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#5,723 All-time worldwide
#183 2013 releases

Movie profile

Blue Is the Warmest Color

2013 · 180 min · Wild Bunch

Romance Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $19.8M
Budget $4.3M
Gross minus budget $15.5M
ROI 4.60x

Domestic gross

$9.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$9.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Blue Is the Warmest Color 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 #5,723 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2013 releases #183 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 2013. Studio / company #3 Wild Bunch of 8 titles Position inside the mapped Wild Bunch movie set. Primary genre #1,030 Romance of 2,607 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 Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) earned a reported $19.8M worldwide against a reported $4.3M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $15.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 4.60x. In this database it currently ranks #5,723 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #183 among 2013 releases.

Worldwide gross
$19,796,489
Budget
$4,300,000
Gross minus budget
$15,496,489
ROI
4.60x
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

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 9, 2013
Production
Wild Bunch, SCOPE Pictures, Quat'sous Films
Countries
BE, FR, ES

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Studio / production companyWild Bunch Release year chart2013 box office Genre chartRomance Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2013, Blue Is the Warmest Color is positioned in this dataset as a Romance, Drama title from Wild Bunch. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $19.8M, reported production budget is $4.3M, gross-minus-budget is $15.5M, ROI is 4.60x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,723 all-time in the current chart set and #183 among 2013 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.