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#2,885 All-time worldwide
#86 2009 releases

Movie profile

Little Nicholas

2009 · 91 min · Scope Pictures

Comedy Family
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $62.8M
Budget $22.7M
Gross minus budget $40.1M
ROI 2.77x

Domestic gross

$27.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$35.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$8.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Little Nicholas 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 #2,885 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2009 releases #86 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2009. Studio / company #1 Scope Pictures of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Scope Pictures movie set. Franchise #1 Little Nicholas Trilogy of 2 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #1,084 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 Little Nicholas (2009) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Little Nicholas (2009) earned a reported $62.8M worldwide against a reported $22.7M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $40.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.77x. In this database it currently ranks #2,885 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #86 among 2009 releases.

Worldwide gross
$62,794,894
Budget
$22,700,000
Gross minus budget
$40,094,894
ROI
2.77x
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

Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change forever, his mother is pregnant! He panics and envisions the worst.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 30, 2009
Production
SCOPE Pictures, IMAV Editions, Fidélité Films
Countries
BE, FR

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyScope Pictures FranchiseLittle Nicholas Trilogy Release year chart2009 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartFamily

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2009, Little Nicholas is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Family title from SCOPE Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $62.8M, reported production budget is $22.7M, gross-minus-budget is $40.1M, ROI is 2.77x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,885 all-time in the current chart set and #86 among 2009 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.