American Dreamz (2006)

American Dreamz
Theatrical Performance
Domestic Box Office $7,314,027Details
International Box Office $9,196,944Details
Worldwide Box Office $16,510,971
Further financial details...

Synopsis

Hoping to shock the president out of an apparent nervous breakdown, the White House chief of staff books him as a guest judge on the country’s hottest TV talent show. With a ruthless host, a conniving singer, and a sleeper-cell terrorist in the mix, the stage is set for an unforgettable program.

Metrics

Opening Weekend:$3,667,420 (50.1% of total gross)
Legs:1.99 (domestic box office/biggest weekend)
Domestic Share:44.3% (domestic box office/worldwide)
Production Budget:$17,000,000 (worldwide box office is 1.0 times production budget)
Theater counts:1,500 opening theaters/1,500 max. theaters, 2.4 weeks average run per theater
Infl. Adj. Dom. BO $12,037,433

Latest Ranking on Cumulative Box Office Lists

RecordRankAmount
All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 5,901-6,000) 5,912 $7,314,027
All Time International Box Office (Rank 5,001-5,100) 5,020 $9,196,944
All Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 6,001-6,100) 6,019 $16,510,971

See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records.


Movie Details

Domestic Releases: April 21st, 2006 (Wide) by Universal
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language and some sexual references.
Running Time: 107 minutes
Comparisons: vs. En kongelig affære
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Keywords: Political, Reality TV, Terrorism, Hitmen, Musicians
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Black Comedy
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Contemporary Fiction
Production Countries: United States
Languages: English

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Domestic Cumulative Box Office Records

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Apr 21, 2006 9 $3,667,420   1,500 $2,445   $3,667,420 1
Apr 28, 2006 15 $1,597,475 -56% 1,500 $1,065   $6,157,595 2
May 5, 2006 20 $316,185 -80% 408 $775   $6,946,510 3
May 12, 2006 37 $92,275 -71% 130 $710   $7,156,725 4

Daily Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossDays
Apr 21, 2006 8 $1,200,025   1,500 $800   $1,200,025 1
Apr 22, 2006 9 $1,619,885 +35% 1,500 $1,080   $2,819,910 2
Apr 23, 2006 9 $847,510 -48% 1,500 $565   $3,667,420 3

Weekly Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Apr 21, 2006 9 $4,560,120   1,500 $3,040   $4,560,120 1
Apr 28, 2006 15 $2,070,205 -55% 1,500 $1,380   $6,630,325 2
May 5, 2006 21 $434,125 -79% 408 $1,064   $7,064,450 3

International Cumulative Box Office Records


Worldwide Cumulative Box Office Records


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

Dennis Quaid    President Staton

Supporting Cast

Aldis Hodge    Soldier Chuck

Uncategorized

Lawrence Pressman    White House Butler
John Cho    Ittles
Marcia Gay Harden    First Lady Staton
Judy Greer    Accordo
Jennifer Coolidge    Martha Kendoo
Shohreh Aghdashloo    Nazneen Riza
Mandy Moore    Sally Kendoo
Willem Dafoe    Vice President Stutter
Hugh Grant    Martin Tweed
Chris Klein    William Williams

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

Production and Technical Credits

Paul Weitz    Director
Paul Weitz    Screenwriter
Paul Weitz    Producer
Chris Weitz    Producer
Chris Weitz    Executive Producer
Kerry Kohansky-Roberts    Executive Producer

Click Wins Close Contest

October 28th, 2006

Despite a glut of new releases Click was able to remain on the top of the rental charts. This week it dipped just 20% to $9.03 million over the week and $20.54 million after two. More...

DVD Releases for October 17, 2006

October 16th, 2006

It's a rather slow week for DVD releases with fewer than normal instantly jumping out as must haves. There were some contenders for DVD Pick of the Week with the top two being Masters of Horror: Larry Cohen - Pick Me Up - Buy from Amazon and Over the Hedge - Buy from Amazon. If I were to give the edge to one of them, it would be Over the Hedge. More...

International Details - Furious' Start not quite Fast Enough

June 25th, 2006

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift started its international run last weekend but missed the top five with $7.93 million on 810 screens in 8 markets. The film took first place in five markets, including the U.K. with $3.35 million on 415 screens, in Australia with $2.28 million on 221 screens, and New Zealand with $444,000 on 53 screens. This is inline with what the original opened with in those markets, but with shorter legs due to Sequelitis it won't have as high a final box office. More...

