New Zealand Box Office for Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)

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Theatrical Performance (US$)
New Zealand Box Office $2,766Details
Worldwide Box Office $176,469,428Details
Further financial details...

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  2. News
  3. Box Office
  4. Worldwide
  5. Full Financials
  6. Cast & Crew
  7. Trailer

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Movie Details

Production Budget:$55,000,000
New Zealand Releases: October 16th, 2003 (Wide)
Video Release: April 13th, 2004 by Miramax Video
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence, language and some sexual content
Running Time: 110 minutes
Franchise: Kill Bill
Keywords: Hitmen, Non-Chronological, Revenge, Wedding Day Disasters, Pregnant Women, Surprise Twist, Cliffhanger Ending, Action Thriller, Out of Retirement, Young Child Dealing with the Death of a Parent
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Action
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Contemporary Fiction
Production/Financing Companies: A Band Apart
Production Countries: Japan, United States
Languages: English, French, Japanese

DVD Releases for September 9, 2008 - Part I

September 8th, 2008

TV on DVD is at its peak for the year, just in time for the new season to start. However, because last season was cut short by the writers' strike, and so many studios are not taking that into account in the pricing, there are fewer releases at are contenders for DVD Pick of the Week. But we do have a worthy recipient of the award: Fist of Legend - Buy from Amazon, the latest release from Dragon Dynasty. Also, while the week was slow on top, it was busy overall, so much so that we had to split the week's list into two parts again. Part II can be found here. More...

$100 Million Opening for Van Helsing

May 11th, 2004

In addition to the $51.7 million Van Helsing earned at the domestic box office, the monster movie made $55.3 million on 5,254 screens in 41 markets internationally. Not only was that easily the largest box office this weekend, but it was the best we've seen this year. Some highlights were the $9.9 million in the U.K. and $7 million in Germany. And while a $107 million opening weekend seems spectacular, this is a very expensive film to get to theatres. Combine the production budget, domestic P&A budgets, translations / dubbing / subtitles, etc. and the final cost is nearing $250 million. A strong home market will be needed before Universal sees a profit. More...

Kill Bill Collapses

May 4th, 2004

After a huge start in the international market, there was a series a steep drops for Kill Bill: Volume 2 that all but guarantees it won't earn as much as the original. Drops like 51% in Germany, 46% in Italy helped push the weekend total down to just $10 million in 27 markets. More...

Kill Bill Volume 2 Beats Competition, Volume 1

April 27th, 2004

Kill Bill: Volume 2's first foray into the foreign markets proved very profitable. The film earned $18.5 million in 21 markets and increases compared to the debut of the original in all but one market. Many of those increases were in the double-digit range so it's an impressive start. Unfortunately, one of the largest markets for the first film, Japan, saw a huge 47% drop for Volume 2. This can easily be explained by the fact that half of Volume 1 took place in Japan. More...

Fire on Top as Two Films have $20 million Openings

April 26th, 2004

This was a weird weekend. We had a record-breaking event when two movies opened with $20 million and that's the first time that's ever happened in April. However, the total box office was still down more than 5% from last weekend. It was up 6% from the same time last year, sort of. It's getting really confusion doing the yearly comparisons because last year April had four weekends, while this year it has five. More...

Is any Movie Going to set the Box Office on Fire?

April 23rd, 2004

Just the two wide releases this week targeting two entirely different audiences. So we could have two break out hits this week. Then again, probably not. April started out ok, but it has really started to suffer and it doesn't look better next weekend. Summer can't start too soon. More...

Killing the Competition

April 19th, 2004

With just two movies opening wide this should have been a good week, and while the wide releases did ok, the holdovers really suffered. In the end the weekend was down 10.6% from last weekend, and even more telling was its 3.5% drop from last year. Granted, it was Easter this time last year, but it's not that important of a holiday to make a large enough difference. More...

DVD Releases for April 13, 2004

April 12th, 2004

Every week films get a second chance at success from the home market; or, in some cases, a first chance at success. Here is a list of wide releases, limited releases and a few from the growing TV on DVD section. There was a bumper crop of smaller releases this week with half a dozen of them on the list and it is one of those, Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed, that is my DVD pick of the week. More...

2004 Golden Globe Awards are being Handed out Tonight

January 25th, 2004

With the awards ceremony only hours away, here's one last look at the theatrical nominations for tonight's 61st annual Golden Globes awards. More...

Audiences Love Finding Neo

November 25th, 2003


Neo Wins Race but Nemo's Journey is Only Beginning

November 18th, 2003


Global Revolution

November 12th, 2003


Cruelty: Part 2

November 4th, 2003


Cruelty was not only Tolerated it was Welcome

October 28th, 2003


Scary Time Picking a Winner

October 24th, 2003


Bad Boys, Bad Boys

October 21st, 2003


Absolute Killing At the Box Office

October 20th, 2003


Who Will Cut Down the Competition?

October 17th, 2003


Number One for Volume 1

October 13th, 2003


Will Kill Bill Thrill?

