Event Horizon (1997)

Event Horizon
Theatrical Performance
Domestic Box Office $26,673,242Details
International Box Office $712Details
Worldwide Box Office $26,673,954
Further financial details...

Synopsis

When the Event Horizon, a spacecraft that vanished years earlier, suddenly reappears, a team is dispatched to investigate the ship. Accompanied by the Event Horizon’s creator, William Weir, the crew of the Lewis and Clark, led by Capt. Miller, begins to explore the seemingly abandoned vessel. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors, and that the horrors that befell the Event Horizon’s previous journey are still present.

Metrics

Opening Weekend:$9,511,915 (35.7% of total gross)
Legs:2.80 (domestic box office/biggest weekend)
Domestic Share:100.0% (domestic box office/worldwide)
Production Budget:$60,000,000 (worldwide box office is 0.4 times production budget)
Theater counts:2,311 opening theaters/2,328 max. theaters, 4.9 weeks average run per theater
Infl. Adj. Dom. BO $62,644,337

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Google Play:Google Play

Movie Details

Domestic Releases: August 15th, 1997 (Wide) by Paramount Pictures
International Releases: October 8th, 2010 (Wide) (New Zealand)
December 3rd, 2020 (Limited) (Australia)
Video Release: December 15th, 1998 by Paramount Home Video
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and gore, language and some nudity.
Running Time: 95 minutes
Comparisons: vs. Pandorum
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Keywords: Time Travel, Demons, Haunting, Heaven and Hell, Gorn or Splatter Horror, Near Future, Space Program, Hallucinations, Development Hell, Cult Movie
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Horror
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Science Fiction
Production/Financing Companies: Paramount Pictures, Lawrence Gordon, Golar
Production Countries: United States
Languages: English

Ranking on other Records and Milestones

RecordRankAmountChart
Date
Days In
Release
Labor Day (All Movies, 3-Day, Inflation Adjusted) 305 $7,458,484 Aug 29, 1997 17
Labor Day (All Movies, 4-Day, Fri-Mon, Inflation Adjusted) 196 $8,852,324 Aug 29, 1997 17

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Domestic Cumulative Box Office Records

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Aug 15, 1997 4 $9,511,915   2,311 $4,116   $9,511,915 1
Aug 22, 1997 7 $4,357,366 -54% 2,328 $1,872   $17,793,622 2
Aug 29, 1997 11 $3,115,054 -29% 2,328 $1,338   $22,588,898 3
Sep 5, 1997 13 $1,252,683 -60% 1,630 $769   $24,397,486 4
Sep 12, 1997 15 $916,776 -27% 1,121 $818   $25,672,544 5
Sep 19, 1997 28 $215,194 -77% 623 $345   $26,139,603 6
Sep 26, 1997 39 $64,873 -70% 219 $296   $26,277,546 7
Oct 3, 1997 53 $23,726 -63% 105 $226   $26,321,167 8
Oct 17, 1997 34 $149,697   416 $360   $26,494,965 10
Oct 24, 1997 46 $54,202 -64% 208 $261   $26,616,590 11
Oct 31, 1997 65 $13,725 -75% 73 $188   $26,652,957 12
Nov 7, 1997 70 $6,398 -53% 30 $213   $26,668,092 13