International Details - Treat for Trick 2

June 18th, 2006

Trick 2 opened in its native Japan finishing in a close second with $3.83 million on 282 screens. That was enough for sixth place on the overall charts and the best per screen average in the top 30. More...

International Details - Eight Finishes Just Below Top Five

May 7th, 2006

A pair of openings in major markets helped Eight Below climb a spot to sixth with $5.05 million on 2129 screens in 24 markets for a total of $24.26 million so far. The film opened in France but could only manage sixth place with $1.85 million on 473 screens while in Spain it opened in first place, but only managed $981,000 on 224 screens. In the meantime, the film dipped just 4% during its second weekend in Australia adding $769,000 on 258 screens to its total of $2.29 million there. More...

R.V. Sticks it to Competition

May 1st, 2006

The last weekend in April is generally not a good time to open a new movie since the first weekend in May is the unofficial start of the Summer Blockbuster season. Movies that open now generally only get one weekend of release before being crushed by the competition. Because of this, studios tend to dump films that have lowered expectations during this weekend. So there's little surprise that the total box office was down 6.6% from last week to $102 million. But more importantly, that represents a 12.6% increase from the same weekend last year despite the fact that last year's number one film earned nearly $5 million more than this year's number one film did. This surge had helped the year-to-date figure grow to $2.603 billion, up 4.7% over last year's pace. This is significant because it puts ticket sales on the rise as well as total box office. More...

International Details - Wild Ride

April 30th, 2006

The Wild added a few more markets but still fell out of the top five down 54% to $4.37 million on 2868 screens in 27 markets for a two week total of $17.77 million. Its best market was Spain where the film was down just 43% to $875,000 on 382 screens over the weekend and $3.49 million in total. It had a hard time in family friendly Mexico where it was down 59% to $702,000 on 501 screens over the weekend and $3.60 million in total while in Italy it plummeted an unheard of 84% to just $216,000 on 343 screen for a two-week total of $2.75 million. More...

Silence is Golden

April 24th, 2006

It was a mixed week with the total box office hitting just $110 million, down 9.0% from last week. On the other hand, that was up an impressive 17.4% from the same weekend last year and year-to-date 2006 is now leading 2005 by 4%. On an interesting side note, of the three new releases, the film that earned the worst reviews earned the best box office while the film that earned the of best reviews earned the weakest box office. Further proof that high quality is detrimental to a film's box office potential. More...

Silencing the Critics

April 21st, 2006

A trio of new films tackle Scary Movie 4 this weekend, looking to become the next box office champ. None of the films are winning over the critics, and one of them was not even screened, but that isn't necessarily the huge warning sign that it usually signifies. More...

Silencing the Critics

April 21st, 2006

A trio of new films tackle Scary Movie 4 looking to become the next box office champ. None of the films are winning over the critics with one of them not even being screened, but that doesn't seem to be the huge warning sign that it usually signifies. More...

Contest - All-American Contest - Last Minute Warning

April 21st, 2006

There are just a few hours to go in our The All-American Contest so if you were planning on entering, you better do it now. And remember, American Dreamz is opening in 1500 theatres, so take that info consideration when making your prediction. More...

Movie Website Updates for April 14 - April 20

April 20th, 2006

Another slow week and either I've lost my mojo for finding new and updated sites, or this is the calm before the storm that is the summer box office season. And speaking of Storm, the best of the bunch this week is X-Men: The Last Stand - Official Site. More...

Contest - All-American Contest

April 17th, 2006

This week we have another multi-prize contest, but to simplify matters we are basing both prizes on the box office performance of one movie, American Dreamz. Whoever comes closest to predicting the opening 3-day weekend (Friday to Sunday), without going over, will win the American Dreamz prize pack that includes a T-shirt, hat and poster. On the other hand, whoever comes closest to predicting the opening 3-day weekend (Friday to Sunday), without going under, will win All-American Girl - The Complete Series on DVD. Entries must be received by 10am, Pacific Time on Friday to be eligible, so don't delay! More...

