South Korea Box Office for The Founder (2016)

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The Founder
Theatrical Performance (US$)
South Korea Box Office $245,533Details
Worldwide Box Office $24,403,192Details
Home Market Performance
North America DVD Sales $1,583,143 Details
North America Blu-ray Sales $1,072,321 Details
Total North America Video Sales $2,655,464
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Synopsis

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

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Movie Details

Production Budget:$15,000,000
South Korea Releases: March 5th, 2017 (Wide)
Video Release: April 4th, 2017 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language.
(Rating bulletin 2420 (Cert #50383), 4/13/2016)
Running Time: 115 minutes
Keywords: Food, Restaurants, Biography, Relationships Gone Wrong, Entrepreneur, Epilogue, Biographical Drama
Source:Based on Real Life Events
Genre:Drama
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Dramatization
Production/Financing Companies: FilmNation Entertainment, The Combine, Weinstein Company, Faliro House Productions
Production Countries: United States
Languages: English

Home Market Releases for April 18th, 2017

April 18th, 2017

MST3K

We are entering the worst time of the year on the home market. There’s only a trickle of last year’s Awards Season contenders left to deal with, while it is way too early for the major spring releases to come out on DVD / Blu-ray. There are some classic titles that are on this list, like Donnie Darko: 15th Anniversary Limited Edition or Ocean Waves Blu-ray Combo Pack. However, the Pick of the Week isn’t either of these titles, but MST3K: Season 11, which you can watch on Netflix right now. More...

Weekend Wrap-Up: Split Outnumbers the Competition with $25.66 million

January 31st, 2017

Split

It was a surprisingly strong weekend at the box office, no thanks to the new releases. Split easily won with $25.66 million over the weekend, well ahead of A Dog’s Purpose, which earned second place with $18.22 million. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter got off to a fast start, but collapsed over the rest of the weekend. Finally, the less said about Gold the better. Overall, the box office was really strong with $141 million. Granted, this was 2.5% lower than last week, but it was 1.3% better than the same weekend last year. This growth is entirely due to Split’s hold plus the Oscar bounce a number of films got. Year-to-date, 2017 has earned $929 million, which is 4.7% lower than last year’s pace of $975 million. It is still too soon to make any real predictions for 2017’s long term success. That said, 2017 did cut into 2016’s lead and it is now down by $46 million or 4.7%. More...

Thursday Night Previews: Resident Moves into Theaters with $1 million in Previews - Update

January 27th, 2017

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter opened with $1 million in previews on Thursday, easily topping the competition. It was only half as much as Split managed last weekend, but if The Final Chapter earned half as much during its opening weekend, the studio would be very happy. That seems unlikely, as this is the latest installment in a franchise, so it should be more front-loaded as a result. Additionally, its reviews are much weaker than Split’s are, so the word of mouth won’t be as strong. That said, we predicted just over $17 million and we’re sticking with that for now. More...

Weekend Predictions: Will Final Come in First? Or will Dog Find a Purpose?

January 26th, 2017

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

It is not a good week at the box office. There are two films opening at saturation level theaters counts, 3,000 or more theaters, and both have a shot at first place. A Dog’s Purpose was expected to win with relative ease, but recent controversy, and weak reviews, have put that in doubt. This leaves an opening for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter to squeak out a win. However, it will be dealing with direct competition and that’s going to hurt. Finally there’s Gold, which is barely opening truly wide and is just hoping for a spot in the top ten. This weekend last year, Kung Fu Panda 3 opened with just over $40 million. This could be more than all three wide releases open with this weekend. 2017 does have better depth, but it won’t be enough to win in the year-over-year comparison. More...

Weekend Wrap-Up: Split’s $40.01 million Helps Box Office Soar

January 24th, 2017

Split

Split dominated the weekend box office earning $40.01 million, which is nearly double predictions and nearly double its nearest competition, xXx: Return of Xander Cage. The overall box office still shrunk from last weekend, but it was down just 3.2%, which is excellent for a post-holiday weekend. Compared to this weekend last year, 2017 was 27% stronger. Year-to-date, 2017 is still behind 2016, but that gap has closed to 9.4% at $736 million to $812 million. More...

Weekend Estimates: Split Stuns with $40 Million Debut

January 22nd, 2017

Split

2017 has its first surprise hit. Split is set for a weekend just north of $40 million, according to Sunday morning’s projection from Universal. That’s not just the biggest weekend of the year so far, but it almost doubles the $22.8 million earned by Hidden Figures a couple of weeks ago, and moves the studio ahead of Fox as the leading distributor for the year so far. It also marks, of course, a return to form for M. Night Shyamalan. It basically ties the debut of The Last Airbender back in 2010, and his last movie to do significantly better on opening weekend was The Village, which started out with $50.7 million in the Summer of 2004. More...

