South Korea Box Office for Dead Poets Society (1989)

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Theatrical Performance (US$)
South Korea Box Office $702,155Details
Worldwide Box Office $239,500,000Details
Further financial details...

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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
2016/08/26 16 $60,726   71 $855   $91,217 1,372
2016/09/02 20 $29,884 -51% 53 $564   $150,015 1,373
2021/04/02 14 $17,874   103 $174   $416,235 1,612
2021/04/09 - $1,440 -92% 12 $120   $424,037 1,613

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
North America 6/2/1989 $0 0 1,109 9,927 $95,860,116
South Korea 5/19/1990 $0 0 103 239 $702,155 4/15/2021
 
Rest of World $142,937,729
 
Worldwide Total$239,500,000 4/15/2021

Leading Cast

Robin Williams John Keating

Uncategorized

Ethan Hawke Todd Anderson
Robert Sean Leonard Neil Perry
Josh Charles Knox Overstreet
Kurtwood Smith Mr. Perry
Jamie Kennedy Extra (uncredited)
Lara Flynn Boyle Ginny Danburry
Melora Walters Gloria

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Production and Technical Credits

Peter Weir Director