Editing The Sixth Sense (section)

=== Box office ===
''The Sixth Sense'' had a production budget of approximately $40 million (plus $25 million for prints and advertising). During its opening weekend, the film grossed $26.6 million, making it the largest August opening weekend, surpassing ''[[The Fugitive (1993 film)|The Fugitive]]'' (1993).<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Wolk|first=Josh|title=''The Sixth Sense'' sets an August record|url=https://ew.com/article/1999/08/09/sixth-sense-sets-august-record/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=July 13, 2022|date=August 9, 1999}}</ref> It would go on to hold this record for two years until it was overtaken by ''[[Rush Hour 2]]'' in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|last=Linder|first=Brian|title=Weekend Box Office: Rush Hour Jams Theaters|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/08/07/weekend-box-office-rush-hour-jams-theaters|website=IGN|access-date=July 13, 2022|date=August 7, 2001}}</ref> The film spent five weeks as the [[List of 1999 box office number-one films in the United States|number 1 film at the U.S. box office]], becoming only the second film, after ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' (1997), to have grossed more than $20 million each for five weekends.<ref name="boxofficemojo" /><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Daily Variety]]|date=September 8, 1999|page=A1|title=Variety's Summer Cup: Milestones}}</ref> With a total gross of $29.2 million, ''The Sixth Sense'' set the record for having the largest Labor Day weekend gross until 2007 when it was surpassed by ''[[Halloween (2007 film)|Halloween]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ocregister.com/2007/09/03/halloween-scares-up-a-labor-day-box-office-record/|title='Halloween' scares up a Labor Day box office record|date=September 3, 2007 |work=[[The Orange County Register]] }}</ref> During Labor Day, it made $6.3 million, making it the biggest September Monday gross, holding that record until it was beaten by ''[[It (2017 film)|It]]'' in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/09/it-movie-stephen-king-september-record-monday-1202167805/|title='It' Posts Record Monday For September With $8.8M|last=D'Alessandro|first=Anthony|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=September 12, 2017|access-date=September 13, 2017}}</ref> It grossed $293,506,292 in the United States and Canada, surpassing ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' as the tenth highest grossing film of all time in that market at the time.<ref name=alltime>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=March 31, 2000|page=33|title=The Sixth Sense makes all-time top 10|last=Goodridge|first=Mike}}</ref> [[Box Office Mojo]] estimates that the film sold over 57.5 million tickets in the US and Canada.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Sixth Sense (1999) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3527509505/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804145651/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=sixthsense.htm&adjust_yr=1&p=.htm |archive-date=August 4, 2016 |access-date=May 31, 2016 |website=Box Office Mojo}}</ref>

In Europe, the film sold 37,124,510 tickets at the box office.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Sixth Sense |url=https://lumiere.obs.coe.int/movie/12020 |access-date=23 April 2022 |website=[[Lumiere (database)|Lumiere]]}}</ref> In the United Kingdom, it was given at first a limited release on nine screens, and entered at number 8 at the UK box office before climbing up to [[List of 1999 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom|number one]] the following week with 430 theatres playing the film.<ref>{{cite web
| url = https://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/?date=1999-11-05&region=uk
| title = United Kingdom Box Office Returns for the weekend starting 5 November 1999
| access-date = 2008-01-27
| publisher = [[Internet Movie Database]]
| archive-date = October 31, 2015
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151031214102/http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/?date=1999-11-05&region=uk
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url = https://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/?date=1999-11-12&region=uk
| title = United Kingdom Box Office Returns for the weekend starting 12 November 1999
| access-date = 2008-01-27
| publisher = [[Internet Movie Database]]
| archive-date = October 31, 2015
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151031214106/http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/?date=1999-11-12&region=uk
| url-status = dead
}}</ref> It had a record opening in the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=3 December 2001|page=15|title=O'seas B.O. rises to wizard's wand|last=Groves|first=Don}}</ref> It had a worldwide gross of $672,806,292, ranking it ninth on the list of worldwide box-office money earners at the time.<ref name=alltime/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Top Grossing Pictures Worldwide |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltimeworldwide.html|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20001119182900/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltimeworldwide.html|archive-date=November 19, 2000|access-date=May 6, 2024 |website=Box Office Mojo}}</ref>