,700 $27,000 $27,000  
5/6/2011 The Bang Bang Club $21,945 $124,791 $124,791  
5/6/2011 There Be Dragons $705,537 $1,069,334 $4,020,990 $36,000,000
5/13/2011 Topp Twins Untouchable Girls $2,506 $29,200 $29,200  
5/20/2011 Florent: Queen of the Meat Market $6,282 $6,282 $6,282  
5/27/2011 Jitsuroku rengo sekigun: Asama sanso e no michi $1,161 $2,659 $2,659  
5/27/2011 Die Welle   $0 $35,122,948 $7,250,000
6/2/2011 The Best and the Brightest   $0 $0  
6/3/2011 Baiyin diguo $40,052 $40,052 $40,052  
6/3/2011 X-Men: First Class $55,101,604 $146,408,305 $355,408,305 $160,000,000
6/3/2011 Les femmes du 6ème étage   $733,294 $23,295,831  
6/3/2011 Film Socialisme $4,526 $32,977 $32,977  
6/3/2011 The Last Mountain $17,570 $122,959 $122,959  
6/9/2011 Battle for Brooklyn   $17,981 $17,981  
6/17/2011 Farmageddon   $53,256 $53,256  
6/22/2011 If A Tree Falls: The Story of the Earth Liberation Front $5,634 $61,794 $61,794  
6/24/2011 Jiàn D?ng W?i Yè $65,866 $151,305 $60,248,011  
6/24/2011 Le nom des gens $30,372 $514,237 $9,261,711 $4,600,000
7/8/2011 Ironclad   $0 $2,598,765  
7/8/2011 Chillar Party $4,155 $6,330 $1,662,597  
7/15/2011 The Undefeated $65,132 $100,085 $100,085  
7/20/2011 Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten $4,988 $9,256 $9,256  
7/22/2011 Singham $161,063 $350,864 $28,581,709  
7/29/2011 The Harvest/La Cosecha $2,245 $3,709 $3,709  
7/29/2011 The Devil's Double $96,414 $1,361,512 $2,406,666 $19,100,000
8/3/2011 Freedom   $0 $0  
8/12/2011 Aarakshan $344,661 $651,096 $13,643,508  
8/19/2011 Programming the Nation?   $0 $0  
8/19/2011 Amigo $37,324 $184,705 $184,705 $1,500,000
8/26/2011 Politics of Love   $0 $0  
8/26/2011 Circumstance $43,318 $454,121 $454,121 $900,000
8/31/2011 The Debt $9,909,499 $31,177,548 $46,604,054 $20,000,000
9/2/2011 Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame $52,600 $474,754 $474,754  
9/9/2011 Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu $4,644 $32,889 $32,889  
9/9/2011 The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 $17,316 $273,749 $273,749  
9/14/2011 Granito: How to Nail a Dictator $4,330 $40,726 $40,726  
9/16/2011 Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace $3,425 $12,139 $12,139  
9/23/2011 Incendiary: The Willingham Case $7,308 $21,882 $21,882  
9/23/2011 The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby $15,411 $183,342 $183,342  
9/28/2011 You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Quantanamo   $0 $0  
9/30/2011 American Teacher $6,036 $35,148 $35,148  
9/30/2011 Sarah Palin: You Betcha! $6,911 $10,935 $10,935  
10/7/2011 The Ides of March $10,470,143 $40,962,534 $64,793,788 $23,000,000
10/7/2011 Xinhai geming $55,850 $135,739 $8,593,154 $30,000,000
10/14/2011 OKA! $4,461 $18,364 $18,364  
10/14/2011 Footloose $15,556,113 $51,802,742 $63,412,773 $24,000,000
10/14/2011 Revenge of the Electric Car   $150,886 $150,886  
10/21/2011 The Three Musketeers 3D $8,674,452 $20,377,913 $139,877,913 $90,000,000
10/21/2011 Le Havre $26,363 $611,709 $9,224,324 $5,500,000
10/28/2011 The Double $26,639 $99,612 $99,612  
10/28/2011 Urbanized   $0 $0  
10/28/2011 Anonymous $1,021,768 $4,463,292 $15,815,509 $27,500,000
11/4/2011 Stuck Between Stations   $0 $0  
11/4/2011 A Good Day to Die   $0 $0  
11/9/2011 J. Edgar $11,217,324 $37,306,030 $79,006,030  
11/11/2011 La conquête $16,273 $74,474 $5,103,083  
11/16/2011 Wana Dubie's War   $0 $0  
11/25/2011 Noruwei no mori   $31,406 $31,406  
11/30/2011 Khodorkovsky $6,110 $39,522 $39,522  
12/2/2011 Coriolanus   $749,641 $1,049,641 $10,000,000
12/30/2011 Jodaeiye Nader az Simin $59,481 $7,098,492 $13,927,324 $800,000
12/30/2011 The Iron Lady $220,409 $29,959,436 $107,258,468  
12/31/2011 Mercenaries   $0 $0  
1/13/2012 Sing Your Song $13,459 $47,718 $47,718  
1/13/2012 Lula, o Filho do Brasil   $0 $0  
1/17/2012 Thurgood   $0 $0  
1/20/2012 The Pruitt-Igoe Myth $4,721 $44,883 $44,883  
1/27/2012 An Inconsistent Truth $20,733 $52,756 $52,756  
2/3/2012 Big Miracle $7,760,205 $20,157,300 $25,565,619  
2/3/2012 Windfall $1,780 $6,504 $6,504  
2/8/2012 The Miners' Hymns   $0 $0  
