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#5,315 All-time worldwide
#181 2016 releases

Movie profile

Live by Night

2016 · 129 min · Appian Way

Crime Drama Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $22.7M
Budget $90.0M
Gross minus budget -$67.3M
ROI 0.25x

Domestic gross

$11.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$11.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Live by Night 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 #5,315 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2016 releases #181 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2016. Studio / company #4 Appian Way of 4 titles Position inside the mapped Appian Way movie set. Primary genre #840 Crime of 1,921 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 Live by Night (2016) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Live by Night (2016) earned a reported $22.7M worldwide against a reported $90.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$67.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.25x. In this database it currently ranks #5,315 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #181 among 2016 releases.

Worldwide gross
$22,700,000
Budget
$90,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$67,300,000
ROI
0.25x
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

A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 25, 2016
Production
Appian Way, Pearl Street Films, Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyAppian Way Release year chart2016 box office Genre chartCrime Genre chartDrama Genre chartThriller

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2016, Live by Night is positioned in this dataset as a Crime, Drama, Thriller title from Appian Way. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $22.7M, reported production budget is $90.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$67.3M, ROI is 0.25x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,315 all-time in the current chart set and #181 among 2016 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.