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The Polar Express

Domestic Total Gross: $162,775,358
Domestic Lifetime Gross: $181,320,482
Distributor: Warner Bros.Release Date: November 10, 2004
Genre: AnimationRuntime: 1 hrs. 40 min.
MPAA Rating: GProduction Budget: $165 million
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Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic:  $181,320,482    59.4%
+ Foreign:  $124,140,582    40.6%
= Worldwide:  $305,461,064  
Domestic Summary
Opening Weekend: $23,323,463
(#2 rank, 3,650 theaters, $6,389 average)
% of Total Gross: 14.3%
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Widest Release:  3,650 theaters
Close Date:  March 10, 2005
In Release:  121 days / 17.3 weeks
The Players
Director:Robert Zemeckis
Actor:Tom Hanks (Voice)
Producer:Tom Hanks (executive)
Cinematographer:Don Burgess
Composer:Alan Silvestri
2004 Academy Awards®
Nominated for Three Oscars.
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Genres
Genre Rank
Animation 22
Animation - Computer 19
Christmas 2
Family - Children's Book Adaptation 13
Franchises
Franchise Rank
Showdown: Family Christmas Clash 3
Charts
Chart Rank
All Time Domestic 125
All Time Worldwide 212
Yearly 2004 10
Yearly G Rated 2004 1
Yearly Opening Weekends 2004 33
Worldwide Yearly 2004 15
Non-Friday Opening Weekends 64
Opening Weeks 474
Worst Openings - Super Saturated 171
Thanksgiving 3-day Weekends 40
Thanksgiving 5-day Weekends 37
Post-Thanksgiving Weekend - Best Holds 62
Movies That Never Hit #1 12
Opening Weekends Not At #1 60
Saturday Share of Opening Weekends 153
Opening Weekends 393
Opening Weekends - November 57
Opening Weekends - Holiday 90
Ninth Weekends 163
Third Weekends 64
Fourth Weekends 118
Fifth Weekends 65
Sixth Weekends 39
Seventh Weekends 49
Eighth Weekends 34
Smallest Drops, 3,000+ theaters (Super-Saturation) 79
Smallest Drops, 2,500+ theaters (Saturation) 196
Smallest Drops, 2,000+ theaters (Very Wide) 330
Smallest Drops, All Wide Releases 1,119
Rated G 12
Rated G and PG 48
Rated G, Opening Weekends 23
Rated G and PG, Opening Weekends 102
Widest Releases 89
Widest Opening Releases 79
Widest G Rated Openings 6
Widest G Rated Releases 8
Slowest to $100 million 167
BOM Users' Grades 249
BOM Users' Grades (2004 Releases) 34
Charts (Premier Pass Users Only)Rank
Highest All Time Rank (on January 22, 2006) 98
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Grade Breakdown
As: 530 39.7%
Bs: 528 39.6%
Cs: 161 12.1%
Ds: 52 3.9%
Fs: 64 4.8%
MERCHANDISE LINKS
• DVD: The Polar Express (HD-DVD), The Polar Express (Blu-ray)
• Blu-ray: The Polar Express Presented in 3-D, Essential Holiday Collection (Polar Express, Christmas Vacation, Elf, Christmas Story)
• DVD: The Polar Express
• Special Edition Soundtrack
• Soundtrack
• Books: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg, The Art of The Polar Express, Guide for Using The Polar Express in the Classroom, The Journey Begins: An Early Reader, Interactive Shadow-Casting Bedtime Story, Trip to the North: A Junior Novel, The Magic Journey
• Holiday Box Cards
• Games: GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation2, PC/Windows
• Posters: Poster 1, Poster 2, IMAX Poster
• Toys: Polar Express Train Set
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