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#3,151 All-time worldwide
#90 2005 releases

Movie profile

Good Night, and Good Luck.

2005 · 92 min · Warner Independent Pictures

Drama History
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $54.6M
Budget $7.0M
Gross minus budget $47.6M
ROI 7.80x

Domestic gross

$27.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$27.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$4.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Good Night, and Good Luck. 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 #3,151 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2005 releases #90 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2005. Studio / company #1 Warner Independent Pictures of 4 titles Position inside the mapped Warner Independent Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,090 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.

#3,148 Small Soldiers 1998 · $54.7M #3,149 The Hot Chick 2002 · $54.6M #3,150 Les Misérables 2019 · $54.6M #3,153 No More Bets 2023 · $54.6M #3,154 The Boys in the Boat 2023 · $54.4M #3,155 No Escape 2015 · $54.4M

Quick answer

How did Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) earned a reported $54.6M worldwide against a reported $7.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $47.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 7.80x. In this database it currently ranks #3,151 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #90 among 2005 releases.

Worldwide gross
$54,600,000
Budget
$7,000,000
Gross minus budget
$47,600,000
ROI
7.80x
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 story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 16, 2005
Production
Warner Independent Pictures, 2929 Productions, Redbus Pictures
Countries
FR, JP, GB, US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2005, Good Night, and Good Luck. is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, History title from Warner Independent Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $54.6M, reported production budget is $7.0M, gross-minus-budget is $47.6M, ROI is 7.80x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,151 all-time in the current chart set and #90 among 2005 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.