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#8,736 All-time worldwide
#225 2005 releases

Movie profile

Bee Season

2005 · 104 min · Fox Searchlight Pictures

Drama Family
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $6.9M
Budget $14.0M
Gross minus budget -$7.1M
ROI 0.49x

Domestic gross

$2.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$884,552

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Bee Season 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 #8,736 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2005 releases #225 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2005. Studio / company #40 Fox Searchlight Pictures of 45 titles Position inside the mapped Fox Searchlight Pictures movie set. Primary genre #3,705 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.

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Quick answer

How did Bee Season (2005) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Bee Season (2005) earned a reported $6.9M worldwide against a reported $14.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$7.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.49x. In this database it currently ranks #8,736 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #225 among 2005 releases.

Worldwide gross
$6,856,989
Budget
$14,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$7,143,011
ROI
0.49x
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

Wife and mother Miriam begins a downward emotional spiral as her husband avoids their collapsing marriage by immersing himself in his 11-year-old daughter's quest to become a spelling-bee champion.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 3, 2005
Production
Fox Searchlight Pictures, New Regency Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyFox Searchlight Pictures Release year chart2005 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartFamily

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2005, Bee Season is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Family title from Fox Searchlight Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $6.9M, reported production budget is $14.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$7.1M, ROI is 0.49x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,736 all-time in the current chart set and #225 among 2005 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.