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#5,098 All-time worldwide
#111 2001 releases

Movie profile

The Shipping News

2001 · 111 min · Miramax

Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $24.7M
Budget $38.0M
Gross minus budget -$13.3M
ROI 0.65x

Domestic gross

$12.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Shipping News 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 #5,098 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2001 releases #111 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2001. Studio / company #31 Miramax of 77 titles Position inside the mapped Miramax movie set. Primary genre #1,988 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

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Quick answer

How did The Shipping News (2001) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Shipping News (2001) earned a reported $24.7M worldwide against a reported $38.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$13.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.65x. In this database it currently ranks #5,098 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #111 among 2001 releases.

Worldwide gross
$24,690,441
Budget
$38,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$13,309,559
ROI
0.65x
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

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 18, 2001
Production
Miramax
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2001, The Shipping News is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Romance title from Miramax. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $24.7M, reported production budget is $38.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$13.3M, ROI is 0.65x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,098 all-time in the current chart set and #111 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.