Australia Box Office for Big Trouble In Little China (1986)

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Big Trouble in Little China
Theatrical Performance (US$)
Australia Box Office $108,395Details
Worldwide Box Office $11,208,967Details
Further financial details...

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Movie Details

Production Budget:$25,000,000
Australia Releases: August 15th, 1986 (Wide), released as Big Trouble In Little China
Video Release: May 22nd, 2001 by Fox Home Entertainment
Running Time: 99 minutes
Keywords: Action Comedy, Asian-Americans, Romance, Kidnap, Rescue, Secret Magic, Prophecy, Curses, Good vs. Evil
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Action
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Fantasy
Production Countries: United States
Languages: English

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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
2020/07/31 - $1,298   3 $433   $106,166 1,773
2020/10/09 - $596   1 $596   $109,760 1,783
2020/11/13 - $167   1 $167   $0 1,788

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Australia 8/15/1986 $0 0 3 6 $108,395 11/20/2020
New Zealand 4/2/2020 $0 0 1 3 $572 10/19/2022
North America 7/1/1986 $2,723,211 1,053 1,092 3,774 $11,100,000
 
Worldwide Total$11,208,967 10/19/2022

Leading Cast

Kurt Russell    Jack Burton

Uncategorized

Kim Cattrall    Gracie Law
Victor Wong    Egg Shen
John Carpenter    Worker in Chinatown
Kate Burton    Margo
James Hong    David Lo Pan

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

Production and Technical Credits

John Carpenter    Director
Gary Goldman    Screenwriter
David Z. Weinstein    Screenwriter
Dean Cundey    Cinematographer
Tommy Lee Wallace    Second Unit Director

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