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#4,221 All-time worldwide
#63 1996 releases

Movie profile

That Thing You Do!

1996 · 108 min · Clinica Estetico

Comedy Drama Romance Music
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $34.6M
Budget $26.0M
Gross minus budget $8.6M
ROI 1.33x

Domestic gross

$17.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$17.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where That Thing You Do! 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 #4,221 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1996 releases #63 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1996. Studio / company #2 Clinica Estetico of 3 titles Position inside the mapped Clinica Estetico movie set. Primary genre #1,596 Comedy of 4,840 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.

#4,217 Gone Baby Gone 2007 · $34.6M #4,219 R.A.I.D. Special Unit 2017 · $34.6M #4,220 Forbidden Empire 2014 · $34.6M #4,222 The Best Man 1999 · $34.6M #4,223 Thirteen Days 2000 · $34.6M #4,224 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen 2012 · $34.6M

Quick answer

How did That Thing You Do! (1996) perform at the box office?

High confidence

That Thing You Do! (1996) earned a reported $34.6M worldwide against a reported $26.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $8.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.33x. In this database it currently ranks #4,221 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #63 among 1996 releases.

Worldwide gross
$34,585,416
Budget
$26,000,000
Gross minus budget
$8,585,416
ROI
1.33x
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

A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager. But behind the scenes, the group’s sudden fame tests their strength, their maturity and responsibility, and their ability to resist the temptations that money and notoriety always make possible.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 4, 1996
Production
Clinica Estetico, Clavius Base, 20th Century Fox
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyClinica Estetico Release year chart1996 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama Genre chartRomance Genre chartMusic

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1996, That Thing You Do! is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama, Romance title from Clinica Estetico. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $34.6M, reported production budget is $26.0M, gross-minus-budget is $8.6M, ROI is 1.33x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,221 all-time in the current chart set and #63 among 1996 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.