Budget: $17 million
Release date: May 20, 2011
Box office gross: $148,416,815
Profit: $131,416,815
"Midnight in Paris" is director Woody Allen's top-grossing film ever in North America, his first to gross over $100 million worldwide, and, critically, his best-received work in many years. Making the best of the film's paltry promotional budget, Sony Classics sent out press packets encouraging writers to ask star Owen Wilson questions about "Midnight in Paris" while he was promoting another film, "Cars 2," and bought ad space primarily around Wilson's appearances on late night talk shows.
Fun fact: Carla Bruni, former model and the wife of French President Nicolas Sakozy, appears in the film as a tour guide.
