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#4,634 All-time worldwide
#144 2017 releases

Movie profile

The Disaster Artist

2017 · 104 min · New Line Cinema

Comedy Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $29.8M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget $19.8M
ROI 2.98x

Domestic gross

$14.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$14.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Disaster Artist ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
Open rankings
All-time worldwide #4,634 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2017 releases #144 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2017. Studio / company #99 New Line Cinema of 178 titles Position inside the mapped New Line Cinema movie set. Primary genre #1,777 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.

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Quick answer

How did The Disaster Artist (2017) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Disaster Artist (2017) earned a reported $29.8M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $19.8M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.98x. In this database it currently ranks #4,634 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #144 among 2017 releases.

Worldwide gross
$29,820,616
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
$19,820,616
ROI
2.98x
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

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 12, 2017
Production
New Line Cinema, Rabbit Bandini Productions, Point Grey Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyNew Line Cinema Release year chart2017 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2017, The Disaster Artist is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama title from New Line Cinema. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $29.8M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is $19.8M, ROI is 2.98x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,634 all-time in the current chart set and #144 among 2017 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.