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#2,917 All-time worldwide
#103 2018 releases

Movie profile

Life of the Party

2018 · 105 min · On The Day

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $61.7M
Budget $30.0M
Gross minus budget $31.7M
ROI 2.06x

Domestic gross

$24.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$37.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$6.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Life of the Party 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 #2,917 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2018 releases #103 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 2018. Primary genre #1,096 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.

#2,914 Krampus 2015 · $61.8M #2,915 Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' 2015 · $61.8M #2,916 Valiant 2005 · $61.7M #2,918 Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins 2012 · $61.7M #2,919 The 13th Warrior 1999 · $61.7M #2,920 Everything, Everything 2017 · $61.6M

Quick answer

How did Life of the Party (2018) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Life of the Party (2018) earned a reported $61.7M worldwide against a reported $30.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $31.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.06x. In this database it currently ranks #2,917 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #103 among 2018 releases.

Worldwide gross
$61,700,416
Budget
$30,000,000
Gross minus budget
$31,700,416
ROI
2.06x
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

When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college... landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna – now Dee Rock – embraces freedom, fun, and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 10, 2018
Production
On the Day, New Line Cinema
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyOn The Day Release year chart2018 box office Genre chartComedy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2018, Life of the Party is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from On the Day. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $61.7M, reported production budget is $30.0M, gross-minus-budget is $31.7M, ROI is 2.06x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,917 all-time in the current chart set and #103 among 2018 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.