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#11,193 All-time worldwide
#53 1974 releases

Movie profile

The Little Prince

1974 · 88 min · Paramount Pictures

Science Fiction Fantasy Family Music
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.0M
Budget $6.0M
Gross minus budget -$5.0M
ROI 0.17x

Domestic gross

$430,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$570,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$129,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Little Prince 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 #11,193 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1974 releases #53 Release-year chart position of 72 titles Ranked against movies released in 1974. Studio / company #404 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,150 Science Fiction of 1,234 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.

#11,190 Ruby in Paradise 1993 · $1.0M #11,191 Zindagi Jhand Hai 2020 · $1.0M #11,192 Meeting Venus 1991 · $1.0M #11,238 The Warrior 2001 · $996,179 #11,239 On the Rocks 2020 · $992,103 #11,240 Campus Man 1987 · $989,528

Quick answer

How did The Little Prince (1974) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Little Prince (1974) earned a reported $1.0M worldwide against a reported $6.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$5.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.17x. In this database it currently ranks #11,193 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #53 among 1974 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,000,000
Budget
$6,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$5,000,000
ROI
0.17x
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 a pilot is forced to make an emergency landing in the Sahara Desert, he befriends a young prince from outer space; the friendship conjures up stories of journeys through the solar system for the stranded aviator.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 6, 1974
Production
Paramount Pictures
Countries
GB, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1974 box office Genre chartScience Fiction Genre chartFantasy Genre chartFamily Genre chartMusic

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1974, The Little Prince is positioned in this dataset as a Science Fiction, Fantasy, Family title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.0M, reported production budget is $6.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$5.0M, ROI is 0.17x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,193 all-time in the current chart set and #53 among 1974 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.