Movie Website Updates for March 31 - April 6

April 6th, 2006

It's a much busier week this week including several sites that I found through e-mails. Thanks for the tips. (On a side note, if you sent me an e-mail regarding a movie site and I forgot it, please send it again. It was a big list this week and I'm almost positive one or two sites slipped between the cracks.) Unfortunately, while there are plenty of sites on this week's list, there's not a lot of top notch ones. The movie on this list that made me the most excited was The Simpsons Movie, and that one doesn't even have an official movie site, just the teaser trailer. More...

2006 Preview: April

April 1st, 2006

March wasn't as strong as expected and April doesn't seem to have what it takes to turn things around. IMDb has a poll they run every month on what film you are looking forward to the most. This time the number one film is Silent Hill was in first with 16.5% of the vote. Number two went to 'Other' at 13.0% of the vote. This is a really, really bad sign. With no advanced buzz, many films will have a hard time attracting an audience, which not only means less people are seeing the movies, but also less people are seeing the trailers for the big summer releases, which means less buzz about the summer releases... On the other hand, there are several limited releases that look promising including Friends with Money, Hard Candy, The Notorious Bettie Page, and Kinky Boots. Unfortunately, all but the first are being released on April 14th. More...

Movie Website Updates for March 24 - March 30

March 30th, 2006

Another week with less sites than I would have liked. (On a side note, it seems every time something weird happens it happens on a Thursday. This time its slight internet connection problems / memory leak. I think. Whatever it is, it's causing my computer to act really slowly.) This shorter list doesn't mean there isn't an award-worthy site and the best of the best is Over the Hedge - Official Site. More...

Movie Website Updates for March 17 - March 23

March 23rd, 2006

This week's list is shorter than expected, but at least there's a site that clearly deserves to be the winner of the Weekly Website award: The Inside Man - Official Site. More...

Movie Website Updates for January 27 - February 2

February 2nd, 2006

During the past week promotional websites for several movies were launched and some older ones added additional content. It was another slow week with nothing really grabbing my attention and nothing award-winning, (although there are a couple of sites that show promise). Hopefully some of the summer blockbusters will start launching flash sites so this slump can end. More...

Movie Website Updates for December 23 - December 29

December 29th, 2005

This week's list of movie site is abridged and only contains the two films that are opening this week plus more than a dozen site that have never appeared on this list before. However, it was one of the two new openings, Match Point - Official Site, that took the weekly website award. More...

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  5. Video Sales
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  7. Cast & Crew
  8. Trailer

Synopsis

Hoping to shock the president out of an apparent nervous breakdown, the White House chief of staff books him as a guest judge on the country’s hottest TV talent show. With a ruthless host, a conniving singer, and a sleeper-cell terrorist in the mix, the stage is set for an unforgettable program.

Metrics

Opening Weekend:$3,667,420 (50.1% of total gross)
Legs:1.99 (domestic box office/biggest weekend)
Domestic Share:44.3% (domestic box office/worldwide)
Production Budget:$17,000,000 (worldwide box office is 1.0 times production budget)
Theater counts:1,500 opening theaters/1,500 max. theaters, 2.4 weeks average run per theater
Infl. Adj. Dom. BO $12,037,433

Latest Ranking on Cumulative Box Office Lists

RecordRankAmount
All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 5,901-6,000) 5,912 $7,314,027
All Time International Box Office (Rank 5,001-5,100) 5,020 $9,196,944
All Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 6,001-6,100) 6,019 $16,510,971

See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records.


Movie Details

Domestic Releases: April 21st, 2006 (Wide) by Universal
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language and some sexual references.
Running Time: 107 minutes
Comparisons: vs. En kongelig affære
Create your own comparison chart…
Keywords: Political, Reality TV, Terrorism, Hitmen, Musicians
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Black Comedy
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Contemporary Fiction
Production Countries: United States
Languages: English

Leading Cast

Dennis Quaid    President Staton

Supporting Cast

Aldis Hodge    Soldier Chuck

Uncategorized

Lawrence Pressman    White House Butler
John Cho    Ittles
Marcia Gay Harden    First Lady Staton
Judy Greer    Accordo
Jennifer Coolidge    Martha Kendoo
Shohreh Aghdashloo    Nazneen Riza
Mandy Moore    Sally Kendoo
Willem Dafoe    Vice President Stutter
Hugh Grant    Martin Tweed
Chris Klein    William Williams

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

Production and Technical Credits

Paul Weitz    Director
Paul Weitz    Screenwriter
Paul Weitz    Producer
Chris Weitz    Producer
Chris Weitz    Executive Producer
Kerry Kohansky-Roberts    Executive Producer

Click Wins Close Contest

October 28th, 2006

Despite a glut of new releases Click was able to remain on the top of the rental charts. This week it dipped just 20% to $9.03 million over the week and $20.54 million after two. More...

