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#2,641 All-time worldwide
#61 2001 releases

Movie profile

The Royal Tenenbaums

2001 · 110 min · Touchstone Pictures

Comedy Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $71.4M
Budget $21.0M
Gross minus budget $50.4M
ROI 3.40x

Domestic gross

$35.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$35.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$6.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Royal Tenenbaums 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 #2,641 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2001 releases #61 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2001. Studio / company #42 Touchstone Pictures of 113 titles Position inside the mapped Touchstone Pictures movie set. Primary genre #987 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 Royal Tenenbaums (2001) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) earned a reported $71.4M worldwide against a reported $21.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $50.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 3.40x. In this database it currently ranks #2,641 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #61 among 2001 releases.

Worldwide gross
$71,441,250
Budget
$21,000,000
Gross minus budget
$50,441,250
ROI
3.40x
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

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 5, 2001
Production
Touchstone Pictures, American Empirical Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyTouchstone Pictures Release year chart2001 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2001, The Royal Tenenbaums is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama title from Touchstone Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $71.4M, reported production budget is $21.0M, gross-minus-budget is $50.4M, ROI is 3.40x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,641 all-time in the current chart set and #61 among 2001 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.