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The Paperboy

The Paperboy
2013

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Directed by

Lee Daniels

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UK box office

  • Debut box office: 15th Mar '13
  • Debut position: 13
  • Highest position: 13
  • Debut gross: £141.9 Thousand
  • Total chart weeks: 2

US box office

  • Box Office debut: 2nd Nov '12
  • Debut position: 47
  • Highest position: 47
  • Debut gross: $48.4 Thousand
  • Total chart weeks: 3

Chart position history

UK box office

15 Mar, 2013
13
22 Mar, 2013
15

US box office

Global box office

Certificates


15 age rating

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag  £314.9 Thousand
US total gross
United States Flag  $692.6 Thousand
Global total gross
Global Flag  $0

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Total views:
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10th Aug 2025
Last viewed:
21st Oct 2025
News from around the web
Hear me out: why The Paperboy isn’t a bad movie  The Guardian Mon, 26th April 2021

How ‘glacial’ Nicole Kidman became Hollywood’s most sexually daring star  The Telegraph Mon, 13th January 2025

Review: The Paperboy  Film Comment Fri, 5th October 2012

The Paperboy  Reverse Shot Mon, 15th October 2012

The Paperboy  Screen Daily Thu, 24th May 2012

PAPERBOY GETS KICK START AT CARTOON MOVIE  Screen Ireland Sat, 3rd May 2025

Last weekend saw Spider-Man: No Way Home at the top of the UK box office, with 5 new releases can any of them do enough to top the box office chart this weekend?

Here are this weeks new releases

  • Sing 2
  • Flag Day
  • Amulet
  • Detective Chinatown 3
  • Parallel Mother's

Sing 2

  • The movie is directed by Garth Jennings, it is the directors 4th movie.
  • Garth Jennings also directed Sing in 2017 which grossed £28.8 Mil. in the UK and grossed $634.1 Mil. globally.
  • It stars Matthew McConaughey who also starred in The Paperboy (2013).
  • The film also stars Reese Witherspoon who last appeared in A Wrinkle In Time (2018).
  • Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon have starred in 2 other movies together.
  • They also appeared together in Sing (2017) and Mud (2013).
  • The BBFC UK age rating is
  • Box Office Prediction: No. 1

Flag Day

  • The movie is directed by Sean Penn, it is the directors 7th movie.
  • Sean Penn also directed Into the Wild in 2007 which grossed £742.2K in the UK.
  • It stars Dylan Penn who also starred in Condemned (2015).
  • The film also stars Sean Penn who last appeared in Licorice Pizza (2021).
  • The BBFC UK age rating is
  • Box Office Prediction: No. 8

Amulet

  • The movie is from director Romola Garai
  • This movie is a directorial debut.
  • It stars Carla Juri who also starred in Six Minutes to Midnight (2021).
  • The film also stars Alec Secareanu who last appeared in Ammonite (2020).
  • The BBFC UK age rating is

Detective Chinatown 3

Parallel Mother's

  • The movie is directed by Pedro Almodovar, it is the directors 23rd movie.
  • Pedro Almodovar also directed Bad Education in 2004 which grossed £1.2 Mil. in the UK.
  • It stars Penélope Cruz who also starred in The Greek Labyrinth (1993).
  • The film also stars Milena Smit who is making a feature film debut.
  • The BBFC UK age rating is

Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Next week there are 3 new movies released

  • Moonfall, Friday, 4th February
  • Jackass Forever, Friday, 4th February
  • The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Friday, 4th February

A lot of new releases this week starring the likes of Jim Carrey, Elijah Wood, Zac Efron, James McAvoy and then there's The Last Exorcism sequel. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is a wacky comedy also starring Steve Carell alongside Jim Carrey about 2 superstar magicians who are being out performed by street magicians so they go for sabotage of their act.

Maniac is a serial killer story about a Mannequin shop owner who develops a dangerous obsession with an artist.

The Paperboy has a seller cast of Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman and John Cusack, the story follows a reporter who returns to Florida to investigate a case which involves a prisoner on death row.

Welcome to the punch is a criminal cat and mouse story about an ex-con who returns to London for family reasons and is then pursued by an old foe looking to finally get revenge.

The Last Exorcism Part 2 is is a sequel film about an Exorcism, clearly the last one wasn't the last one!