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#5,944 All-time worldwide
#174 2012 releases

Movie profile

The Hunt

2012 · 116 min · Zentropa International Sweden

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $18.3M
Budget $3.8M
Gross minus budget $14.5M
ROI 4.82x

Domestic gross

$9.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$9.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Hunt 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 #5,944 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2012 releases #174 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2012. Studio / company #1 Zentropa International Sweden of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Zentropa International Sweden movie set. Primary genre #2,400 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.

#5,941 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 2007 · $18.3M #5,942 Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf 2 2013 · $18.3M #5,943 A Touch of Class 1973 · $18.3M #5,948 The Lighthouse 2019 · $18.3M #5,949 Cocorico 2024 · $18.3M #5,950 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 · $18.3M

Quick answer

How did The Hunt (2012) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Hunt (2012) earned a reported $18.3M worldwide against a reported $3.8M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $14.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 4.82x. In this database it currently ranks #5,944 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #174 among 2012 releases.

Worldwide gross
$18,300,000
Budget
$3,800,000
Gross minus budget
$14,500,000
ROI
4.82x
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

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 25, 2012
Production
Zentropa International Sweden, Zentropa Entertainments, Film i Väst
Countries
DK, SE

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Studio / production companyZentropa International Sweden Release year chart2012 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2012, The Hunt is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Zentropa International Sweden. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $18.3M, reported production budget is $3.8M, gross-minus-budget is $14.5M, ROI is 4.82x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,944 all-time in the current chart set and #174 among 2012 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.