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#3,650 All-time worldwide
#108 2009 releases

Movie profile

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

2009 · 147 min · Nordisk Film Denmark

Action Thriller Crime Mystery
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $43.5M
Budget $4.0M
Gross minus budget $39.5M
ROI 10.87x

Domestic gross

$17.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$26.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$4.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest 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 #3,650 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2009 releases #108 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2009. Studio / company #2 Nordisk Film Denmark of 5 titles Position inside the mapped Nordisk Film Denmark movie set. Franchise #3 The Millennium of 3 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #1,245 Action of 2,939 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.

#3,645 Accident Man 2018 · $43.5M #3,645 What a Beautiful Day 2011 · $43.5M #3,645 Bugonia 2025 · $43.5M #3,651 Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay 2008 · $43.5M #3,652 The Great Outdoors 1988 · $43.5M #3,653 A River Runs Through It 1992 · $43.4M

Quick answer

How did The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009) earned a reported $43.5M worldwide against a reported $4.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $39.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 10.87x. In this database it currently ranks #3,650 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #108 among 2009 releases.

Worldwide gross
$43,498,108
Budget
$4,000,000
Gross minus budget
$39,498,108
ROI
10.87x
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 taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 27, 2009
Production
Nordisk Film Denmark, Yellow Bird, ZDF
Countries
DK, DE, SE

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyNordisk Film Denmark FranchiseThe Millennium Release year chart2009 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartThriller Genre chartCrime Genre chartMystery

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2009, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Thriller, Crime title from Nordisk Film Denmark. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $43.5M, reported production budget is $4.0M, gross-minus-budget is $39.5M, ROI is 10.87x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,650 all-time in the current chart set and #108 among 2009 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.