Daily Box Office Performance

DateRankGross%YD%LWTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossDays
Aug 15, 1997 4 $3,088,865     2,311 $1,337   $3,088,865 1
Aug 16, 1997 4 $3,512,269 +14%   2,311 $1,520   $6,601,134 2
Aug 17, 1997 4 $2,910,781 -17%   2,311 $1,260   $9,511,915 3
Aug 18, 1997 4 $1,120,253 -62%   2,311 $485   $10,632,168 4
Aug 19, 1997 4 $1,032,555 -8%   2,311 $447   $11,664,723 5
Aug 20, 1997 4 $903,037 -13%   2,311 $391   $12,567,760 6
Aug 21, 1997 4 $868,496 -4%   2,311 $376   $13,436,256 7
Aug 22, 1997 7 $1,357,814 +56% -56% 2,328 $583   $14,794,070 8
Aug 23, 1997 7 $1,711,494 +26% -51% 2,328 $735   $16,505,564 9
Aug 24, 1997 7 $1,288,058 -25% -56% 2,328 $553   $17,793,622 10
Aug 25, 1997 7 $465,142 -64% -58% 2,328 $200   $18,258,764 11
Aug 26, 1997 7 $492,678 +6% -52% 2,328 $212   $18,742,442 12
Aug 27, 1997 8 $362,184 -26% -60% 2,328 $156   $19,104,626 13
Aug 28, 1997 9 $360,218 -1% -59% 2,328 $155   $19,464,844 14
Aug 29, 1997 10 $728,765 +102% -46% 2,328 $313   $20,193,609 15
Aug 30, 1997 11 $912,890 +25% -47% 2,328 $392   $21,106,499 16
Aug 31, 1997 10 $891,259 -2% -31% 2,328 $383   $21,997,758 17
Sep 1, 1997 14 $582,140 -35% +25% 2,328 $250   $22,579,898 18
Sep 2, 1997 10 $226,111 -61% -54% 2,328 $97   $22,815,009 19
Sep 3, 1997 10 $171,628 -24% -53% 2,328 $74   $22,986,637 20
Sep 4, 1997 9 $158,166 -8% -56% 2,328 $68   $23,144,803 21
Sep 5, 1997 12 $379,398 +140% -48% 1,630 $233   $23,524,201 22
Sep 6, 1997 13 $585,405 +54% -36% 1,630 $359   $24,109,606 23
Sep 7, 1997 15 $287,880 -51% -68% 1,630 $177   $24,397,486 24
Sep 8, 1997 13 $82,539 -71% -86% 1,630 $51   $24,480,025 25
Sep 9, 1997 12 $108,263 +31% -52% 1,630 $66   $24,588,288 26
Sep 10, 1997 13 $82,662 -24% -52% 1,630 $51   $24,670,950 27
Sep 11, 1997 14 $84,818 +3% -46% 1,630 $52   $24,755,768 28
Sep 12, 1997 - $208,961 +146% -45% 1,121 $186   $24,964,729 29
Sep 13, 1997 - $576,517 +176% -2% 1,121 $514   $25,541,246 30
Sep 14, 1997 - $131,298 -77% -54% 1,121 $117   $25,672,544 31
Sep 15, 1997 - $54,127 -59% -34% 1,121 $48   $25,726,671 32
Sep 16, 1997 - $81,784 +51% -24% 1,121 $73   $25,808,455 33
Sep 17, 1997 - $58,172 -29% -30% 1,121 $52   $25,866,627 34
Sep 18, 1997 - $57,782 -1% -32% 1,121 $52   $25,924,409 35

Weekly Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Aug 15, 1997 4 $13,436,256   2,311 $5,814   $13,436,256 1
Aug 22, 1997 7 $6,037,588 -55% 2,328 $2,593   $19,473,844 2
Aug 29, 1997 11 $3,670,959 -39% 2,328 $1,577   $23,144,803 3
Sep 5, 1997 12 $1,610,965 -56% 1,630 $988   $24,755,768 4
Sep 12, 1997 17 $1,168,641 -27% 1,121 $1,042   $25,924,409 5
Sep 19, 1997 28 $288,264 -75% 623 $463   $26,212,673 6
Sep 26, 1997 40 $84,768 -71% 219 $387   $26,297,441 7
Oct 17, 1997 35 $217,120   416 $522   $26,562,388 10
Oct 24, 1997 43 $76,844 -65% 208 $369   $26,639,232 11
Oct 31, 1997 61 $22,462 -71% 73 $308   $26,661,694 12

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Australia 12/3/2020 $177 1 1 3 $587 5/29/2021
New Zealand 10/8/2010 $0 0 1 1 $125 10/19/2022
 
International Total$712 10/19/2022

International Cumulative Box Office Records


Worldwide Cumulative Box Office Records


Weekly US Blu-ray Sales

DateRankUnits
this
Week
% ChangeTotal
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
in
Release
Mar 28, 202189,543 9,543$209,183$209,1831,163
Aug 14, 2022108,421 41,244$183,325$1,059,3251,235
Feb 5, 202368,658 51,630$187,099$1,280,6591,260

Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.

For example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. The consumer spending estimate is based on the average sales price for the title in the retailers we survey.

We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates.

Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles.

Leading Cast

Laurence Fishburne    Miller
Sam Neill    Weir

Supporting Cast

Kathleen Quinlan    Peters, Med Tech
Joely Richardson    Lt. Starck, Executive Officer
Jack Noseworthy    Justin
Jason Isaacs    D.J
Richard T. Jones    Cooper
Sean Pertwee    Smith
Peter Marinker    Kilpack
Noah Huntley    Burning Man

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

Production and Technical Credits

Paul W.S. Anderson    Director
Jeremy Bolt    Producer
Lawrence Gordon    Producer
Lloyd Levin    Producer
Philip Eisner    Screenwriter
Nick Gillott    Executive Producer
Adrian Biddle    Director of Photography
Joseph Bennett    Production Designer
Martin Hunter    Editor
Richard Yuricich    Visual Effects Supervisor
John Mollo    Costume Designer
Michael Kamen    Composer
Neil Corbould    Special Effects Supervisor
Sallie Anne Hard*    Dailies Assistant Director

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


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Synopsis

When the Event Horizon, a spacecraft that vanished years earlier, suddenly reappears, a team is dispatched to investigate the ship. Accompanied by the Event Horizon’s creator, William Weir, the crew of the Lewis and Clark, led by Capt. Miller, begins to explore the seemingly abandoned vessel. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors, and that the horrors that befell the Event Horizon’s previous journey are still present.

