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#7,349 All-time worldwide
#157 2022 releases

Movie profile

Empire of Light

2022 · 115 min · Searchlight Pictures

Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $11.4M
Budget $13.5M
Gross minus budget -$2.1M
ROI 0.84x

Domestic gross

$5.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Empire of Light 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 #7,349 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2022 releases #157 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2022. Studio / company #9 Searchlight Pictures of 11 titles Position inside the mapped Searchlight Pictures movie set. Primary genre #3,062 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.

#7,346 Stroker Ace 1983 · $11.4M #7,346 The Ref 1994 · $11.4M #7,346 Something New 2006 · $11.4M #7,350 Cops & Robbersons 1994 · $11.4M #7,351 Jennifer Eight 1992 · $11.4M #7,352 Haute Cuisine 2012 · $11.4M

Quick answer

How did Empire of Light (2022) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Empire of Light (2022) earned a reported $11.4M worldwide against a reported $13.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$2.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.84x. In this database it currently ranks #7,349 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #157 among 2022 releases.

Worldwide gross
$11,395,604
Budget
$13,500,000
Gross minus budget
-$2,104,396
ROI
0.84x
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 duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 9, 2022
Production
Searchlight Pictures, Neal Street Productions, TSG Entertainment
Countries
GB, US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2022, Empire of Light is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Romance title from Searchlight Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $11.4M, reported production budget is $13.5M, gross-minus-budget is -$2.1M, ROI is 0.84x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,349 all-time in the current chart set and #157 among 2022 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.