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#1,844 All-time worldwide
#51 2009 releases

Movie profile

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2009 · 152 min · Det Danske Filminstitut

Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $109.4M
Budget $13.0M
Gross minus budget $96.4M
ROI 8.42x

Domestic gross

$54.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$54.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$9.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 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 #1,844 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2009 releases #51 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2009. Studio / company #1 Det Danske Filminstitut of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Det Danske Filminstitut movie set. Franchise #1 The Millennium of 3 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #563 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.

#1,841 Sideways 2004 · $109.5M #1,842 Big World 2024 · $109.5M #1,843 The Game 1997 · $109.4M #1,845 Billy Elliot 2000 · $109.3M #1,846 Transporter 3 2008 · $109.0M #1,846 Earth 2007 · $109.0M

Quick answer

How did The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) earned a reported $109.4M worldwide against a reported $13.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $96.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 8.42x. In this database it currently ranks #1,844 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #51 among 2009 releases.

Worldwide gross
$109,421,911
Budget
$13,000,000
Gross minus budget
$96,421,911
ROI
8.42x
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

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 27, 2009
Production
Det Danske Filminstitut, Nordisk Film Denmark, ZDF
Countries
DK, DE, NO, SE

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyDet Danske Filminstitut FranchiseThe Millennium Release year chart2009 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartThriller Genre chartCrime Genre chartMystery

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2009, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Thriller, Crime title from Det Danske Filminstitut. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $109.4M, reported production budget is $13.0M, gross-minus-budget is $96.4M, ROI is 8.42x. For comparison, it currently sits #1,844 all-time in the current chart set and #51 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.