DVD Releases for October 17, 2006

October 16th, 2006

It's a rather slow week for DVD releases with fewer than normal instantly jumping out as must haves. There were some contenders for DVD Pick of the Week with the top two being Masters of Horror: Larry Cohen - Pick Me Up - Buy from Amazon and Over the Hedge - Buy from Amazon. If I were to give the edge to one of them, it would be Over the Hedge. More...

International Details - Furious' Start not quite Fast Enough

June 25th, 2006

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift started its international run last weekend but missed the top five with $7.93 million on 810 screens in 8 markets. The film took first place in five markets, including the U.K. with $3.35 million on 415 screens, in Australia with $2.28 million on 221 screens, and New Zealand with $444,000 on 53 screens. This is inline with what the original opened with in those markets, but with shorter legs due to Sequelitis it won't have as high a final box office. More...

International Details - Treat for Trick 2

June 18th, 2006

Trick 2 opened in its native Japan finishing in a close second with $3.83 million on 282 screens. That was enough for sixth place on the overall charts and the best per screen average in the top 30. More...

International Details - Eight Finishes Just Below Top Five

May 7th, 2006

A pair of openings in major markets helped Eight Below climb a spot to sixth with $5.05 million on 2129 screens in 24 markets for a total of $24.26 million so far. The film opened in France but could only manage sixth place with $1.85 million on 473 screens while in Spain it opened in first place, but only managed $981,000 on 224 screens. In the meantime, the film dipped just 4% during its second weekend in Australia adding $769,000 on 258 screens to its total of $2.29 million there. More...

R.V. Sticks it to Competition

May 1st, 2006

The last weekend in April is generally not a good time to open a new movie since the first weekend in May is the unofficial start of the Summer Blockbuster season. Movies that open now generally only get one weekend of release before being crushed by the competition. Because of this, studios tend to dump films that have lowered expectations during this weekend. So there's little surprise that the total box office was down 6.6% from last week to $102 million. But more importantly, that represents a 12.6% increase from the same weekend last year despite the fact that last year's number one film earned nearly $5 million more than this year's number one film did. This surge had helped the year-to-date figure grow to $2.603 billion, up 4.7% over last year's pace. This is significant because it puts ticket sales on the rise as well as total box office. More...

International Details - Wild Ride

April 30th, 2006

The Wild added a few more markets but still fell out of the top five down 54% to $4.37 million on 2868 screens in 27 markets for a two week total of $17.77 million. Its best market was Spain where the film was down just 43% to $875,000 on 382 screens over the weekend and $3.49 million in total. It had a hard time in family friendly Mexico where it was down 59% to $702,000 on 501 screens over the weekend and $3.60 million in total while in Italy it plummeted an unheard of 84% to just $216,000 on 343 screen for a two-week total of $2.75 million. More...

Silence is Golden

April 24th, 2006

It was a mixed week with the total box office hitting just $110 million, down 9.0% from last week. On the other hand, that was up an impressive 17.4% from the same weekend last year and year-to-date 2006 is now leading 2005 by 4%. On an interesting side note, of the three new releases, the film that earned the worst reviews earned the best box office while the film that earned the of best reviews earned the weakest box office. Further proof that high quality is detrimental to a film's box office potential. More...

Silencing the Critics

April 21st, 2006

A trio of new films tackle Scary Movie 4 this weekend, looking to become the next box office champ. None of the films are winning over the critics, and one of them was not even screened, but that isn't necessarily the huge warning sign that it usually signifies. More...

Silencing the Critics

April 21st, 2006

A trio of new films tackle Scary Movie 4 looking to become the next box office champ. None of the films are winning over the critics with one of them not even being screened, but that doesn't seem to be the huge warning sign that it usually signifies. More...

Contest - All-American Contest - Last Minute Warning

April 21st, 2006

There are just a few hours to go in our The All-American Contest so if you were planning on entering, you better do it now. And remember, American Dreamz is opening in 1500 theatres, so take that info consideration when making your prediction. More...

