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#4,408 All-time worldwide
#126 2024 releases

Movie profile

Harold and the Purple Crayon

2024 · 90 min · Davis Entertainment

Family Comedy Adventure Fantasy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $32.2M
Budget $40.0M
Gross minus budget -$7.8M
ROI 0.81x

Domestic gross

$13.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$18.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$4.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Harold and the Purple Crayon 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 #4,408 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2024 releases #126 Release-year chart position of 241 titles Ranked against movies released in 2024. Studio / company #15 Davis Entertainment of 21 titles Position inside the mapped Davis Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #679 Family of 1,380 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.

#4,405 Hart's War 2002 · $32.3M #4,406 The Age of Innocence 1993 · $32.3M #4,407 Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain 2013 · $32.2M #4,409 My Hero Academia: You're Next 2024 · $32.2M #4,410 The Lost Boys 1987 · $32.2M #4,411 Perfect Strangers 2016 · $32.2M

Quick answer

How did Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024) earned a reported $32.2M worldwide against a reported $40.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$7.8M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.81x. In this database it currently ranks #4,408 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #126 among 2024 releases.

Worldwide gross
$32,227,855
Budget
$40,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$7,772,145
ROI
0.81x
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

Inside of his book, adventurous Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 31, 2024
Production
Davis Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, TSG Entertainment
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2024, Harold and the Purple Crayon is positioned in this dataset as a Family, Comedy, Adventure title from Davis Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $32.2M, reported production budget is $40.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$7.8M, ROI is 0.81x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,408 all-time in the current chart set and #126 among 2024 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.