Metrics

Opening Weekend:$9,511,915 (35.7% of total gross)
Legs:2.80 (domestic box office/biggest weekend)
Domestic Share:100.0% (domestic box office/worldwide)
Production Budget:$60,000,000 (worldwide box office is 0.4 times production budget)
Theater counts:2,311 opening theaters/2,328 max. theaters, 4.9 weeks average run per theater
Infl. Adj. Dom. BO $62,644,337

Latest Ranking on Cumulative Box Office Lists


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Amazon VOD:Amazon VOD, Amazon EST
iTunes:iTunes
Google Play:Google Play

Movie Details

Domestic Releases: August 15th, 1997 (Wide) by Paramount Pictures
International Releases: October 8th, 2010 (Wide) (New Zealand)
December 3rd, 2020 (Limited) (Australia)
Video Release: December 15th, 1998 by Paramount Home Video
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and gore, language and some nudity.
Running Time: 95 minutes
Comparisons: vs. Pandorum
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Keywords: Time Travel, Demons, Haunting, Heaven and Hell, Gorn or Splatter Horror, Near Future, Space Program, Hallucinations, Development Hell, Cult Movie
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Horror
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Science Fiction
Production/Financing Companies: Paramount Pictures, Lawrence Gordon, Golar
Production Countries: United States
Languages: English

Ranking on other Records and Milestones

RecordRankAmountChart
Date
Days In
Release
Labor Day (All Movies, 3-Day, Inflation Adjusted) 305 $7,458,484 Aug 29, 1997 17
Labor Day (All Movies, 4-Day, Fri-Mon, Inflation Adjusted) 196 $8,852,324 Aug 29, 1997 17

Leading Cast

Laurence Fishburne    Miller
Sam Neill    Weir

Supporting Cast

Kathleen Quinlan    Peters, Med Tech
Joely Richardson    Lt. Starck, Executive Officer
Jack Noseworthy    Justin
Jason Isaacs    D.J
Richard T. Jones    Cooper
Sean Pertwee    Smith
Peter Marinker    Kilpack
Noah Huntley    Burning Man

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

Production and Technical Credits

Paul W.S. Anderson    Director
Jeremy Bolt    Producer
Lawrence Gordon    Producer
Lloyd Levin    Producer
Philip Eisner    Screenwriter
Nick Gillott    Executive Producer
Adrian Biddle    Director of Photography
Joseph Bennett    Production Designer
Martin Hunter    Editor
Richard Yuricich    Visual Effects Supervisor
John Mollo    Costume Designer
Michael Kamen    Composer
Neil Corbould    Special Effects Supervisor
Sallie Anne Hard*    Dailies Assistant Director

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

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Domestic Cumulative Box Office Records

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Aug 15, 1997 4 $9,511,915   2,311 $4,116   $9,511,915 1
Aug 22, 1997 7 $4,357,366 -54% 2,328 $1,872   $17,793,622 2
Aug 29, 1997 11 $3,115,054 -29% 2,328 $1,338   $22,588,898 3
Sep 5, 1997 13 $1,252,683 -60% 1,630 $769   $24,397,486 4
Sep 12, 1997 15 $916,776 -27% 1,121 $818   $25,672,544 5
Sep 19, 1997 28 $215,194 -77% 623 $345   $26,139,603 6
Sep 26, 1997 39 $64,873 -70% 219 $296   $26,277,546 7
Oct 3, 1997 53 $23,726 -63% 105 $226   $26,321,167 8
Oct 17, 1997 34 $149,697   416 $360   $26,494,965 10
Oct 24, 1997 46 $54,202 -64% 208 $261   $26,616,590 11
Oct 31, 1997 65 $13,725 -75% 73 $188   $26,652,957 12
Nov 7, 1997 70 $6,398 -53% 30 $213   $26,668,092 13