Friday Estimates: In a Surprise Twist, Split’s a Hit with $14.6 million

January 21st, 2017

Split

Split easily won on Friday, doubling its nearest competition, and earning $14.6 million. This is the best opening day for M. Night Shyamalan since The Last Airbender opened in 2010. Its reviews are 76% positive, and it earned a B+ from CinemaScore, which is good for a horror film. This puts it on pace for an opening weekend of $34 million, which is more than it cost to make and advertise. If the film can match this during the rest of its run, then it will break even on its domestic numbers alone. More...

Weekend Predictions: Will Xander’s Return Result in Box Office Dominance?

January 19th, 2017

Split

It is a deceptively busy week with five films opening or expanding wide. At least that’s what the dsitributors are saying. In reality, there are only two truly wide releases, xXx: Return of Xander Cage and Split. There is also one semi-wide release, The Resurrection of Gavin Stone, as well as two semi-wide expansions, The Founder and 20th Century Women. Return of Xander Cage and Split are the only two of the films that have a shot at the top ten and they could be in a close race for first place. This weekend last year, there were three wide releases, but none of them made significantly more than $10 million at the box office. The biggest film of the weekend, The Revenant, earned just $16.01 million. 2017 could finally win in the year-over-year comparison. More...

2017 Preview: January

January 1st, 2017

xXx: Return of Xander Cage

December box office numbers helped 2016 end on ... a note. The good news and the bad news almost exactly balance out. On the one hand, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will finish the year with more than $400 million after just 16 days of release. That’s a stunning amount of money that helped 2016 earn a record box office at the domestic market. However, Star Wars: The Force Awakens earned $650 million during December of 2015, so the month lost a lot of its lead over 2015, so much so that ticket sales fell behind last year’s total. The weakness at the end of the year will spill over into 2017, which is terrible news. A slow start could result in the dominant box office story being 2017 struggles compared to 2016. Bad news like this can sometimes become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Sadly, 2017 is also going to get off to a slow start when it comes to wide releases / expansions. There are 16 films scheduled to open or expand wide this month and none of them are expected to get to $100 million. It is likely none of them will even get very close. xXx: Return of Xander Cage is expected to be the best of a weak bunch, but I could see it getting beat by one of the five Oscar contenders opening wide this month, if it gets off to a slow start and one of the Oscar contenders starts picking up steam. Hidden Figures got off to a great start on Christmas Day and should it continue to earn Awards Season recognition, including some Oscar nominations, it could be in wide release well into February. Last January wasn’t as busy with 13 films opening or expanding wide over five weeks. Of these, two of them, The Revenant and Kung Fu Panda 3, topped $100 million domestically, while another, Ride Along 2, came close. 2017 is going to get destroyed in the year-over-year comparison. More...

Limited and VOD Releases: Which Releases will Make some Noise?

December 30th, 2016

Paterson

The last weekend of the year is also the last chance for Oscar contenders to qualify for the Oscars. Two of the three films on this week’s list are absolutely Oscar-bait. Paterson has a better shot at Awards Season glory than The Founder does, but The Founder has a wide expansion planned for January, so it will likely do better at the box office. Meanwhile, the third film, Ocean Waves, is earning the best reviews and is a must see for fans of Studio Ghibli. More...

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
2017/03/03 - $335   1 $335   $335 1
2017/04/21 8 $109,202   279 $391   $143,967 8
2017/04/28 19 $26,110 -76% 37 $706   $211,900 9
2017/05/05 - $8,263 -68% 15 $551   $239,133 10

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Argentina 3/31/2017 $0 0 0 0 $145,972 1/1/2019
Australia 11/25/2016 $654,211 270 270 940 $2,084,368 10/13/2018
Brazil 3/10/2017 $153,019 0 0 0 $393,194 6/26/2018
Czech Republic 1/27/2017 $17,960 29 36 79 $50,740 1/1/2019
France 12/30/2016 $250,030 0 0 0 $441,255 8/17/2018
Germany 4/21/2017 $0 0 0 0 $488,206 6/29/2018
Hong Kong 3/10/2017 $81,427 20 20 28 $177,505 10/27/2018
India 1/20/2017 $0 0 0 0 $217,175 10/3/2018
Italy 1/13/2017 $788,074 0 0 0 $1,990,585 10/22/2018
Japan 7/28/2017 $0 0 0 0 $807,542 7/5/2018
Mexico 3/17/2017 $190,021 0 0 0 $518,032 10/12/2018
Netherlands 1/5/2017 $87,376 64 64 212 $270,068 10/30/2018
New Zealand 11/25/2016 $62,902 81 81 242 $150,385 12/12/2016
North America 12/31/2016 $3,404,102 1,115 1,115 4,402 $12,786,053 9/14/2018
Poland 2/3/2017 $73,242 0 0 0 $217,663 1/1/2019
Portugal 3/17/2017 $15,541 28 28 62 $44,818 4/14/2017
Russia (CIS) 7/23/2020 $0 0 56 56 $14,955 8/5/2020
Slovakia 1/20/2017 $17,649 43 43 73 $49,720 2/24/2017
South Korea 3/5/2017 $335 1 279 332 $245,533 5/26/2017
Spain 3/10/2017 $151,303 154 154 324 $301,294 10/29/2018
Turkey 3/3/2017 $6,569 0 0 0 $20,071 1/1/2019
United Kingdom 2/17/2017 $287,989 181 181 181 $635,501 9/18/2018
 
