Dreamgirls
“All you have to do is dream.”
A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
Genres
Drama, Music
Studio
DreamWorks Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Dreamgirls performed
Budget
$70.0M
Worldwide Gross
$154.9M
Gross Profit
$84.9M
Return
2.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$22M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Curtis Taylor Jr.
Jamie Foxx
Curtis Taylor Jr.
Deena Jones
Beyoncé
Deena Jones
James 'Thunder' Early
Eddie Murphy
James 'Thunder' Early
Marty Madison
Danny Glover
Marty Madison
Effie White
Jennifer Hudson
Effie White
Lorrell Robinson
Anika Noni Rose
Lorrell Robinson
C.C. White
Keith D. Robinson
C.C. White
Michelle Morris
Sharon Leal
Michelle Morris
Wayne
Hinton Battle
Wayne
Magic
Mariah Iman Wilson
Magic
May
Yvette Cason
May
Max Washington
Ken Page
Max Washington
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