Belgium Box Office for Wadjda (2012)

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Theatrical Performance (US$)
Belgium Box Office $249,021Details
Worldwide Box Office $14,505,102Details
Home Market Performance
North America Blu-ray Sales $721,238 Details
Total North America Video Sales $721,238
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Synopsis

Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun-loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn’t be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda’s mother won’t allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself. At first, Wadjda’s mother is too preoccupied with convincing her husband not to take a second wife to realize what’s going on. And soon enough Wadjda’s plans are thwarted when she is caught running various schemes at school. Just as she is losing hope of raising enough money, she hears of a cash prize for a Koran recitation competition at her school. She devotes herself to the memorization and recitation of Koranic verses, and her teachers begin to see Wadjda as a model pious girl. The competition isn’t going to be easy, especially for a troublemaker like Wadjda, but she refuses to give in. She is determined to continue fighting for her dreams...

Metrics

Movie Details

Belgium Releases: February 6th, 2013 (Wide)
Video Release: February 11th, 2014 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating: PG for thematic elements, brief mild language and smoking.
(Rating bulletin 2259, 2/13/2013)
Running Time: 98 minutes
Keywords: Coming of Age, Religious, Orthodox Religion, Bigotry, Sexism, Muslims, Underdog, Bigamy or Polygamy
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Drama
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Contemporary Fiction
Production/Financing Companies: The Match Factory
Production Countries: Saudi Arabia
Languages: Arabic

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DVD and Blu-ray Releases for February 11th, 2014

February 11th, 2014

It's a strange week on the home market. If you look at the top ten selling new releases on Amazon.com, there are a couple of first run releases, a catalog title, TV on DVD release, and some limited releases. That's basically every category there is. The biggest release is Ender's Game, a film that failed to find an audience in theaters. It barely earned overall positive reviews and it isn't a contender for Pick of the Week. Some of the other best-selling releases are contenders, like The Jungle Book: Blu-ray Diamond Edition or Sherlock: Season Three on DVD or Blu-ray. There are also a few of the smaller releases that were in consideration, including Doctor Who: Story 33: The Moonbase and G.B.F. on DVD. But in the end, I went with Wadjda on Blu-ray Combo Pack for Pick of the Week. One last note, Dry Spell is coming out on Video on Demand. It's a good chance to support ultra-low-budget filmmaking and the reviews I've read have been positive. More...

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November 28th, 2013

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September 18th, 2013

It was a busy week in terms of limited releases, not only with number of new releases, but the success of most of these releases. Mother of George was the top film with $22,456 in one theater. Final: The Rapture earned an average of $15,942 in two theaters, which is an impressive opening for a film with no reviews. It will be interesting to see where it goes from here. Wadjda opened in three theaters, earning an average of $13,751. This film has some Oscar buzz going for it, so it might last in theaters longer than most similar releases. Blue Caprice also has some Oscar buzz and its opening of $13,400 in one theater might help it thrive as well. The overall box office leader, Insidious Chapter 2, opened in fifth place on the per theater chart with an average of $13,208. GMO OMG earned $13,000 in its lone theater, but its reviews are only mixed, so it likely won't last long. Salinger fell 48% to $11,252, while still playing in four theaters. It is likely it won't be able to expand significantly given this decline. More...

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September 15th, 2013

Going into the weekend, Insidious Chapter 2 was widely expected to enjoy a comfortable win at the box office, but almost no-one thought it would open with over $40 million. It will do just that though, with FilmDistrict projecting a $41.05 million debut -- comfortably a record for the studio, ahead of the $30.3 million opening enjoyed by Olympus Has Fallen in another off-season spot (March 22). It'll also be the second-biggest September weekend at the box office, just behind Hotel Transylvania's $42.5 million last year. More...

A Sampling of Limited Releases

September 13th, 2013

The list of new limited releases is shorter than it was last week, but there are more films earning Award-worthy reviews this week than there were last week. Wadjda, Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, Sample This, and Blue Caprice are all either above 90%, or very close to it. Of those four, Blue Caprice has the best shot at breakout success, but I hope they all thrive in limited release. 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
2013/02/08 12 $43,449   13 $3,342   $43,449 1
2013/02/15 14 $44,951 +3% 13 $3,458   $105,220 2
2013/02/22 12 $32,585 -28% 14 $2,328   $145,499 3
2013/03/01 17 $25,192 -23% 13 $1,938   $171,578 4
2013/03/08 17 $25,608 +2% 16 $1,601   $201,640 5
2013/03/15 17 $15,211 -41% 13 $1,170   $219,503 6
2013/03/22 18 $10,522 -31% 15 $701   $232,827 7
2013/03/29 20 $5,437 -48% 8 $680   $241,678 8
2013/04/05 24 $2,229 -59% 8 $279   $243,839 9
2013/04/12 23 $1,443 -35% 7 $206   $247,463 10
2013/04/19 29 $603 -58% 4 $151   $248,425 11
2013/04/26 29 $299 -50% 2 $150   $249,021 12

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Argentina 5/22/2014 $0 0 3 7 $79,037 12/30/2018
Belgium 2/6/2013 $43,449 13 16 126 $249,021 12/14/2015
Colombia 12/13/2013 $12,443 12 12 19 $53,066 12/30/2018
Germany 9/5/2013 $0 0 62 118 $1,796,943 10/20/2015
Italy 12/6/2012 $56,358 18 46 127 $9,442,952 12/13/2015
North America 9/13/2013 $41,253 3 87 376 $1,342,455 11/25/2015
Spain 6/28/2013 $0 0 3 7 $504,825 12/13/2015
Switzerland 4/3/2013 $0 0 12 19 $158,757 12/14/2015
United Arab Emirates 11/28/2013 $15,358 19 19 19 $21,962 12/30/2018
 
Rest of World $856,084
 
Worldwide Total$14,505,102 12/30/2018

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Leading Cast

Waad Mohammed    Wadjda

Supporting Cast

Reem Abdullah    Mother
Abdullrahman Al Gohani    Abdullah
Ahd Ahd    Hussa
Sultan Al Assaf    Father

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

Production and Technical Credits

Haifaa Al-Mansour    Director
Haifaa Al-Mansour    Screenwriter
Roman Paul    Producer
Gerhard Meixner    Producer
Andreas Wodraschke    Editor
Lutz Reitemeier    Cinematographer
Thomas Molt    Production Designer
Max Richter    Composer