2/17/2012 Putin's Kiss   $10,082 $10,082  
2/17/2012 Cirkus Columbia $1,284 $3,163 $3,163  
2/24/2012 Wanderlust $6,526,650 $17,288,155 $24,156,599 $32,500,000
3/2/2012 Rang zidan fei $11,287 $63,012 $63,012  
3/2/2012 Black Butterflies   $0 $0  
3/2/2012 Art is...The Permanent Revolution $2,718 $4,291 $4,291  
3/9/2012 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen $225,894 $9,041,540 $31,256,373  
3/9/2012 Unter Bauern   $0 $0  
3/23/2012 Brake $4,330 $4,876 $4,876  
3/28/2012 The Island President $13,998 $75,233 $75,233  
3/30/2012 The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy   $0 $0  
4/6/2012 L'assaut   $0 $0  
4/6/2012 Surviving Progress $4,161 $53,953 $53,953  
4/11/2012 The Lady   $135,985 $1,669,231  
4/11/2012 Post Mortem $2,406 $9,750 $9,750  
4/20/2012 Marley $262,004 $1,413,480 $3,010,275  
4/25/2012 Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment $6,193 $16,734 $16,734  
5/11/2012 Under African Skies   $0 $0  
5/11/2012 God Bless America $27,308 $122,550 $122,550  
5/16/2012 The Dictator $17,435,092 $59,650,222 $179,379,532 $65,000,000
5/18/2012 Virginia $6,915 $9,915 $9,915  
5/18/2012 Department   $0 $1,765,771  
5/30/2012 5 Broken Cameras $6,674 $109,983 $109,983  
6/1/2012 U.N. Me   $0 $0  
6/8/2012 Corpo celeste   $0 $0  
6/11/2012 Tahrir   $0 $0  
6/22/2012 Teri Meri Kahaani $405,926 $671,442 $10,471,728  
6/22/2012 Grassroots $6,497 $6,497 $6,497  
7/13/2012 The Obama Effect $73,000 $103,000 $103,000  
7/13/2012 Les adieux à la reine $72,123 $1,329,660 $1,329,660  
7/13/2012 2016: Obama's America $31,610 $33,349,941 $33,349,941  
7/27/2012 Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry $41,104 $489,074 $489,074  
8/3/2012 Sushi: The Global Catch $516 $5,757 $5,757  
8/3/2012 Total Recall $25,577,758 $58,877,969 $198,615,996  
8/10/2012 It is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl   $0 $0  
8/10/2012 The Campaign $26,588,460 $86,907,746 $99,792,028  
8/10/2012 The Green Wave   $0 $0  
8/17/2012 Death by China $5,701 $38,492 $38,492  
8/24/2012 Somewhere Between $7,799 $213,299 $213,299  
8/24/2012 Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi   $0 $1,401,090  
8/29/2012 The Ambassador   $0 $0  
8/31/2012 Long men fei jia $95,452 $170,276 $85,130,718  
9/7/2012 Detropia $17,414 $390,024 $390,024  
9/7/2012 Na pude $19,913 $64,918 $64,918  
9/14/2012 Last Ounce of Courage $1,585,994 $3,310,439 $3,310,439  
9/21/2012 The Waiting Room $4,950 $244,092 $244,092  
9/21/2012 How to Survive a Plague $28,250 $123,814 $123,814  
9/28/2012 Won't Back Down $2,603,370 $5,310,554 $5,431,486  
9/28/2012 Fon tok kuen fah $456 $1,373 $1,373  
9/28/2012 The Other Dream Team $19,821 $134,109 $290,757  
10/5/2012 Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare $30,953 $99,028 $99,028  
10/5/2012 The Revisionaries $2,608 $22,664 $22,664  
10/12/2012 Atlas Shrugged: Part II $1,751,572 $3,336,053 $3,336,053  
10/12/2012 The Iran Job   $0 $0  
10/12/2012 A Whisper to a Roar   $0 $0  
10/12/2012 Split: A Deeper Divide   $0 $0  
10/12/2012 Argo $19,458,109 $136,025,503 $221,300,694 $44,500,000
10/24/2012 Chakravyuh   $0 $2,827,265  
11/2/2012 Midnight's Children   $776,828 $776,828  
11/9/2012 En kongelig affære $38,212 $1,546,761 $7,861,946  
11/9/2012 Lincoln $944,308 $182,204,440 $272,997,427 $65,000,000
11/9/2012 Festival of Lights   $0 $0  
11/16/2012 Anna Karenina $320,690 $12,816,367 $69,589,485  
11/23/2012 The Central Park Five $30,570 $325,653 $325,653  
11/30/2012 Yi jiu si er   $212,475 $55,287,687  
12/14/2012 Let Fury Have the Hour $3,386 $3,386 $3,386  
12/25/2012 Les Miserables $27,281,735 $148,809,770 $440,057,317 $65,000,000
12/31/2012 The Chicago 8   $0 $0  
1/8/2013 Game Change   $0 $0  
1/11/2013 Infancia clandestina   $0 $0  
1/18/2013 Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation $5,530 $22,607 $22,607  
1/18/2013 Broken City $8,268,908 $19,701,164 $30,746,765  
3/8/2013 Emperor $1,014,099 $16,653,511 $16,653,511  
3/29/2013 Mental $9,804 $17,669 $4,385,959  
3/29/2013 Violeta se fue a los cielos $5,588 $21,496 $21,496  
5/3/2013 Après Mai $13,288 $52,913 $52,913