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#2,301 All-time worldwide
#82 2015 releases

Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $85.5M
Budget $12.0M
Gross minus budget $73.5M
ROI 7.13x

Domestic gross

$42.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$42.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$7.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Paper Towns ranks

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Quick answer

How did Paper Towns (2015) perform at the box office?

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Paper Towns (2015) earned a reported $85.5M worldwide against a reported $12.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $73.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 7.13x. In this database it currently ranks #2,301 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #82 among 2015 releases.

Worldwide gross
$85,500,000
Budget
$12,000,000
Gross minus budget
$73,500,000
ROI
7.13x
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

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Quentin arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Quentin soon learns that there are clues, and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer Quentin gets, the less he sees of the girl he thought he knew.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 18, 2015
Production
Fox 2000 Pictures, Temple Hill Entertainment
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2015, Paper Towns is positioned in this dataset as a Mystery, Drama, Romance title from Fox 2000 Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $85.5M, reported production budget is $12.0M, gross-minus-budget is $73.5M, ROI is 7.13x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,301 all-time in the current chart set and #82 among 2015 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.