Rest of World $2,352,557
 
Worldwide Total$24,403,192 8/5/2020

Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue are available through our research services. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com.

Leading Cast

Michael Keaton    Ray Kroc

Supporting Cast

Nick Offerman    Dick McDonald
John Carroll Lynch    Mac McDonald
Linda Cardellini    Joan Smith
Patrick Wilson    Rollie Smith
B.J. Novak    Harry Sonneborn
Laura Dern    Ethel Kroc
Justin Randell Brooke    Fred Turner
Kate Kneeland    June Martino
Griff Furst    Jim Zien
Wilbur Fitzgerald    Jerry Cullen
David DeVries    Jack Horford
Andrew Benator    Leonard
Cara Mantella    Myra Rosenblatt
Randall Taylor    Owner (Ed’s Drive-In)
Lacey King    CarHop Girl (Ed’s Drive-In)
Jeremy Madden    Dennis
Rebecca Ray    CarHop Girl (Joe’s Drive-In)
Adam Rosenberg    Employee (San Bernardino)
Jacinte Blankenship    Woman (San Bernandino)
Charles Green    Loan Officer #1
David Marshall Silverman    Loan Officer #2
Mike Pniewski    Harvey Peltz
Catherine Dyer    Mrs. Horford
Susan Williams    Mrs. Cullen
Franco Castan    Art Wolodarsky
Kenny Alfonso    Kroc Corporate Lawyer
Kabby Borders    Cheerleader #1
Valeri Rogers    Cheerleader #2
Nicolette Goetz    Cheerleader #2
Lauren Denham    Cheerleader #3
Abbey Ferrell    Cheerleader #4
Mathias Alvarez    Photographer
Victor McCay    Kroc Divorce Lawyer
Steve Coulter    Doctor Reeves
Ric Reitz    Will Davis (LA Times Reporter)
Joy Glover Walters    Mother (San Bernandino)
Makabe Ganey    Little Boy
Jody Thompson    Customer (Schaumburg)
Chris Greene    Grand Opening Customer
Conrad Whitaker    Limo Driver
Afemo Omilami    Mr. Merriman
Josh Henry    Waiter
Kim Banta    Bingo Caller
Devon Ogden    Gorgeous Blonde
Gerald L. Duckworth    Owner (Joe’s Drive-In)
Jen Cohn    Female Passenger

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

Production and Technical Credits

John Lee Hancock    Director
Robert D. Siegel    Screenwriter
Jeremy Renner    Producer
Don Handfield    Producer
Aaron Ryder    Producer
Glen Basner    Executive Producer
Alison Cohen    Executive Producer
Karen Lunder    Executive Producer
Bob Weinstein    Executive Producer
Harvey Weinstein    Executive Producer
David Glasser    Executive Producer
Christos V. Konstantakopoulos    Executive Producer
John Schwartzman    Director of Photography
Michael Corenblith    Production Designer
Robert Frazen    Editor
Daniel Orlandi    Costume Designer
Carter Burwell    Composer
Michael Sledd    Co-Producer
Ronna Kress    Casting Director
Parry Creedon    Unit Production Manager
Philip Hardage    First Assistant Director
Amir R. Khan    Second Assistant Director
Lauren M. Heath    Production Supervisor
Susan Benjamin    Set Decorator
DG Moody    Art Director
Yolande Thame    Set Designer
John Thigpen    Set Designer
Derek Sullivan    Costume Supervisor
Virginia Burton    Costume Supervisor
Jon Johnson    Supervising Sound Editor
Aron Siegel    Sound Mixer
Katherine Steets    Script Supervisor
Andrew Ullman    Location Manager
Kimberly Jones    Make up
Mi Young    Make up
Michael White    Hairstylist
Lawrence Davis    Hairstylist
Caius Man    Special Effects Coordinator
Jennifer Badger    Stunt Coordinator

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