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#7,667 All-time worldwide
#223 2014 releases

Movie profile

The Babadook

2014 · 94 min · Screen Australia

Drama Horror
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.3M
Budget $2.0M
Gross minus budget $8.3M
ROI 5.15x

Domestic gross

$4.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Babadook 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 #7,667 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2014 releases #223 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 2014. Studio / company #2 Screen Australia of 3 titles Position inside the mapped Screen Australia movie set. Primary genre #3,202 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.

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Quick answer

How did The Babadook (2014) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Babadook (2014) earned a reported $10.3M worldwide against a reported $2.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $8.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 5.15x. In this database it currently ranks #7,667 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #223 among 2014 releases.

Worldwide gross
$10,300,000
Budget
$2,000,000
Gross minus budget
$8,300,000
ROI
5.15x
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 grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 22, 2014
Production
Screen Australia, Smoking Gun Productions, Causeway Films
Countries
AU, CA

Related indexes

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2014, The Babadook is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Horror title from Screen Australia. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.3M, reported production budget is $2.0M, gross-minus-budget is $8.3M, ROI is 5.15x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,667 all-time in the current chart set and #223 among 2014 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.