United Kingdom Box Office for Grease (1978)

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Theatrical Performance (US$)
United Kingdom Box Office $811,925Details
Worldwide Box Office $387,472,317Details
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Movie Details

Production Budget:$6,000,000
United Kingdom Releases: September 14th, 1978 (Wide)
Video Release: September 24th, 2002 by Paramount Home Video
MPAA Rating: PG
Running Time: 110 minutes
Franchise: Grease
Keywords: 1950s, Gangs, High School, Cross-Culture Romance, Romantic Musical
Source:Based on Musical or Opera
Genre:Musical
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Historical Fiction
Production Countries: United States
Languages: English

Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeScreensPer ScreenTotal GrossWeek
2020/07/03 - $14,869   2 $7,435   $640,885 2,182
2020/07/10 - $18,241 +23% 18 $1,013   $671,107 2,183
2020/11/20 - $1,561   2 $781   $783,821 2,202
2020/11/27 - $835 -47% 3 $278   $811,925 2,203

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Australia 8/17/2018 $147,378 206 206 282 $338,868 10/20/2022
Mexico 8/24/2018 $305,559 0 0 0 $306,090 9/1/2018
New Zealand 8/16/2018 $0 0 2 12 $3,299 1/9/2023
North America 3/27/1998 $8,941,717 862 2,931 13,163 $181,813,770
Slovakia 6/16/1978 $0 0 1 1 $4,725 7/27/2021
Spain 6/15/2018 $0 0 1 2 $48,689 5/26/2022
United Kingdom 9/14/1978 $0 0 18 25 $811,925 12/2/2020
 
Rest of World $204,144,951
 
Worldwide Total$387,472,317 1/9/2023

Leading Cast

John Travolta    Danny Zuko
Olivia Newton-John    Sandy Olsen

Supporting Cast

Stockard Channing    Betty Rizzo
Jeff Conaway    Kenickie
Barry Pearl    Doody
Wendie Jo Sperber    Dancer
Michael Tucci    Sonny
Kelly Ward    Putzie
Dinah Manoff    Marty Maraschino
Sid Caesar    Coach Calhoun
Lorenzo Lamas    Tom Chisum
Andy Tennant    Dancer
Michael Biehn    Mike, school athlete (uncredited)

For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.

Production and Technical Credits

Randal Kleiser    Director
Marty Eli Schwartz    Location Manager

The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits.