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#818 All-time worldwide

#25 2011 releases

Movie profile

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Name: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Released: 2011-12-14
Duration: 158 min

2011 · 158 min · Columbia Pictures

Thriller Crime Mystery

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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.

Worldwide gross $232.6M

Budget $90.0M

Gross minus budget $142.6M

ROI 2.58x

Domestic gross

$93.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$139.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$26.1M

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.

Open rankings

All-time worldwide #818 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2011 releases #25 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2011. Studio / company #36 Columbia Pictures of 272 titles Position inside the mapped Columbia Pictures movie set. Franchise #1 Millennium of 2 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #153 Thriller of 2,634 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 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) earned a reported $232.6M worldwide against a reported $90.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $142.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.58x. In this database it currently ranks #818 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #25 among 2011 releases.

Worldwide gross: $232,617,430
Budget: $90,000,000
Gross minus budget: $142,617,430
ROI: 2.58x

Source: Reported box office data. Last updated: Jul 8, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

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Movie facts

Production details

Release date: Dec 14, 2011
Production: Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Scott Rudin Productions
Countries: SE, US

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Studio / production companyColumbia Pictures FranchiseMillennium Release year chart2011 box office Genre chartThriller Genre chartCrime Genre chartMystery

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2011, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is positioned in this dataset as a Thriller, Crime, Mystery title from Columbia Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $232.6M, reported production budget is $90.0M, gross-minus-budget is $142.6M, ROI is 2.58x. For comparison, it currently sits #818 all-time in the current chart set and #25 among 2011 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.