 Contact premiered on July 1, 1997, at the Westwood Theater in Los Angeles, California. The film was released in the United States on July 11, 1997, in 1,923 theaters, earning $ 20,584,908 in its opening weekend. Contact eventually grossed $ 100,920,329 in the US and $ 70,200,000 in foreign countries, reaching a worldwide total of $ 171,120,329.
