The Wife (2018)

The Wife
Theatrical Performance
Domestic Box Office $9,599,982Details
International Box Office $9,131,427Details
Worldwide Box Office $18,731,409
Domestic Physical Disc Sales
DVD Sales (estimated) $1,024,822
Blu-ray Sales (estimated) $368,770
Total $1,393,592
OpusData ID: 319170100 More info...
Further financial details...

Synopsis

Joan Castleman is a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty—the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his “art” with grace and humor. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises and Joan’s reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan’s coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career.

Metrics

Opening Weekend:$108,284 (1.1% of total gross)
Legs:8.55 (domestic box office/biggest weekend)
Domestic Share:51.3% (domestic box office/worldwide)
Theater counts:4 opening theaters/541 max. theaters, 7.4 weeks average run per theater
Infl. Adj. Dom. BO $12,593,222

Movie Details

Domestic Releases: August 17th, 2018 (Limited) by Sony Pictures Classics
International Releases: July 20th, 2018 (Wide) (Australia)
August 3rd, 2018 (Wide) (New Zealand)
September 7th, 2018 (Wide) (Poland)
September 14th, 2018 (Wide) (Argentina)
September 28th, 2018 (Limited) (United Kingdom)
... Show all releases
Video Release: January 29th, 2019 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
MPA Rating: R for language and some sexual content.
(Rating bulletin 2514 (Cert #51474), 2/14/2018)
Running Time: 100 minutes
Plot point: Infidelity, Nobel Prize, Relationships Gone Wrong, Writing and Writers
Subgenre: Family Drama
Time period setting: 1950s, 1990s
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Drama
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Contemporary Fiction
Production/Financing Companies: Anonymous Content, Tempo Productions, Silver Reel Entertainment, Meta Film London, Embankment Films, Creative Scotland, Spark Film & TV, Film Vast, Chimney
Production Countries: United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Languages: English

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Aug 17, 2018 34 $108,284   4 $27,071   $108,284 1
Aug 24, 2018 27 $212,748 +96% 18 $11,819   $375,478 2
Aug 31, 2018 22 $521,700 +145% 78 $6,688   $1,011,531 3
Sep 7, 2018 20 $639,857 +23% 153 $4,182   $1,964,144 4
Sep 14, 2018 14 $1,122,185 +75% 541 $2,074   $3,430,924 5
Sep 21, 2018 16 $890,350 -21% 468 $1,902   $4,891,527 6
Sep 28, 2018 15 $714,351 -20% 437 $1,635   $6,041,025 7
Oct 5, 2018 19 $383,403 -46% 358 $1,071   $6,790,237 8
Oct 19, 2018 27 $130,333   130 $1,003   $7,474,075 10
Oct 26, 2018 37 $78,731 -40% 82 $960   $7,608,506 11
Nov 2, 2018 43 $40,441 -49% 49 $825   $7,691,644 12
Nov 9, 2018 44 $29,939 -26% 35 $855   $7,741,847 13
Nov 16, 2018 49 $13,583 -55% 25 $543   $7,768,601 14
Nov 23, 2018 51 $9,222 -32% 16 $576   $7,784,428 15
Nov 30, 2018 76 $846 -91% 6 $141   $7,788,275 16
Dec 7, 2018 23 $208,756 +24,576% 421 $496   $7,997,873 17
Dec 14, 2018 44 $21,632 -90% 67 $323   $8,152,628 18
Dec 28, 2018 63 $2,391   4 $598   $8,197,531 20
Jan 4, 2019 51 $6,510 +172% 10 $651   $8,206,930 21
Jan 11, 2019 32 $111,853 +1,618% 156 $717   $8,329,486 22
Jan 18, 2019 37 $85,282 -24% 115 $742   $8,500,493 23
Jan 25, 2019 32 $114,984 +35% 105 $1,095   $8,700,552 24
Feb 1, 2019 32 $141,367 +23% 202 $700   $8,916,782 25
Feb 8, 2019 35 $94,835 -33% 99 $958   $9,095,882 26
Feb 15, 2019 39 $89,787 -5% 77 $1,166   $9,231,353 27
Feb 22, 2019 37 $148,905 +66% 204 $730   $9,412,917 28
Mar 1, 2019 50 $35,147 -76% 78 $451   $9,522,418 29
Mar 8, 2019 60 $11,038 -69% 29 $381   $9,559,194 30
Mar 15, 2019 70 $6,831 -38% 16 $427   $9,573,526 31
Mar 22, 2019 74 $2,566 -62% 9 $285   $9,580,916 32
Mar 29, 2019 87 $914 -64% 4 $229   $9,583,085 33
Apr 5, 2019 85 $641 -30% 3 $214   $9,597,359 34
Apr 12, 2019 77 $2,350 +267% 4 $588   $9,599,982 35

