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#1,989 All-time worldwide
#79 2014 releases

Movie profile

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

2014 · 81 min · Walt Disney Pictures

Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $100.7M
Budget $28.0M
Gross minus budget $72.7M
ROI 3.59x

Domestic gross

$43.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$57.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$13.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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Quick answer

How did Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014) earned a reported $100.7M worldwide against a reported $28.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $72.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 3.59x. In this database it currently ranks #1,989 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #79 among 2014 releases.

Worldwide gross
$100,654,149
Budget
$28,000,000
Gross minus budget
$72,654,149
ROI
3.59x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 8, 2014
Production
Walt Disney Pictures, 21 Laps Entertainment, The Jim Henson Company
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2014, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is positioned in this dataset as a Family, Comedy title from Walt Disney Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $100.7M, reported production budget is $28.0M, gross-minus-budget is $72.7M, ROI is 3.59x. For comparison, it currently sits #1,989 all-time in the current chart set and #79 among 2014 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.