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#6,112 All-time worldwide
#178 2008 releases

Movie profile

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

2008 · 110 min · UK Film Council

Comedy Romance Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $17.3M
Budget $28.0M
Gross minus budget -$10.7M
ROI 0.62x

Domestic gross

$8.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$8.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where How to Lose Friends & Alienate People 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 #6,112 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2008 releases #178 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2008. Studio / company #3 UK Film Council of 7 titles Position inside the mapped UK Film Council movie set. Primary genre #2,385 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 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) perform at the box office?

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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) earned a reported $17.3M worldwide against a reported $28.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$10.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.62x. In this database it currently ranks #6,112 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #178 among 2008 releases.

Worldwide gross
$17,286,299
Budget
$28,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$10,713,701
ROI
0.62x
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

Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attracting the attention of Clayton Harding, editor of New York-based glossy magazine 'Sharps', and landing the holy grail of journalism jobs. The Brit jets off to the Big Apple and moves from one blunder to the next.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 2, 2008
Production
UK Film Council, Intandem Films, Number 9 Films
Countries
GB

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2008, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Romance, Drama title from UK Film Council. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $17.3M, reported production budget is $28.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$10.7M, ROI is 0.62x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,112 all-time in the current chart set and #178 among 2008 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.