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#3,519 All-time worldwide
#67 2021 releases

Movie profile

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

2021 · 108 min · Indian Paintbrush

Drama Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $46.3M
Budget $25.0M
Gross minus budget $21.3M
ROI 1.85x

Domestic gross

$23.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$23.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$4.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun 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 #3,519 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2021 releases #67 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 2021. Studio / company #3 Indian Paintbrush of 4 titles Position inside the mapped Indian Paintbrush movie set. Primary genre #1,273 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 French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) earned a reported $46.3M worldwide against a reported $25.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $21.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.85x. In this database it currently ranks #3,519 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #67 among 2021 releases.

Worldwide gross
$46,333,545
Budget
$25,000,000
Gross minus budget
$21,333,545
ROI
1.85x
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 staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 21, 2021
Production
Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures, Studio Babelsberg
Countries
US, DE

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2021, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Comedy title from Indian Paintbrush. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $46.3M, reported production budget is $25.0M, gross-minus-budget is $21.3M, ROI is 1.85x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,519 all-time in the current chart set and #67 among 2021 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.