Box office snapshot
Financial performance
Reference figures based on available reported data.Domestic gross
$61.8M
Estimated from worldwide grossInternational gross
$81.9M
Estimated from worldwide grossOpening weekend
$18.5M
Estimated from worldwide grossRanking context
Where Pete's Dragon ranks
Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.Nearby worldwide ranks
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Quick answer
How did Pete's Dragon (2016) perform at the box office?
High confidencePete's Dragon (2016) earned a reported $143.7M worldwide against a reported $65.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $78.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.21x. In this database it currently ranks #1,434 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #63 among 2016 releases.
- Worldwide gross
- $143,695,338
- Budget
- $65,000,000
- Gross minus budget
- $78,695,338
- ROI
- 2.21x
Synopsis
Story
For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete, a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie, an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.
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Why this movie matters
Released in 2016, Pete's Dragon is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Family, Fantasy title from Whitaker Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $143.7M, reported production budget is $65.0M, gross-minus-budget is $78.7M, ROI is 2.21x. For comparison, it currently sits #1,434 all-time in the current chart set and #63 among 2016 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.
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