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#3,015 All-time worldwide
#84 2005 releases

Movie profile

Must Love Dogs

2005 · 98 min · Ubu Productions

Romance Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $58.4M
Budget $30.0M
Gross minus budget $28.4M
ROI 1.95x

Domestic gross

$23.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$35.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$6.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Must Love Dogs 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 #3,015 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2005 releases #84 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2005. Primary genre #485 Romance of 2,607 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 Must Love Dogs (2005) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Must Love Dogs (2005) earned a reported $58.4M worldwide against a reported $30.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $28.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.95x. In this database it currently ranks #3,015 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #84 among 2005 releases.

Worldwide gross
$58,405,313
Budget
$30,000,000
Gross minus budget
$28,405,313
ROI
1.95x
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

Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to trust her own instincts again and learns that, no matter what, it's never a good idea to give up on love.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 21, 2005
Production
Ubu Productions, Team Todd, Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyUbu Productions Release year chart2005 box office Genre chartRomance Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2005, Must Love Dogs is positioned in this dataset as a Romance, Comedy title from Ubu Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $58.4M, reported production budget is $30.0M, gross-minus-budget is $28.4M, ROI is 1.95x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,015 all-time in the current chart set and #84 among 2005 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.