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#7,185 All-time worldwide
#50 1980 releases

Movie profile

The Changeling

1980 · 107 min · Chessman Park Productions

Horror
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $12.0M
Budget $7.6M
Gross minus budget $4.4M
ROI 1.58x

Domestic gross

$5.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Changeling 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 #7,185 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1980 releases #50 Release-year chart position of 126 titles Ranked against movies released in 1980. Primary genre #699 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.

#7,182 The Gift 2000 · $12.0M #7,183 What Men Talk About 2010 · $12.0M #7,184 Super Kamen Rider Den-O Trilogy - Episode Blue: The Dispatched Imagin is Newtral 2010 · $12.0M #7,225 The Return 2006 · $12.0M #7,226 The Assassin 2015 · $12.0M #7,227 Phantasm 1979 · $12.0M

Quick answer

How did The Changeling (1980) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Changeling (1980) earned a reported $12.0M worldwide against a reported $7.6M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $4.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.58x. In this database it currently ranks #7,185 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #50 among 1980 releases.

Worldwide gross
$12,000,000
Budget
$7,600,000
Gross minus budget
$4,400,000
ROI
1.58x
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 a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 28, 1980
Production
Chessman Park Productions
Countries
CA, US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1980, The Changeling is positioned in this dataset as a Horror title from Chessman Park Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $12.0M, reported production budget is $7.6M, gross-minus-budget is $4.4M, ROI is 1.58x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,185 all-time in the current chart set and #50 among 1980 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.