Showdowns

'Die Hard' Showdown

Movie Summary	Die Hard	Die Hard 2	Die Hard 3	Live Free or Die Hard	A Good Day to Die Hard
Genre	Action Thriller	Action Thriller	Action Thriller	Action	Action
Studio	Fox	Fox	Fox	Fox	Fox
Release Date	July 15, 1988	July 6, 1990	May 19, 1995	June 27, 2007	February 14, 2013
Domestic Gross	$83,008,852	$117,540,947	$100,012,499	$134,529,403	$67,349,198
Production Budget	$28 million	$70 million	$90 million	$110 million	$92 million
Running Time	2 hrs. 11 min.	2 hrs. 4 min.	2 hrs. 11 min.	2 hrs. 10 min.	1 hr. 37 min.
MPAA Rating	R	R	R	PG-13	R
MPAA Reason			strong violence and pervasive strong language	intense sequences of violence and action, language and a brief sexual situation	violence and language.

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Domestic Summary	Die Hard	Die Hard 2	Die Hard 3	Live Free or Die Hard	A Good Day to Die Hard
Total Gross	$83,008,852	$117,540,947	$100,012,499	$134,529,403	$67,349,198
Opening Weekend*	$7,105,514	$21,744,661	$22,162,245	$33,369,559	$24,834,845
Theaters	1,276	2,507	2,525	3,408	3,553
Average	$5,568	$8,673	$8,777	$9,791	$6,990
Opening % of Total	8.6%	18.5%	22.2%	24.8%	36.9%
Second Weekend Drop	-14.0%	-33.3%	n/a	-46.9%	-59.1%
Widest Release	1,713	2,507	2,579	3,411	3,555
In Release	n/a	n/a	n/a	135 days / 19 weeks	99 days / 14 weeks
*Note: If a movie opened in limited release and later went wide, data from the first wide weekend of release is used.

Worldwide Summary	Die Hard	Die Hard 2	Die Hard 3	Live Free or Die Hard	A Good Day to Die Hard
Worldwide Gross	$140,767,956	$240,031,094	$366,101,666	$383,531,464	$303,726,337
Foreign Gross	$57,759,104	$122,490,147	$266,089,167	$249,002,061	$236,377,139
Foreign % of Worldwide	41.0%	51.0%	72.7%	64.9%	77.8%
Domestic Gross	$83,008,852	$117,540,947	$100,012,499	$134,529,403	$67,349,198
Domestic % of Worldwide	59.0%	49.0%	27.3%	35.1%	22.2%

People Summary	Die Hard	Die Hard 2	Die Hard 3	Live Free or Die Hard	A Good Day to Die Hard
Actor: Bruce Willis	#13	#7	#9	#5	#16
Actor: Mary Elizabeth Winstead	-	-	-	#1	n/a
Composer: Marco Beltrami	-	-	-	#3	#9
Composer: Michael Kamen	#9	#7	#8	-	-
Director: John McTiernan	#3	-	#2	-	-
Producer: Lawrence Gordon	#5	#2	-	-	-

Genres & Franchises	Die Hard	Die Hard 2	Die Hard 3	Live Free or Die Hard	A Good Day to Die Hard
Franchise: Die Hard	#4	#2	#3	#1	#5
Genre: Christmas - Setting Only	#8	#6	-	-	-
Showdown: 'Die Hard' Showdown	#4	#2	#3	#1	#5

Chart Rankings	Die Hard	Die Hard 2	Die Hard 3	Live Free or Die Hard	A Good Day to Die Hard
Opening Weekends Under 3,000 Theaters	-	#173	#161	-	-
Opening Weekends Under 3,000 Theaters Adjusted	-	#85	#88	-	-
All Time Domestic	#679	#405	#545	#305	#915
All Time Worldwide	-	#400	#200	#179	#283
Non-Friday Opening Weekends	-	-	-	#51	#78
Opening Weeks	#1883	#305	#586	#242	#492
Opening Weekends	#2026	#594	#573	#295	#476
Independence Day Weekends	-	#32	-	#43	-
Smallest Drops, 3,000+ theaters (Super-Saturation)	-	-	-	#295	#529
Smallest Drops, 2,500+ theaters (Saturation)	-	#246	-	#664	#1100
Smallest Drops, 2,000+ theaters (Very Wide)	-	#392	-	#995	#1608
Smallest Drops, All Wide Releases	#394	#1219	-	#2368	#3394
Rated R	#169	#77	#126	-	-
Rated R, Opening Weekends	-	#143	#136	-	#108
Widest Releases	-	-	-	#291	#192
Widest Opening Releases	-	-	-	#270	#181
Slowest to $100 million	-	#141	#13	#279	-
BOM Users' Grades	#33	#320	#279	#66	-
Non-Friday Opening Weekends Adjusted	-	-	-	#68	#112
Opening Weeks Adjusted	#1483	#152	#367	#319	#793
Movies That Never #1 Adjusted	#70	-	-	#82	-
Opening Weekends Adjusted - July	#192	#55	-	-	-
Opening Weekends Adjusted	#1680	#327	#334	#358	#774
Rated R Adjusted	#125	#65	#92	-	-
Rated R, Opening Weekends Adjusted	-	#53	#58	-	-

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