Movie Website Updates for April 14 - April 20

April 20th, 2006

Another slow week and either I've lost my mojo for finding new and updated sites, or this is the calm before the storm that is the summer box office season. And speaking of Storm, the best of the bunch this week is X-Men: The Last Stand - Official Site. More...

Contest - All-American Contest

April 17th, 2006

This week we have another multi-prize contest, but to simplify matters we are basing both prizes on the box office performance of one movie, American Dreamz. Whoever comes closest to predicting the opening 3-day weekend (Friday to Sunday), without going over, will win the American Dreamz prize pack that includes a T-shirt, hat and poster. On the other hand, whoever comes closest to predicting the opening 3-day weekend (Friday to Sunday), without going under, will win All-American Girl - The Complete Series on DVD. Entries must be received by 10am, Pacific Time on Friday to be eligible, so don't delay! More...

Movie Website Updates for March 31 - April 6

April 6th, 2006

It's a much busier week this week including several sites that I found through e-mails. Thanks for the tips. (On a side note, if you sent me an e-mail regarding a movie site and I forgot it, please send it again. It was a big list this week and I'm almost positive one or two sites slipped between the cracks.) Unfortunately, while there are plenty of sites on this week's list, there's not a lot of top notch ones. The movie on this list that made me the most excited was The Simpsons Movie, and that one doesn't even have an official movie site, just the teaser trailer. More...

2006 Preview: April

April 1st, 2006

March wasn't as strong as expected and April doesn't seem to have what it takes to turn things around. IMDb has a poll they run every month on what film you are looking forward to the most. This time the number one film is Silent Hill was in first with 16.5% of the vote. Number two went to 'Other' at 13.0% of the vote. This is a really, really bad sign. With no advanced buzz, many films will have a hard time attracting an audience, which not only means less people are seeing the movies, but also less people are seeing the trailers for the big summer releases, which means less buzz about the summer releases... On the other hand, there are several limited releases that look promising including Friends with Money, Hard Candy, The Notorious Bettie Page, and Kinky Boots. Unfortunately, all but the first are being released on April 14th. More...

Movie Website Updates for March 24 - March 30

March 30th, 2006

Another week with less sites than I would have liked. (On a side note, it seems every time something weird happens it happens on a Thursday. This time its slight internet connection problems / memory leak. I think. Whatever it is, it's causing my computer to act really slowly.) This shorter list doesn't mean there isn't an award-worthy site and the best of the best is Over the Hedge - Official Site. More...

Movie Website Updates for March 17 - March 23

March 23rd, 2006

This week's list is shorter than expected, but at least there's a site that clearly deserves to be the winner of the Weekly Website award: The Inside Man - Official Site. More...

Movie Website Updates for January 27 - February 2

February 2nd, 2006

During the past week promotional websites for several movies were launched and some older ones added additional content. It was another slow week with nothing really grabbing my attention and nothing award-winning, (although there are a couple of sites that show promise). Hopefully some of the summer blockbusters will start launching flash sites so this slump can end. More...

Movie Website Updates for December 23 - December 29

December 29th, 2005

This week's list of movie site is abridged and only contains the two films that are opening this week plus more than a dozen site that have never appeared on this list before. However, it was one of the two new openings, Match Point - Official Site, that took the weekly website award. More...

Compare this performance with other movies…

Domestic Cumulative Box Office Records

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Apr 21, 2006 9 $3,667,420   1,500 $2,445   $3,667,420 1
Apr 28, 2006 15 $1,597,475 -56% 1,500 $1,065   $6,157,595 2
May 5, 2006 20 $316,185 -80% 408 $775   $6,946,510 3
May 12, 2006 37 $92,275 -71% 130 $710   $7,156,725 4

Daily Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossDays
Apr 21, 2006 8 $1,200,025   1,500 $800   $1,200,025 1
Apr 22, 2006 9 $1,619,885 +35% 1,500 $1,080   $2,819,910 2
Apr 23, 2006 9 $847,510 -48% 1,500 $565   $3,667,420 3

Weekly Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Apr 21, 2006 9 $4,560,120   1,500 $3,040   $4,560,120 1
Apr 28, 2006 15 $2,070,205 -55% 1,500 $1,380   $6,630,325 2
May 5, 2006 21 $434,125 -79% 408 $1,064   $7,064,450 3

International Cumulative Box Office Records


Worldwide Cumulative Box Office Records


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.