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#5,144 All-time worldwide
#170 2016 releases

Movie profile

The Founder

2016 · 115 min · Speedie Distribution

Drama History
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $24.1M
Budget $15.0M
Gross minus budget $9.1M
ROI 1.61x

Domestic gross

$12.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Founder 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 #5,144 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2016 releases #170 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2016. Primary genre #2,017 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.

#5,141 Iron Eagle 1986 · $24.2M #5,142 Let Me In 2010 · $24.1M #5,143 The Guru 2002 · $24.1M #5,145 The Crow 2024 · $24.1M #5,146 The Adventures of Huck Finn 1993 · $24.1M #5,147 Dead Presidents 1995 · $24.1M

Quick answer

How did The Founder (2016) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Founder (2016) earned a reported $24.1M worldwide against a reported $15.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $9.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.61x. In this database it currently ranks #5,144 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #170 among 2016 releases.

Worldwide gross
$24,121,245
Budget
$15,000,000
Gross minus budget
$9,121,245
ROI
1.61x
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

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 24, 2016
Production
Speedie Distribution, FilmNation Entertainment, Faliro House Productions
Countries
GR, US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2016, The Founder is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, History title from Speedie Distribution. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $24.1M, reported production budget is $15.0M, gross-minus-budget is $9.1M, ROI is 1.61x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,144 all-time in the current chart set and #170 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.