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===Box office=== ''The Insider'' was released in 1,809 theaters on November 5, 1999, where it grossed a total of $6,712,361 on its opening weekend and ranked fourth in the country for that time period. It went on to earn $29.1 million in North America, and $31.2 million in the rest of the world, for a total of $60.3 million worldwide, significantly lower than its $90 million budget.<ref name="boxoffice">{{cite news |title=''The Insider'' |publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=insider.htm|access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref> The film was considered to be a commercial disappointment. [[The Walt Disney Studios (division)|Disney]] executives had hoped that Mann's film would have the same commercial and critical success as ''[[All the President's Men (film)|All the President's Men]]'', a film in the same vein. However, ''The Insider'' had limited appeal to younger moviegoers—studio executives reportedly said that the prime audience was over age 40—and the subject matter was "not notably dramatic", according to marketing executives. Then-Disney chairman [[Joe Roth]] said, "It's like walking up a hill with a refrigerator on your back. The fact of the matter is we're really proud we did this movie. People say it's the best movie they've seen this year. They say, 'Why don't we make more movies like this?{{'"}}<ref name="weinraub">{{cite news|last = Weinraub|first=Bernard|title=At the Movies|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 3, 1999|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/03/movies/at-the-movies.html |access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref> After the film received seven [[Academy Awards|Academy-Award]] nominations but won none, Joe Roth said, "Everyone is really proud of the movie. But it's one of those rare times when adults loved a movie, yet they couldn't convince their friends to go see it, any more than we could convince people in marketing the film."<ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/2000/feb/16/entertainment/ca-64714/2 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531212612/http://articles.latimes.com/2000/feb/16/entertainment/ca-64714/2 | url-status=dead | archive-date=May 31, 2016 | title=The Wind Shifts and So Does the Hunt | author=Patrick Goldstein | date=February 16, 2000 | newspaper=Los Angeles Times | access-date=June 20, 2016}}</ref>
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