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#113 All-time worldwide

#8 2016 releases

Movie profile

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Name: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Released: 2016-11-16
Duration: 133 min

2016 · 133 min · Heyday Films

Fantasy Adventure

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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.

Worldwide gross $809.3M

Budget $180.0M

Gross minus budget $629.3M

ROI 4.50x

Domestic gross

$323.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$485.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$90.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.

Open rankings

All-time worldwide #113 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2016 releases #8 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2016. Studio / company #1 Heyday Films of 3 titles Position inside the mapped Heyday Films movie set. Franchise #1 Fantastic Beasts of 3 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #40 Fantasy of 1,306 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.

#110 Independence Day 1996 · $817.4M #111 Coco 2017 · $814.6M #112 Shrek the Third 2007 · $813.4M #114 Jumanji: The Next Level 2019 · $801.7M #115 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 · $797.3M #116 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales 2017 · $795.9M

Quick answer

How did Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) perform at the box office?

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) earned a reported $809.3M worldwide against a reported $180.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $629.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 4.50x. In this database it currently ranks #113 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #8 among 2016 releases.

Worldwide gross: $809,342,332
Budget: $180,000,000
Gross minus budget: $629,342,332
ROI: 4.50x

Source: Reported box office data. Last updated: Jul 8, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

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Movie facts

Production details

Release date: Nov 16, 2016
Production: Heyday Films, Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries: GB, US

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Studio / production companyHeyday Films FranchiseFantastic Beasts Release year chart2016 box office Genre chartFantasy Genre chartAdventure

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2016, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is positioned in this dataset as a Fantasy, Adventure title from Heyday Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $809.3M, reported production budget is $180.0M, gross-minus-budget is $629.3M, ROI is 4.50x. For comparison, it currently sits #113 all-time in the current chart set and #8 among 2016 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.