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#2,547 All-time worldwide
#91 2018 releases

Movie profile

Searching

2018 · 102 min · Bazelevs

Drama Mystery Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $75.5M
Budget $1.0M
Gross minus budget $74.5M
ROI 75.46x

Domestic gross

$37.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$37.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$6.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Searching 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 #2,547 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2018 releases #91 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 2018. Studio / company #2 Bazelevs of 14 titles Position inside the mapped Bazelevs movie set. Franchise #1 Searching of 2 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #837 Drama of 5,859 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.

#2,544 Stomp the Yard 2007 · $75.5M #2,545 The Last of the Mohicans 1992 · $75.5M #2,546 The Change-Up 2011 · $75.5M #2,548 The Count of Monte Cristo 2002 · $75.4M #2,549 Thermae Romae 2012 · $75.4M #2,550 The Count of Monte Cristo 2024 · $75.4M

Quick answer

How did Searching (2018) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Searching (2018) earned a reported $75.5M worldwide against a reported $1.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $74.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 75.46x. In this database it currently ranks #2,547 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #91 among 2018 releases.

Worldwide gross
$75,462,037
Budget
$1,000,000
Gross minus budget
$74,462,037
ROI
75.46x
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

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 24, 2018
Production
Bazelevs, Timur Bekmambetov Productions
Countries
US

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2018, Searching is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Mystery, Thriller title from Bazelevs. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $75.5M, reported production budget is $1.0M, gross-minus-budget is $74.5M, ROI is 75.46x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,547 all-time in the current chart set and #91 among 2018 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.