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#10,726 All-time worldwide
#42 1973 releases

Movie profile

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

1973 · 99 min · Paramount Pictures

Drama Family
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.6M
Budget $1.5M
Gross minus budget $100,000
ROI 1.07x

Domestic gross

$688,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$912,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$206,400

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Jonathan Livingston Seagull 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 #10,726 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1973 releases #42 Release-year chart position of 68 titles Ranked against movies released in 1973. Studio / company #390 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #4,694 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.

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Quick answer

How did Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973) earned a reported $1.6M worldwide against a reported $1.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $100.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.07x. In this database it currently ranks #10,726 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #42 among 1973 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,600,000
Budget
$1,500,000
Gross minus budget
$100,000
ROI
1.07x
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

Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn't fit in, the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets out to discover the world beyond the horizon in a quest for wisdom.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 23, 1973
Production
Paramount Pictures, The Jonathan Company
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1973 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartFamily

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1973, Jonathan Livingston Seagull is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Family title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.6M, reported production budget is $1.5M, gross-minus-budget is $100,000, ROI is 1.07x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,726 all-time in the current chart set and #42 among 1973 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.