October 13th, 2003


Weekend Predictions - Abridged Version

October 10th, 2003


Movie Websites Launches for October 2 - October 9

October 9th, 2003


Movie Websites Launches for September 25 - October 1

October 2nd, 2003


Movie Websites Launches for September 18 - September 24

September 24th, 2003


Movie Websites Launches for August 28 - September 3

September 3rd, 2003


Kill Bill trailer hits the net

January 5th, 2003


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
2020/12/18 - $219   1 $219   $219 897
2021/02/05 - $2,188   2 $1,094   $2,188 904
2021/02/12 - $219 -90% 1 $219   $2,417 905
2021/02/19 - $55 -75% 2 $28   $2,501 906
2021/02/26 - $263 +378% 1 $263   $2,742 907
2021/03/12 - $65   1 $65   $65 909
2021/03/19 - $21 -68% 1 $21   $86 910
2021/08/06 - $649   1 $649   $649 930
2021/08/13 - $564 -13% 1 $564   $564 931

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Australia 10/16/2003 $1,568,709 272 272 309 $2,251,608 4/24/2023
New Zealand 10/16/2003 $0 0 2 11 $2,766 8/17/2021
North America 10/10/2003 $22,089,322 3,102 3,102 15,421 $70,098,138 12/3/2014
South Korea 11/21/2003 $0 0 15 15 $228,296 11/14/2019
 
Rest of World $103,888,620
 
Worldwide Total$176,469,428 4/24/2023

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

Uma Thurman    The Bride (a.k.a. Black Mamba)

Supporting Cast

Lucy Liu*    O-Ren Ishi (a.k.a. Cottonmouth)
Vivica Fox    Vernita Green (a.k.a. Cobra)
Michael Madsen    Budd (a.k.a. Sidewinder)
Daryl Hannah    Elle Driver (a.k.a. California Mountain Snake)
David Carradine    Bill
Michael Bowen    Buck
Jun Kunimura    Boss Tanaka
Kenji Oba    Bald Guy, Sushi Shop
Yuki Kazamatsuri    Proprietor
James Parks    Edgar McGraw
Akaji Maro    Boss Ozawah
Kazuki Kitamura    Crazy 88 #2
Goro Daimon    Boss Honda
Shun Sugata    Boss Benta
Sachiko Fujii    The 5,6,7,8's
Yoshiko Yamaguchi    The 5,6,7,8's
Ronnie Yoshiko Fujiyama    The 5,6,7,8's
Sakichi Sato    Charlie Brown
Jonathan Loughran    Trucker
Yoshiyuki Morishita    Tokyo Business Man
Tetsuro Shimaguchi    Crazy 88 #1 Miki
Yoji Boba Tanaka    Crazy 88 #3
Issei Takahashi    Crazy 88 #4
So Yamanaka    Crazy 88 #5
Juri Manase    Crazy 88 #6, Girl
Zhang Jin Zhan    Boss Orgami
Hu Xiaohui    Young 88, Spanked Boy
Ambrosia Kelly    Nikki Bell
Shu Lan Tuan    Okinawa Airline Ticket Agent
Ai Maeda    Animated O-Ren
Naomi Kusumi    Boss Matsumato
Hikaru Midorikawa    Voice of Pretty Riki

Cameos

Sonny Chiba    Hattori Hanzo
Julie Dreyfus    Sofie Fatale
Chiaki Kuriyama    Gogo Yubari
Gordon Liu    Johnny Mo
Michael Parks    Earl McGraw

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

Production and Technical Credits

Quentin Tarantino    Director
Quentin Tarantino    Screenwriter
Lawrence Bender    Producer
Q & U    Based on the Character of "The Bride" By
Bob Weinstein    Executive Producer
Harvey Weinstein    Executive Producer
Erica Steinberg    Executive Producer
E. Bennett Walsh    Executive Producer
Yohei Taneda    Production Designer
David Wasco    Production Designer
Robert Richardson    Director of Photography
Sally Menke    Editor
The RZA    Composer
Yuen Woo Ping    Fight Choreographer-Martial Arts Advisor
Dede Nickerson    Associate Producer
Koko Maeda    Associate Producer
William Paul Clark    Assistant Director
Cornelia Ryan    Unit Production Manager
Daniel Bradford    Art Director
Hidefumi Hanatani    Art Director
Sandy Reynolds-Wasco    Set Decorator
Yoshihito Akatsuka    Set Decorator
Catherine Thomas    Costume Designer
Kumiko Ogawa    Costume Designer
Helen Monaghan    Costume Supervisor
Joe D'Augustine    Additional Editor
Mark Ulano    Sound Mixer
Michael Minkler    Re-recording Mixer
Myron Nettinga    Re-recording Mixer
Wylie Stateman    Supervising Sound Editor
Scott Martin Gershin    Supervising Sound Editor
Dino DiMuro    Sound Effects Editor
Scott Sanders    Sound Effects Editor
Dan Hegeman    Sound Effects Editor
Peter Zinda    Sound Effects Editor
Jon Title    Sound Effects Editor
Harry Cohen    Sound Designer
Kerry Ann Carmean-Williams    Sound Designer
Peter Sullivan    Sound Designer
Michael Hertlein    Dialogue Editor
Frederick H. Stahly    Dialogue Editor
Katrina Siegmund    Dialogue Editor
Jay B. Richardson    Music Editor
Heba Thorisdottir    Make up
Emanuel Millar    Hairstylist
Gregory Nicotero    Special Make-up Effects
Howard Berger    Special Make-up Effects
Mary Ramos    Music Supervisor
Michelle Kuznetsky*    Music Supervisor
Johanna Ray    Casting Director
Koko Maeda    Casting Director
Keith Adams    Stunt Coordinator

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