United Kingdom Box Office for Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

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Theatrical Performance (US$)
United Kingdom Box Office $566,468Details
Worldwide Box Office $12,902,501Details
Home Market Performance
North America DVD Sales $2,311,358 Details
North America Blu-ray Sales $1,652,955 Details
Total North America Video Sales $3,964,313
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Synopsis

In the late '60s, two celebrated producers, who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics, discovered a musician in a Detroit bar. They recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation as one of the greatest recording artists of his generation. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, it became a phenomenon. Two South African fans then set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation led them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez.

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Movie Details

United Kingdom Releases: July 27th, 2012 (Wide)
Video Release: January 22nd, 2013 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language and some drug references.
Running Time: 85 minutes
Keywords: Musicians, Rock 'n' Roll, Big Break, Directing Yourself, 1970s, 1960s, Set in South Africa, Presumed Dead, Political Activist, Biography, Oscars Best Documentary Winner, Social and Cultural Documentary
Source:Based on Real Life Events
Genre:Documentary
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Factual
Production/Financing Companies: Red Box Films, Passion Pictures, Confield Pictures, The Documentary Company
Production Countries: United States
Languages: English

Blu-ray Sales: January 27th, 2013: End Begins On Top

March 14th, 2013

New releases did well on the Blu-ray sales chart for the week of January 27th, 2013. This includes End of Watch, which earned first place with 428,000 units / $9.41 million. Its opening week Blu-ray share was just a hair over 50%, which is really impressive for this type of release. More...

2013 Awards Season: Argo Unites a Divided Night at the Oscars

February 25th, 2013

Argo was the big winner at the Oscars last night, although arguably, there were no big winners, but a lot of films that shared in the glory. There were also some pretty interesting twists and a few events that stand out. Due to ongoing computer difficulties, I was unable to live-blog the Oscars this year. I will still be giving my reactions on a category by category basis, but not in the order they were handed out. More...

2013 Awards Season: Argo's Wins go From Zero to Thirty

February 19th, 2013

Argo continues its winning ways at the WGAs this weekend. It has become the defacto favorite for the Oscars, despite the high profile Oscar snub. More...

2013 Awards Season: Oscar Contest: Category Highlight: Best Feature-Length Documentary

February 6th, 2013

With our annual Oscar Prediction contest underway, now is the best time to look at the nominees and try and figure out who the favorites are and which films should just feel honored to be nominated. Today we look at Best Feature-Length Documentary, which is probably not as competitive as I thought it would be. There are two films that earned perfect reviews, so it should be a close race between those two for the Oscar, right? More...

2013 Awards Season: Argo Adds to Awards Season Haul

February 3rd, 2013

Directors Guild of America Awards were this weekend and the big winner shouldn't surprise too many people, assuming they've been paying attention. Argo won yet again and given this, Ben Affleck should be the favorite to win an Oscar at the end of the month... except he wasn't even nominated. More...

2013 Awards Season: Argo Escapes With the Win

January 28th, 2013

Producers Guild of America gave out their awards over the weekend, and there were a couple surprises, including a big win for Argo. More...

DVD and Blu-ray Releases for January 22nd, 2013

January 21st, 2013

There are not a lot of big releases on this week's list with End of Watch being the biggest. Conveniently, it is also the best and it is the Pick of the Week on either DVD or Blu-ray Combo Pack. More...

2013 Awards Season: DGA Diverge From Oscars

January 14th, 2013

The Directors Guild of America handed out their nominations for Feature Films last week and Documentaries today. No, I have no idea why they split up their announcements. Usually, there's a lot of overlap between the DGAs and the Oscars, but that's not the case this year, so we again have some surprises. More...

2013 Awards Season: Lincoln Oversees a Divided Group of Nominees

January 10th, 2013

The Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and there's certainly a lot to talk about. There are some nominations that should surprise no one. For instance, Lincoln led the way with twelve nominations, and it has been seen as the major contender for a long time. However, there were also a few surprise nominations and some major snubs. Here are the list of nominations, and some reactions. More...

2013 Awards Season: WGAs Leaves Analysts In the Dark

January 7th, 2013

Surprises seems to be the word of the day, as the WGA nominations included a number of them. Granted, Zero Dark Thirty and a lot of the other films that have earned Awards Season success thus far were here, but there were almost as many surprises as there were obvious choices. More...

2013 Awards Season: PGA Produces a Few Surprises

January 6th, 2013

Producers Guild of America announced their nominations this week, including the three theatrical categories. There were a number of films on the list that have been mentioned time and time again this awards season, like Zero Dark Thirty, but there were also a few surprises. More...