Weekly Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Aug 17, 2018 33 $162,730   4 $40,683   $162,730 1
Aug 24, 2018 27 $327,101 +101% 18 $18,172   $489,831 2
Aug 31, 2018 22 $834,456 +155% 78 $10,698   $1,324,287 3
Sep 7, 2018 18 $984,452 +18% 153 $6,434   $2,308,739 4
Sep 14, 2018 13 $1,692,438 +72% 541 $3,128   $4,001,177 5
Sep 21, 2018 17 $1,325,497 -22% 468 $2,832   $5,326,674 6
Sep 28, 2018 15 $1,080,160 -19% 437 $2,472   $6,406,834 7
Oct 5, 2018 17 $619,271 -43% 358 $1,730   $7,026,105 8
Oct 12, 2018 20 $317,637 -49% 201 $1,580   $7,343,742 9
Oct 19, 2018 25 $186,033 -41% 130 $1,431   $7,529,775 10
Oct 26, 2018 34 $121,428 -35% 82 $1,481   $7,651,203 11
Nov 2, 2018 44 $60,705 -50% 49 $1,239   $7,711,908 12
Nov 9, 2018 44 $43,110 -29% 35 $1,232   $7,755,018 13
Nov 16, 2018 53 $20,188 -53% 25 $808   $7,775,206 14
Nov 23, 2018 52 $12,223 -39% 16 $764   $7,787,429 15
Nov 30, 2018 75 $1,688 -86% 6 $281   $7,789,117 16
Dec 7, 2018 24 $341,879 +20,153% 421 $812   $8,130,996 17
Dec 14, 2018 41 $57,984 -83% 67 $865   $8,188,980 18
Dec 21, 2018 61 $6,160 -89% 5 $1,232   $8,195,140 19
Dec 28, 2018 62 $5,280 -14% 4 $1,320   $8,200,420 20
Jan 4, 2019 51 $17,213 +226% 10 $1,721   $8,217,633 21
Jan 11, 2019 33 $197,578 +1,048% 156 $1,267   $8,415,211 22
Jan 18, 2019 37 $170,357 -14% 115 $1,481   $8,585,568 23
Jan 25, 2019 31 $189,847 +11% 105 $1,808   $8,775,415 24
Feb 1, 2019 34 $225,632 +19% 202 $1,117   $9,001,047 25
Feb 8, 2019 41 $140,519 -38% 99 $1,419   $9,141,566 26
Feb 15, 2019 40 $122,446 -13% 77 $1,590   $9,264,012 27
Feb 22, 2019 36 $223,259 +82% 204 $1,094   $9,487,271 28
Mar 1, 2019 49 $60,885 -73% 78 $781   $9,548,156 29
Mar 8, 2019 60 $18,539 -70% 29 $639   $9,566,695 30
Mar 15, 2019 70 $11,655 -37% 16 $728   $9,578,350 31
Mar 22, 2019 77 $3,821 -67% 9 $425   $9,582,171 32
Mar 29, 2019 62 $14,547 +281% 9 $1,616   $9,596,718 33
Apr 5, 2019 88 $914 -94% 3 $305   $9,597,632 34

