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#5,127 All-time worldwide
#110 2000 releases

Movie profile

The Next Best Thing

2000 · 108 min · Paramount Pictures

Comedy Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $24.4M
Budget $25.0M
Gross minus budget -$637,228
ROI 0.97x

Domestic gross

$12.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Next Best Thing 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 #5,127 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2000 releases #110 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2000. Studio / company #225 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,009 Comedy of 4,840 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 Next Best Thing (2000) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Next Best Thing (2000) earned a reported $24.4M worldwide against a reported $25.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$637.2K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.97x. In this database it currently ranks #5,127 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #110 among 2000 releases.

Worldwide gross
$24,362,772
Budget
$25,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$637,228
ROI
0.97x
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 comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 3, 2000
Production
Paramount Pictures, Lakeshore Entertainment
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart2000 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama Genre chartRomance

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2000, The Next Best Thing is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama, Romance title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $24.4M, reported production budget is $25.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$637,228, ROI is 0.97x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,127 all-time in the current chart set and #110 among 2000 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.