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How much did A Complete Unknown make in its opening weekend?
Perry News-Herald’s January 3–4, 2025 entertainment report put the film’s first Friday–Sunday gross at $11.6 million and its rank at sixth place. The Numbers’ later box-office database lists the opening-weekend figure more precisely as $11,655,553, alongside an opening count of 2,835 theaters. These figures describe the same three-day opening weekend, with one rounded and one reported to the dollar.
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The sixth-place result means the film did not make the weekend’s top five. The available reporting establishes the gross and ranking, but not a specific cause for either; it does not show that a particular rival, review, audience group, or marketing decision determined the result. Perry News-Herald’s report provides the contemporaneous rounded result, while The Numbers’ film entry gives the later database figure.
Was the Christmas total the same as the opening weekend?
No. The film opened in theaters on Christmas Day, December 25, 2024, so its first three-day weekend followed a holiday opening in the middle of the week. Perry News-Herald reported $22.2 million for the five-day Christmas holiday period, compared with $11.6 million for Friday through Sunday.
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| Measure | Period | Reported gross | Source |
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| Opening weekend | Friday–Sunday | $11.6 million, rounded | Perry News-Herald, Jan. 3–4, 2025 |
| Christmas holiday total | Five days | $22.2 million | Perry News-Herald, Jan. 3–4, 2025 |
| Opening weekend database figure | Friday–Sunday | $11,655,553 | The Numbers, accessed 2026 |
The five-day total includes a different span of days, so it should not be used as the opening-weekend figure or compared with another film’s Friday–Sunday result as though the periods matched. Searchlight’s official press page lists the theatrical release date as December 25, 2024.
What was the film, and how did it hold in its next weekend?
Searchlight describes A Complete Unknown as a Bob Dylan biographical drama: a young Dylan arrives in New York in 1961 and rises through the music scene toward the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. James Mangold directed, with Timothée Chalamet starring as Dylan.
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In the following weekend, the Associated Press reported another sixth-place finish, with $8.1 million and a cumulative $41.7 million at that point. AP described it at the time as Searchlight’s highest-grossing film since Disney acquired the company in 2019. Those later figures show the film continued to draw audiences; they do not explain why it placed sixth in its opening weekend. The Associated Press report covers that subsequent weekend.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.Do the box-office totals mean the film was profitable?
No conclusion about profit follows from gross receipts alone. The Numbers lists a $70 million production budget, a $75 million domestic gross, and a $140.5 million worldwide gross. Those database totals are not net returns: they do not, by themselves, account for marketing, distribution shares, or other costs. A comparison of the worldwide gross with the production budget therefore cannot establish whether the film made a profit.
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