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#7,551 All-time worldwide
#235 2017 releases

Movie profile

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017 · 121 min · Element Pictures

Drama Thriller Mystery
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.7M
Budget $3.0M
Gross minus budget $7.7M
ROI 3.57x

Domestic gross

$5.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$963,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Killing of a Sacred Deer 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 #7,551 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2017 releases #235 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2017. Studio / company #2 Element Pictures of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Element Pictures movie set. Primary genre #3,149 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 Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) earned a reported $10.7M worldwide against a reported $3.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $7.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 3.57x. In this database it currently ranks #7,551 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #235 among 2017 releases.

Worldwide gross
$10,700,000
Budget
$3,000,000
Gross minus budget
$7,700,000
ROI
3.57x
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

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 20, 2017
Production
Element Pictures, TPC, Film4 Productions
Countries
GB, US, IE

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2017, The Killing of a Sacred Deer is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Thriller, Mystery title from Element Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.7M, reported production budget is $3.0M, gross-minus-budget is $7.7M, ROI is 3.57x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,551 all-time in the current chart set and #235 among 2017 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.