Top International Territories

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens/Theaters
Maximum
Screens/Theaters
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Argentina 9/14/2018 $57,966 0 0 0 $209,823 3/23/2019
Australia 7/20/2018 $1,390 2 241 1,620 $2,065,656 3/5/2019
Brazil 1/11/2019 $176,953 59 59 116 $402,496 1/26/2019
Italy 10/4/2018 $522,637 0 12 40 $1,362,794 12/23/2018
Netherlands 11/23/2018 $93,304 35 60 606 $11,841 4/4/2026
New Zealand 8/3/2018 $87,934 48 48 48 $90,571 8/10/2018
Poland 9/7/2018 $47,740 65 66 177 $182,680 1/1/2019
Portugal 10/19/2018 $21,825 26 26 97 $139,345 2/15/2019
Russia (CIS) 11/23/2018 $52,205 128 128 287 $135,841 5/12/2019
South Korea 3/1/2019 $68,348 98 98 237 $277,465 4/4/2026
Spain 10/19/2018 $275,593 111 115 408 $971,450 11/22/2018
United Kingdom 9/28/2018 $512,511 119 130 551 $2,256,339 4/4/2026
  
Rest of World $1,025,126
  
International Total $9,131,427 4/4/2026

Note: Territories vary in whether they report screens or theaters. Full details on international box office data are available via our OpusData service.

Leading

Glenn Close    Joan Castleman
Jonathan Pryce    Professor Joe Castleman

Supporting

Christian Slater    Nathaniel Bone
Max Irons    David Castleman
Harry Lloyd    Young Joe Castleman
Annie Starke    Young Joan Castleman
Elizabeth McGovern    Elaine Mozel
Alix Wilton Regan    Susannah Castleman

Production and Technical Credits

Bjorne Runge    Director
Rosalie Swedlin    Producer
Meta Louise Foldager    Producer
Piers Tempest    Producer
Jo Bamford    Producer
Claudia Bluemhuber    Producer
Piodor Gustafsson*    Co-Producer
Meg Wolitzer    Story based on the book by
Jane Anderson    Screenwriter
Tim Haslam    Executive Producer
Hugo Grumbar    Executive Producer
Gero Bauknecht    Executive Producer
Nina Bisgaard    Executive Producer
Mark Cooper    Executive Producer
Florian Dargel    Executive Producer
Tomas Eskilsson    Executive Producer
Jon Mankell    Executive Producer
Bjorne Runge    Executive Producer
Gerd Schelpers    Executive Producer
Ulf Brantas    Director of Photography
Lena Runge    Editor
Jocelyn Pook    Composer
Mark Leese    Production Designer
Trisha Biggar    Costume Designer
Susanne Scheel    Casting Director
Elaine Grainger    Casting Director

Cast and crew with above-the-line roles are marked in bold. The line marks the division between above-the-line and below-the-line roles.

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.


Synopsis

Joan Castleman is a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty—the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his “art” with grace and humor. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises and Joan’s reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan’s coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career.

Metrics

Opening Weekend:$108,284 (1.1% of total gross)
Legs:8.55 (domestic box office/biggest weekend)
Domestic Share:51.3% (domestic box office/worldwide)
Theater counts:4 opening theaters/541 max. theaters, 7.4 weeks average run per theater
Infl. Adj. Dom. BO $12,593,222

Movie Details

Domestic Releases: August 17th, 2018 (Limited) by Sony Pictures Classics
International Releases: July 20th, 2018 (Wide) (Australia)
August 3rd, 2018 (Wide) (New Zealand)
September 7th, 2018 (Wide) (Poland)
September 14th, 2018 (Wide) (Argentina)
September 28th, 2018 (Limited) (United Kingdom)
... Show all releases
Video Release: January 29th, 2019 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
MPA Rating: R for language and some sexual content.
(Rating bulletin 2514 (Cert #51474), 2/14/2018)
Running Time: 100 minutes
Plot point: Infidelity, Nobel Prize, Relationships Gone Wrong, Writing and Writers
Subgenre: Family Drama
Time period setting: 1950s, 1990s
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Drama
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Contemporary Fiction
Production/Financing Companies: Anonymous Content, Tempo Productions, Silver Reel Entertainment, Meta Film London, Embankment Films, Creative Scotland, Spark Film & TV, Film Vast, Chimney
Production Countries: United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Languages: English