Daily Box Office Performance

DateRankGross%YD%LWTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossDays
Aug 15, 1997 4 $3,088,865     2,311 $1,337   $3,088,865 1
Aug 16, 1997 4 $3,512,269 +14%   2,311 $1,520   $6,601,134 2
Aug 17, 1997 4 $2,910,781 -17%   2,311 $1,260   $9,511,915 3
Aug 18, 1997 4 $1,120,253 -62%   2,311 $485   $10,632,168 4
Aug 19, 1997 4 $1,032,555 -8%   2,311 $447   $11,664,723 5
Aug 20, 1997 4 $903,037 -13%   2,311 $391   $12,567,760 6
Aug 21, 1997 4 $868,496 -4%   2,311 $376   $13,436,256 7
Aug 22, 1997 7 $1,357,814 +56% -56% 2,328 $583   $14,794,070 8
Aug 23, 1997 7 $1,711,494 +26% -51% 2,328 $735   $16,505,564 9
Aug 24, 1997 7 $1,288,058 -25% -56% 2,328 $553   $17,793,622 10
Aug 25, 1997 7 $465,142 -64% -58% 2,328 $200   $18,258,764 11
Aug 26, 1997 7 $492,678 +6% -52% 2,328 $212   $18,742,442 12
Aug 27, 1997 8 $362,184 -26% -60% 2,328 $156   $19,104,626 13
Aug 28, 1997 9 $360,218 -1% -59% 2,328 $155   $19,464,844 14
Aug 29, 1997 10 $728,765 +102% -46% 2,328 $313   $20,193,609 15
Aug 30, 1997 11 $912,890 +25% -47% 2,328 $392   $21,106,499 16
Aug 31, 1997 10 $891,259 -2% -31% 2,328 $383   $21,997,758 17
Sep 1, 1997 14 $582,140 -35% +25% 2,328 $250   $22,579,898 18
Sep 2, 1997 10 $226,111 -61% -54% 2,328 $97   $22,815,009 19
Sep 3, 1997 10 $171,628 -24% -53% 2,328 $74   $22,986,637 20
Sep 4, 1997 9 $158,166 -8% -56% 2,328 $68   $23,144,803 21
Sep 5, 1997 12 $379,398 +140% -48% 1,630 $233   $23,524,201 22
Sep 6, 1997 13 $585,405 +54% -36% 1,630 $359   $24,109,606 23
Sep 7, 1997 15 $287,880 -51% -68% 1,630 $177   $24,397,486 24
Sep 8, 1997 13 $82,539 -71% -86% 1,630 $51   $24,480,025 25
Sep 9, 1997 12 $108,263 +31% -52% 1,630 $66   $24,588,288 26
Sep 10, 1997 13 $82,662 -24% -52% 1,630 $51   $24,670,950 27
Sep 11, 1997 14 $84,818 +3% -46% 1,630 $52   $24,755,768 28
Sep 12, 1997 - $208,961 +146% -45% 1,121 $186   $24,964,729 29
Sep 13, 1997 - $576,517 +176% -2% 1,121 $514   $25,541,246 30
Sep 14, 1997 - $131,298 -77% -54% 1,121 $117   $25,672,544 31
Sep 15, 1997 - $54,127 -59% -34% 1,121 $48   $25,726,671 32
Sep 16, 1997 - $81,784 +51% -24% 1,121 $73   $25,808,455 33
Sep 17, 1997 - $58,172 -29% -30% 1,121 $52   $25,866,627 34
Sep 18, 1997 - $57,782 -1% -32% 1,121 $52   $25,924,409 35

Weekly Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Aug 15, 1997 4 $13,436,256   2,311 $5,814   $13,436,256 1
Aug 22, 1997 7 $6,037,588 -55% 2,328 $2,593   $19,473,844 2
Aug 29, 1997 11 $3,670,959 -39% 2,328 $1,577   $23,144,803 3
Sep 5, 1997 12 $1,610,965 -56% 1,630 $988   $24,755,768 4
Sep 12, 1997 17 $1,168,641 -27% 1,121 $1,042   $25,924,409 5
Sep 19, 1997 28 $288,264 -75% 623 $463   $26,212,673 6
Sep 26, 1997 40 $84,768 -71% 219 $387   $26,297,441 7
Oct 17, 1997 35 $217,120   416 $522   $26,562,388 10
Oct 24, 1997 43 $76,844 -65% 208 $369   $26,639,232 11
Oct 31, 1997 61 $22,462 -71% 73 $308   $26,661,694 12

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Australia 12/3/2020 $177 1 1 3 $587 5/29/2021
New Zealand 10/8/2010 $0 0 1 1 $125 10/19/2022
 
International Total$712 10/19/2022

International Cumulative Box Office Records


Worldwide Cumulative Box Office Records


Weekly US Blu-ray Sales

DateRankUnits
this
Week
% ChangeTotal
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
in
Release
Mar 28, 202189,543 9,543$209,183$209,1831,163
Aug 14, 2022108,421 41,244$183,325$1,059,3251,235
Feb 5, 202368,658 51,630$187,099$1,280,6591,260

Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.

For example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. The consumer spending estimate is based on the average sales price for the title in the retailers we survey.

We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates.

Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles.