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#2,540 All-time worldwide
#86 2010 releases

Movie profile

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

2010 · 92 min · Dayday Films

Comedy Family
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $75.7M
Budget $15.0M
Gross minus budget $60.7M
ROI 5.05x

Domestic gross

$32.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$43.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$9.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Diary of a Wimpy Kid 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 #2,540 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2010 releases #86 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2010. Franchise #2 Diary Of A Wimpy Kid of 4 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #942 Comedy of 4,840 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 Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) earned a reported $75.7M worldwide against a reported $15.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $60.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 5.05x. In this database it currently ranks #2,540 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #86 among 2010 releases.

Worldwide gross
$75,700,000
Budget
$15,000,000
Gross minus budget
$60,700,000
ROI
5.05x
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

Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties!

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 19, 2010
Production
Dayday Films, Color Force, Dune Entertainment
Countries
GB, US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2010, Diary of a Wimpy Kid is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Family title from Dayday Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $75.7M, reported production budget is $15.0M, gross-minus-budget is $60.7M, ROI is 5.05x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,540 all-time in the current chart set and #86 among 2010 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.