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#7,033 All-time worldwide
#217 2017 releases

Movie profile

Battle of the Sexes

2017 · 121 min · Fox Searchlight Pictures

Drama Comedy History
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $12.6M
Budget $25.0M
Gross minus budget -$12.4M
ROI 0.51x

Domestic gross

$6.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Battle of the Sexes ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #7,033 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2017 releases #217 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2017. Studio / company #31 Fox Searchlight Pictures of 45 titles Position inside the mapped Fox Searchlight Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,918 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#7,030 The Spitfire Grill 1996 · $12.6M #7,031 Idlewild 2006 · $12.6M #7,032 The Bedroom Window 1987 · $12.6M #7,034 Everybody's All-American 1988 · $12.6M #7,035 Narc 2002 · $12.6M #7,036 Made in Dagenham 2010 · $12.6M

Quick answer

How did Battle of the Sexes (2017) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Battle of the Sexes (2017) earned a reported $12.6M worldwide against a reported $25.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$12.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.51x. In this database it currently ranks #7,033 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #217 among 2017 releases.

Worldwide gross
$12,638,526
Budget
$25,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$12,361,474
ROI
0.51x
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

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 22, 2017
Production
Fox Searchlight Pictures, Decibel Films, Cloud Eight Films
Countries
GB, US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2017, Battle of the Sexes is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Comedy, History title from Fox Searchlight Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $12.6M, reported production budget is $25.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$12.4M, ROI is 0.51x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,033 all-time in the current chart set and #217 among 2017 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.