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#4,194 All-time worldwide
#129 2012 releases

Movie profile

Chimpanzee

2012 · 78 min · Disneynature

Documentary
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $34.8M
Budget $5.0M
Gross minus budget $29.8M
ROI 6.96x

Domestic gross

$13.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$20.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Chimpanzee 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 #4,194 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2012 releases #129 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2012. Studio / company #2 Disneynature of 4 titles Position inside the mapped Disneynature movie set. Primary genre #30 Documentary of 204 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.

#4,191 Gomorrah 2008 · $34.9M #4,192 Secret in Their Eyes 2015 · $34.9M #4,193 Roofman 2025 · $34.9M #4,195 Disaster Movie 2008 · $34.8M #4,196 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 · $34.8M #4,197 Sunshine 2007 · $34.8M

Quick answer

How did Chimpanzee (2012) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Chimpanzee (2012) earned a reported $34.8M worldwide against a reported $5.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $29.8M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 6.96x. In this database it currently ranks #4,194 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #129 among 2012 releases.

Worldwide gross
$34,823,764
Budget
$5,000,000
Gross minus budget
$29,823,764
ROI
6.96x
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

A nature documentary centered on a family of chimps living in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests. Through Oscar, a little chimpanzee, we discover learning about life in the heart of the African tropical forest and follow his first steps in this world with humor, emotion and anguish. Following a tragedy, he finds himself separated from his mother and left alone to face the hostility of the jungle. Until he is picked up by an older chimpanzee, who will take him under her protection.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 20, 2012
Production
Disneynature
Countries
FR

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2012, Chimpanzee is positioned in this dataset as a Documentary title from Disneynature. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $34.8M, reported production budget is $5.0M, gross-minus-budget is $29.8M, ROI is 6.96x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,194 all-time in the current chart set and #129 among 2012 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.