New Zealand Box Office for The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
| Theatrical Performance (US$) | ||
| New Zealand Box Office | $53,560 | Details |
| Worldwide Box Office | $2,104,733 | Details |
| Further financial details... | ||
Synopsis
The legendary Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, spent much of her career being adored by fans across the globe. Beginning in the 1940’s in New York City, the federal government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to escalate and racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial and heart-wrenching ballad, “Strange Fruit.”
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Movie Details
| New Zealand Releases: | April 22nd, 2021 (Wide) |
| Video Release: | February 26th, 2021 by Hulu |
| MPAA Rating: | R for strong drug content, sexual content, nudity, language throughout, some lynching images and violence. (Rating bulletin 2670 (cert #52968), 3/3/2021) |
| Running Time: | 130 minutes |
| Keywords: | Jazz, Biographical Drama, Biography, 1940s, Singers, African Americans, Relationships Gone Wrong |
| Source: | Based on Real Life Events |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Dramatization |
| Production/Financing Companies: | New Slate Ventures, Lee Daniels Entertainment, Roth Kirschenbaum Films, Hulu |
| Production Countries: | United States |
| Languages: | English |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/04/23 | 15 | $9,322 | 24 | $388 | $9,885 | 1 | |
| 2021/04/30 | 17 | $8,219 | -12% | 21 | $391 | $27,132 | 2 |
| 2021/05/07 | - | $5,364 | -35% | 25 | $215 | $36,371 | 3 |
| 2021/05/14 | - | $4,029 | -25% | 18 | $224 | $42,984 | 4 |
| 2021/05/21 | - | $2,720 | -32% | 14 | $194 | $46,698 | 5 |
| 2021/05/28 | - | $1,761 | -35% | 11 | $160 | $51,511 | 6 |
| 2021/06/04 | - | $809 | -54% | 8 | $101 | $53,123 | 7 |
| 2021/06/11 | - | $242 | -70% | 7 | $35 | $53,632 | 8 |
| 2021/06/18 | - | $7 | -97% | 2 | $4 | $52,502 | 9 |
| 2021/06/25 | - | $28 | +300% | 2 | $14 | $53,560 | 10 |
Box Office Summary Per Territory
| Territory | Release Date |
Opening Weekend |
Opening Weekend Screens |
Maximum Screens |
Theatrical Engagements |
Total Box Office |
Report Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 4/22/2021 | $77,650 | 66 | 66 | 336 | $362,378 | 10/20/2022 |
| France | 6/2/2021 | $268,903 | 268 | 280 | 752 | $543,119 | 6/28/2021 |
| Germany | 5/27/2021 | $0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $0 | |
| Italy | 5/5/2022 | $114,035 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $215,412 | 5/31/2022 |
| Netherlands | 11/4/2021 | $18,637 | 31 | 31 | 61 | $44,569 | 11/16/2021 |
| New Zealand | 4/22/2021 | $9,322 | 24 | 25 | 132 | $53,560 | 10/19/2022 |
| North America | 2/26/2021 | $0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $0 | 10/11/2024 |
| Portugal | 5/21/2021 | $5,962 | 21 | 21 | 42 | $18,115 | 6/29/2021 |
| South Korea | 11/4/2021 | $35,721 | 67 | 67 | 112 | $65,576 | 11/24/2021 |
| Spain | 4/2/2021 | $36,754 | 79 | 79 | 79 | $48,671 | 4/8/2021 |
| United Kingdom | 3/12/2021 | $0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $0 | |
| Rest of World | $753,333 | ||||||
| Worldwide Total | $2,104,733 | 10/11/2024 | |||||
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Leading Cast
| Andra Day | Billie Holiday |
Supporting Cast
| Trevante Rhodes | Jimmy Fletcher |
| Garrett Hedlund | Harry J. Anslinger |
| Natasha Lyonne | Tallulah Bankhead |
| Da’Vine Joy Randolph | Roslyn |
| Evan Ross | Sam Williams |
| Dana Gourrier | Sadie |
| Erik Laray Harvey | Monroe |
| Melvin Gregg | Joe Guy |
| Blake DeLong | Agent Carter |
For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.
Production and Technical Credits
| Lee Daniels | Director |
| Suzan-Lori Parks | Screenwriter |
| Johan Hari | Story Based on the 2015 New York Time’s Bestseller “The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs” by |
| Joe Roth | Producer |
| Jeff Kirshenbaum | Producer |
| Lee Daniels | Producer |
| Jordan Fudge | Producer |
| Tucker Tooley | Producer |
| Pamela Oas Williams | Producer |
| Jay Rabinowitz | Editor |
| Kris Bowers | Composer |
| Andrew Dunn | Director of Photography |