Per Theater Chart: Zero to $1 million in Nine Days

January 3rd, 2013

Zero Dark Thirty shot up to the top of the per theater chart with averages of $83,430 during its opening weekend and $63,283 during its sophomore stint. Expanding truly wide is virtually guaranteed. Amour was well back with an average of $20,005 over the past weekend and $22,755 during its opening weekend. The Impossible rose 27% to $12,172 in 15 theaters. This is a great sign and while its reviews are too low to be a major contender during Awards Season, it should still do well enough to expand significantly, but probably not truly wide. The final film in the $10,000 club was Django Unchained, which opened with an average of $10,008. More...

Per Theater Chart: Session In, New Releases Out

October 30th, 2012

The Sessions was the only film to top $10,000 on the per theater chart with an average of $10,868 in 20 theaters. Earning some measure of mainstream success is very likely at this point. More...

Per Theater Chart: Mastering the Per Theater Chart

September 19th, 2012

We had a monster hit on the per theater chart, as The Master earned close to $750,000 in five theaters for an average of $147,262. This is unbelievably strong; however, one does have to take into account the particulars. The Master was released on 70mm and because this is such an unusual event, the tickets were sold at a premium price. The only other film to top the $10,000 mark was Arbitrage, which made just over $2 million in just under 200 theaters for an average of $10,163. More...

Dark Knight Puts the Spark in the Per Theater Chart

July 31st, 2012

The Dark Knight Rises remained on top of the per theater chart with an average of $14,101 in more than 4,400 theaters. Killer Joe opened with an average of $12,621 in three theaters, while Ruby Sparks was also strong with an average of $10,832 in thirteen. Both films have some potential to expand. Deep Sea 3-D remained strong with $10,412 in its lone theater. More...

Searching for Killer Limited Releases

July 27th, 2012

There are not a huge number of limited releases on this week's chart, but all of them are earning overall positive reviews, and a few of them are generating some strong buzz. Killer Joe is one such film, but its rating could prevent it from reaching a sizable audience. Ruby Sparks has far more populous appeal, but weaker reviews. Searching for Sugar Man has some of the best reviews of the month, but documentaries rarely escape the grasp of limited release. More...

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
2012/07/27 6 $108,044   28 $3,859   $108,044 1
2012/08/03 9 $65,897 -39% 43 $1,532   $254,568 2
2012/08/10 12 $32,728 -50% 31 $1,056   $358,760 3
2012/08/17 14 $25,992 -21% 19 $1,368   $426,362 4
2012/08/24 17 $18,856 -27% 12 $1,571   $479,497 5
2012/08/31 19 $14,019 -26% 12 $1,168   $525,542 6
2012/09/07 23 $6,305 -55% 8 $788   $542,061 7
2012/09/14 27 $5,015 -20% 5 $1,003   $554,409 8
2012/09/21 31 $3,989 -20% 3 $1,330   $566,468 9

Box Office Summary Per Territory

$00
Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Australia 3/25/2021 $135 2 2 3 $716,556 9/5/2023
Austria 12/28/2012 $4,863 5 5 9 $25,180 12/13/2015
Croatia 4/11/2013 $464 3 3 3 $464 12/30/2018
Denmark 10/4/2012 $0 0 5 10 $159,239 12/12/2015
Italy 10/16/2023 00$0
Lebanon 2/7/2013 $1,346 1 1 6 $13,464 12/30/2018
Netherlands 12/20/2012 $480 3 3 3 $480 12/13/2015
New Zealand 10/14/2012 $0 0 15 79 $231,861 9/21/2020
North America 7/27/2012 $27,459 3 157 1,572 $3,965,090 12/5/2014
Norway 12/25/2012 $13,416 19 19 28 $44,534 12/13/2015
Poland 2/22/2013 $0 0 33 153 $342,485 12/30/2018
South Korea 10/11/2012 $0 0 36 36 $163,568 10/18/2023
Spain 2/22/2013 $0 0 13 105 $1,085,246 12/13/2015
Sweden 8/24/2012 $0 0 67 297 $1,749,108 12/14/2015
United Arab Emirates 12/6/2012 $619 1 1 1 $800 12/29/2018
United Kingdom 7/27/2012 $108,044 28 43 161 $566,468 12/11/2015
 
Rest of World $3,837,958
 
Worldwide Total$12,902,501 10/18/2023

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Supporting Cast

Steve M. Harris    Harris

Interviewee(s)

Ilse Assmnn    Herself
Clarence Avant    Himself
Craig Bartholomew-Strydom    Himself
Dennis Coffey    Himself
Dan DiMaggio    Himself
Rick Emmerson    Himself
Jerome Ferretti    Himself
Rian Malan    Himself

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

Production and Technical Credits

Malik Bendjelloul    Director
Malik Bendjelloul    Producer
Malik Bendjelloul    Cinematographer
Malik Bendjelloul    Editor
Simon Chinn    Producer
John Battsek    Executive Producer
Camilla Skagerstrom    Cinematographer
George Chignell    Co-Producer
Nicole Stott    Co-Producer

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