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Aug 17, 2018 34 $108,284   4 $27,071   $108,284 1
Aug 24, 2018 27 $212,748 +96% 18 $11,819   $375,478 2
Aug 31, 2018 22 $521,700 +145% 78 $6,688   $1,011,531 3
Sep 7, 2018 20 $639,857 +23% 153 $4,182   $1,964,144 4
Sep 14, 2018 14 $1,122,185 +75% 541 $2,074   $3,430,924 5
Sep 21, 2018 16 $890,350 -21% 468 $1,902   $4,891,527 6
Sep 28, 2018 15 $714,351 -20% 437 $1,635   $6,041,025 7
Oct 5, 2018 19 $383,403 -46% 358 $1,071   $6,790,237 8
Oct 19, 2018 27 $130,333   130 $1,003   $7,474,075 10
Oct 26, 2018 37 $78,731 -40% 82 $960   $7,608,506 11
Nov 2, 2018 43 $40,441 -49% 49 $825   $7,691,644 12
Nov 9, 2018 44 $29,939 -26% 35 $855   $7,741,847 13
Nov 16, 2018 49 $13,583 -55% 25 $543   $7,768,601 14
Nov 23, 2018 51 $9,222 -32% 16 $576   $7,784,428 15
Nov 30, 2018 76 $846 -91% 6 $141   $7,788,275 16
Dec 7, 2018 23 $208,756 +24,576% 421 $496   $7,997,873 17
Dec 14, 2018 44 $21,632 -90% 67 $323   $8,152,628 18
Dec 28, 2018 63 $2,391   4 $598   $8,197,531 20
Jan 4, 2019 51 $6,510 +172% 10 $651   $8,206,930 21
Jan 11, 2019 32 $111,853 +1,618% 156 $717   $8,329,486 22
Jan 18, 2019 37 $85,282 -24% 115 $742   $8,500,493 23
Jan 25, 2019 32 $114,984 +35% 105 $1,095   $8,700,552 24
Feb 1, 2019 32 $141,367 +23% 202 $700   $8,916,782 25
Feb 8, 2019 35 $94,835 -33% 99 $958   $9,095,882 26
Feb 15, 2019 39 $89,787 -5% 77 $1,166   $9,231,353 27
Feb 22, 2019 37 $148,905 +66% 204 $730   $9,412,917 28
Mar 1, 2019 50 $35,147 -76% 78 $451   $9,522,418 29
Mar 8, 2019 60 $11,038 -69% 29 $381   $9,559,194 30
Mar 15, 2019 70 $6,831 -38% 16 $427   $9,573,526 31
Mar 22, 2019 74 $2,566 -62% 9 $285   $9,580,916 32
Mar 29, 2019 87 $914 -64% 4 $229   $9,583,085 33
Apr 5, 2019 85 $641 -30% 3 $214   $9,597,359 34
Apr 12, 2019 77 $2,350 +267% 4 $588   $9,599,982 35

Weekly Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Aug 17, 2018 33 $162,730   4 $40,683   $162,730 1
Aug 24, 2018 27 $327,101 +101% 18 $18,172   $489,831 2
Aug 31, 2018 22 $834,456 +155% 78 $10,698   $1,324,287 3
Sep 7, 2018 18 $984,452 +18% 153 $6,434   $2,308,739 4
Sep 14, 2018 13 $1,692,438 +72% 541 $3,128   $4,001,177 5
Sep 21, 2018 17 $1,325,497 -22% 468 $2,832   $5,326,674 6
Sep 28, 2018 15 $1,080,160 -19% 437 $2,472   $6,406,834 7
Oct 5, 2018 17 $619,271 -43% 358 $1,730   $7,026,105 8
Oct 12, 2018 20 $317,637 -49% 201 $1,580   $7,343,742 9
Oct 19, 2018 25 $186,033 -41% 130 $1,431   $7,529,775 10
Oct 26, 2018 34 $121,428 -35% 82 $1,481   $7,651,203 11
Nov 2, 2018 44 $60,705 -50% 49 $1,239   $7,711,908 12
Nov 9, 2018 44 $43,110 -29% 35 $1,232   $7,755,018 13
Nov 16, 2018 53 $20,188 -53% 25 $808   $7,775,206 14
Nov 23, 2018 52 $12,223 -39% 16 $764   $7,787,429 15
Nov 30, 2018 75 $1,688 -86% 6 $281   $7,789,117 16
Dec 7, 2018 24 $341,879 +20,153% 421 $812   $8,130,996 17
Dec 14, 2018 41 $57,984 -83% 67 $865   $8,188,980 18
Dec 21, 2018 61 $6,160 -89% 5 $1,232   $8,195,140 19
Dec 28, 2018 62 $5,280 -14% 4 $1,320   $8,200,420 20
Jan 4, 2019 51 $17,213 +226% 10 $1,721   $8,217,633 21
Jan 11, 2019 33 $197,578 +1,048% 156 $1,267   $8,415,211 22
Jan 18, 2019 37 $170,357 -14% 115 $1,481   $8,585,568 23
Jan 25, 2019 31 $189,847 +11% 105 $1,808   $8,775,415 24
Feb 1, 2019 34 $225,632 +19% 202 $1,117   $9,001,047 25
Feb 8, 2019 41 $140,519 -38% 99 $1,419   $9,141,566 26
Feb 15, 2019 40 $122,446 -13% 77 $1,590   $9,264,012 27
Feb 22, 2019 36 $223,259 +82% 204 $1,094   $9,487,271 28
Mar 1, 2019 49 $60,885 -73% 78 $781   $9,548,156 29
Mar 8, 2019 60 $18,539 -70% 29 $639   $9,566,695 30
Mar 15, 2019 70 $11,655 -37% 16 $728   $9,578,350 31
Mar 22, 2019 77 $3,821 -67% 9 $425   $9,582,171 32
Mar 29, 2019 62 $14,547 +281% 9 $1,616   $9,596,718 33
Apr 5, 2019 88 $914 -94% 3 $305   $9,597,632 34

