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#7,839 All-time worldwide
#233 2009 releases

Movie profile

Taking Woodstock

2009 · 120 min · Focus Features

Music Comedy Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.0M
Budget $30.0M
Gross minus budget -$20.0M
ROI 0.33x

Domestic gross

$5.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$897,816

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Taking Woodstock 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 #7,839 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2009 releases #233 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2009. Studio / company #30 Focus Features of 34 titles Position inside the mapped Focus Features movie set. Primary genre #271 Music of 561 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 Taking Woodstock (2009) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Taking Woodstock (2009) earned a reported $10.0M worldwide against a reported $30.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$20.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.33x. In this database it currently ranks #7,839 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #233 among 2009 releases.

Worldwide gross
$9,975,737
Budget
$30,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$20,024,263
ROI
0.33x
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

The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 26, 2009
Production
Focus Features, Ang Lee Productions
Countries
TW, US

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Studio / production companyFocus Features Release year chart2009 box office Genre chartMusic Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2009, Taking Woodstock is positioned in this dataset as a Music, Comedy, Drama title from Focus Features. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.0M, reported production budget is $30.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$20.0M, ROI is 0.33x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,839 all-time in the current chart set and #233 among 2009 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.