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#2,599 All-time worldwide
#78 2006 releases

Movie profile

Lady in the Water

2006 · 110 min · Legendary Pictures

Drama Fantasy Mystery
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $72.8M
Budget $70.0M
Gross minus budget $2.8M
ROI 1.04x

Domestic gross

$36.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$36.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$6.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Lady in the Water 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 #2,599 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2006 releases #78 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2006. Studio / company #23 Legendary Pictures of 27 titles Position inside the mapped Legendary Pictures movie set. Primary genre #860 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 Lady in the Water (2006) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Lady in the Water (2006) earned a reported $72.8M worldwide against a reported $70.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $2.8M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.04x. In this database it currently ranks #2,599 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #78 among 2006 releases.

Worldwide gross
$72,785,169
Budget
$70,000,000
Gross minus budget
$2,785,169
ROI
1.04x
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

Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 19, 2006
Production
Legendary Pictures, Blinding Edge Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyLegendary Pictures Release year chart2006 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartFantasy Genre chartMystery

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2006, Lady in the Water is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Fantasy, Mystery title from Legendary Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $72.8M, reported production budget is $70.0M, gross-minus-budget is $2.8M, ROI is 1.04x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,599 all-time in the current chart set and #78 among 2006 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.