United Kingdom Box Office for Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
Theatrical Performance (US$) | ||
United Kingdom Box Office | $173,987 | Details |
Worldwide Box Office | $807,756 | Details |
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Synopsis
Named by ArtReview as the most powerful artist in the world, Ai Weiwei is China's most celebrated contemporary artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. In April 2011, when Ai disappeared into police custody for three months, he quickly became China's most famous missing person, having first risen to international prominence in 2008 after helping design Beijing's iconic Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium and then publicly denouncing the Games as party propaganda. Since then, Ai Weiwei's critiques of China's repressive regime have ranged from playful photographs of his raised middle finger in front of Tiananmen Square to searing memorials of the more than 5,000 schoolchildren who died in shoddy government construction in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Against a backdrop of strict censorship, Ai has become a kind of Internet champion. His frequent witty use of his blog and twitter, he is able to organize, inform, and inspire his followers, becoming an underground hero to millions of Chinese citizens.
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Movie Details
United Kingdom Releases: | August 10th, 2012 (Wide) |
Video Release: | December 4th, 2012 by Mpi Home Video |
MPAA Rating: | R for some language. (Rating bulletin 2219, 4/18/2012) |
Running Time: | 91 minutes |
Franchise: | Ai Weiwei |
Keywords: | Biography, Artists, Political, Photography, Architecture, Olympics, House Arrest |
Source: | Based on Real Life Events |
Genre: | Documentary |
Production Method: | Live Action |
Creative Type: | Factual |
Production/Financing Companies: | United Expression Media, Muse Film and Television, Alison Klayman |
Production Countries: | United States |
Languages: | English |
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DVD and Blu-ray Releases for December 4th, 2012
December 4th, 2012
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July 31st, 2012
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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
Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
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2012/08/17 | 16 | $17,790 | 17 | $1,046 | $104,689 | 2 | |
2012/08/24 | 19 | $9,440 | -47% | 6 | $1,573 | $139,378 | 3 |
2012/08/31 | 29 | $2,790 | -70% | 5 | $558 | $158,396 | 4 |
2012/09/07 | 30 | $1,733 | -38% | 1 | $1,733 | $169,372 | 5 |
2012/09/14 | 28 | $4,102 | +137% | 4 | $1,026 | $173,987 | 6 |
Box Office Summary Per Territory
Territory | Release Date |
Opening Weekend |
Opening Weekend Screens |
Maximum Screens |
Theatrical Engagements |
Total Box Office |
Report Date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Austria | 6/15/2012 | $0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | $8,407 | 12/10/2015 |
Germany | 6/14/2012 | $41,669 | 42 | 44 | 86 | $113,501 | 12/10/2015 |
Hungary | 10/25/2012 | $89 | 1 | 1 | 1 | $89 | 12/29/2018 |
North America | 7/27/2012 | $41,104 | 5 | 39 | 201 | $489,074 | |
Spain | 2/1/2013 | $0 | 0 | 6 | 16 | $9,786 | 12/14/2015 |
Taiwan | 11/16/2012 | $2,516 | 2 | 2 | 5 | $12,912 | 12/12/2015 |
United Kingdom | 8/10/2012 | $0 | 0 | 17 | 33 | $173,987 | 12/11/2015 |
Worldwide Total | $807,756 | 12/29/2018 |
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Documentary Subject(s)
Ai Weiwei | Himself |
Interviewee(s)
Ai Dan | Himself |
Lu Qing | Herself |
Wang Fen | Himself |
Chen Danquing | Himself |
Feng Boyi | Himself |
Gu Changwei | Himself |
He Yunchang | Himself |
Hsieh 'Sam' Tehching | Himself |
Hung Huang | Herself |
RongRong | Himself |
Zhang Hongtu | Himself |
Zuoxiao Zuzhou | Himself |
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Production and Technical Credits
Alison Klayman | Director |
Alison Klayman | Producer |
Alison Klayman | Cinematographer |
Jennifer Fineran | Editor |
Ilan Isakov | Composer |
Adam Schlesinger | Producer |
Andrew Cohen | Executive Producer |
Julie Goldman | Executive Producer |
Karl Katz | Executive Producer |