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#2,582 All-time worldwide
#105 2016 releases

Movie profile

The Boy

2016 · 98 min · Lakeshore Entertainment

Horror Mystery Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $73.9M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget $63.9M
ROI 7.39x

Domestic gross

$35.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$38.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$15.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Boy 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 #2,582 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2016 releases #105 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2016. Studio / company #7 Lakeshore Entertainment of 20 titles Position inside the mapped Lakeshore Entertainment movie set. Franchise #1 The Boy of 2 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #232 Horror of 1,240 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 Boy (2016) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Boy (2016) earned a reported $73.9M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $63.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 7.39x. In this database it currently ranks #2,582 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #105 among 2016 releases.

Worldwide gross
$73,929,392
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
$63,929,392
ROI
7.39x
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 young American woman takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, soon discovering that the family's eight-year-old son is a life-sized doll that comes with a list of strict rules.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 22, 2016
Production
Lakeshore Entertainment, Vertigo Entertainment, STXfilms
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2016, The Boy is positioned in this dataset as a Horror, Mystery, Thriller title from Lakeshore Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $73.9M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is $63.9M, ROI is 7.39x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,582 all-time in the current chart set and #105 among 2016 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.