Top International Territories

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens/Theaters
Maximum
Screens/Theaters
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Argentina 9/14/2018 $57,966 0 0 0 $209,823 3/23/2019
Australia 7/20/2018 $1,390 2 241 1,620 $2,065,656 3/5/2019
Brazil 1/11/2019 $176,953 59 59 116 $402,496 1/26/2019
Italy 10/4/2018 $522,637 0 12 40 $1,362,794 12/23/2018
Netherlands 11/23/2018 $93,304 35 60 606 $11,841 4/4/2026
New Zealand 8/3/2018 $87,934 48 48 48 $90,571 8/10/2018
Poland 9/7/2018 $47,740 65 66 177 $182,680 1/1/2019
Portugal 10/19/2018 $21,825 26 26 97 $139,345 2/15/2019
Russia (CIS) 11/23/2018 $52,205 128 128 287 $135,841 5/12/2019
South Korea 3/1/2019 $68,348 98 98 237 $277,465 4/4/2026
Spain 10/19/2018 $275,593 111 115 408 $971,450 11/22/2018
United Kingdom 9/28/2018 $512,511 119 130 551 $2,256,339 4/4/2026
  
Rest of World $1,025,126
  
International Total $9,131,427 4/4/2026

Note: Territories vary in whether they report screens or theaters. Full details on international box office data are available via our OpusData service.

Leading

Glenn Close    Joan Castleman
Jonathan Pryce    Professor Joe Castleman

Supporting

Christian Slater    Nathaniel Bone
Max Irons    David Castleman
Harry Lloyd    Young Joe Castleman
Annie Starke    Young Joan Castleman
Elizabeth McGovern    Elaine Mozel
Alix Wilton Regan    Susannah Castleman

Production and Technical Credits

Bjorne Runge    Director
Rosalie Swedlin    Producer
Meta Louise Foldager    Producer
Piers Tempest    Producer
Jo Bamford    Producer
Claudia Bluemhuber    Producer
Piodor Gustafsson*    Co-Producer
Meg Wolitzer    Story based on the book by
Jane Anderson    Screenwriter
Tim Haslam    Executive Producer
Hugo Grumbar    Executive Producer
Gero Bauknecht    Executive Producer
Nina Bisgaard    Executive Producer
Mark Cooper    Executive Producer
Florian Dargel    Executive Producer
Tomas Eskilsson    Executive Producer
Jon Mankell    Executive Producer
Bjorne Runge    Executive Producer
Gerd Schelpers    Executive Producer
Ulf Brantas    Director of Photography
Lena Runge    Editor
Jocelyn Pook    Composer
Mark Leese    Production Designer
Trisha Biggar    Costume Designer
Susanne Scheel    Casting Director
Elaine Grainger    Casting Director

Cast and crew with above-the-line roles are marked in bold. The line marks the division between above-the-line and below-the-line roles.

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.